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High Voltage SID Collection Update #54

December 26th, 2010 No comments

After this update, the collection should contain 39,626 SID files!

Thanks to all the people who have helped to make HVSC the collection that it is today, without your help it would be a much tougher task.

This update features (all approximates):

  • 933 new SIDs.
  • 217 fixed/better rips.
  • 5 PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs eliminated.
  • 21 repeats/bad rips eliminated.
  • 561 SID credit fixes.
  • 258 SID model/clock infos.
  • 28 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified.
  • 6 tunes from /GAMES/ identified.
  • 41 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories.
  • 9 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories.

source: hvsc.de

Categories: C64/SX64, News & Rumors, Today

Commodore USA shows his baby, The Commodore 64 clone

December 26th, 2010 No comments

Commodore 64 it’s back… and better than ever! The new C64 is a modern functional PC as close to the original in design as humanly possible.

It houses a modern mini-ITX PC motherboard featuring a Dual Core 525 Atom processor and the latest Nvidia Ion2 graphics chipset. It comes in the original taupe brown/beige color, with other colors to follow.

source: commodoreusa.net

SD2Iec Firmware v0.10.1

December 26th, 2010 No comments

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:

2010-12-25 – release 0.10.1

  • Bugfix: Remove remains of previous commands while parsing B-*
  • Bugfix: Fix response of UI command for unknown suffix chars.
  • Small improvement of JiffyDOS transfer speeds.

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki

Categories: Firmware, News & Rumors, Today