Forth, the Language.
Forth is a different language. It’s aged and a little weird.
What’s cool about it? It’s a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. At the same time, it easily scales to become a very high-level and domain-specific language, much like Lisp. Compared to C64 Basic, Forth is more attractive in almost every way.
It is a lot more fast, memory effective and powerful. Compared to C, specifically cc65, the story is a little different. It’s hard to make a fair comparison. Theoretically Forth code can be very memory efficient, and it’s possible to make Forth code that is leaner than C code. But it is also true that cc65 code is generally much faster than Forth code.
Download: durexForth v1.6.2 (D64/CRT) + Manual (744)
source: csdb.dk
..from the author homepage:
I have updated the DAILY version now and it now supports the A1000 using a limited version of the DiagROM. I had to remove module-tests and test-screen. but I guess that is not that important.
Just use the A1kEVEN.bin and A1kODD.bin files and program to 27C256 proms and replace proms on the A1000 and you are ready to go.
source: diagrom.com
Some new games or tools (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups.
Titles:
- Silverrock Tribute [easyflash]
- ASCII Chase Preview
- Paranoid +1F
- Spyders +
- Spyders C64 – Chapter 1
- ZE-III Preview
- Front Page &DGM
- SEJD Preview +
- Spyders: Chapter 1 +2H
- Spyders: Chapter 1 +3
- Zap’n'Load +2
- Zwob +TD
- Rogue +6DGM
- La Carretera +T [english]
- The Castle of Doom – Redux +4
- The Castle of Doom – Redux
- The Wall
- ASCII Chase Preview V1.1 +
- Step by Step +1MDS
- Bubble +3DT
- Pengon +1HD
- Techno Sport Steeple Chase &D
- Star Wars Preview +2
- Compu Sport Auto Racing &D
- Stranded
- Itchtris Preview +2
- Itchtris Preview
- Vault Man 2 +2
- Vault Man 2
- Citadel 2 Preview +2
- The Life of a Stickleback +1MT
- Stranded
- Stranded +F
- Vault Man 2 +3HD
- Vault Man 2 +4D
- Bacillus Preview +
- Velcro +
- Protocol Preview +
- Sheep Is a Key Preview
- Jetpac Wars Preview V3 +
- Bacillus Preview +2
- Neptune’s Caverns – Enhanced
- Shotgun V1.1
- Twin Kingdom Valley +1DGM
- 6502 Snake +1
- Competition Karate +2MD
- Shotgun V1.1 +1KD
- Rollin +2DGH
- Velcro +3
- Feud +6DGF
Download: All Games in One Archive (4249)
source: csdb.dk
Commodore 128D Repair #1
Defect:
- Black Screen.
- Garbage Screen.
Replaced parts/Fix:
- 9v AC line Fuse of the PowerSupply.
- Made a bridge of a pcb trace interrupted.
Gallery of the repair:
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Commodore 128D Repair #2
Defect:
- Garbage Screen.
- Memory Problems.
Replaced parts:
- Replaced 74LS08 (U61)
- Replaced OKI M3764A [RAM] (U43)
Gallery of the repair:
Commodore Floppy Drive 1541 (ASSY 250442) Repair
Defect:
- Drive access problems (IEC): drive resets but the computer freez with a “searching for”
Replaced parts:
- Replaced EL74S14 with a 74LS14 (UA1)
Gallery of the repair:
Commodore 16 Power Supply Repair
Defect:
Replaced parts:
- Replaced Electrolytic Capacitors of 4700uF/16v
- Replaced Fuse of 250v/1A Retarded.
Gallery of the repair:
Commodore 16 Repair #1
Defect:
Replaced parts:
- Replaced RAM TMS4416 (U6).
Gallery of the repair:
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Commodore 16 Repair #2
Defect:
Replaced parts:
Note:
I took advantage of this repair to install the ic sockets on the entire motherboard and use it like a “test board” for repairs.
Commodore 64 Repair
Defect:
- Drive access problems (IEC): drive resets but it freez with a “searching for”
Replaced parts:
- Replaced EL7416 with a 7406PC (U8)
Note:
I have also removed a nasty connector welded directly on the c64 userport.
