(Italian) Nuovo Aggiornamento per l’interfaccia Pocket 1541
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Van Pong tot Playstation 2009 Movie & Pictures retro show
The Movie and Pictures of retro game show Van Pong tot Playstation 2009 are online on site commodore-gg.hobby.nl.
source: commodore-gg.hobby.nl
ColecoVision Roller Controller
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia:
Coleco prototyped a fourth expansion module intended to provide compatibility with Mattel’s Intellivision, but this was never released.
Two controller expansions were also available. First was the Roller Controller, a trackball packaged with a port of the arcade game Slither, a Centipede clone and meant to be used with some dedicated games like Victory or to enhance the gameplay of previously published cartridges which benefitted from its trackball system (like Wargames).
The second was the Super Action Controller Set, resembling a pair of boxing gloves each with joystick and numeric keypad on top and a series of buttons along the grip. It came with the game Super Action Baseball and saw later release of the Rocky Super Action Boxing, and a port of Front Line.
source: wikipedia
ColecoVision Super Action Controller
Autopsy:
from Vintagecomputing:
And you thought video game controllers were over-complicated these days; this one requires five (slightly-pudgy child) hands just to use it properly.
Take a look at this bad boy: four trigger buttons on the pistol-like grip (one per finger), twelve buttons in the overlay-friendly numeric keypad matrix on top, a one-dimensional “speed roller” wheel near the back, and an extremely flaccid red-knobbed joystick crowning it all.
Combine this with the futuristic look of a gaudy black space gauntlet that literally engulfs your hand, and you’ve got the ColecoVision Super Action Controller.
This marvel of controlling technology came in sets of two with a “Super Action Game” included — Super Action Baseball or Rocky Super Action Boxing.
source: vintagecomputing.com
EasyFlash Game Collection by P1X3L.net
That’s an CRT image for the EasyFlash cartridge.
It’s a Compilation with a lot of game, like:
- Badlands.
- Bandits.
- Boulder Dash.
- Centipede
- Frogger.
- Giana Sisters. ..and so on…
source: noname.c64 org
Some Coleco Vision Games Cartridges
Cartridges list:
- Fathom by Imagic.
- Rocky Super Action Boxing by United Artists Corporation + Joystick Sticker.
click here for the CBS Coleco Vision category.
CBS ColecoVision Atari 2600 Expansion modules
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia:
Expansion modules, from its introduction, Coleco had touted a hardware add-on called the Expansion Module #1 which made the ColecoVision compatible with the industry-leading Atari 2600. Functionally, this gave the ColecoVision the largest software library of any console of its day.
The expansion module prompted legal action from Atari, but Atari was unable to stop sales of the module because the 2600 could be reproduced with standard parts. Coleco was also able to design and market the Gemini game system which was an exact clone of the 2600, but with combined joystick/paddle controllers.
source: wikipedia
(Italian) Vecchie riviste di Elettronica ed Elettrotecnica.
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C128 System Information v7.1 rev3 by MirkoSoft
Program that detects type of your hardware in Commodore 128.
Also added recognizing 64HDD drives and better detection of MMU and RAM size. Works not correctly in VICE. Optimized for 80 columns mode. Thanks to Christian Johansson.
source: mirkosoft homepage
Yape Plus/4 Emulator v0.84 updated
From the Yape homepage:
Now the summer hiatus is over, a small update to Yape is ready. Mainly tape related fixes/features but let us not forget the simple external assembler that is now added to the monitor and is available via the A (or .) command, just like for the good ole TEDMON.
It could still be improved but for now it’ll suffice I guess. It also supports illegal opcodes, of course.
But here’s the full log of what’s been changed:
- Implemented a simple assembler in the external monitor (yay, at last!)
- Tape head adjust dialog for wave samples.
- Optionally invert tape sample input signal (soundcards may invert the phase while recording WAV’s)
- Tape fast forward and rewind in 15 sec steps.
- TAP’s with non-native encoding now supported (C64, VIC20 frequencies)
- Bugfixes (sound, tape)
source: yape.homeserver.hu
Sinclair ZX Spectrum+
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia:
Planning of the ZX Spectrum+ started in June 1984, and the machine was released in October the same year. This 48 KB Spectrum introduced a new QL-style case with an injection-moulded keyboard and a reset button.
Electronically, it was identical to the previous 48 KB model. It retailed for £179.95. A DIY conversion-kit for older machines was also available. Early on, the machine outsold the rubber-key model 2:1; however, some retailers reported a failure rate of up to 30%, compared with a more usual 5-6%.
source: wikipedia
OldSkool Nightfall Party T-Shirt
Network problems causing downtime on my Server *fixed*
It looks like the problem was actually with a specific VLAN behind one of our core routers and wasn’t actually the switch itself.
One of our senior Network Administrators trying to fix the problem and all services should be restored very soon.
source: dreamhoststatus.com
Released EasyProg v1.3 for EasyFlash Cartridge
EasyProg is a program for the C64. It is used to write (“burn”) cartridge image files (*.crt) onto an EasyFlash.
Changes:
- Add flash driver infrastructure EasyAP (Makes it easy to support different flash memory types)
- Add “reset and start crt” and “reset and kill”
- Add BING! sound.
- Show all file types in directory list.
- Show directories first, followed by files.
- Internal directory parser tolerates some malformed directories.
- Still problems with 1541U.
- Show message when directory is too long.
- Torture test is more verbose now.
source: easyflash homepage
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