SID Duzz it, e’ un’ottimo SID Music Editor programmato da Geir Tjelta del gruppo SHAPE.

source: noname.c64.org

SD2IEC – è un’interfaccia hardware che emula il Floppy Drive 1541 del Commodore 64 utilizzando una scheda SD al posto dei Floppy da 5 pollici.

Changelog:

2009-05-20 – release 0.8.1

• Fix uIEC/IDE SD card change detection.
• Dreamload support for uIEC.
• Mark the RTC time as valid after setting the clock.
• Delay SPI initialisation until absolutely required.
• Show disk change confirmation even when the error blink is active.
• Exit the FC3 fastloader if ATN is active.
• Fix indentation of 1000+ block files.
• Remove 0-byte from the long version message.
• Fix multiple save-with-replace bugs.
• Ignore directories when matching file name wildcards.

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki

ACID 64 Player Pro e’ l’evoluzione del Player Acid 64. L’ACID 64 Player Pro e’ un lettore di Brani SID del Commodore 64 ed e’ stato progettato per funzionare con le schede HardSID 4U (USB) che hanno un vero e proprio chip SID (6581/6582/8580) a bordo.

What’s new in version 3.0.1

Fixes

• On some machines the index file wasn’t created correctly (re-indexing is required)
• Indexing of folder with a few SIDs is fixed
• Seek speed isn’t dependent anymore on fast forward limitation
• STIL and SLDB info are now working for files outside HVSC
• Minimal horizontal width isn’t locked to previous width anymore

Improvements

• STIL window can always be opened now and doesn’t close automatically anymore
• Improved handling of SLDB entries
• Digital clock color changed
• Changed a few keyboard short cuts
• A few other small improvements/fixes

screenshot:

source: acid64.com

Se siete interessati a scrivere un nuovo Gioco! partecipate a questo concorso, visitate la homepage, l’idea non e’ niente male.

source: minigamecomp.org.uk

ACID 64 Player Pro e’ l’evoluzione del Player Acid 64. L’ACID 64 Player Pro e’ un lettore di Brani SID del Commodore 64 ed e’ stato progettato per funzionare con le schede HardSID 4U (USB) che hanno un vero e proprio chip SID (6581/6582/8580) a bordo.

What’s new in version 3.0.0

New:

• Fast incremental SID file search on title, author, year and publisher fields
• Seek through SID tunes via slider bar
• Digital clock
• Scroll wheel support when hovering over grids and list boxes
• Anonymous usage statistics

Improvements:

• Tree view of folders
• SidID search in properties menu is done in background now to access dialog faster
• Emulation improvements
• Keyboard navigation improvements
• Many small improvements/fixes

screenshot:

source: acid64.com

Autopsy:

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testo tratto dalla homepage di Wikipedia:

La progettazione dell’Intellivision iniziò dal 1978, ad opera di Mattel Electronics, il nome della sezione dell’azienda dedicata ai giochi elettronici.

Una prima commercializzazione avvenne nel 1979, in California, con una disponibilità di quattro giochi, tutti prodotti dalla APH Technological Consulting. Nel 1980 fu estesa in tutto il territorio statuinitense ad un prezzo indicativo di 299$ ed un gioco incluso (Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack).

Venne prodotta una campagna pubblicitaria comparativa, con la partecipazione di George Plimpton, che attaccava senza riguardi le capacità dell’Atari 2600.

C64 VGE è un semplice editor di grafica Vettoriale con cui è possibile rendere le immagini di dimensioni molto leggere.

Questo Editor e ‘stato utilizzato per la grafica dell’intro 4K  “4K Wannabe” di Black Sun e ora è stato rilasciato a tutti.

source: noname.c64.org

source: arnold.c64.org

Pasi Ojala rilascia una nuova demo per il nostro VIC-20, il demo non richiede l’espansione di memoria e funziona con il Floppy DiskDrive.

La musica che accompagna la Demo e stata fatta da Anders Carlsson.

source: www.cs.tut.fi/~albert/Pu-239/vicual-mmix

From the Homepage.

