Tomasz “Tebe” Biela has released an update of the program Graph2Font v3.9.0.5.

This project began many years ago as a simple graphics converter for Atari but over the years the features are significantly increased. The converter runs under Windows.

source: g2f.atari8.info

I have created a funny Poster with some things from my Museum.

Download: NightfallCrew Poster (29Mb / 4677 x 3307)

Contiki is a small, open source, highly portable, multitasking computer operating system developed for use on a number of memory-constrained networked systems ranging from 8-bit computers to embedded systems on microcontrollers, including sensor network motes.

The name Contiki comes from Thor Heyerdahl’s famous Kon-Tiki raft.

The Contiki 2.x contains only very little assembler coding and even less target-specific assembler coding. This allowed for easy porting to targets beside the C64 namely the C128 and Apple II. Porting to other cc65 targets wasn’t done due to missing Ethernet hardware.

The major changes are:

• Support of the Atari 8-bit machines with the ethernet cart described on http://www.atari8ethernet.com
• FTP client app (only download although UI suggests upload too)
• Twitter client with OAuth workaround (using SuperTweet.net)
• New high contrast color scheme for Contiki UI apps on the C64.

source: lemon64.com wikipedia cbm8bit.com

Jason “Gwobby” Kendall has released a new Version of his game Gwobby Strikes Back! with a lots of new features and fixes.

What’s New in this Update?

• Over one hundred and thirty thousand different levels.
• Improved animation, sprites.
• Additional sequences assassination.
• Hard platforms are maintained by the first 4 levels.
• The ball can give extra power force.
• The ball under renewed at the early levels.
• Press any key during the boot screen to go intros.
• The game is a little faster, better jumps and many other minor improvements.

source: atarionline.pl

This is the 5th edition of the New Years Disc for Atari. In this issue you can find a lots of interesting things to begin a new year with our beloved Atari.

In this issue you can find:

[Disc one]:

• Kleeblatt and Schneemann done by me.
• Jacfield Badekapp Miel and 3 by JAC!.
• Atallax to map & PG.
• 2011 Intro to Heaven.
• Happy New Year by Sikorski.

[Disc two]:

• Spectipede to Rybags.
• Happy 2011 Inspiration Soft bby.
• Spectipede code notes by me, text by Rybags.

source: atarionline.pl

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

The Chipophone is a homemade 8-bit synthesizer, especially suited for live chiptune playing. It has been built inside an old electronic organ.

All the original tone-generating parts have been disconnected, and the keys, pedals, knobs and switches rerouted to a microcontroller which transforms them into MIDI signals.

Those are then parsed by a second microcontroller, which acts as a synthesizer.

Here some video examples:

• The Chipophone (Presentation video).
• Carol of the Bells.
• Delta composed by Rob Hubbard.
• DuckTales, The Moon.
• Legend of Zelda.
• Little Nemo: The Dream Master.
• Pokémon Trading Card Game.
• Spellbound composded by Rob Hubbard.
• Think Twice III.

source: linusakesson.net

CBM-Command is a disk manager for the Commodore 64 / Commodore 128 / Commodore VIC20 and Commodore C16 computers. It is written like Norton Commander or Midnight Commander, but is much simpler due to the target platforms. Both the C128/C64/VIC20/C16 have their own native version of the application.

Release Notes – Version 2.0 Beta 2 – 2011-01-01

Changes:

• (64, 128, Plus/4) Changed the timing code back to version 1.7 because the clock() function in cc65 does not reflect accurate timing.
• (VIC, PET) The time(NULL) function is not available on these targets and thus had to be removed.
• Help Hot-Key Fixed – Now when you press either F1 or H you get the help file (if the CBM-Command disk is in the drive you started CBM-Command from).
• Updated Help File – the new help file by popmilo has been incorporated into the disk.
• Directory navigation hot keys fixed.

Known Issues:

• None – if you have a bug to report, PLEASE do so to the CBM-Command website or mailing list.

source: cbmcommand.codeplex.com

This is a tiny eprommer software. You need a external interface connected via commodore 64 userport for burn eprom. The programmed chip will be used later with the Easyflash cartridge.

source: noname.c64.org

“NRV” from Chile has started a new project on Atari 8bit machines called “Project M”.

This is basically a clone of very well popular Wolfenstein 3D PC game. This update of Project M v2 contains improvements and several bugs

source: atariage.com youtube.com

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

Published by: Elite Systems Ltd.
Developed by: Gargoyle Games Ltd
Released: 1986

Game description: Scooby’s friends Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma have been kidnapped in an enormous castle owned by an evil genius. It’s Scooby’s job to travel through it and rescue them in this platforms ‘n’ ladders beat ‘em up.

Enemies include ghosts emerging from doors, bats which must be ducked, skulls to jump over, springy thingies, and Ghoulfish. Scooby has plenty of attacking moves, but must be stationary to launch into one. You start with six lives, and get extras by picking up Scooby Snacks, and by completing each of the four levels.

source: noname.c64.org hokutoforce.netsons.org

Wishing you a joyous holiday season and a happy new year.