Some new Games & Utility for Commodore VIC-20.

• The VIC-20 Bible Series II: Pentateuch – 40 column version and graphics. Browse the first five books of the Old Testament (King James Version) in full 40 column screen. You can select single chapters, and scroll the text with cursor up/down. Take a look at the hi-res cliparts used as “book covers”, to graphic depictions of the main episodes of Graphics, and read about the very first steps of mankind in full 40-column text processing made using Mike’s Minigrafik. Mike also elaborated a text compression / extraction routine to fit the whole Torah in your VIC-20
• Face Versus Heel. A pro-wrestling simulator where the outcome is determined by a random number generator, but good tactics can maximize your chances.

source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)

After this update, the collection should contain 39,626 SID files!

Thanks to all the people who have helped to make HVSC the collection that it is today, without your help it would be a much tougher task.

This update features (all approximates):

• 933 new SIDs.
• 217 fixed/better rips.
• 5 PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs eliminated.
• 21 repeats/bad rips eliminated.
• 561 SID credit fixes.
• 258 SID model/clock infos.
• 28 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified.
• 6 tunes from /GAMES/ identified.
• 41 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories.
• 9 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories.

source: hvsc.de

Commodore 64 it’s back… and better than ever! The new C64 is a modern functional PC as close to the original in design as humanly possible.

It houses a modern mini-ITX PC motherboard featuring a Dual Core 525 Atom processor and the latest Nvidia Ion2 graphics chipset. It comes in the original taupe brown/beige color, with other colors to follow.

source: commodoreusa.net

SD2IEC is a hardware mass storage device using an SD/MMC card and interfacing with the IEC bus. It is based on the ATmega644 or ATmega1284p microcontroller from the Atmel AVR microcontroller family.

The most prominent use of SD2IEC is emulation/replacement of a Commodore-1541 disk drive for a C64. Hardware and the microcontroller’s firmware is available as open source (GPL).

Changelog:

2010-12-25 – release 0.10.1

• Bugfix: Remove remains of previous commands while parsing B-*
• Bugfix: Fix response of UI command for unknown suffix chars.
• Small improvement of JiffyDOS transfer speeds.

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki

Onslaught / Wrath Designs / Vandalism, bring you the 54th issue of the Vandalism News.

source: noname.c64.org

Finally i had time to finish the enhancements of my Commodore 64, below a brief description of what you see in the photos.

Enhancements description:

• 1541-III bulk version.
• Reset Switch.
• Multi Kernel with Atmel flash rom.
• Multi Kernel Switch.
• Eprom homebrew PLA.
• Cartridge ON/OFF Switch.
• DualSID with separate output (6581 / 8580)
• 2 x Fan Cooling.
• Fan Cooling Switch.
• Bright Blu Power LED.
• 1541 Ultimate REV1 with v2.0 Firmware.

ZoomFloppy is an USB device for connecting Commodore disk drives to your PC.

The ZoomFloppy is an improvement based on XU1541 from Till Harbaum. Nate Lawson and Jim Brain teamed up to produce a professional product.

This controller will support IEC drives, IEEE-488 drives and a user-port connection for parallel speeder drives.

source: jbrain.com commodore-gg.hobby.nl

Attitude is a disk magazine for the Commodore 64 computer. This edition is written in collaboration with the joint forces of TRIAD and Oxyron.

We hope you enjoy this issue as much as you did the previous ones!

source: attitude.c64.org

The team from dienstagstreff.de has demonstrated a Commodore C64 on the “Hobby und Elektronik 2010” in Stuttgart.

Demonstrating a C64 is not so special but this time the C64 was under water! They submersed a C64 circuit-board in water, connected it to a power supply and a monitor and the C64 work without problems for 1 hour.

source: youtube.com commodore-gg.hobby.nl

Autopsy:

Today i picked up two Commodore 64, both are in poor condition and Broken.

The first one with the chip SID 6581 can play a garbled sound and the closing hooks broken, the other one with the chip PLA 906114, 7406, CIA 6526 dead. I made some cleaning and repaired the problems.

Autopsy:

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MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation. It is said that Microsoft led the project as an attempt to create unified standards among hardware makers.

from Wikipedia:

On 27 June 1983, the date considered the birthday of the MSX standard, the MSX was formally announced during a press-conference, and a slew of big Japanese firms declared their plans to introduce machines. The Japanese companies avoided the intensely competitive US home computer market, which was in the throes of a Commodore-led price war.

Only Spectravideo and Yamaha briefly marketed MSX machines in the US. Spectravideo’s MSX enjoyed very little success, and Yamaha’s CX5M model, built to interface with various types of MIDI equipment, was billed more as a digital music tool than a standard personal computer.

source: wikipedia

A free brand new C16/Plus4 special edition of Your Commodore is now available.

It includes every games review they published for the 264 series. Every “Our Comment” monthly feature. All the Data Statement news, all the type-in games and a review of both the C16 and Plus/4 themselves.

As always, all the scans have been straightened, reformatted and cleaned up, no yellowing of the pages to give a nice fresh original magazine feel. A brand new cover design and a new index page which I (hastily) designed for this retrospective lookback of yet another classic british magazine.

source: commodore16.com

Commodore Free Magazine Issue #46

Free to download Commodore magazine dedicated to Commodore Computers.

source: commodorefree.com

Program that detects type of your hardware in Commodore 128.

Also added recognizing CMD Hardware FD/HD/RAMLink/RAMDrive/JiffyDOS/SuperCPU/RR-Net and a better detection of MMU and RAM size (SuperRAM), not works correctly in VICE.

The program is optimized for 80 columns mode.

source: mirkosoft homepage

Some new Games & Utility for Commodore VIC-20.

• Sprite Invaders by Robert Hurst. A clone of a classic arcade hit. Written in ca65 assembler using the VIC Software Sprite Stack, required 8k RAM expansion and a joystick.
• Theater of War by Ghislain. A WW2 Tactical Strategy game where you play the role of a German general on the Eastern Front in Russia.

source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)