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

Titles:

• Voltage +4EF 101% [pal/ntsc]
• Grey Seas, Grey Skies &GD
• Ultimate Quest: Catacomb
• Tic-Tac-Toe 2013
• Tic-Tac-Toe 2013 Crack
• CBM Asteroids Preview +
• Zix +5DMG
• Box Nightmare 0.1
• Nu pogodi
• Space Trap +3GD [pal/ntsc]
• Helsings Hunt +2
• Vampire’s Empire +3DM [pal/ntsc]
• Jara-Tava
• Zoo Mania Final +3H (eapi fix) [EasyFlash]

Download: All Games in One Archive (2994)

source: csdb.dk

CBM-Command is a disk manager for the Commodore 64 / Commodore 128 / Commodore VIC20 / PET and Commodore C16 computers. It is written like Norton Commander or Midnight Commander, but is much simpler due to the target platforms. Both the C128/C64/VIC20/C16/PET have their own native version of the application.

Release Notes – Version 2.3 Final

This is the final release for CBM-Command Version 2.3. What happened to version 2.2? Well, cc65 went through several breaking changes and I wanted to make a clear delineation that this version of CBM-Command isn’t a simple fix and recompile of the last version 2.2.

New Features:

• Provides Side-By-Side panels or Top-And-Bottom panels on 40-column systems.
• Batch disk image creation.
• User can select drive or partition number.
• The disks have a little BASIC-language program that can update your configuration files.

Known Issues:

• It can trigger the write-and-replace bug.
• It can’t create or write back D80 and D82 images.
• The REL-file copier doesn’t truncate old target files that have the same record size as the new file.
• It will try to copy DEL files if they are selected.
• Errors don’t stop batch operations; the file is skipped.

Download: CBM-Command v2.3 Final (D64/D80) (2207)

source: cbmcommand.codeplex.com

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Autopsy:

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This computer/console in good cosmetic condition is arrived for a repair from a friend a few weeks ago. The defect is The Black Screen of Death, the computer turns on but doesn’t turn off, the standby LED remains faint green.

Unfortunately after several hours spent to trying the fault and i have tried just everything, the computer is still dead, my suspicion falls on the Custom Chip “SCOTCH” IX 1267CE from Sharp.

Components that have been tested and replaced:

• Tested all capacitors.
• Tested all transistors.
• Tested all SMD fuses.
• Test all the Coils.
• Tested all voltages.
• Replaced 74LS08 ic that controls the logic of power on/standby.
• Replaced 74LS244 ic that controls the logic of power on/standby.
• Replaced the power supply.

Download: Sharp X68000 Schematics (1716)

from Wikipedia:

The Sharp X68000, often referred to as the X68k, is a home computer released only in Japan by the Sharp Corporation. The first model was released in 1987, with a 10 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU (hence the name), 1 MB of RAM and no hard drive; the last model was released in 1993 with a 25 MHz Motorola 68030 CPU, 4 MB of RAM and optional 80 MB SCSI hard drive. RAM in these systems is expandable to 12 MB, though most games and applications did not require more than two.

The X68k ran an operating system developed for Sharp by Hudson Soft, called Human68k, which features commands very similar to those in MS-DOS (typed in English). Pre-2.0 versions of the OS had command line output only for common utilities like “format” and “switch”, while later versions included forms-based versions of these utilities, greatly improving their usability. At least three major versions of the OS were released, with several updates in between. Other operating systems available include NetBSD for X68030 and OS-9.

Early models had a GUI called “VS” (Visual Shell); later ones were packaged with SX-WINDOW. A third GUI called Ko-Windows existed; its interface is similar to Motif. These GUI shells could be booted from floppy disk or the system’s hard drive. Most games also booted and ran from floppy disk; some were hard disk installable and others require hard disk installation.

Since the system’s release, Human68k, console, and SX-Window C compiler suites and BIOS ROMs have been released as public domain and are freely available for download.

Early machines use the rare Shugart Associates System Interface (SASI) for the hard disk interface; later versions adopted the industry-standard small computer system interface (SCSI). Per the hardware’s capability, formatted SASI drives can be 10, 20 or 30 MB in size and can be logically partitioned as well. Floppy disks came in a couple of different formats, none of which are natively readable on other platforms, although software exists that can read and write these disks on a DOS or Windows 98 PC.

source: wikipedia

I have received these computers to be repaired for a friend.

Defects found on the Commodore VIC-20:

• Error message (device not present) when trying to access the IEC devices, like a Floppy Drive.

Defects found on the Commodore 64:

• Black screen of death after installing the missing roms.

The repair of the Commodore VIC-20 was made by replacing a HEX Inverter Buffer 7406.

The repair of the Commodore C64 was made by replacing the MOS 906114-01 (PLA – Programmable Logic Array).

