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Rilasciato il nuovo firmware 8b beta per l’interfaccia Chameleon

La cartuccia Chameleon Turbo 64 è estremamente facile da utilizzare dal momento che non serve aprire il proprio computer perche’ si collega alla porta di espansione del C64.

La cartuccia può funzionare anche come unità “stand-alone” questo perche’ al suo interno il cuore e’ un chip FPGA che emula quasi (ancora in beta) del tutto un Commodore 64, compreso il Floppy Drive e puo’ essere collegata ad un normale monitor VGA (LCD o CRT).

Changelog:

  • New VGA controller with new modes and VIC-II sync.
  • Tripple buffering mode added for properly displaying IFLI pictures.
  • Scale-2x video scaling algorithm added.
  • Scanline emulation added.
  • In cartridge mode real CIAs registers and interrupts are used (allows use of a modem).
  • In cartridge mode real VIC-II registers and interrupts are used (allows use of a lightpen).
  • Fixed I/O assignments for FPGA (lower power use).
  • Lowlevel SD-card functions now use multiple block reads if possible, which increases linear reading speed by about 40 to 50% (most noticeable on large files, such as REU images)
  • BUGFIX: fixed error handling and timeouts of the IEC routines, which makes all related operations more robust.
  • BUGFIX: added missing timeouts to SD-card functions.
  • Joystick port 1 now also works for navigating the menus.
  • BUGFIX: on some C64s pressing shift would result in phantom keypresses (F1/F2) under some conditions.
  • NEW: various new VGA modes and other options for the new VGA controller (see manual)
  • Improved loading speed of file inside T64 images.
  • Improved keyboard handling to make the browser a bit snappier.
  • BUGFIX: the size of the character ROM saved by the ROM saver was incorrect.
  • BUGFIX: .wav player stops at the end of the file and does not continue playing garbage.
  • BUGFIX: files bigger than 2k are displayed correctly by the .txt viewer.
  • BUGFIX: when copying files out of a t64 image the resulting file was missing the last two bytes and/or the last block was missing completely.
  • BUGFIX: filecopy from/to a IEC device did incorrectly abort after 1 block.
  • BUGFIX: filecopy filename character set conversion was broken.
  • BUGFIX: AR/RR ROM was not correctly disabled when autostarting programs from the filebrowser with AR/RR enabled as default cartridge.
  • NEW: added DOS wedge command (see manual)
  • NEW: added load and save commands (see manual)

Download: Chameleon 64 beta firmware 8b (1554)

source: beta.icomp.de

Rilasciato il nuovo firmware 7b beta per l’interfaccia Chameleon

La cartuccia Chameleon Turbo 64 è estremamente facile da utilizzare dal momento che non serve aprire il proprio computer perche’ si collega alla porta di espansione del C64.

La cartuccia può funzionare anche come unità “stand-alone” questo perche’ al suo interno il cuore e’ un chip FPGA che emula quasi (ancora in beta) del tutto un Commodore 64, compreso il Floppy Drive e puo’ essere collegata ad un normale monitor VGA (LCD o CRT).

Changelog:

  • fixed REU, transfer length register is 1 after a transfer completes.
  • fixed REU 512K wrap around.
  • fixed cache controller preventing corruption when accessing 0x1FFFF0000 – 0x1FFFFFFFF
  • faster SDRAM controller. More memory bandwidth for turbo.
  • added slowdown modes to the Turbo settings. Offering CPU speeds of 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%.
  • added native updater program (see manual) to update the fpga core without an usb connection.
  • make menu item active when pressing a hotkey, so it is selected when going back to the respective menu.
  • correctly mute/unmute second sid in menu freezer.
  • clockport- and rr-net- items in options menu are correctly disabled if either is not available.
  • if found, load and run update.prg from sd card (chameleon updater)
  • if “boot from sd card” is enabled, load boot.prg from sd card (regular c64 boot program)
  • improved navigation in one panel mode, cursor right enters subdir/image and cursor left goes one level up.
  • improved quickfind, just type a filename quickly to jump to it.
  • mount menu is skipped if there would only be one active item.
  • when returning to the menu from the sid player by pressing left/menu button it will go directly to the filebrowser.
  • added gfx viewer for various multi-color and hires formats.(see manual)
  • added wav player (see manual)
  • added filecopy (F5 in two panel mode, see manual)
  • set $030c-$030e to 0 before starting prgs, increases compatibility with certain packers.
  • .sid files which actually contain a basic program can now be run correctly.
  • re-read destination panel after copying image.

Download: Chameleon Beta-7b release (1583)

source: beta.icomp.de

Rilasciato il nuovo firmware v6g beta per l’interfaccia Chameleon

La cartuccia Chameleon Turbo 64 è estremamente facile da utilizzare dal momento che non serve aprire il proprio computer perche’ si collega alla porta di espansione del C64.

La cartuccia può funzionare anche come unità “stand-alone” questo perche’ al suo interno il cuore e’ un chip FPGA che emula quasi (ancora in beta) del tutto un Commodore 64, compreso il Floppy Drive e puo’ essere collegata ad un normale monitor VGA (LCD o CRT).

