Scene World is a C64 magazine on disk dedicated to various activities of both C64 scenes.

“Both” means, that we are supplying information and texts of both scenes; NTSC and PAL.

Download: Scene World #20 (D64/D81 + Disk Cover) (838)

source: sceneworld.c64files.com

SpartaDOS X (or SpartaDOS 4.0) is a disk operating system for the Atari 8-bit family of computers, that closely resembles MS-DOS. It was developed and sold by ICD, Inc. in 1987-93.

Ten years later SpartaDOS X considered abandonware has been picked up by its enthusiasts, and developed further. These unofficial revisions, incorporating many of the utilities written since 1992, cleaning many identified problems and including numerous improvements, are:

• v4.31 (2005)
• v4.39RC (2006)
• v4.40 (a leaked-out beta, 2006)
• v4.41 (Feb. 2008)
• v4.42 (Dec. 2008)
• v4.43 (Apr.2011)
• v4.44 (Jun.2011)
• v4.45 (Nov.2011)
• v4.46 (Jan.2013)

The new SpartaDOS X 4.46 runs on the following hardware platforms:

• intSDX128
• intSDX128 “flash”
• Maxflash 1Mb
• Maxflash 8Mb (contains MAN on-line help)
• Altirra and Atari800 emulators
• Turbo Freezer 2005 (contains MAN on-line help, use with Freezer ROM only)
• SIC! Cartridge (256k version contains MAN on-line help)
• IDE Plus 2.0 (contains MAN on-line help)
• Ultimate 1MB (contains MAN on-line help)

SDX Toolkit:

• Set of additional programs, drivers and utilities
• Set of SDX command descriptions for MAN utility (excerpts from the User’s Manual).

SDX images for SIDE:

• Customized SDX images with SIDE driver are available at Jonathan Halliday’s website.

Dowload:

• SpartaDOS X v4.46 (1367)
• SpartaDOS X v4.46 (Toolkit) (1253)
• SpartaDOS X v4.46 (Changelog) (1468)

source: sdx.atari8.info wikipedia

This is the 7th edition of the New Years Disc for Atari. In this issue you can find a lots of interesting things to begin a new year with our beloved Atari.

In this issue you can find:

NYD2013 Disc 1 – multidisc.atr:

• Hello 2k13 by PPs
• Frosty animation (Beware it’s mature ware!) by CharlieChaplin
• Fireworks by CreatureXL, 505 and Flash
• Xmas 2012 animation by CharlieChaplin
• Chicks on Chips by JAC!
• Doomsday demo by Inspiration Soft
• Happy 2013 by Sikor, Miker & his wife

NYD2013 Disc 2 – Blowjobb part.atr:

• A bootable disc with a DOS. When it’s ready loaded type in: N* and press RETURN.

NYD2013 Disc 3 – 320k animation.atr:

• A nice animation from miker. You’ll need at least 320k on your machine!

NYD2013 Disc 4 – multidisc.atr:

• Happy New Year animation (Needs at lease 128k!) by miker
• Sprite multiplexer  by playsoft

NYD2013 Disc 5 – ipc viewer.atr:

• After booting you’ll get into a viewer, where you can load ipc pictures. More about the whole thing can be read in the designated readme file. Synthpopalooza did a great job here. Simply press D and you’ll see, what pictures are on this disc to load them.

NYD2013 Disc 6 – ipc pictures.atr:

• Another disc with ipc files on it. Load them with the viewer of disc 5.

NYD2013 Disc 7 – multidisc.atr:

• Rough Rider by XXL & Irrlichtproject
• Dice 2013 by Sikor & Miker
• Rolling Stars by MaPa & PG

Download: New Years Disc 7th edition (2013) (1191)

source: pouet.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 the EasyFlash 1MB cartridge. A simplified emulation of the AMD Am29F040 EPROM permits writing and passes EasyProg v1.6.3 tests.
• Fixed freeze and soft reset to spread randomly through the frame to improve the chance of a successful freeze.
• New cartridge emulation with freeze function. Peter Schepers CRT format is supported. The following cartridge emulations are supported: Action Replay v[6 - 2], Final Cartridge III (v3 only), Retro Replay 64K RAM, Magic Desk, Ocean 1, Fun Play, Super Games, System 3, Dinamic, Zaxxon, Simons Basic, Normal Cartridge. The CRT reader uses the in file reported chip bank numbers and not the order they appear in the file.
• Fixed misreported raster position in the debugger when starting a new frame.

Download:

• Hoxs64 64 bit v1.0.8.1 (803)
• Hoxs64 32 bit v1.0.8.1 (797)
• Hoxs64 Ansi Win98/2K v1.0.8.1 (808)

source: hoxs64.net

CBM prg Studio Version 2.5.3 is released. There are a lot of new features in this version. I’d really appreciate it if you report any bugs you find or have any suggestions/comments.

CBM prg Studio allows you to type a BASIC or Machine Code program in using a nice Windows environment and convert it to a ‘.prg’ file which you can run on an emulator, or even a real C64 / VIC20 or PET if you’re feeling brave and have the right kit.

CBM prg Studio is the result of merging C64PrgGen and VIC20PrgGen. Adding new features and fixing bugs in two apps which were 95% similar was a bit of a nightmare so merging them made sense.

It was also a good opportunity for a face lift and to add some new features, such as:

• Programs are project based, meaning all related source files, sprite files etc. are kept in one place and multiple source files can be linked more easily.
• Tabbed MDI.
• Syntax highlighting.

