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:

2010-10-31 – release 0.10.0pre5

• Bugfix: Avoid duplicate file name when DEL/DIR matches.
• Bugfix: Reduce chance of data corruption in Wheels.
• Bugfix: Slightly relax IEC timing while waiting for command.
• Added AR6 1581 fastloader+saver (PAL).

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki

Sprite Pad v1.7 released.. after a long long time Subchrist has updated his Sprite Editor for Commodore 64.

Sprite Pad is a free cross-platform development tool for designing sprite images and animations.

Improvements and changes in this version:

• Rotations. A World first?, Free rotate with variable angle limiter, auto-generate rotation sequences in any mode with 1 degree accuracy.
• Overlays. Allows the designing of 2 sprites as one + animation and rotation support!.
• Multiple Palettes. User editable palette file supports up to 20 additional palettes. (Default palette is now technically accurate).
• Single page layout. No more page flipping!.
• ‘Floodfill’, ‘Fat Brush’, ‘Pixel Swapper’, ‘Paste Into’. + Many more fixes and improvements.

General Program Features:

• Edit and animate both multicolour and high-resolution sprite images.
• 256 Sprite browser.
• Simple file format allows easy import into Commodore 64 software projects.

System Requirements:

• The program has been designed, programmed and tested on a 32-bit Windows XP (SP3) system.
• The development machine has an Athlon XP 2400+ (2Ghz) with 512MB of RAM and an old 64MB Nvidia Geforce4 MX GFX card.

source: subchrist homepage