Autopsy:
from Wikipedia:
The Philips P2000T home computer was Philips’ first real entry in the home computer market, after the Philips Videopac G7000 game system (better known in the U.S. as the Magnavox Odyssey2) which they already sold to compete with the Atari 2600 and similar game systems.
There was also an P2000M version with an additional 80-column card for use with a monochrome monitor. This version shipped with a monitor cabinet also housing a dual 5.25″ floppy drive. Basically the P2000T was a Z80 based home computer that used a Teletext display chip to produce the video picture and a small Mini Cassette recorder for mass storage (42 kByte).
The mini cassette was seen as a floppy drive from the user perspective using the automatic search for a program (CLOAD command) or free space (CSAVE). A command to display the directory of the cassette does also exist. Philips used components they already produced for other markets (television sets and dictation machines) to quickly design a small computer system. It was partially designed by Austrian professor Dieter Hammer.
They also copied the ROM cartridge system from their Videopac G7000 game system. One of these cartridges contained Microsoft BASIC. It was also possible to use cassette tape floppys.
source: wikipedia
from Dreamhost Status blog:
We will be completing the fixes to our Core infrastructure. This will include abandoning HSRP, restructuring our internal LAN routing domain and pruning unnecessary vlans from our border routers.
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source: dreamhoststatus.com
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia:
The Atari Portfolio is the first PC-compatible palmtop computer, and was released by Atari Corporation in 1989. The Portfolio was licenced from Distributed Information Processing (DIP) based in Guildford, Surrey, England. The original founding member of DIP was Ian Cullimore, fresh from his experiences at helping design the early Organiser products at Psion.
DIP officially stood for “Distributed Information Processing”, although secretly it actually stood for “David, Ian and Peter”, the three founding members of the company, all ex-Psion. The original founder of the company (first called “Crushproof Software”) was Ian Cullimore, and the other two David Frodsham and Peter Baldwin. It was built around an Intel 80C88 CPU running at 4.9152 MHz and ran a variant of MS-DOS called “DIP DOS 2.11″. It had 128 kB of RAM and 256 kB of ROM which contained the OS and built-in applications. The on-board RAM had to be divided between system memory and local storage (the C: drive). The LCD was monochrome without backlight and had 240×64 pixels or 40 characters x 8 lines.
source: wikipedia
Commodore yellowed spare parts:
- 1 x Commodore 64C (Motherboard ASSY 250407)
- 1 x Commodore 1541 II (Floppy Drive Chinon)
- 1 x Commodore Mouse 1351.
This is a rare SIO Adapter cable. You can use it for connect the Atari 1010 Program Recorder on Commodore 64/128.
A new update of the NUFLI Editor is out.
With this editor (PAL/NTSC) you can edit NUFLI (static) image directly with your Commodore 64.
source: noname.c64.org
This is a automatic generator for DATA loaders written by Mike for VIC-20.
source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)
Bonami Museum:
This is one of the biggests museum of retro-computers and consoles in North Europe, it’s located at EPE in the eastern Netherlands.
Many thanks for the photos to Gerben Vissers a friend of mine, Gerben is also a retro-computers collectors (like me) with a site online: www.computerverzameling.nl
source: bonami-spelcomputer-museum.nl
SD2IEC is a hardware mass storage device using an SD/MMC card and interfacing with the IEC bus. It is based on the ATmega644 or ATmega1284p microcontroller from the Atmel AVR microcontroller family.
The most prominent use of SD2IEC is emulation/replacement of a Commodore-1541 disk drive for a C64. Hardware and the microcontroller’s firmware is available as open source (GPL).
Changelog:
2010-10-31 – release 0.10.0pre5
- Bugfix: Avoid duplicate file name when DEL/DIR matches.
- Bugfix: Reduce chance of data corruption in Wheels.
- Bugfix: Slightly relax IEC timing while waiting for command.
