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Commodore Free Magazine Issue #43

In this issue you can find:

• Editorial.
• NEWS.
• Amiga/C64 Forever 2010.1 Released.
• IDESERVD For OSX.
• SIDIN Issue 13 Released.
• WinUAE 2.2.0 Available.
• PC World – Inside The Amiga 1000.
• Vintage Computer Festival.
• Cottonwood BBS Update.
• RGB Video Update.
• C64 – Archiv Updated To V3.2
• CBM-Command Special Release.
• OpenSSL 1.0.0a for AmigaOS.
• …more

source: commodorefree.com

from Engadget homepage:

Barry’s back, kids! The CEO of Commodore USA  just informed us that, in addition to slapping Commodore stickers on various all-in-one PCs, he has acquired the rights to the Amiga name (we only hope that the process went a little smoother this time around).

The plan is to sell machines that fully support AROS — an open source variant of AmigaOS  3.1 that the kids seem to go crazy for.

We can’t wait to get a look at these bad boys, but for now it looks like we’ll have to do with the picture of an old Amiga 3000. …more

source: engadget.com

Program that detects type of your hardware in Commodore 128.

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

Optimized for 80 columns mode. Thanks to Christian Johansson.

source: mirkosoft homepage

A new version of the firmware for the interface 1541 Ultimate II is released.

Some major fix:

• C1541 rom load now supports loading 8K roms (E000-FFFF only).
• File name now defaults to directory “/SdCard/Part0″. Use ‘/’ at the beginning to override.
• Comment added in the application
• Various bugfixes in path code. [IMPORTANT!]
• Version updated to 2.0RC8.

download: 1541ultimate.net

Autopsy:

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This is my Commodore Amiga 3000. I used this computer for many years, example: for my BBS “Hidden Power“, coding Amiga / Snes Demos & Trainer and other fun stuff.

I decided to pull out of the box and try if still works, i must say that everything works like 15 years ago (including the Harddisk).

Description:

• Commodore Amiga 3000 rev B2.
• MultiFaceCard III (multi Serial Ports)
• GVP Card with 8 Mb of Fast Memory installed.
• Removed the original Battery.

from Wikipedia:

Released in June 1990, The Commodore Amiga  3000 was the third major release in the Amiga computer family. It revealed a much more focused and sincere attempt to build a high-end professional multimedia computer, boasting improved processing speed, better rendering of graphics, and a revision of the increasingly haggard operating system.

Its predecessors, the Amiga 500,1000 and 2000, shared the same fundamental system architecture and consequently performed without considerable variance in processing speed despite considerable variance in purchase price. The A3000 however, was entirely reworked and rethought as a genuine high-end workstation.

The new Motorola 32-bit 68030 CPU, 68882 math co-processor, and 32-bit system memory helped increase the “integer” processing speed by a factor of 5 to 18, and the “floating point” processing speed by a factor of 7 to 200 times. The new 32-bit Zorro III expansion slots provided for faster and more powerful expansion capabilities.

source: wikipedia

A new version of the firmware for the interface 1541 Ultimate II is released.

Some major fix:

• Update fixed => C64 should be taken out of reset otherwise keyboard won’t work.
• RTC speed correction implemented.
• Screen flicker removed by not clearing the screen upon “draw()”
• Double file name fixed at create D64.
• C64 kept in reset to avoid basic screen before cart screen.
• C1541 rom load fixed.
• Delete file implemented.
• Sorting of dir entries (DIR first) still needs to be tested.
• REU Filetype added.
• Double filenames fixed.
• Rename fixed (I think!)
• Error handling improved, error strings added.

download: 1541ultimate.net

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.

Contiki 2.4 is the first 2.x release to contain the following programs:

• Dhcp client.
• Web server.
• Web browser.
• Wget.
• Smtp client.
• IRC client.
• Twitter client.

Beside lots of other improvement especially the following issues were fixed:

• Malfunctioning DNS lookup.
• Missing PETSCII conversion for the smtp credentials.
• Incorrect fixing of all disk I/O to drive 8.

source: lemon64.com wikipedia cbm8bit.com

from Engadget homepage:

Commodore USA announces the PC64, an Atom-powered PC in a replica Commodore case.

We have a fondness for Commodore computers (as you’ve probably noticed by now) and we are psyched that Commodore USA is still flying the flag for the once-ubiquitous brand, but as they always are in this biz, things are a little… complicated.

We were first contacted way back in March when the company shared the news that it had acquired the rights to sell PCs under the name. Then what happened? Turns out this was not exactly the case… although CEO Barry Altman assured us that they were on their way towards hammering out a deal.

And here we are, in possession of a press release saying that indeed, Commodore USA, LLC, and Commodore Licensing B.V. have finally come to an agreement, meaning that your subsequent purchases will at least come with a Commodore decal. But that ain’t all! This also paves the way for the company’s newest offering, the Commodore PC64, an Intel Atom-powered PC featuring 4GB DDR3 memory, SATA 1TB HDD, HDMI output, optical drive (either DVD/CD or optional Blu-ray), and more — all in “an exact replica” of the original beige C64 chassis. …more

source: engadget.com

The Pocket 1541 is a emulator for the 1541 disk drive. Pocket 1541 uses a SD card to store your data, supported formats are: D64, M2I, PRG, D71, D81 and P00.

The firmware is based on the open source SD2IEC firmware. The device has four buttons and a LCD screen that can be used to navigate to the required files on the SD card.

source: commodore-gg.hobby.nl pocket 1541 homepage

This document contains instructions to set up your build-environment, to build your own 1541 Ultimate-II software and FPGA.

source: 1541ultimate.net

Program that detects type of your hardware in Commodore 128.

Also added recognizing 64HDD drives / SuperCPU / JiffyDos and a better detection of MMU and RAM size, not works correctly in VICE.

Optimized for 80 columns mode. Thanks to Christian Johansson.

source: mirkosoft homepage

A new version of the firmware for the interface 1541 Ultimate II is released.

Some major fix:

• Added: Built-in flash protection to avoid more units to ‘die’.
• Fixed: Joystick Right on PRG file still crashes UltimateII.
• Fixed: Mount & Run starts disk mounted Write Protected.

download: 1541ultimate.net

Finally! after a long time the new version of the Firmware for the interface SIO2SD is realesed under GPL Open-Source.

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:

• Configuration is now available from Atari Screen – press K3 key (no need to disconnect the cable from the SIO).
• Loader for the executable files has been replaced with a new version.

source: sourceforge.net sio2sd.gucio.pl marcinprusisz.pl