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C64 Game: Earth Defence +3 / Infiltrator Collection [EF] …

July 7th, 2012 No comments

(Italian) Jurassic News numero #42

July 2nd, 2012 No comments

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

Categories: Magazine, News & Rumors, Today

VIC20 Game: Break-Fast II

June 28th, 2012 No comments

A new VIC-20 game by Ghislain is Released.

Short Description: Puzzle action game.

Requirements: Unexpanded VIC-20 + Disk Drive.

Download: Break-Fast II (1275)

source: sleepingelephant.com

Turbo Chameleon 64 beta firmware 7b released

June 28th, 2012 No comments

Turbo Chameleon 64 is an extremely user-friendly cartridge that can be used without opening the computer. It is just plugged to the expansion port of the C64.

The Turbo Chameleon 64 cartridge can also be operated as a stand-alone unit (since it’s basically an FPGA computer like the C-One or the Minimig in a C64 cartridge case), replacing the computer, the floppy drive and the heavy power supply.

When used as a stand-alone unit, a USB power adapter or active USB hub can be used as a power source.

Changelog:

  • fixed REU, transfer length register is 1 after a transfer completes.
  • fixed REU 512K wrap around.
  • fixed cache controller preventing corruption when accessing 0x1FFFF0000 – 0x1FFFFFFFF
  • faster SDRAM controller. More memory bandwidth for turbo.
  • added slowdown modes to the Turbo settings. Offering CPU speeds of 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%.
  • added native updater program (see manual) to update the fpga core without an usb connection.
  • make menu item active when pressing a hotkey, so it is selected when going back to the respective menu.
  • correctly mute/unmute second sid in menu freezer.
  • clockport- and rr-net- items in options menu are correctly disabled if either is not available.
  • if found, load and run update.prg from sd card (chameleon updater)
  • if “boot from sd card” is enabled, load boot.prg from sd card (regular c64 boot program)
  • improved navigation in one panel mode, cursor right enters subdir/image and cursor left goes one level up.
  • improved quickfind, just type a filename quickly to jump to it.
  • mount menu is skipped if there would only be one active item.
  • when returning to the menu from the sid player by pressing left/menu button it will go directly to the filebrowser.
  • added gfx viewer for various multi-color and hires formats.(see manual)
  • added wav player (see manual)
  • added filecopy (F5 in two panel mode, see manual)
  • set $030c-$030e to 0 before starting prgs, increases compatibility with certain packers.
  • .sid files which actually contain a basic program can now be run correctly.
  • re-read destination panel after copying image.

Download: Chameleon Beta-7b release (1863)

source: beta.icomp.de

VirtualC64 v0.9.6.1 for Intel Macintosh OSx

June 27th, 2012 1 comment

VirtualC64 emulates a Commodore 64 personal computer on your Intel Macintosh OSx > 10.6.

I wrote the software with two major goals in mind. First, I wanted to create an emulator that can be used as a demonstrator program in a first year or second year course on computer engineering.

To achieve this goal, I have integrated various debugging capabilities that let you peek inside the CPU, RAM, ROM, or one of the custom chips. Second, I tried to make the emulator as user friendly as it can get.

In short: VirtualC64 tries to combine the ongoing fascination of the ancient Commodore computers with the great user experience of today’s Macs.

Bug fixes and enhancements:

  • Lions native fullscreen mode now works as expected (no more ugly borders)
  • Removed old fullscreen mode which frequently crashed on lion machines.

Download: VirtualC64 v0.9.6.1 (1477)

source: dirkwhoffmann.de

C64 Game: Spike C64 Dislike +1MHD / Deflectors +2D …

June 27th, 2012 No comments

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Really Proud LamersGenesis Project and David Eriksson.

Download:

source: csdb.dk

High Voltage SID Collection Update #57

June 25th, 2012 No comments

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):

  • 975 new SIDs
  • 239 fixed/better rips
  • 13 repeats/bad rips eliminated
  • 3136 SID credit fixes
  • 396 SID model/clock infos
  • 38 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
  • 18 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
  • 72 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
  • 24 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories

Download:

source: www.hvsc.c64.org

C64 Game: 15 new games released for Commodore 64

June 25th, 2012 No comments

C64 Game: Wheelin’ Wallie HS / Donkey Kong (Atarisoft) +5H …

June 18th, 2012 No comments

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Really Proud Lamers, Mayday! and The Hidden Farts.