ROM-el ROM Eliminator: Another project of mine requires a way to replace the 2364 ROMs on Commodore computers, so I started looking for a 2764 to 2364 adapter.

After designing one, I determined that DIP EPROMs are starting to get very expensive, so I set about designing a Flash version. My tentative name is ROM-el. Since Flash is considered ROM as well, the name is a bit off, but I liked it, and only the pedantic will probably care.

64Nic: 2 64NIC+ boards arrived on April 20, and I assembled one in the evening. Initial testing with Devia’s NIC-Test was unsuccessful, so I gave up for the night. After work on the 21st, I pored over the schematics and determined I had miscopied a resistor layout from Eric Pratt’s 64NIC design. The resistor must be tied to ground, not Vcc. Dubious that such a small change would make the board work, I nonetheless made the change and …. it did nothing.

I decided I’d ruined one board, so I assembled the second board, taking care to make the resistor mod before plugging it in. Devia’s NIC-Test worked immediately. Later, I tried the apparently ruined board and it also worked, so it appears I did not completely ruin the board.

Given the success, I immediately released the board to production that evening.

source: jbrain.com

Java Ice Team 64 Tracker e’ un programma musicale (scritto in Java) per la creazione di chip tunes basate sul famoso sound-chip ‘SID’ del Commodore 64. Gli strumenti sono basati su tabelle per avere un completo controllo del suono generato.

La nuova versione include alcuni bug corretti e nuove caratteristiche:

• Option: add the disable conditional compilation optimization.
• Option: you can select 4 type of frequencies table.
• Option: filter cut off frequency can now be in siddump format.
• Option: load/store position/size of pattern and instrument windows.
• Pattern: add an external separate windows.
• Pattern: paste can be indipendent for note/instrument/command.
• Pattern: notes in selection can be inc/dec for one octave or half step.
• Pattern: octave up/dn and instrument +/- can be activated by keyboard shortcut.
• Instrument: add missing notify background compilation for AD/SR/Wave changes.
• Instrument: fix bugged move of instrument in list.
• Packer: add missing write of ‘write order’
• Player: conditional compilation to remove instrument code not used.
• Player: can now use 4 tables of frequencies.
• Player: fix test of write order.
• Player: improve quality of sexy-hardrestart.
• Player: fix rel note in instrument that kill tone-portamento. Now you can skip hardrestart in tone-portamento by not use instrument in the line where you start portamento command.
• Song: add a progress indicator when loading/saving a song.

download: sourceforge.net

Dopo questo aggiornamento la collezione di musiche del Commodore 64 arriva ad un totale di  36,000 SID files!


This update features (all approximates):

• 678 new SIDs
• 59 fixed/better rips
• 573 PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs eliminated
• 189 repeats/bad rips eliminated
• 482 SID credit fixes
• 135 SID model/clock infos
• 15 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
• 10 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
• 36 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
• 11 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories

source: hvsc.c64.org

DTV2Ser Trans MAC Gui v0.1 – Concept idea, UI design: Xad – Coding: Lynx

Questa e’ una semplice GUI per la tool Shell dtv2sertrans di Lallafa, funziona con PPC e Intel based Macs (Universal Binary),richiede Mac OS X 10.4 o superiori.

Features:

• Transfer C64 PRG.
• Send/Run/Send and Run.
• You can use the SYS for start your proggy.
• Debug Output Windows.
• Preferences for Enable/Disable Debug Windows and for configure the dtv2sertrans path.
• USB Hardware check.
• AutoUpdate.

Screenshot:

Download: Dtv2SerTransMacGUI

source: macupdate.com noname.c64.org versiontracker.com

da Engadget: Incredibile! ci sono borsette e borsette… ma questa supera veramente tutte!

La fantasia malata di Jeri Ellsworth ha partorito una’idea veramente Bizzarra, ma molto carina , inserire un Commodore 64 (versione DTV) in un borsetta con tanto di JoyPad Style NES e schermo LCD.. ovviamente il tutto perfettamente funzionante.

Su Engadget c’e’ anche un Video che dimostra il pieno funzionamento di questa opera d’arte.

source: engadget.com

TapPlay / TAP file playback per sd2iec hardware.

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread twitter.com