SD2IEC – è un’interfaccia hardware basata sul microcontrollore Atmel ATmega644 (ATmega1284p) che emula il Floppy Drive 1541 del Commodore 64/VIC20 e grazie all’usilio di una normalissima scheda SD possiamo caricare centinaia di giochi/demo e altro ancora al posto di utilizzare gli ormai ‘introvabili’ Floppy da 5¼ pollici.

Hardware e Firmware sono disponibili sotto licenza 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

Dopo un lungo periodo di attesa Subchrist ha rilasciato un’aggiornamento del programma Sprite Pad per Windows XP. Sprite Pad e’ un sprite Editor per Commodore 64.

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