Material donated:

• Commodore Monitor 1085S (The 1085(S) is a cost-reduced version of the 1084, with lower resolution (.52 mm dot pitch) and no non-glare screen treatment.)
• Commodore Amiga 500 + 512k Expansion.

I’m happy to share the photos of the day spent with Damiano (Manosoft) that besides being a good friend is also the father of the interface C64SD Infinity for Commodore 64/C16/VIC20.

We spent a pleasant day of old memories, we are watched and commented some demos for the Commodore 64 and we have completed the repair of the keyboard of his Commodore SX-64.

Thanks Damiano for making me visit and for giving me a lot of things that are now part of my collection.

Autopsy:

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from Denial Wiki Homepage:

The VIC-1020 (known as the VC-1020 in Germany) expansion chassis is a large metal enclosure which provides the VIC-20 computer with six additional expansion slots for cartridges (five pointing upward and one lying horizontally and pointing toward an opening on the the back of the VIC-1020). The entire VIC-20 computer is placed into the VIC-1020 and a male edge connector on the 1020′s slot expansion board is mated with the VIC-20′s internal cartridge port. A monitor can be placed on top of the VIC-1020, giving the entire setup a PET computer-like appearance. Indeed, the black “CBM” label across the front of the VIC-1020′s casing is similar to that used on the the PET line of computers. The choice of sheet metal for this enclosure seems natural, as Commodore had a sheet metal fabrication plant for the production of office filing cabinets and desks.

The VIC-1020′s chassis has additional storage space which can be used for the computer’s power supply (a pass-through for the power supply is provided). There is also a metal clip on the underside of the lid which can hold the RF modulator.

Slot expanders such as this allowed the simultaneous use of several cartridges on a single VIC-20. This allowed features of utility cartridges (like the Programmer’s Aid cartridge) and RAM expanders to be combined. Unlike some other slot expanders, however, the VIC-1020 lacked switches to enable or disable individual cartridges – meaning cartridges had to be physically removed to disable them. This emphasizes what seems an apparent design flaw of the VIC-1020; the monitor needs to be lifted off the chassis and set aside to enable the user to open the lid and access the extra cartridge ports – a cumbersome process if repeated often.

source: sleepingelephant.com

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Kernel JiffyDos Installation and Keyboard Repair for my friend Damiano (manosoft.it). To repair the keyboard you must clean the contacts very well on the pcb.

Working Commodore SX-64 in cluster ;-D

Today a friend has donated to me some nice things. Thanks Damiano (Manosoft).

Things that have been donated:

• Commodore SX64 Manual.
• TV +4 Pong Clone.
• PCB Multi Kernel C64/C64C Switch.
• PCB Universal PLA Adapter.
• Atmel 27C512 PROM 70ns.
• Some DIMM Memory (256mb and 512mb)
• Mattel Intellivision.
• Mattel Intellivision Boxed Games:
  • Football.
  • Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
  • Skiing.
  • Maze-A-Tron.
  • Sea Battle.
  • Tennis.
  • Basketball.

source: ebay.com wikipedia

The Hires Color 7 Demo/Picture Show contains 32 images and utilises the Magica Driver with several Duce and Veto (C64 graphicians) pictures included.

Download: Hires Color 7 Demo/Picture Show (1176)

source: plus4world.powweb.com

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Sos, Rubberland, Alpha Flight, Nostalgia and inZane.

Download:

• Diesel Duel (992)
• The Dark Within (1040)
• To Hell and Back +2H (1000)
• Yie Ar Kung-Fu II +6DH [ntsc/pal] (1051)
• Commando +2 (1057)
• All Games in One Archive (2433)

source: csdb.dk

NAV, is a new file browser for the C64. NAV can use a mouse in Port 1, joystick in Port 2, or the keyboard. NAV can work with up to five drives and has been tested with the following drive types:

1541, 1571, 1581, uIEC, IDE64

Browsing through directories and disks is just point and click! Drives like the uIEC that can store gigabytes of software can be tedious and frustrating to navigate. NAV lets you easily work with D64/D71/D81/DNP/M2I disk images as well as “real” Commodore disks and the IDE64. Up to five drives at a time!

Just click a drive to browse it!Pressing the “@” key brings up a command line that acts just like the good ol’ DOS Wedge. In addition, there are a few additional commands that can be entered on the command line. Just type “@HELP” to get the complete list.

Changelog:

• More drive icons. The font has been improved, directory listings look better.
• NAV now displays the number of files on the disk.
• Lots of bug fixes.
• LOAD and RUN the CHANGES program to read the complete changelog. As before, type “@help” in NAV to get a full list of features.
• You can now choose from 12 different backgrounds. I copied most of these tiles from ones used in GEOS (thanks ShadowM).
• Unfortunately, NAV still does not work with the Final Cartridge III. Sorry. It seems as though there is a way to temporarily disable the FCIII to allow it to work with NAV… but I can’t figure it out… yet. Feel free to drop me a line if you think you can help.

Download: NAV v9.6 (D64 & PRG) (1380)

source: commodoreserver.com

There are not a lot to say about this gadget, the photo speaks for itself. It’s a pillow that has the shape of a Commodore 64, simply a fantastic idea.

source: bieno64.blogspot.com.es

source: ebay

HermIRES it’s a cross-platform hires bitmap (Art Studio 1 format) editor for the Commodore 64.

The format has some restrictions, here are the rules:

• The maximal resolution of the picture is 320×200
• Only 16 fix C64 colours can be used (no gradient either)
• In a 8×8 pixel-block only 2 colours can used to be displayable by C64 (this is detected in HermIRES, but .hbm files can be saved with clashes too.)
• On a real C64 the PAL will blur the screen-content a bit, should check on CRT, or at least VICE emulator’s CRT simulation.

Changelog:

Fixed:

• Pen-shapes are symmetric again. -> solution: 2.23*radius as diameter and 80 as angle-steps.
• Pen-preview is more accurate now -> solution: typing some ‘-1′ in PenPreview function.
• 0 sized filled rectangle with dither freezed the app -> solution: when start and end X or Y is equal, only drawing line…
• Taking tasbar size (30 pixel high) into the resolution-decider equation – more probable for GUI to fit into the screen comfortably.
• Windows – now the program Icon appears again in taskbar and window-title -> with the new compile.bat (not from DevCpp with Makefile.win)

Download:

• HermIRES v1.26 (Linux) (951)
• HermIRES v1.26 (Windows) (1345)

source: hermit.netne.net

Featureful native Commodore 64 music tracker with MIDI/XM converter.

SID-Wizard is an open-source project from the very 1st release, and everyone is welcome to help in further developments of my extensively commented sourcecode.

Download: SID-Wizard v1.4 (D64/PRG & Docs) (1104)

source: sourceforge.net

These are the top three winners of the “Crack Intro Music Compo 2013” for the Commodore 64. More information can be found on the site CSDB.

• 1 – Retrospectful by DRAX.
• 2 – Introduction to Crack by DRAX.
• 3 – Y-Lax-It by celticdesign.

The archive below contains all songs in SID and PRG format.

Download: Crack Intro Music Compo 2013 (1309)