SD2Snes Firmware v0.1.7 status update

Directly from the SD2Snes Homepage:

Here’s what I’ve been working on in the meantime:

• More refactorings of the menu ROM. This will facilitate further UI development (sub-menus etc.)
• NMI+IRQ hook routine – these are required for WRAM cheats and in-game reset. The latter is in working state as of now. I’d like some input on which key combinations would be desirable ;-) (some conflicts can arise with existing SNES mods, see below). There is now a dedicated memory area in FPGA block RAM mapped to $2a00-$2aff which is used for the hook routine and command exchange between a running game and the sd2snes main CPU.
• Game loading handshake between SNES menu and sd2snes CPU – this is a technical prerequisite for error handling (such as missing supplementary files, write-protected SD Card, etc.)
• LED blink codes for file system errors – e.g. in case the SRM file cannot be saved this will tell you that something’s gone wrong. Also the sd2snes will retry saving until it works so you have the chance to swap out the SD Card etc.
• “Screen saver” – the screen is darkened after some idle time to reduce wear on CRT and plasma screens.
• Memory sharing between SNES and the sd2snes CPU is greatly simplified (The FSM is reduced to only 5 states instead of 18) and timing is more relaxed. This should help with stability on a wider range of consoles.
• Fixed some compatibility issues with a number of games. (Super Play Action Football (S-RTC interference), GP1 Part II (WRAM initialization), Human Grand Prix (mapper detection bug))

To do for the upcoming release:

• Cheat management – technical prerequisites for cheats (ROM+WRAM) are met, now to code the GUI for it…
• Finish on-the-fly file browsing
• Decide on key combinations for in-game functions. (en/disable cheats, kill cheat engine, reset game, reset to menu)

About key combinations:

I wanted to use combinations that don’t interfere with my SNES IGR mod. This mod uses L+R+Select in combination with Start, A, B, X, or Y to perform different operations. In that scenario I still had the four directional buttons left to put other functions on. However :D With borti4938′s release of the feature-enriched uIGR these are now taken.

So far this is my new proposal for key combinations (UPDATED 2014-06-24):

• L+R+Select+Start = Reset game
• L+R+Select+X = Reset to sd2snes menu
• L+R+Start+B = Kill in-game routines (in case they interfere with game operation).
• L+R+Start+A = Disable cheats
• L+R+Start+Y = Enable cheats

Updated to reflect some of your suggestions. Already looks better to me. I steered clear of L+R+Start+X because it’s similar to L+R+Select+X. ;)

source: sd2snes.de

ASAP is a player of 8-bit Atari music for modern computers and mobile devices. It emulates the POKEY sound chip and the 6502 processor.

The project was initially based on the routines from the Atari800 emulator, but the current version has a completely new original emulation core.

Changelog ASAP 3.2.0 (2014-06-23):

• Reduced amplitude by half to avoid clipping on loud tunes.
• Silence detection regarded GTIA and COVOX sounds as silence.
• asapconv supports conversion to one WAV/RAW/MP3/XEX file per subsong.
• File Information window in the foobar2000 plugin.
• Updated the XBMC plugin for the new XBMC.
• OS X VLC plugin no longer requires OS X 10.8.

Android changes:

• Android 4.4 can now read the memory card.
• Switch to the next song when the current one ends.
• Playback couldn’t be resumed after a while of pause.
• Search files using on-screen keyboard.
• Removed HTTP playback.
• Files with duplicate titles were lost in the details view.

Download: ASAP v3.2.0 (1563)

source: asap.sourceforge.net

Commodore Floppy Drive 1541 Motherboard #1

Defect:

• IEC bus unresponsive.

Replaced parts:

• Replaced 1 x VIA 6522 (UC3)

Commodore Floppy Drive 1541 Motherboard #2

Defect:

• IEC bus unresponsive.

Replaced parts:

• Replaced 1 x VIA 6522 (UC3)
• Replaced 1 x 7414 (UA1)
• Replaced 1 x 901229 ROM (UB4)

Removed parts:

• SpeedDos adapter with the flat cable (user port bus) cutted.
• SpeedDos ROM Adapter.

AspeQt is a cross-platform, free and open source Atari 8-bit serial peripheral emulator. The name is an acronym for Atari serial peripheral emulator for Qt, Qt being the cross-platform application development framework used by AspeQt.

AspeQt emulates various Atari 8-bit peripherals like disk drives and printers via an SIO-2-PC cable. If you are familiar with software like Sio2Pc, APE, Atari810, AtariSIO etc., you probably won’t have any problems getting used to AspeQt.

