A anonymous person has published a large amount of files on a web page about the history of Amiga.

At the moment there are more than 600 PDF files available for viewing or downloading.

source: amiga-documents

Parados Installation Photo Gallery:

ParaDOS is 16kB ROM that replaces the AmsDOS. Allows to use double-sided floppy disks and some more disk formats.

source: grimware.org

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).

Changelog:

2010-03-07 – release 0.9.1

• Bugfix: Filling unused REL records used wrong offsets.
• Bugfix: Unbreak case-insensitive matching of FAT file names.
• Bugfix: Fix raw directory mode for D64/D71/D81.
• Bugfix: Tell the display about REL files too.
• Add preliminary support for the ATmega1284P.

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki

Foto review of the Serial cable and Transfer program:

ADTPro may be used to transfer Apple diskette/disk images in DOS or ProDOS/SOS format.

The Apple client side happens to run under ProDOS or SOS, but it is perfectly capable of reading or writing Apple DOS (or Pascal, or CP/M, or…) diskettes.

source: adtpro.sourceforge.net

Foto review of 3½ Floppy adapter:

Thanks to B.C for the Floppy adapter.

source: ebay retro-zone.org amstrad hack page

Autopsy:

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from Wikipedia:

The Apple IIc, the fourth model in the Apple II series of personal computers, was Apple Computer’s first endeavor to produce a portable computer.

The end result was a luggable 7½ pound notebook-sized version of the Apple II that could easily be transported from place to place. The c in the name stood for compact, referring to the fact it was essentially a complete Apple II computer setup (minus display and power supply) squeezed into a small notebook sized housing.

While sporting a built-in floppy drive and new rear peripheral expansion ports integrated onto the main logic board, it lacked the internal expansion slots and direct motherboard access of earlier Apple IIs, making it a closed system like the Macintosh. However that was the intended direction for this model—a more appliance-like machine, ready to use out of the box, requiring no technical know-how or experience to hook up and therefore attractive to first-time users.

Useful links: Serial Cable Pinout & Apple Disk Transfer ProDOS – Apple 2c FAQ – Apple DOS 3.3 Dump – DOS Serial Transfer

source: wikipedia

from the Readme file:

Introduction: Because I wasn’t satisfied with all the available D64 lister programs in several aspects I decided to make my own one. The D64Lister is of course Freeware.

The D64Lister is featured with the following abilities and properties, which are described more precise later on:

• Windows based (Win9x, WinNT, Win2000, WinXP, WinVista, Windows7)
• Multifile support.
• Extended Recursive OpenDialog with Directory selection.
• D64 Images as parameter.
• Images can be drag&dropped.
• 40 Tracks Support (SpeedDOS, DolphinDOS, PrologicDOS)
• 99% PETSCII -> ASCII conversion.
• 99% Original C64/1541 behaviour.
• ASCII Textfile generation.
• RichTextFormat file generation.
• Appending of new Textfiles to existing ones.
• Upper/Lower -> Upper/Graphics Char switching.
• Emulated C64Screen.
• C64Screen is zoom – and scrollable.
• Comfortable OptionsDialog with *.ini File.
• GEOS File support.
• Auto Upper/Lower Char switching for GEOS Files.
• GEOS File Details.
• GeoWrite Textviewer with styles, fontsizes, formats and photoscraps.
• GEOS Font Shower.
• GeoPaint Viewer.
• PhotoScrap Viewer.
• PhotoAlbum Viewer.
• GeoPaint pictures and PhotoScraps are saveable.
• Fonts zoom – and saveable (as bitmap)
• Zoomable display of GEOS icons.
• Export function for supported GEOS Filetypes
• Show BAM (with diskerrors like StarCommander)
• Show BAM entry -> filename, filename -> BAM entries.
• BlockViewer in hex or char.
• FileViewer with BASIC Command Detokenize, C64 program export and Hex View.

source: hardworks.de

from 1541 Ultimate homepage:

February is already drawing to the end, so some news about the 1541U-II is needed here. The good news is: the boards have been produced, and the first few have been tested and are working! They are currently back at the assembly house for a missing connector, but I am expecting them back early this week.

The not-so-good news is, that the plastic cases have more delay. The Chinese company sometimes makes some promises that they are breaking afterwards. Yesterday I received a message that the new samples will be shipped on the 10th of March, while they had previously promised to send 100 cases upfront on Feb 25. I pressed them to send at least 100 pieces on, or before that date.

The good news about the cases is, that they will be black and not cream! I noticed that a lot of you have a strong preference for black. They will be produced using the PA material, enforced with glass fiber. :-)

source: 1541ultimate.net

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).