Gallery of repairs:

This is the official demo party results from Stary Piernik 8 (Top 3 Entries only). See also the CSDB Stary Piernik 8 section for more informations and download.

C64 Demo:

• Fogyish
• In Thorn by Sabath
• Kazachski piesek by Provocator

C64 Music:

• Nasty Bitch by Wacek
• One Life by Surgeon
• Filth And Scottish Words 50% by Randall

C64 Graphics:

• The Jungle by JSL
• Black Sun Logo by Miras
• Gdzie by Maciaszczyk

Download: Stary Piernik 8 full Party stuff (1146)

source: noname.c64.org/csdb/

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.

Changelog SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.8.2.40 (fat) & v2.1.2.40 (slim):

• Index signal behavior corrected while the host system attempt to format a drive without image loaded.

Download:

• HxC Floppy Emulator Firmware v1.8.2.40 (1106)
• Slim HxC Floppy Emulator Firmware v2.1.2.40 (1149)

source: hxc2001.free.fr

Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)

The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.

Changelog:

• Fixed an EasyFlash cartridge fault when loading a 4KB banked CRT file or state file.

Download:

• Hoxs64 64 bit v1.0.8.6 (979)
• Hoxs64 32 bit v1.0.8.6 (1047)
• Hoxs64 Ansi Win98/2K v1.0.8.6 (1041)

source: hoxs64.net

Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)

The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.

Changelog:

• Added emulation state file save, load and restore facility.
• Added Epyx Fastload cartridge.
• Added screen border hide options.
• Fixed Retro Reply cartridge banking fault.
• Reworked the CPU code to accommodate XAA/ANE for a MOS8500 as reported by Visual6502.org

Download:

• Hoxs64 64 bit v1.0.8.5 (1357)
• Hoxs64 32 bit v1.0.8.5 (1310)
• Hoxs64 Ansi Win98/2K v1.0.8.5 (1365)

source: hoxs64.net

Attitude is a disk magazine for the Commodore 64 computer by Triad. We hope you enjoy this issue as much as you did the previous ones!

Download: Attitude Diskmagazine #14 (1262)

source: noname.c64.org

FAIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Atari Falcon and Atari Portfolio computers.

Currently the project includes:

• Fail2png – portable command-line converter to PNG files.
• FAILWin – viewer for Windows.
• Thumbnail providers for Windows Explorer and GNOME (Linux)
• Plugin for XnView.
• (de)coder for ImageMagick.
• Plugin for Imagine.
• HTML 5 based viewer.

Changelog:

• New formats: Interlace Character Editor font (ICE), GEM Bit Image (IMG), Multi Palette Picture (MPP).

This is the last release of FAIL. But don’t worry! We are just renaming our project to Retro Computer Image Library (RECOIL), because we are going to support formats from 8-bit and 16-bit machines other than Atari. Stay tuned!

Download: FAIL (First Atari Image Library) v2.0.2 (1779)

source: fail.sourceforge.net

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

Titles:

• Elidon +7DM
• Conway’s Game Of Life
• Harrier Strike +3
• Locomotive Preview
• Deep Star +4
• Codename Desert Storm +3
• Liberator Preview
• Mission Moon +2J 101%
• Megapede +DG
• Gigamaze +ED
• 911 Tiger Shark +2 [ntsc]
• Agent-X II +1DG
• Submarine Rescue +5
• Submarine Rescue
• Mission Moon
• Sheep vs. Fox DX +2H
• Job Race +2D
• Press It!
• Angry Birds Style
• Murray Mouse +26D
• Quod Init Exit v1.4
• Flin Flon
• Assembloids (Retail Version) +2HD

Download: All Games in One Archive (2895)

source: csdb.dk

Arc64 is a small tool to deal with D64, T64, LNX and ZipCode archives. It can be used to edit D64 images, run D64 images in the WinVice emulator, run
PRG files via CodeNet, convert T64, LNX, PRG, ZipCode and other formats to D64.

A key feature is the drag & drop support. If you drop a D64 image, it will be opened instead of the currently opened D64 image. If you drop any kind of other file, Arc64 will try to add it to the D64 image. Formats like T64, LNX and P00 will automatically extracted into the D64 image as PRGs.

Any changes to a D64 won’t be saved automatically, you either have to drag the header of the directory into an explorer window, or you have to use the
Save-option from the menus.

Download: Arc64 v2.5 by Graham of Arsenic,Oxyron (1018)

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.

Changelog SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.8.2.36 (fat) & v2.1.2.36 (slim):

• Write Support : Write issue with VIA VT82C686A chipset based motherboard corrected.

Download:

• HxC Floppy Emulator Firmware v1.8.2.36 (1145)
• Slim HxC Floppy Emulator Firmware v2.1.2.36 (1095)

source: hxc2001.free.fr

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