Changelog:

Differences from Beta-6f to Beta-6g:

  • Implemented bit-fade in SID when no waveform is selected.
  • Implemented bit-fade in SID when reading write-only registers.
  • Added bits to detect in menu when disk-images need update after write actions by the emulated drives.
  • Implemented “door” on emulated drive, when open drive will read dummy bytes.
  • Fixed CPU instruction timing bugs discovered when comparing emulated 6510 against real 6510.
  • CPU irq/nmi timing fixes.
  • Implemented bit-fade on I/O port of emulated 6510.
  • Fixed SID stereo mapping for D500 and D700.
  • Four timers added at addresses D0AA to D0AD for menu (it can’t use CIA timers when freezing).

Download: Firmware Chameleon Beta 6g (1423)

source: syntiac.com

Rilasciato il nuovo firmware v6d beta per l’interfaccia Chameleon

La cartuccia Chameleon Turbo 64 è estremamente facile da utilizzare dal momento che non serve aprire il proprio computer perche’ si collega alla porta di espansione del C64.

La cartuccia può funzionare anche come unità “stand-alone” questo perche’ al suo interno il cuore e’ un chip FPGA che emula quasi (ancora in beta) del tutto un Commodore 64, compreso il Floppy Drive.

Tengo a precisare che la cartuccia puo’ essere collegata ad un normale monitor VGA (LCD o CRT).

Changelog:

Differences from Beta-6c to Beta-6d:

  • Cartridge emulations.
  • Turbo speed increase: Eliminated one clock cycle from critical path.
  • Turbo speed increase: Writes to memory concurrent with next instruction fetch.
  • Turbo speed increase: MMU caches last used CPU slot.

Download: Firmware Chameleon Beta 6d (1436)

source: syntiac.com

Rilasciato il nuovo firmware v6c beta per l’interfaccia Chameleon

La cartuccia Chameleon Turbo 64 è estremamente facile da utilizzare dal momento che non serve aprire il proprio computer perche’ si collega alla porta di espansione del C64.

La cartuccia può funzionare anche come unità “stand-alone” questo perche’ al suo interno il cuore e’ un chip FPGA che emula quasi (ancora in beta) del tutto un Commodore 64, compreso il Floppy Drive.

Tengo a precisare che la cartuccia puo’ essere collegata ad un normale monitor VGA (LCD o CRT).

Changelog:

Differences from Beta-5b to Beta-6:

  • Fixed RAM mirrors for 1541 drive emulation.
  • Fixed reading from emulated SID.
  • New cartridge emulations.
  • Disk track lengths set to 6256, 6672, 7144 or 7696 bytes.
  • Implemented disk-change with button.
  • Input latch emulation in VIA emulation.
  • Implemented SDR register in CIA.
  • Implemented real IEC bus disable bit.
  • VIC-II timing fixed for mode bits (MCM, BMM and ECM)

Differences from Beta-6 to Beta-6b:

  • 1541 emulation: fixed IEC timing. All known speedloader problems are gone now.
  • 1541 emulation: VIA6522 timer fixes.
  • 1541 emulation: VIA6522 register r/w fixes.
  • New cartridge emulations.

Differences from Beta-6b to Beta-6c:

  • Auto speed option for turbo feature. Slows down on IEC bus accesses.
  • PS/2 Page up/Page down alias for F1, F7. Easier navigation in the File-Browser.

Download: Turbo Chameleon 64 beta firmware v6c (1433)

source: syntiac.com

Rilasciato il nuovo firmware v5b beta per l’interfaccia Chameleon

La cartuccia Chameleon Turbo 64 è estremamente facile da utilizzare dal momento che non serve aprire il proprio computer perche’ si collega alla porta di espansione del C64.

La cartuccia può funzionare anche come unità “stand-alone” questo perche’ al suo interno il cuore e’ un chip FPGA che emula quasi (ancora in beta) del tutto un Commodore 64, compreso il Floppy Drive.

Tengo a precisare che la cartuccia puo’ essere collegata ad un normale monitor VGA (LCD o CRT).

Changelog:

Beta-5 to Beta-5a:

  • Fix crash when turbo limit is set in menu without activating turbo. (or when disabling active turbo with button while a limit is set)
  • Fix D030 mirror of the turbo bit emulating C128 2Mhz mode with Chameleon turbo.

Beta-5a to Beta-5b:

  • Eliminate spurious resets by masking reset line in standalone mode.
  • Fix keyboard matrix so joysticks are properly emulated (IR, numpad) in standalone mode.
  • Block normal button functions in menu mode (only exception is reboot by pressing 0.7s on right button)

source: syntiac.com

Rilasciato il nuovo firmware v5 per l’interfaccia Chameleon

La cartuccia Chameleon Turbo 64 è estremamente facile da utilizzare dal momento che non serve aprire il proprio computer perche’ si collega alla porta di espansione del C64.

La cartuccia può funzionare anche come unità “stand-alone” questo perche’ al suo interno il cuore e’ un chip FPGA che emula quasi (ancora in beta) del tutto un Commodore 64, compreso il Floppy Drive.

Tengo a precisare che la cartuccia puo’ essere collegata ad un normale monitor VGA (LCD o CRT).

Changelog:

  • Framebuffer writes now use MMU.
  • Framebuffer writes can be switched off (buffer can be used by software)
  • Cartridge buttons emulated on PS/2 keyboard (F11,F12 and PrintScreen)
  • Chameleon can use real BASIC and Kernal ROMs in machine in cartridge mode.
  • Emulated IEC bus can be disconnected from C64 (Chameleon is drive emu)
  • FLI bug fixed.
  • Added Stereo SID support.
  • Turbo feature added.
  • Relative CPU speed displayed in VGA debug bar.

source: syntiac.com