autopsy:

link: Commodore A2088XT

from Loriano Page:

After designing the case for the Minimig, some 1541 Ultimate users asked me to take on the rather difficult project of making a case for Gideon’s 1541 Ultimate board.

There have been a few different production runs of the 1541 ultimate boards. The case has been designed around and tested with batch 2 and batch 3 boards. I have also tested the case with one batch 4 and it fits nicely. Batch 1 is shorter than the more recent batch 2, 3 and 4, and does not fit in the case. A case just for batch 1 is in the works.

A lot of time, effort and money have gone in designing this case. I have tried to accommodate batch 2, batch 3 and batch 4 boards, their very subtle differences, boards with and without the Ethernet port and tried to make it work with both Commodore 64 models (classic and 64C) and at the same time include some of the users’ requests.

source: Loriano Pagni Homepage Order Page

If you are interested in BASIC programming for the C-64, then you have probably used a BASIC Extension at some point.  Most of us are familiar with Commodore’s  Simons’ BASIC cartridge.   Unfortunately, most of these extensions aren’t very useful.  Simons’ BASIC, for example, has a pretty lousy set of commands.

Many of them are basically (pun) useless.  It’s also a very confusing set of commands — there are no consistent conventions used, making it necessary to constantly refer to the manual.

Further, a program written with Simons’ BASIC can only be run on a C-64 with a Simons’ BASIC cartridge.  Pretty limiting.

DotBASIC Plus is similar to other extensions in one way: you get a lot of new commands (or DotCommands, of course) — over 100 so far.  But that’s where the similarities end.

source: 8bitcentral.com

This game is a Manic Miners style game with extra sub-games. It is programmed by Jason Fox and Adam Gilmore did the graphics and music. The game is actually more than 20 years old but was never released.

source: commodore-gg.hobby.nl gtw64.retro-net.de

Some new Games & Tools for VIC-20

• Meteor Storm (an impossible mission)
• Weather 20 (Conversion of the classic Commodore PET game Ouranos (Weather War). Inspired by Orion70′s version for software emulated 40 column VIC-20, this is a genuine 22 column version.)
• Repel (A resurrected Space Invaders clone from a 1983 archive. Written in 100% machine code.)
  
• Island of Secrets (Conversion from Commodore 64 of a classic type-in text adventure from the book published by Usborne in 1984. Play it on your little colour computer!)

source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)

Autopsy:

from Project Homepage:

The 1541-III is a PIC microcontroller controlling an FAT16 MMC/SD card with .D64 files. It is connected to a Commodore computer  via the standard IEC-bus (the serial bus normally used to connect diskdrives and printers).

The main goal of the circuit is to behave like a 1541 disk drive (therefore the name 1541-III). The MMC/SD card contains D64-files (or normal .PRG files).

source: Project 1541 III

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).

Changelog:

2009-03-20 – release 0.6.7a

• Unknown.

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread

Hi all!, after 13 years we are back Online via Telnet.

The Hidden Power BBS is working with all the statistics (bullettins) and calls (callerslog) of a time, and nothing was removed, all accounts (login / password / nup / telnet login) are the same as 13 years ago.

If you want to try, Click the Magic Link on the upper right corner.

• Commodore Amiga 1200
• Kingston High Endurance SDCE/128 GB.
• Indivision 1200 (FlickerFixer).
• Blizzard 1230 MK IV (68030 50mhz / 68882 50mhz).
• 64mb of Fastram / 2mb Chipram.
• OS 3.1 (my old Workbench of Amiga 2000/3000).
• 3COM Etherlink III.
• Acer LCD Monitor 17″
• Suncom StartTac 2.
• ATX Powersupply
• Original A500 Mouse.

New User Password (nup): oldskool

MultiColor is an image manipulation tool for Commodore 8-bit computers’ graphics formats. It is an old-school painting program for graphicians but not an image converter. Currently VIC-II multicolor bitmap is the only supported image format.