What CBM prg Studio isn’t is a front-end for tok64, cbmcnvrt, bastext or any other tokeniser / detokeniser / assembler. It’s all been written completely from scratch.

New features:

• New source conversion tool to convert Develop64 files to asm format.
• New tutorial explaining how to use projects to manage assembly source files.

Bugs fixed:

• Relative addressing with offset, e.g. BMI *+4.
• Some invalid relative offsets not detected.
• Excluding source files from a project.
• Removing source files from a project.
• Assigning a variable to another variable.
• Warnings if invalid BASIC jump (goto, gosub etc.) destinations are detected.
• Unknown labels not detected.
• Screen designer not retaining ‘reverse off’ after new line.
• Forward-referenced cheap labels not working.
• Duplicate cheap labels not detected.
• Some UI issues.

Download: CBM prg Studio v2.5.3 (819)

source: ajordison.co.uk

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: S.E.U.C.K. Trainers United, Dinasours, Avatar, Cosine, Genesis Project, TRIAD, uppercase Software, Nostalgia, WST and Laxity.

Download:

• Retron Phase One +2H (892)
• Star Strike + (913)
• S-Blox (Beta 1) (960)
• Blok Copy - PETSCII Edition (925)
• Pub Trivia 100% [pal/ntsc] (1048)
• Pub Trivia (953)
• Pub Trivia (uppercase Software) (889)
• You Have to Win the Game + [pal] (917)
• You Have to Win the Game +5MD (923)
• Sheep vs. Fox +2H (894)
• Revenge of the Tomato +5FD [pal/ntsc] (945)
• Revenge of the Tomato +5F [pal/ntsc] (915)
• Sword of Honour (Easyflash) +6D [pal/ntsc] (942)
• Black Gold 101% +9DFIR [ntsc/pal] & Easyflash (1037)
• Graeme Souness International Soccer [polish] (886)
• All Games in One Archive (2426)

source: csdb.dk

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

Autopsy:

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The motherboard is the same of Commodore VIC-1540 (Rev A/B PCB 1540007 (C) 1981 made in Japan) with a old HIGH Rom MOS “901229-03″ instead of “325303-01″.

The Commodore 1541 (aka CBM 1541, and originally called VIC-1541), made by Commodore International, was the best-known floppy disk drive for the Commodore 64 home computer. The 1541 was a single-sided 170 kilobyte drive for 5¼” disks. The 1541 followed the previous Commodore 1540 (meant for the VIC-20).

Here you can find the US version of the Commodore Single Drive Floppy Disk VIC-1541.

Testing the Floppy Drive:

Atari SAP Music Archive (ASMA) is a Atari XL-XE music collection. It is one of the largest and most accurate computer music collections known.

ASMA v3.6 contains 4630 tunes, 315 of which are new! Moreover, ASAP has been updated to the latest version and SAPMaker has been recompiled to run under the latest Windows.

Download: Atari SAP Music Archive v3.6 (1539)

source: asma.atari.org

2013 C64-RetroInvaders calendar by Nautilus.

Download:

• 2013 C64-RetroInvaders calendar PDF (English/Spanish) (910)

source: noname.c64.org

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):

• 906 new SIDs
• 185 fixed/better rips
• 2 repeats/bad rips eliminated
• 971 SID credit fixes
• 111 SID model/clock infos
• 13 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
• 14 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
• 33 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
• 14 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories

Download:

• HVSC Update #58 (1288)
• Complete HVSC #58 (1381)

source: www.hvsc.c64.org

ST-Paint is a Drawing program that lets you make Atari St picture on Windows based PC.

ST-Paint is still in a beta phase and it’s made by Peter Jørgensen same author of the program Ym2149 Tracker.

Note from the author:

• Windows mode (not complete)
• Clipboard : Remember the last 15 clip.
• Color Replacer : Use to replace a color somewhere in the graphic.
• Poly Line: Load/save Neochrome picture / Load Degas Under/Overscan Picture*
• Some other functions have been change, like the undo buffer in the polygon function, (now while drawing a polyg, and undo you will remove the last point, when finish the polyg and undo, you will remove the hole polygon.

Download:

• ST-Paint Beta (27/12/2012) (898)

source: fedepede04.dk

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Dinasours, Iceout, The Mojon Twins, Underground Domain Inc, Really Proud Lamers, Excess, Nostalgia, Antarctica and Laxity.

Download:

• Candle Burner +2 [pal/ntsc/drean] (897)
• Master of Camouflage + (922)
• Sir Ababol +4FD [pal/ntsc] (912)
• Santa Claus + (911)
• Scoop! (909)
• Sir Ababol +4F [pal/ntsc] (905)
• A Popples Christmas Adventure (877)
• Sir Ababol (910)
• Tau Ceti USA [pal/ntsc] (912)
• Candle Burner (887)
• Candle Burner [pal/ntsc] (888)
• Sven-Goran Penalty Trainer Preview (908)
• Pirates! 101% +10DR [pal/ntsc] (1004)
• Crazy Car +HD (945)
• Frantic Fisherman + (896)
• All Games in One Archive (2339)

source: csdb.dk

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Onslaught, TRIAD, Antarctica and Laxity.

Download:

• Otherworld +4F 101% [ntsc/pal] (864)
• Exodus Preview (868)
• Epsilon Preview (879)
• Fuzzball Preview V2 + (881)
• Oracle III +5FD [pal/ntsc] (891)
• Drag Race +D +Pic (865)
• Canabalt +3M [pal] (859)
• All Games in One Archive (2319)

source: csdb.dk