Download:

source: csdb.dk

Commodore Amiga TV-Modulator 520 Boxed

June 17th, 2012 No comments
Commodore Amiga TV-Modulator 520 Boxed

Autopsy:

The Commodore Amiga  520  Video  Adapter  is a device that allows you to connect your  Amiga  500  to  a  TV  set  or a composite video monitor.

It does this by converting  the  RGB  video signal the Amiga produces for RGB monitors to a composite video signal that a TV  or composite monitor can interpret.

Commodore Amiga 500 (A500) REV 6A Expanded 1MB & Boxed

June 17th, 2012 No comments
Commodore Amiga 500 (A500) REV 6A

Autopsy:

from Wikipedia:

The Amiga 500 – also known as the A500 (or its code name ‘Rock Lobster’) – was the first “low-end” Commodore Amiga 16/32-bit multimedia home/personal computer. It was announced at the winter Consumer Electronics Show in January 1987 – at the same time as the high-end Amiga 2000 – and competed directly against the Atari 520ST. Before Amiga 500 was shipped, Commodore suggested that the list price of the Amiga 500 was 595.95 USD without a monitor. At delivery in 1987, Commodore announced that the Amiga 500 would carry a 699 USD list price.

The Amiga 500 represented a return to Commodore’s roots by being sold in the same mass retail outlets as the Commodore 64 – to which it was a spiritual successor – as opposed to the computer-store-only Amiga 1000.

The original Amiga 500 proved to be Commodore’s best-selling Amiga model, enjoying particular success in Europe. Although popular with hobbyists, arguably its most widespread use was as a gaming machine, where its advanced graphics and sound for the time were of significant benefit.

The Amiga 500 series was discontinued in mid-1992 replaced by the similarly specified and priced Amiga 600, although this new machine had originally been intended as a much cheaper budget model, which would have been the A300. In late 1992, Commodore released the “next-generation” Amiga 1200, a machine closer in concept to the original Amiga 500, but featuring significant technical improvements. Despite this, neither the A1200 nor the A600 replicated the commercial success of its predecessor as, by this time, the market was definitively shifting from the home computer platforms of the past to commodity Wintel PCs and the new “low-cost” Macintosh Classic, LC and IIsi models.

source: wikipedia

C64 Game: Attacker +4H / Gertie Goose + / Stop Stones +5H …

June 15th, 2012 No comments

C64 Utility: EasyCLI v0.06

June 14th, 2012 No comments

EasyCLI is a command shell for the Commodore 64 computer. EasyCLI is packaged as an EasyFlash cartridge. This gives EasyCLI the ability to boot the computer and bring the user straight to the shell without having to load and run a program from disk.

EasyCLI comes packaged with several built in commandlets, each of which is it’s own 8K program that is stored in the EasyFlash cartridge and loaded on demand.

Changelog:

  • New command: ECHO – Outputs text following the command.
  • New command: PAUSE – displays prompt and waits for user to input a key.
  • New command: EXEC – Executes a script. Scripts are chains of commands that will be executed in a sequence. Scripts can be chained together by including another EXEC command at the end of the script. This is very useful because the longer a script is the longer it takes to execute the commands in the script since the script must be reloaded after each command, so chaining together small scripts is faster than one big script.

Download: EasyCLI v0.06 (1046)

source: easycli.codeplex.com

C64 Utility: EasyCLI v0.05

June 8th, 2012 No comments

EasyCLI is a command shell for the Commodore 64 computer. EasyCLI is packaged as an EasyFlash cartridge. This gives EasyCLI the ability to boot the computer and bring the user straight to the shell without having to load and run a program from disk.

EasyCLI comes packaged with several built in commandlets, each of which is it’s own 8K program that is stored in the EasyFlash cartridge and loaded on demand.

The following features are planned for version 1.0 through implementation as commandlets:

  • HELP – in program help system.
  • CD – change directory.
  • DIR – display directory.
  • MKDIR – make directory.
  • RMDIR – remove directory.
  • DEL – delete file.
  • REN – rename file or directory.
  • COPY – copy files.
  • MOVE – move files.
  • SHOW – display text file.
  • MKIMG – make disk image.
  • WRIMG – write disk image.
  • COPYDISK – copy entire disk.
  • CONFIG planned – modify default configuration.

Download: EasyCLI v0.05 (1103)

source: easycli.codeplex.com

C64 Game: Soulless +3D / EasyFlash Compilation #4 / Robin …

June 5th, 2012 2 comments

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: OnslaughtLifeless Incorporated and Nostalgia.

Download:

source: csdb.dk