source: ebay.de wikipedia

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Genesis Project, Hokuto Force  and Dinasours.

Download:

• Hessian Preview &D (931)
• Escape From the Laundry (896)
• Little Sara Sister 2 (947)
• Escape From the Laundry -7 (909)
• Quetzalcoatlus Preview +Inst (911)
• Catch Them Up +2 (879)
• All Games in One Archive (1043)

source: csdb.dk

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 point and click raster position breakpoints. Breakpoints can be disabled with out being deleted.
• Added command window with assemble, disassemble and C64 memory map selection.
• Added disassemble window address finder.
• Added disassemble window mouse wheel scrolling (WinXP+).
• Randomisation of drive weak bits. Minor drive timing improvement.
• The application is marked as “DPI Aware”. All Windows GUI elements are DPI aware and will render smooth clear text when used with Windows 7′s “make text bigger” option. Only the windowed mode C64 bitmapped rendering remains non DPI aware as with previous versions.
• Added a work in progress breakpoint listview with context menu options “Show Address” and “Delete All Breakpoints”
• Illegal opcode tweak for demo ‘Errata’ by Emulamer.
• CRASHFIX: Fixed stack corruption crash when reading G64 files with custom speed zones.
• CRASHFIX: Fixed application lock up bug while drag scrolling the disassembly window.

Download:

• Hoxs64 64 bit v1.0.7.5 (1346)
• Hoxs64 32 bit v1.0.7.5 (1215)
• Hoxs64 Ansi Win98/2K v1.0.7.5 (1184)

source: hoxs64.net

A rare Commodore 65 on eBay.

from Wikipedia:

The Commodore 65 (also known as the C64DX, not to be confused with the Commodore SX-64 portable unit) was a prototype computer created by Fred Bowen and others at Commodore Business Machines (CBM) (part of Commodore International) in 1990–1991. The project was cancelled by CEO Irving Gould.

The C65 was an improved version of the Commodore 64, and it was meant to be backwards-compatible with the older computer, while still providing a number of advanced features close to those of the Amiga. It can be regarded as a counterpart to the Apple IIgs in providing 16-bit-equivalent technology on an 8-bit platform, though the IIgs used an 8/16 bit 65C816 processor. When Commodore International was liquidated in 1994, a number of prototypes were sold on the open market, and thus a few people actually own a Commodore 65. Estimates as to the actual number of machines found on the open market range from 50 to 2000 units.

As the C65 project was cancelled, the final 8-bit offering from CBM remained the triple-mode, 1–2 MHz, 128 kB (expandable), C64-compatible Commodore 128 of 1985.

source: ebay.de wikipedia

Autopsy:

The photos of the inside can be found here.

from Wikipedia homepage:

The ZX81, released in a slightly modified form in the United States as the Timex Sinclair 1000, was a home computer produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Scotland by Timex Corporation. It was launched in the United Kingdom in March 1981 as the successor to Sinclair’s ZX80 and was designed to be a low-cost introduction to home computing for the general public. It was hugely successful and more than 1.5 million units were sold before it was eventually discontinued.

The ZX81 found commercial success in many other countries, notably the United States, where Timex manufactured and distributed it under licence and enjoyed a substantial but brief boom in sales. Timex later produced its own versions of the ZX81 for the US market – the Timex Sinclair 1000 and Timex Sinclair 1500. Unauthorised clones of the ZX81 were produced in a number of countries.

The ZX81 was designed to be small, simple, and above all cheap, using as few components as possible to keep the cost down. Video output was to a television set rather than a dedicated monitor. Programs and data were loaded and saved onto audio tape cassettes. It had only four silicon chips on board and a mere 1 kB of memory. The machine had no moving parts – not even a power switch – and used a touch-sensitive membrane keyboard for manual input.

The ZX81′s limitations prompted the emergence of a flourishing market in third-party peripherals to improve its capabilities. Such limitations, however, achieved Sinclair’s objective of keeping the cost of the machine as low as possible. Its distinctive design brought its designer, Rick Dickinson, a Design Council award.

The ZX81 could be bought by mail order in kit form or pre-assembled. In what was then a major innovation, it was the first cheap mass-market home computer that could be bought from high street stores, led by W.H. Smith and soon many other retailers. The ZX81 marked the first time that computing in Britain became an activity for the general public, rather than the preserve of businesspeople and electronics hobbyists. It inspired the creation of a huge community of enthusiasts, some of whom founded their own businesses producing software and hardware for the ZX81. Many went on to play a major role in the British computer industry in later years.