Even though AspeQt is not fully mature yet, it is easy to use and, despite its shortcomings, has many features that you may find useful, the highlights being:

• Cross-platform GUI with drag and drop support.
• 15 emulated disk drives with support for 512 bytes per sector disk images.
• High speed operation up to 6 times faster than the normal speed (With compatible OS / DOS)
• Ability to use PC folders as emulated disks.
• Disk image explorer for viewing and modifying disk image contents.
• Ability to run Atari executables directly without using disc images and Doses.
• Printer emulation with preview and ATASCII support.
• Cassette image playback with custom baud rate.
• Ability to save and restore AspeQt sessions with its UI settings..=
• Normal and mini UI modes.

Version 1.0.0 Preview-6 (May 23, 2014) (Ray Ataergin):

• Windows registry entries for AspeQt are now stored under “atari8warez.com” registry tree, the program will automatically migrate settings on the next run. Existing AspeQt session files storing session settings are not affected by this change
• Code needed to compile AspeQt under Mac OS X is added (David Voswinkel – optixx) (see compile.rtf file included with the source archive)
• Folder images are now emulated in DOS 2.5 disk format rather than DOS 2.0 This gives more unique sector numbers to work with before they are re-used in a circular fashion.
• Fixed the “Not a binary file” error loading certain executable files.
• Text conversion is now OS platform aware (Win, Linux, OS X)
• Explorer Window Stay-on-top feature is now user selectable and persistent across sessions.

Download:

• AspeQt v1.0.0 Preview-6 (1316)

source: aspeqt.sourceforge.net

This is the official demo party results from Flashback 2014 (Top 3 Entries only). See also the CSDB Flashback 2014 section for more informations and download.

C64 Demo:

• Eclectic by Onslaught
• Rog by Funkentstört
• Flashback by Software of Sweden

C64 Music:

• Klotokok by iLKke
• eXTRATERRESTRic sYMPHo by dEViLOCk
• Cloudy Days by Gaetano Chiummo

C64 Graphics:

• Nature by JS
• Abstract Mutualism by Slayer Grafix
• The Procurement of the Crimson Skull by iLKke

Download: Flashback 2014 full Party stuff (1240)

source: csdb.dk defame.com.au/home

First of all, I must thank my dear friend Andrea for helping me financially to purchase this interface (one of the last pieces of the third batch).

Unboxing R&D Automation CFFA3000:

This is a CompactFlash / USB flash drive interface for Apple II family of computers.

Specifications:

• Support 1 to 13 partitions under ProDOS and GS/OS, and 2 virtual floppy drives
• Virtual Floppy image support allows the use of almost any non-copy-protected floppy disk image, including .dsk, .2mg, and .nib files. Note: .nib files of protected floppies will not work with the CFFA3000
• Allows storage of thousands of floppy and smartport disk images
• User configurable partition count
• Boot from either device and any partition
• Allow booting from Dos3.3, Pascal, CPM, Contiki, ProDOS or GS/OS directly from the Interface card (for a floppy-less system)
• Configurable as a CFFA smart port controller (i.e. a mass storage device) or as a floppy controller, or both. When configured as both, requires 2 slots in your Apple II, one for the physical card, and one for the virtual floppy controller.
• Hardware supports DMA, although v1.0 software does not currently support DMA. Future support is planned, but not guaranteed.

Apple IIgs through the GBS 8200 v4:

Apple IIgs through the GBS 8200 v4 (display scalar board) to a VGA Monitor.

The cable that i have made takes from the Video Connector of the Apple IIgs the 12v voltage for the GBS 8200.

Schematics:

Video Demostration of CFFA3000 through the GBS 8200:

source: CFFA3000 Homepage

Commodore Amiga 500/600 PSU Repair

Amiga 500/600 (PSU) PowerSupply #1

Defect:

• Short-circuit and the fuse blows.

Replace parts:

• 1 x Transistor NPN 2SC3679.

Amiga 500/600 (PSU) PowerSupply #2

Defect:

• Short-circuit and the fuse blows.

Replace parts:

• 1 x Transistor NPN BU508A.

Amiga 500/600 (PSU) PowerSupply #3

Defect:

• Short-circuit and the fuse blows.
• The PCB is half broken.
• Some components have suffered of too much heat.
• The locking pins of the cover are broken.
• Dirty and Yellowed.

I don’t made the repair. I recovered what might come in handy.

Some new games or tools (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups.