Gallery of the repair:
The Commodore 64 Reloaded MK2 is a C64 Motherboard for building a C64 on your own.
The board is shipped with empty ZIF sockets for the key chips such as CPU, port chips, sound/video chips. All other components are already assembled and pre-tested before shipment.
As opposed to the first C64 Reloaded board, the C64 Reloaded MK2 will automatically identify the installed chips. It will not only generate the correct clocking, but also set the right voltages for the chips that you have chosen. Further, it configures the filter-capacitors for your favourite SID combination. This means that the Commodore 64 Reloaded MK2 is a completely jumper-free design.
The Commodore 64 Reloaded MK2 includes the following on the board:
- All memory
- Flash rom for Kernal, Basic, Character and your own sets of ROMs
- Clock generator equivalent to the CSG8701 chip with two custom crystals
- PLA equivalent to the CSG 906114-01 chip
- Stereo-SID circuit configurable for three different popular addresses
- S-Video and 3.5mm stereo outputs
- USB to serial link for configuring the board with a terminal program
- High-efficiency power conversion for operation from a single 12V supply
- Power switch with integrated reset function
- Six all-black high quality ZIF sockets
source: icomp.de
Directly from the author;
It’s time to announce the upcoming new “Ultimate-64″ board by Gideon.
In order to sustain the love for the Commodore 64, with failing machines, power supplies and flaky old connectors, I proudly present a new main board for your beloved C64 case.
This board is a hardware implementation (FPGA) of the entire C64, and it includes the Ultimate-II+ as well. An ALL IN ONE solution!
…if you want to read more about this project, click here.
source: 1541ultimate.net
The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) is a freeware hobby project which organises Commodore 64 music (also known as SID music) into an archive for both musicians and fans alike.
The work on the collection is done completely in the Team and contributors’ spare time and is proudly one of the largest and most accurate computer music collections known.
This update features (all approximates):
- 600 new SIDs
- 139 fixed/better rips
- 1 repeats/bad rips eliminated
- 313 SID credit fixes
- 299 SID model/clock infos
- 4 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
- 21 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
- 16 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
- 16 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories
Download:
source: www.hvsc.c64.org
Some new games or tools (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups.
Titles:
- Good Guy – Bad Guy
- Abu Simbel Profanation
- GN2P
- GN2P (D64)
- GN2P (EX)
- Abu Simbel Profanation +2
- Katakis +6DHFI
- Paul’s Gamble Machine +D
- The Last Ninja II +8DG
- Cold Devil Preview
- Hollywood or Bust +6DWF
- VVVVVV +
- Zap Zone +2H
- Dark Destroyer 2117 +2 [seuck]
- Zap Zone
- Dark Destroyer 2117 [seuck]
- VVVVVV Preview V2
- Highlander +3DG
- Goat
- Gunfright V1.10
- Zap Zone +2
- GN2P +F
- Bounty Bob Strikes Back – Protected
- Break Free! +2
- Modulot +
- Modulot
- Seawolf +F
- Squad 1 +6H
- Jetpac Wars Preview V2 +
- Crab in New York +
- Grand Monster Slam +5H [ide64]
- Tennis-Cat +2T [english]
- Computer Space 2001 +1JD
- Frutty Man 64 +2
- Rowman
- The Bard’s Tale – Tales of the Unknown +2TD [easyflash]
- Rowman +2HT
- Delta Run [seuck]
- Night Racer +HDFM
- Delta Run +2DH [seuck]
- Alien Attack +1D
- H.E.R.O. II Preview
- Ignition +FTD
- Cubis +1FDT
- Wolf3D (SuperCPU)
- La Carretera [spanish]
- Wurmli +2D
- Galencia Preview +
Download: All Games in One Archive (4660)
source: csdb.dk
Scene World is a C64 magazine on disk dedicated to various activities of both C64 scenes. “Both” means, that we are supplying information and texts of both scenes; NTSC and PAL.
Download: Scene World #27 (D64/D81) (1050)
source: sceneworld.org
Commodore 64C that has seen better days (Recovery Components)
The external case is broken and the keyboard pcb is completely rusty, the rest you can see from the photos.
I recover what remains, only a little bit.
Gallery:
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