Cartridges list:
- VIC-1111 – 16k Ram Expander. (Manual)
- VIC-1211A – Super Expander with 3k Ram Expansion. (Manual)
- VIC-1213 – Machine Language Monitor. (Manual)
click here for the vic-20 cartridges category.
from Wikipedia:
As for commercial software offerings, an estimated 300 titles were available on cartridge, and another 500+ titles were available on tape. By comparison, the Atari 2600—the most popular of the video game consoles at the time—had a library of about 900 titles near the end of its production life (many were variations of another title).
Most cartridge games were ready to play as soon as VIC-20 was turned on, as opposed to games on tape which required a time-consuming loading process. Titles on cartridge included Gorf, Cosmic Cruncher, Sargon II Chess, and many others.
source: wikipedia
Cartridges list:
- VIC-1905 – Jelly Monsters.
- VIC-1907 – Jupiter Lander.
- VIC-1910 – Radar Ratrace.
- VIC-1912 – Mole Attack.
- VIC-1920 – Pinball.
- VIC-1922 – Cosmic Cruncher.
click here for the vic-20 cartridges category.
from Wikipedia:
As for commercial software offerings, an estimated 300 titles were available on cartridge, and another 500+ titles were available on tape. By comparison, the Atari 2600—the most popular of the video game consoles at the time—had a library of about 900 titles near the end of its production life (many were variations of another title).
Most cartridge games were ready to play as soon as VIC-20 was turned on, as opposed to games on tape which required a time-consuming loading process. Titles on cartridge included Gorf, Cosmic Cruncher, Sargon II Chess, and many others.
source: wikipedia
VirtualC64 emulates a Commodore 64 personal computer on your Macintosh. 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.
Changelog:
Fixed in beta 8
- Joystick handler has been rewritten from scratch. It’s now message based and supports hot plugging.
- Fixed a race condition that could cause the emulator to crash during shutdown.
- Fixed some minor GUI issues.
source and download: dirkwhoffmann.de
from Homepage:
Aries was backordered on the required 24 and 28 pin headers needed to finish testing, and the order just came in this past week. Thus, I finally had a chance to solder and test the units. Testing went well, and I can program the units with my Willem programmer.
Originally designed to hold a 29EE512 64kB EEPROM, I found a good price on Atmel AT49F001 128kB 5V Flash, so I made the necessary adjustments and tested with the new memory. Testing went well, so I am releasing the design to production.
I have noticed one issue that I need to address. Some CBM units have an RFI shield that doubles as a heat shield. To perform the latter function, metal “fingers are stamped out of the shield that press on the top of the ICs. I need to ensure the metal shield/heat sink does not contact any of the pins on this unit.
source: jbrain.com
After this update, the collection should contain 36,939 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):
- 953 new SIDs.
- 93 fixed/better rips.
- 6 PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs eliminated.
- 14 repeats/bad rips eliminated.
- 320 SID credit fixes.
- 159 SID model/clock infos.
- 8 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified.
- 6 tunes from /GAMES/ identified.
- 38 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories.
- 14 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories.
source: hvsc.c64.org
ACID 64 Player Pro is the sequal of Acid 64 Player and is a cycle based Commodore 64 music player designed for playing SID tunes on sound cards/devices that have a real SID chip (6581/6582/8580) on board like the HardSID cards and HardSID 4U USB device.
ACID 64 emulates the MOS 6510 micro processor, the 6526 CIA chip and partially the 6569 VIC chip to run the code of a SID tune and it controls the SID chip on the device for playing the Commodore 64 music.
What’s new in version v3.0.2:
Fixes
- No error anymore when last directory was a root folder.
- Corrected memory bank setting for PSID tunes.
- Resizing window was corrupting active row of search grids.
- Minimal width is now set correctly.
Improvements
- Last played file is remembered now when ACID 64 is started.
- When Folders tab is clicked, the current selected file will always be visible.
- Special characters Ø and ø can now be searched by o or oe (re-indexing required)
- Pressing escape in search boxes will now select the text instead of clearing the input.
- Selecting a search filter will change the color of the filter box.
- Copy filename strips HVSCRoot automatically.
- Seeking (dragging thumb) can now be cancelled by pressing escape key or by pressing right mouse button.
- Scrolling search results will now update rows immediately without releasing the thumb.
- Clicking on a folder name in Folders tab will expand the folder.
- Changed “Browse” tab name to “Folders”
screenshot:
source: acid64.com
Jörg Heyltjes has released a new game for the Commodore 64.