Features:

• Written in C++, so it’s quite fast and no special runtime is required.
• Can be compiled for many platforms, because it uses wxWidgets.
• Can load Koala and Amica, file type is detected independently from file name.
• Behaviour when hitting the color-per-cell-limit can be selected.
• Undo/redo.
• Tools with realtime preview (e.g. Line)
• Basic TV emulation.
• Zoom, with grid at higher zoom factors.

Changelog:

Read more…

MultiColor is an image manipulation tool for Commodore 8-bit computers’ graphics formats. It is an old-school painting program for graphicians but not an image converter. Currently VIC-II multicolor bitmap is the only supported image format.

Features:

• Written in C++, so it’s quite fast and no special runtime is required.
• Can be compiled for many platforms, because it uses wxWidgets.
• Can load Koala and Amica, file type is detected independently from file name.
• Behaviour when hitting the color-per-cell-limit can be selected.
• Undo/redo.
• Tools with realtime preview (e.g. Line)
• Basic TV emulation.
• Zoom, with grid at higher zoom factors.

Changelog:

Read more…

Here is a *small* part of the C64 cross tools (10 included in this pack!) I wrote during the past years. I make them public today by releasing the most stable and useful ones. Have a look at the summary for the complete list!

They are Win32 command line tools. Please don’t cry for a conversion for your platform because actually I WILL NOT make any effort in this way. They have been made in C with Visual Studio 6. If you cry very loud I can provide very interested and motivated persons the sources but this is a real mess because there are lots of source files and modules (.obj files).

source: noname.c64.org

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).

Changelog:

2009-03-08 – release 0.8.0

• Direct sector access of the real storage device
• Ignore DEL files in file_open
• Drive mapper
• EXOS V3 fastloader support
• Requires avr-libc 1.6.x

2009-03-07 – release 0.6.7

• Bugfix: Close previous file if secondary is reused without close
• Bugfix: Minor Jiffy timing fix on EOI

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread

Autopsy:

Description:

• Country: Usa
• Most Common: Usa/Europe
• Rarity: Rare
• Year: 1986

from Amiga Resource:

• 8088 @ 4.77 MHz
• optional 8087 FPU
• 512 kB RAM
• 16 kB XT compatible BIOS
• 360 kB 5.25″ floppy drive supplied
• 720 kB 3.5″ – uses external Amiga floppy drives on the external connector
• CGA 640x200x2 or 320x200x4 modes selectable with jumpers
• can use Amiga parallel ports
• could be upgraded to 386 with the Roßmöller 386si

source: amiga.resource.cx

Autopsy:

My Commodore Floppy drive collection is completed!

Description:

• Country: Usa
• Most Common: Usa/Europe
• Rarity: Yes, it’s rare
• Year: 1985

from Wikipedia:

The Commodore 1570 was a 5¼” floppy disk drive for the Commodore 128 home/personal computer. It was a single-sided, 170KB version of the double-sided Commodore 1571, released as a stopgap measure when Commodore International was unable to provide large enough quantities of 1571s due to a shortage of double-sided drive mechanisms.

Like the 1571, it could read and write both GCR and MFM disk formats. The 1570 utilized a 1571 logic board in a cream-colored Commodore 1541 case with a drive mechanism similar to the 1541 except that it was equipped with track zero detection.

source: Wikipedia

Autopsy:

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Description:

• Country: Usa
• Most Common: Usa/Europe
• Rarity: Unrare
• Year: 1993

from Wikipedia:

The Amiga CD32, styled “CD³²“, was the first 32-bit CD-ROM based video game console released in western Europe and Canada. It was first announced at the Science Museum in London, United Kingdom on 16 July 1993, and was released in September of the same year.

The CD32 is based on Commodore’s Advanced Graphics Architecture chipset, and is of similar specification to the Amiga 1200 computer. Using 3rd-party devices, it is possible to upgrade the CD32 with keyboard, floppy drive, hard drive and mouse, turning it into a personal computer.

source: Wikipedia