Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Genesis Project and Laxity.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
SNDH archive v3.4 released. 73 SNDH-files added or updated!
Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music.
But in the mid 90′s, BDC of Aura crew became tired of this inelegant system and decided to fix the issue once and for all. He then created the ‘SNDH’ file format. SNDH is actually the original songfile and replaycode with a header bolted on top of the music and replayer. The header has a unified calling interface no matter what type of chip music is hidden beneath it, and it has extended datas about the music.
download: SNDH Atari ST YM2149 Archive v3.4 (1636)
source: sndh.atari.org
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Mayday!, Antarctica and Laxity.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
I have customized the keyboard of my C64 with my alias. I have used some keys of a broken C16.
Commodore C16/C116 for Spare Parts donated by Damiano Colombari (Manosoft). Thanks Damiano.
Apple II Keyboard for Spare Parts donated by Paolo Cognetti. Thanks Paolo.
Autopsy:
The CMOS battery is exhausted, the Hard Disk is deceased.
Thanks to Damiano (Manosoft) for his donation.
from Wikipedia:
IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones. They duplicated almost exactly all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by various manufacturers’ ability to reverse engineer the BIOS using a “clean room design” technique. Columbia Data Products built the first clone of the IBM personal computer by a clean room implementation of its BUTTOX.
Many early IBM PC compatibles used the same computer bus as the original PC and AT models. The IBM AT compatible bus was later named the Industry Standard Architecture bus by manufacturers of compatible computers. The term “IBM PC compatible” is now a historical description only, since IBM has ended its personal computer sales.
Descendants of the IBM PC compatibles comprise the majority of personal computers on the market presently, although interoperability with the bus structure and peripherals of the original PC architecture may be limited or non-existent.
source: wikipedia
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia:
The Atari ST is a home computer released by Atari Corporation in June 1985. It was commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The “ST” officially stands for “Sixteen/Thirty-two”,[2] which referred to the Motorola 68000′s 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals. Due to its graphical user inferface, it was known as the “Jackintosh”, a reference to Jack Tramiel.
The Atari ST was part of the 16/32 bit generation of home computers, based on the Motorola 68000 CPU noted for 128 kB of RAM or more, a graphical user interface, and 3½” microfloppy disks as storage. It was similar to the Apple Macintosh and its simple design allowed the ST to precede the Commodore Amiga’s commercial release by almost two months. The Atari ST was also the first personal computer to come with a bit-mapped color GUI, using a version of Digital Research’s GEM released that February.
The ST was primarily a competitor to the Apple Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga systems. Where the Amiga had a graphics accelerator and wavetable synthesis, the ST had a simple frame buffer and a 3 voice synthesizer chip but with a CPU faster clocked, and had a high-resolution monochrome display mode, ideal for business and CAD. In some markets, particularly Germany, the machine gained a strong foothold as a small business machine for CAD and Desktop publishing work. The Atari ST also enjoyed some market popularity in Canada.
The ST was also the first home computer with integrated MIDI support. Thanks to its built-in MIDI, it enjoyed success for running music-sequencer software and as a controller of musical instruments among amateurs and professionals alike, being used in concert by bands and performers such as Jean Michel Jarre, Madonna, Eurythmics, Tangerine Dream, Fatboy Slim, and 1990s UK dance act 808 State, as well as naming German digital hardcore band Atari Teenage Riot.
The ST was later superseded by the Atari STE, Atari TT, Atari MEGA STE and Falcon computers.
In late 1989, Atari released the 520STE and 1040STE (also written STE), enhanced version of the ST with improvements to the multimedia hardware and operating system. It featured an increased color palette of 4096 colors from the ST’s 512 (though the maximum displayable palette of these without programming tricks was still limited to 16 in the lowest 320×200 resolution, and even fewer in higher resolutions), Genlock support, and a graphics co-processor chip called Blitter, which could quickly move large blocks of data (most particularly, graphics sprites) around in RAM. It also included a new 2-channels digital sound chip that could play 8-bit stereo samples in hardware at up to 50 kHz.
Two enhanced joystick ports (EJP) were added (two normal joysticks could be plugged into each port with an adaptor), with the new connectors placed in more easily-accessed locations on the side of the case. The enhanced joystick ports were re-used in Atari’s Jaguar console, and are compatible. RAM was now much more simply upgradable via SIMMs. Despite all of this, it still ran at 8 MHz.
Atari STe: More Or Less Zero by Dead Hackers Society on real Hardware.
source: wikipedia
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: S.E.U.C.K. Trainers United, Really Proud Lamers and Laxity.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
Gallery:
The PETdisk is a new storage device, made by bitfixer, for the Commodore CBM / PET with an IEEE-488 port.
The system is in two parts. A datassette module that makes it possible to play “data” from a PC soundcard to the CBM / PET and play “data” from the CBM / PET to the PC. The IEEE-488 module has an SD card and a micro processor.
You can use the commands LOAD, SAVE and LOAD “$” to load or store data on the SD card. The device number can be changed with a help of a jumper. The USB cable is used to provide 5VDC from the datassette module to the IEEE-488 module.
For more informations,schematics,documentations and price of the kit please visit the site of the author.
Video demostration:
source: bitfixer.com
Micro SwinSID (SwinSID88) is a hardware replacement for legendary SID sound chip which was placed in every Commodore C64 computer and other devices.
Firmware update (20120524):
Download: Nano/Micro SwinSID - Firmware update (20120524) (2074)
source: forum64.de
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.3.0:
Download: HxCFloppyEmulator v2.0.3.0 *BETA* (1109)
source: hxc2001.free.fr
ST-Paint is a Drawing program that lets you make Atari St picture on Windows based PC.
ST-Paint is still in a beta phase and it’s made by Peter Jørgensen same author of the program: Ym2149 Tracker.
Download:
source: fedepede04.dk
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Wrampi, Nostalgia, The Hidden Farts and Laxity.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
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