- Added AR6 1581 fastloader+saver (PAL).
source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki
Sprite Pad v1.7 released.. after a long long time Subchrist has updated his Sprite Editor for Commodore 64.
Sprite Pad is a free cross-platform development tool for designing sprite images and animations.
Improvements and changes in this version:
- Rotations. A World first?, Free rotate with variable angle limiter, auto-generate rotation sequences in any mode with 1 degree accuracy.
- Overlays. Allows the designing of 2 sprites as one + animation and rotation support!.
- Multiple Palettes. User editable palette file supports up to 20 additional palettes. (Default palette is now technically accurate).
- Single page layout. No more page flipping!.
- ‘Floodfill’, ‘Fat Brush’, ‘Pixel Swapper’, ‘Paste Into’. + Many more fixes and improvements.
General Program Features:
- Edit and animate both multicolour and high-resolution sprite images.
- 256 Sprite browser.
- Simple file format allows easy import into Commodore 64 software projects.
System Requirements:
- The program has been designed, programmed and tested on a 32-bit Windows XP (SP3) system.
- The development machine has an Athlon XP 2400+ (2Ghz) with 512MB of RAM and an old 64MB Nvidia Geforce4 MX GFX card.
source: subchrist homepage
This is a Joystick port Switcher for Commodore 64.
It switches the digital signals from the joystick and the analogue signals for the mouse or paddles. The Green LED is turned on when the ports are being swapped.
The Joystick port Switcher remembers the last swap state when turned off and will resume that mode when the Commodore 64 is next turned on.
Provides ESD protection for the Commodore 64 CIA’s as there is no direct connection from the Commodore 64 ports to the joystick inputs.
For more information and price visit the lemon64.com
Commodore Free Magazine Issue #45
Free to download Commodore magazine dedicated to Commodore Computers.
In this issue you can find:
- 1541U2 Update 2.0RC9.
- Protovision October Update.
- Viva Amiga Documentary Update.
- Jim Scabery’s Close-Out.
- Catweasel Mk4 support page.
- NetSurf 2.6 web browser for OS4.
- 4GB CF IDE Hard Disk.
- YAPE 10 Years Old.
- The 1541 Ultimate v2 COMVEX Demo.
- SIDizer VST Instrument.
- BASIC on Bails!.
- Balls to the Walls.
- A Bit of History Preserved.
- First Video of AMC for AmigaOS 4.
- Origyn Web Browser 3.30.
- C64SD v2.0.
- The SEUCK Vault Updated.
- Striker In The Crypt Of Trojan.
- …more
source: commodorefree.com
918 Space Transport is a Classic Space set released in 1978. It was one of the very first sets of LEGO Space. It contains a spacecraft piloted by a red Classic Space astronaut.
918 Space Transport is one of the first larger Classic Space sets. It lands on four landing “legs”. Space Transport has two sirens and a radio transmitter pole on top. It has a tail fin and a triangular shape.
The color scheme of the ship is blue, trans yellow, and gray. It has two compartments in the back, and a thruster in back.
source: lego.wikia.com wikipedia
This is a old Phone country code prefix book by SIP (Società Italiana per L’Esercizio delle Telecomunicazioni p.a.) now Telecom Italia.
SD2IEC is a hardware mass storage device using an SD/MMC card and interfacing with the IEC bus. It is based on the ATmega644 or ATmega1284p microcontroller from the Atmel AVR microcontroller family.
The most prominent use of SD2IEC is emulation/replacement of a Commodore-1541 disk drive for a C64. Hardware and the microcontroller’s firmware is available as open source (GPL).
Changelog:
2010-10-26 – release 0.10.0pre4
- Bugfix: Wheels with SuperCPU timing issue corrected.
- Bugfix: Rare problem with ~ in FAT file names fixed.
- Added compile-time option to capture fastloader code.
- Added Wheels 4.4 fast loaders.
- Added another variation of the Epyx Fastload cart.
- Added Nippon fast loader.
source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki
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