The ZX81′s commercial success made Sinclair Research one of Britain’s leading computer manufacturers and earned a fortune and an eventual knighthood for the company’s founder, Sir Clive Sinclair.

source: wikipedia

It ended yesterday (24 November) the musical competition (SID Tunez) High-score Power Ballad Competition 2012.

Below you can find the complete archive of all songs released for this competition in D64, PRG, SID format. For more information please visit The C64 Scene Database.

Download: High-score Power Ballad SID Competition 2012 (1032)

source: noname.c64.org

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

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

Download:

• Telengard v5.2 permadeath (953)
• Super Phoenix +TD [english] (951)
• The Cursed Key +2 (927)
• Alien Bash 2 +5F [pal/ntsc] (962)
• Sleepwalking Backwards &D (923)
• Get \'Em (16KB Cartridge Version) +5H [pal/ntsc] (971)
• All Games in One Archive (2302)

source: csdb.dk

It was released a new firmware for the SD2Snes Flash Cartridge (Super Nintendo/Famicom) by Ikari. The upgrade instructions can be found here.

Changelog:

• Menu: Files are now sorted by their entire file name instead of the first 20 characters only.
• Menu: Ignore input from non-standard controllers (Super Scope, Mouse etc.)
• SPC player: fix soft fade-in (first note cut off) on S-APU consoles (1CHIP / some Jr.)
• More accurate BS-X memory map.
• Correctly map SRAM larger than 8192 bytes (HiROM) / 32768 bytes (LoROM), fixes Dezaemon, Ongaku Tsukuuru – Kanadeeru
• Minor memory access timing tweaks (should help with occasional glitches on some systems)

Download: SD2Snes Firmware v0.1.5 (1307)

source: sd2snes.de

A new cool music demo by Algorithm/Onslaught.

Download: 8bit Passion by Algorithm (985)

source: noname.c64.org/csdb

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

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

Download:

• Tank (Uptime) +2D +Pic 101% (955)
• Star Trek (2003) +5H [pal/ntsc] (959)
• Paku Paku Preview +3 [pal/ntsc] (939)
• Telengard V5.1 (967)
• Dunzhin +D (960)
• Kosmodrom +1EHD 101% [pal] (1046)
• Pingvaders from space Preview 0.1 + (927)
• International 5-A-Side Football [polish] (980)
• All Games in One Archive (2487)

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.

Firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.7.2.0:

• Microchip PIC18F4620 Rev. B5 Silicon MSSP Module Errata applied (correct possible SDCard Init issues).
• SDCard layer reviewed / corrected / enhanced : Better SDCard compatibility / Error handling.

Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.6.0:

• PRE-RELEASE – IN DEVELOPMENT: HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.6.0 (Windows & Mac OS X support !)

Download:

• HxCFloppyEmulator v2.0.6.0 *BETA* (1037)
• HxC Floppy Emulator Firmware v1.7.2.0 (1048)

source: hxc2001.free.fr

A new version of the firmware for the interface 1541 Ultimate II is released. This version runs only on the 1541 Ultimate II cartridge (new fpga).

Version 2.5 includes some new features:

• File viewer.
• Selectable colors in user interface.

This version also includes some fixes for nasty memory allocation bugs that existed when using USB sticks. Removal of a USB device is now at least a lot safer. Also, some file system bugs were fixed.

Version 2.5+ includes some new features:

The ‘plus’ version of 2.5 including a special 7-voice audio engine. This version is based on the same 2.5 with the bugfixes and a special FPGA build can it only supports ONE floppy drive, in favor of extra audio functionality.

Download:

• 1541 Ultimate II Firmware v2.5 (1238)
• 1541 Ultimate II Firmware v2.5+ (1254)
• Ultimate Audio API Manual v0.2 (1765)

source: 1541ultimate.net

SNDH archive v4.0 released. 121 SNDH-files added or updated!

Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music.

But in the mid 90′s, BDC of Aura crew became tired of this inelegant system and decided to fix the issue once and for all. He then created the ‘SNDH’ file format. SNDH is actually the original songfile and replaycode with a header bolted on top of the music and replayer. The header has a unified calling interface no matter what type of chip music is hidden beneath it, and it has extended datas about the music.

Download: SNDH Atari ST YM2149 Archive v4.0 (1379)

source: sndh.atari.org