Titles:

• Battle for Normandy 101% +D
• Bubble Escape 2K +1D
• Harrier Attack HS &D
• Maze Dash +3
• Blob Preview V3 +1
• Maze Dash +4MH
• Magic Duel [Doreco Party Edition]
• Bellringer III V1.5 +4HFD [pal/ntsc]
• Scuba Dive HS &D
• Gnom [norwegian]
• Amazon 100% +5EF [pal/ntsc]
• Commando Arcade
• Wild West Seymour +2DPG +PIC +SOL +MAP
• Steinberg Pro-16 Plus, Version 2.4
• Star Lifter HS
• Denga +2
• Maze of the Mummy Preview +6
• Faster Than Light Preview +2
• Labyrinth (Commodore Disc) +
• Fuse &MHD

Download: All Games in One Archive (2878)

source: csdb.dk

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:

• A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
• A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.

Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.22.0:

• GUI – Track viewer window : New viewer mode -> Disk surface view mode.
• Raw loader :  UKNC Russian computer support added.
• New Writer : BMP file (Disk/circular layout) -> Disk layout can now be exported into a BMP file (for disk analysis) !
• libhxcfe : Correction of the UTF8 path support in some loaders/writers.
• New Loader : SPS CT Raw file format support added. (NOTE : No flakey bits support for the moment !)
• libhxcfe : Generic flux stream analyzer enhanced.
• Disk Browser : ADFLib fseek corrected.

Download:

• HxCFloppyEmulator v2.0.22.0 (1385)

source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl

Apple IIc Rom v4 Upgrade & Repair.

Defect:

• The second RAM in the auxiliary memory is faulty.

Replaced parts:

• Replaced 1 x RAM 4264 (ARD1)

Upgrade:

• Apple IIc ROM upgraded to the latest version V4 (MON)

Download:

• Apple IIc v4 ROM + Installation Manual (1469)

Commodore CBM/PET 3032 Motherboard Repair.

Defect:

• Garbled screen and then “Illegal Quantity Error” message or 31 Bytes free

Replaced parts:

• Replaced 1 x NE555 (A2)
• Replaced 2 x Unstable RAM 4116 (I2/I3)
• Replaced 1 x 74LS153 (E4)

Atari Disk Drive 1050 #1

Defect:

• SIO bus unresponsive.

Replaced parts:

• Replaced 1 x LM3086N (U1)

Atari Disk Drive 1050 #2

Defect:

• SIO bus unresponsive + no reset cycle of the Disk drive on poweron.

Replaced parts:

• Replaced 1 x RAM-I/O-Timer (RIOT) 6532 (U7)

Autopsy Apple IIgs / Keyboard (A2S6000W):

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Autopsy Apple 3.5 Drive (A9M0106):

Autopsy Apple 5.25 Drive (A9M0107):

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Autopsy Apple IIgs Mouse (A9M0331):

Autopsy Apple IIgs RGB Monitor (A2M6014Z):

The Apple IIGS (stylized as IIGS) is the fifth and most powerful model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer. The “GS” in the name stands for Graphics and Sound, referring to its enhanced multimedia capabilities, especially its state-of-the-art sound and music synthesis, which greatly surpassed previous models of the line and most contemporary machines like the Macintosh and IBM PC.

The machine was a radical departure from any previous Apple II, with its true 16-bit architecture, increased processing speed, direct access to megabytes of RAM, wavetable music synthesizer, graphical user interface, and mouse. While still maintaining full backwards compatibility with earlier Apple II models, it blended the Apple II and aspects of Macintosh technology into one. Keeping with Apple’s “Apple II Forever” slogan of the time, the IIGS set forth a promising future and evolutionary advancement of the Apple II line, but Apple paid it relatively little attention as the company increasingly focused on the Macintosh platform.

The Apple IIGS was the first computer produced by Apple to use a color graphical user interface, as well as the “Platinum” (light grey) color scheme and the Apple Desktop Bus interface for keyboards, mice, and other input devices. It was also the first personal computer to come with a built-in “wavetable” sample-based synthesizer chip, utilizing technology from Ensoniq. The machine outsold all other Apple products, including the Macintosh, during its first year in production.

Apple IIgs booting from Iomega Zip Drive:

source: wikipedia

This a special edition of the Commodore C64, celebrating the 1.000.000th sale of the C64 in Germany. This is one of the most desirable Commodore items. There are about 300 golden Commodore C64 produced. The numbers from 1.000.000 until 1.000.100 were for the staff of the Commodore factory Braunschweig.

The rest was given to hard- en software companies, magazine-publishers and distributors. The C64 is a computer system with a keyboard, external power-supply and a motherboard. On the motherboard you will find a MOS 6510 processor, RAM / ROM memory, MOS 6569 VIC-II video chip, MOS 6581 SID sound chip and twice a MOS 6526 CIA. PAL version.

source: ebay.de richardlagendijk.nl

Gallery:

Commodore 64 Shiny Blue (Professional Painting). Many thanks to my friend Damiano Colombari (Manosoft)