Changelog:

2009-02-28 – release 0.9.0

• Bugfix: REL offset calculation for records 256,512,…
• Bugfix: Non-REL P command parameters now match README.
• Bugfix: Reading after EOI behaves correctly now.
• Red LED only active while unwritten data in memory.
• Remove XC,XJ commands.
• New fastloader: ULoad Model 3.
• New fastloader: G.I. Joe (said to be commonly ripped)
• New fastloader: Epyx FastLoad cartridge.
• Support reading raw directory ($ with secondary > 0)
• “display disk images as directories”-mode.
• DNP support.
• Remote display support.
• Build system doesn’t require gawk anymore.

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki

I have found some ZZap 64 Magazine (Italian edition) in my attic.

from Wikipedia:

Zzap!64 was a computer games magazine covering games on the Commodore International series of computers, especially the Commodore 64 (C64). It was published in the UK by Newsfield Publications Ltd and later by Europress Impact.

The magazine launched in April, with the cover date May 1985, as the sister magazine to CRASH. It focused on the C64 for much of its shelf life, but later incorporated Amiga game news and reviews. Like CRASH for the ZX Spectrum, it had a dedicated cult following amongst C64 owners and was well known for its irreverent sense of humour as well as its extensive, detailed coverage of the C64 scene.

The magazine adopted an innovative review system that involved the use of the reviewers’ faces, artistically rendered by in-house artists Oli Frey and Mark Kendrick, to express their reaction to the games. These eventually evolved into static cartoons as the magazine began catering for a younger market.

By 1992, the magazine had changed so dramatically in design and editorial direction that then-publisher Europress decided to relaunch the magazine. Thus, issue 91 of Zzap!64 became issue 1 of Commodore Force, a magazine that itself lasted until March 1994.

source: wikipedia zzap64.co.uk

The High Voltage SID Collection web page is totally renewed. Especially the Search part is much improved.

You can for example type-in “Rob Hubbard” and you will be presented with a complete list.

source: hvsc.de

It has been over four years since the latest release of our disk magazine. Finally “Attitude #10″ is ready for download. Get your copy and tell us if it was worth to get together again and make this release possible.

We hope you enjoy this issue as much as you did the previous ones!

source: attitude.c64.org

General Info:

• Firmware written primarily for the DivIDE interface, maybe for others in future.
• Inspired by our (Phoenix & LaesQ) old ‘backbone’ project + inspiration from +D
• Works with HDD/CD-ROM/ZIP/LS120 (LS120 can access 720KB and 1.44MB floppies)
• Uses drivers to access filesystems (either in RAM or ROM)
• Provides new BASIC commands
• Will provide RST 8 hooks for user-land apps
• Supports IM2 loading/saving (K3L’s FA part)
• Drivers give access to the filesystem, and provide specific emulation hooks in certain cases (TRDOS, .TAP, etc)
• There’s a device/filesystem abstraction layer, which means that BASIC or user-land programs don’t need to know anything about the underlying filesystem/device (ie, you use the same BASIC commands for all filesystems, FAT/ISO/TRD/etc)
• Will allow up to 4 virtual drives for disk images (.trd/etc)
• Filesystems are mapped acording to type: hd*, fd*, cd*, vd*, td*
• FAT12/16/32 driver built-in ROM, other drivers loaded from boot filesystem on demand. (on this preview version, there was still room so TRDOS filesystem is in ROM too)
  Does not need a system file to work, common BASIC commands and FAT driver on ROM, system file loaded from boot filesystem will have additional commands, etc.
• … more stuff which I prolly forgot

source: esxdos.org

Island of Secrets Graphic Adventure – 22 column version by Jenny Tyler and Les Howarth.

This game is a conversion from Commodore 64 of a classic type-in text adventure from the book published by Usborne in 1984. Play it with the stunning graphic excitement of more than 30 hi-res screens! It’s require a VIC-20 + 24K RAM.

source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)

This program is basically a utility created to edit your D64 files.  Hopefully when it is done it will have all of the features you’d expect from a c64 based disk editor, as well as additional features that make it easier to manage your D64 files.

Here some features:

• Read D64 files, display the directory, move files around the directory, rename files.
• Export files from the D64 into PRG files.
• Import files into the D64 with autodetection for P00 files.
• View/Edit the BAM.
• View the block chain of files on the D64.
• Create new blank D64 files, clean existing D64′s.
• View and modify blocks on the disk in hex.
• Automatic check for crosslinked files on the D64.
• View the directory using the native c64 font.
• SEQ File Viewer using the c64 font with PETASCII->ASCII conversion option.
• Drag and Drop functionality. Drag D64′s onto the main screen to load them, drag other files to import them.
• Preliminary support for importing T64′s.
• A filename builder to enable easy use of the C64 Characterset in filenames.

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