Finally i had time to finish the enhancements of my Commodore 64, below a brief description of what you see in the photos.
Enhancements description:
- 1541-III bulk version.
- Reset Switch.
- Multi Kernel with Atmel flash rom.
- Multi Kernel Switch.
- Eprom homebrew PLA.
- Cartridge ON/OFF Switch.
- DualSID with separate output (6581 / 8580)
- 2 x Fan Cooling.
- Fan Cooling Switch.
- Bright Blu Power LED.
- 1541 Ultimate REV1 with v2.0 Firmware.
Floppy Emulator (PCB by Lotharek):
The HxC Floppy Emulator is very smart device, designed by Jean-François DEL NERO. It allows you to emulate any 34 pins floppy disk drive. The SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator can replace different kind of floppy disk drive and allows you use SDCard media instead of floppy disk.
This emulator is actually used on Amiga, Atari, CPC, PC computers, different keyboards and samplers, CNC machine tool, and scientist instruments. The full list of supported host computer/instruments are on the project website.
source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl
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 HxCFloppyEmulator software v1.5.0.0:
- New Feature : Floppy disk dump tool : To use this tool you need the fdrawcmd driver (http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd).
- E-Mu Emulator I support : E-Mu Emulator I FM track support added (generator & sector extractor)
- E-Mu Emulator I support : E-Mu Emulator I RAW file image support added (*.emuiifd)
source: hxc2001.free.fr
This is a Joystick port Switcher for Commodore 64.
It switches the digital signals from the joystick and the analogue signals for the mouse or paddles. The Green LED is turned on when the ports are being swapped.
The Joystick port Switcher remembers the last swap state when turned off and will resume that mode when the Commodore 64 is next turned on.
Provides ESD protection for the Commodore 64 CIA’s as there is no direct connection from the Commodore 64 ports to the joystick inputs.
For more information and price visit the lemon64.com
Autopsy:
I bought one month ago a AtariMax 8MBit Cartridge for Atari that had the wrong label on it, it is a 1mbit in place of a 8mbit.
This is a free replacement 8mbit cartridge from Steven J.Tucker (AtariMax).
Many Thanks Steven.
source: atarimax.com
Autopsy:
The Atarimax Maxflash Flash Cartridge System for Atari 8-bit Computers is a high quality, professionally produced cartridge creation suite for the Atari 400/800/XL/XE series computers.
Maxflash Studio Demostration:
source: atarimax.com
My SIO2SD interface is dead (without any valid reason) after 2-3 hours of playing demos/games.
I have tried to reprogramming the firmware with a STK500 USB ISP Programmer and the tools AVRDUDE and it has worked perfectly.
Fixed the SIO2SD Firmware Crash.
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.
Autopsy:
Testing the SIO2SD interface for Atari
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.
Device abilities:
- Works with SD (not SDHC) and MMC(FAT12,FAT16 and FAT32 formats)
- Handles ATR (rw), XFD (ro) and COM/XEX (ro) file types.
- 16×2 LCD display allows to “walk” catalog tree and choose files to load.
- Handles SIO with turbo (allows to set speed index from 1 to 16, default is 6 (69kb/s), in versions 1.x speed index was always 10 (51kb/s))
- All densities with 128B and 256B sectors, including 16MB disks.
- Handles drives D1 to D8.
- Can be configured using ATARI (it’s possible to load configuration tool directly from MCU flash memory, so no SD card is needed)
SIO2SD in Action:
source: sio2sd.gucio.pl marcinprusisz.pl
The SIDstick is a pocket-sized chiptunes player. Chiptunes are songs written to be synthesized in real-time. A lot of chiptunes are ripped from classic videogames, and some are new works. The SIDstick plays the most common variety of chiptunes, music written for playback on a SID chip. Main features:
- Removable Storage supporting microSD cards, 1 card can hold 20,000 songs.
- 20+ hour battery life.
- Super Hi-Quality hardware-based playback at 31kHz sample rate, >16 bit resolution.
- Completely Open, hardware and software are available under the MIT license.
- Upgradable with connections on the board.
source: gadgetgangster.com wikipedia hvsc.c64.org
This shop offers selected open-source projects in kit form for the classical computers
Commodore C64 and VIC-20.
Like:
- C-64 EasyFlash.
- VIC-20 Final Expansion.
source: for8bits.com
The Shop of the website for8bits will open in early October and will be the exclusive seller of the EasyFlash and Final Expansion cartridges.
source: for8bits.com
from Homepage:
The parts for the first EasyFlash cartridges have been shipped by Nils from his shop for8bits.
EasyFlash is a cartridge for the C64 expansion port. In contrast to traditional cartridges, this one can be programmed directly from the C64.
source: easyflash homepage
from Homepage:
EasyFlash is a cartridge for the C64 expansion port. In contrast to traditional cartridges, this one can be programmed directly from the C64.
You can easily create various classic computer game cartridges, program collections or even a diagnostic cartridge to track down issues with your hardware with it.
All what you need to do this is a C64, an EasyFlash, the software available here and an image of the cartridge (*.crt). As these CRT files may be quite large, a large disk drive like the FD-2000 or an sd2iec may be useful.
EasyFlash is not a freezer cartridge like the Final Cartridge III or the Retro Replay. And it’s no replacement for a 1541 disk drive like the sd2iec.
source: easyflash homepage
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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