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:

• Framebuffer writes now use MMU.
• Framebuffer writes can be switched off (buffer can be used by software)
• Cartridge buttons emulated on PS/2 keyboard (F11,F12 and PrintScreen)
• Chameleon can use real BASIC and Kernal ROMs in machine in cartridge mode.
• Emulated IEC bus can be disconnected from C64 (Chameleon is drive emu)
• FLI bug fixed.
• Added Stereo SID support.
• Turbo feature added.
• Relative CPU speed displayed in VGA debug bar.

source: syntiac.com

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A new game called “Cropky” has been released for the Atari 8 bit machine.

Credits:

• Xeen (Code)
• Piesiu (Graphics)
• Caruso (Music)
• Kaz (Concept)

source: atariage.com

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.

Release notes for the SD HxCFloppyEmulator firmware upgrade v1.6.0.0:

• File browser.
• Direct access mode.
• HFE file renaming Function.
• New boot/power up mode.
• Autoboot/file selector program boot mode enhanced.
• Write support.
• Various bugs corrected and code enhancement.
• … full release notes here

source: hxc2001.free.fr

The SIO2SD is a device that allows you to load games/applications into any 8-bit Atari XL/XE computers via SIO interface from SD/MMC cards.

Changelog:

RC3 -> RC4

• Fixed SIO routines (mainly incompatibilities with software made for TOMS turbo)

source: sio2sd-dev.gucio.pl

FAIL is a portable viewer of several 8-bit Atari image formats.

Changelog:

• Fixed decoding of ILC, AP3, RIP, PIC, CPR, HIP and CIN.
• Added support for MCH, IGE, 256, AP2, JGP, DGP, ESC, PZM, IST and RAW.
• Created Windows thumbnail provider.
• Fixed user interface issues in FAILWin.
• Fixed compilation errors with the new libpng.
• Updated installation for new ImageMagick.
• Moved source code from SVN to Git.

source: fail.sourceforge.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:

• Text rendering bug fix to disassembly window.
• Added trace till IRQ/NMI function.
• Potential missed breakpoint while tracing bug fix.
• Miscellaneous monitor GUI fixes and improvements.
• VIC sprite collision timing fixes.
• VIC phase 2 fetch fix for Ruined Art demo.
• Improved CPU disassembly monitor. Instruction based scrolling. Separate CPU windows allow both clock step and instruction step with ablility to step through the IRQ and NMI cycles.
• VIC raster line and cycle is displayed.
• Fix to CIA Timer B bug.
• ALT Q key nuisance fixed.

source: hoxs64.net

Luigi Vicari., alias Med64, is working on a new platform game for the Commodore 64. On his blog you can watch a video of the game “Mission Extreme”.

source: med64.wordpress.com

Commodore Free Magazine Issue #49

Free to download Commodore magazine dedicated to Commodore Computers.

source: commodorefree.com

The SIO2SD is a device that allows you to load games/applications into any 8-bit Atari XL/XE computers via SIO interface from SD/MMC cards.

Changelog:

RC1 -> RC2

• Fixed LCD handling bug (RC1 doesn’t work without LCD)
• Added “swap” command (K3 in VDISK MODE swaps mappings of D1 and D2)
• Added “rol4″ command (K4 in VDISK MODE moves mappings D1<D2<D3<D4<D1)
• Added “ror4″ command (SHIFT+K4 in VDISK MODE moves mappings D1>D2>D3>D4>D1)

RC2 -> RC3

• Fixed xex-loader.
• Added new key combinations OPTION+SELECT and OPTION+START to turbo-loader (new turbo IRQ locations: $700 and $500).

source: sio2sd-dev.gucio.pl

This site is about recreating gaming hardware from the past in modern programmable devices, known as FPGAs.

source: fpgaarcade.com

A new version of the firmware for the interface 1541 Ultimate II is released. This version only runs on the Ultimate-II!

Major improvement in latest release:

• Config menu is now ‘hot’, meaning that all settings that can be applied when exiting the menu will be applied immediately without reboot.
• Audio options added.
• Stereo SID emulation added.
• Initial support for domark cartridges added; not yet tested (and no support from the menu in this release).
• Improvements made in file system handling.. (It’s not ‘clean’ yet, but delete and rename now work)
• Issue solved that caused errors when more than one cluster was used for a directory.
• Bug fixed that caused a crash when partition list was skipped.
• Some additional testing with SID support.
• Created module for selecting audio options in the Ultimate configuration menu. Address for second SID now configurable.
• Some experiments done with EM1010 USB to Ethernet module. The module doesn’t comply with the USB philosophy of interrupts.. it *always* gives an interrupt every poll.. (wrong!) But nevertheless, managed to send a DHCP discover and receive a reply from the router. :) (not yet functional in this release)
• Command Interface created and handler set up for testing VHDL. (not yet functional in this release)
• Cartridge Logic restructured to make it a little more plug and go.
• Reading of ISO9660 added (both as .iso file, as well as from external USB CD-ROM..)
• Partition list skipped when there is just one.

download: 1541ultimate.net

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: 4.31 (2005), 4.39RC (2006), 4.40 (a leaked-out beta, 2006), 4.41 (Feb. 2008), 4.42 (Dec. 2008), 4.4.3 (Apr.2011).

Changes in SpartaDOS X 4.43:

• SpartaDOS X should now work on SECAM Ataris (equipped with FGTIA).
• ARCLOCK.SYS will now reset the clock to 1-Jan-2000 00:00:00 when it discovers that the current setting is invalid (i.e. when the chip is first powered).
• Fixed buggy ATARIDOS.SYS code that was to be finding end of VTOC on MyDOS disks. Plus the driver will now report to the system the correct value of total sectors on disk (previously it was equal to the initial number of free sectors).
• DOSKEY has a new parameter: when you pass an /X switch at the end of  the parameter line while loading DOSKEY, a special shortcut will get activated: every empty line (containing EOL character alone) will be translated to a “DIR” command, and executed.
• COPY /M will now always clear the archived-bit (+A) on moved files.
• … more info here

source: trub.atari8.info wikipedia

This is a ArtField 2011 party invitation demo. It’s going down on the the 28:th of May 2011 and keeps going until the 29:th of May 2011.

The place of the Demo Party is the city of Voronezh in Russia.

source: zxpart.nedopc.com noname.c64.org

CTetris4 is a very Nice Tetяis clone for Atari 8 Bit Computers. The game is developed by Hayden Doan.

What’s new in this version:

• Fixed .atr file format (instead of .xfd)
• Fixed sound issue after high score saves.
• Tested “OK” on Real Atari 800 and popular Atari 800 emulators.
• On Altirra v1.8 emulator the disk image was mounted as R/O (Read-only) by default. Change it with Alt+Shift+D.

from Wikipedia:

Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow.

He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game’s pieces, known as Tetrominoes, contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov’s favorite sport.

source: atariage.com wikipedia