The game is a clone of the arcade classic Scramble from Konami (Stern)
source: noname.c64.org
Some new Games for VIC-20
- Green on Black compilation. Conversion of 20 games from PET to FAT40-powered VIC-20 by Orion70. Single-file, crunch and games loader by nbla000.
It contains 20 titles, ranging from text adventures to strategy, from flight simulation to card games; all rigorously in green-on-black versions.
- Sokoban. Conversion to VIC-20 by Michael Kircher
- Tribbles 2009.
- You Count. We learn how to count before we know if we count. Prove you count in 60 seconds.
source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)
Hoxs64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista.
The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.
Changelog:
13 August 2009 v1.0.5.27
- Added general option to enable/disable opposing joystick directions.
- Speed optimisation to the CPU, CIA and VIC. The emulation is noticeable faster on lines with no DMA fetches and no IRQs.
- Bug fix to the reverse keyboard matrix. Was broken for years!
- Accurate emulation of the $DD00 VIC bank switch bug.
Unless something is majorly broken, the next release will include the long awaited debugger. Work on the debugger is now in progress.
source: hoxs64.net
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia:
The Amstrad CPC is a series of 8 bit home computers produced by Amstrad during the 1980s and early 1990s. “CPC” stands for ‘Colour Personal Computer’, although it was possible to purchase a CPC with a green screen (GT64/65) as well as with the standard colour screen (CTM640/644).
The Amstrad CPC’s main competitors were the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, though the CPC was bundled with a monitor unlike the Commodore and the Spectrum. The Amstrad CPC 464 sold approximately over 2 million units.
The first machine, the CPC 464, introduced in 1984, was designed as a direct competitor to the Commodore 64 system. Packaged as a “complete system” the CPC 464 came with its own monitor and built-in cassette tape deck. The CPC 664, with its own built-in floppy disk drive, arrived early in 1985, to be replaced itself later that same year by the CPC 6128.
The original CPC range was successful, especially in Europe, with three million units sold. Following this, Amstrad launched the Amstrad PCW word-processor range, which sold eight million units. Variations and clones of the CPC range were also released in Germany and Spain. The Plus range failed to find a market amongst the higher spec 16-bit Atari ST and Commodore Amiga systems.
source: wikipedia
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.
Autopsy:
Click here for my collections of Commodore Floppy Drive and here the clones.
from Wikipedia:
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). The disk drive used Group Code Recording (GCR) and contained a MOS 6502 microprocessor, doubling as a disk controller and on-board disk operating system processor. The number of sectors per track varied from 17 to 21 (an early implementation of Zone Bit Recording).
The drive’s built-in disk operating system was CBM DOS 2.6. There were two versions of the 1541 mechanics. Early models used a drive mechanism made by Alps Electric, distinguishable by its push-down drive door. Later models utilized a drive mechanism manufactured by Newtronics (Mitsumi), which used a lever release.
All but the very earliest 1541s can use either the Alps or Newtronics mechanism. Visually, the first models, of the VIC-1541 denomination, had an off-white color like the VIC-20 and VIC-1540. Then, to match the look of the C64, CBM changed the drive’s color to brown-beige and the name to Commodore 1541.
source: wikipedia
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia:
The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, the machine was launched as the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine’s colour display, compared with the black-and-white of its predecessor, the Sinclair ZX81.
The Spectrum was released in eight different models, ranging from the entry level model with 16 KB RAM released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and built in floppy disk drive in 1987.
The Spectrum was among the first mainstream audience home computers in the UK, similar in significance to the Commodore 64 in the USA. The introduction of the ZX Spectrum led to a boom in companies producing software and hardware for the machine, the effects of which are still seen; some credit it as the machine which launched the UK IT industry. Licensing deals and clones followed, and earned Clive Sinclair a knighthood for “services to British industry”.
The C64 was a major rival to the Spectrum in the UK market during the early 1980s. The BBC Microcomputer and later the Amstrad CPC-range were other major competitors.
source: wikipedia
This is a small adapter which replaces the unobtanable 6540 ROM chips used in the Commodore PET 2001-8 computers with a standard 2716 EPROM.
They will work as a drop in replacement for any ROM chip in a PET 2001-8.
source: 6540rom.com
Autopsy:
SD2IEC is a hardware mass storage device using an SD/MMC card and interfacing with the IEC bus. It is based on the ATmega644 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).
source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki
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