The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) is a freeware hobby project which organises Commodore 64 music (also known as SID music) into an archive for both musicians and fans alike.
The work on the collection is done completely in the Team and contributors’ spare time and is proudly one of the largest and most accurate computer music collections known.
This update features (all approximates):
- 906 new SIDs
- 185 fixed/better rips
- 2 repeats/bad rips eliminated
- 971 SID credit fixes
- 111 SID model/clock infos
- 13 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
- 14 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
- 33 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
- 14 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories
Download:
source: www.hvsc.c64.org
ST-Paint is a Drawing program that lets you make Atari St picture on Windows based PC.
ST-Paint is still in a beta phase and it’s made by Peter Jørgensen same author of the program Ym2149 Tracker.
Note from the author:
- Windows mode (not complete)
- Clipboard : Remember the last 15 clip.
- Color Replacer : Use to replace a color somewhere in the graphic.
- Poly Line: Load/save Neochrome picture / Load Degas Under/Overscan Picture*
- Some other functions have been change, like the undo buffer in the polygon function, (now while drawing a polyg, and undo you will remove the last point, when finish the polyg and undo, you will remove the hole polygon.
Download:
source: fedepede04.dk
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Dinasours, Iceout, The Mojon Twins, Underground Domain Inc, Really Proud Lamers, Excess, Nostalgia, Antarctica and Laxity.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia homepage:
The Laser 128 was a clone of the Apple II series of personal computers, first released by VTech in 1984. Unlike the Apple II clones from Franklin, VTech reverse-engineered the Apple ROMs using a clean room design rather than copying them. Apple Computer challenged VTech in court, but unlike its efforts directed at Franklin, Apple was unable to force the Laser 128 off the market.
As its name suggests, the Laser 128 had 128 KB of RAM. Like the Apple IIc, it was a one-piece semi-portable design with a carrying handle and a single built-in 5¼-inch floppy disk drive. Unlike the Apple IIc, it had a numeric keypad and a single Apple IIe-compatible expansion slot, which gave it better expansion capabilities than a IIc. VTech offered a metal 2-slot card cage that sat alongside the Laser 128 and attached to the computer’s single slot, allowing for even greater expansion flexibility. The Laser 128 retailed for about $700, substantially less than the price of an Apple IIc.
Apple countered the Laser 128 with its upgraded Apple IIc Plus. VTech responded with the Laser 128EX and the Laser EX2. The Laser 128 was aggressively marketed, both by mail order firms and in retail and catalog stores such as Sears. Even though its ROM was not derived from Apple’s ROM, the Laser 128 series had a high degree of compatibility with its competition from Apple.
VTech owed much of this compatibility to the fact that they were able to license Applesoft BASIC (which constitutes the largest and most complex part of an Apple II’s ROM contents) from Microsoft just as Apple did, heavily reducing the amount of code that had to be reimplemented. Microsoft had made most of its money by keeping the rights to the software that it sold to others. Likewise, Apple had failed to secure an exclusive distribution license for the Applesoft dialect of BASIC, and VTech was free to buy it. Much Apple software depended on various assembly routines that are a part of BASIC in ROM, and it’s quite likely that the Laser would not have been as successful had it not had compatible ROM entry points.
Download:
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source: wikipedia
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