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C64 Game: C64 Rescue +1D / Chopper +2D / Hubie the Cubie …

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Everdrive N64 – OS Update v1.28 released

July 28th, 2012 No comments

It was released a new OS Update for the Everdrive N64 Flash Cartridge (Nintendo 64) by Krikzz. The upgrade instructions can be found here.

Changelog:

  • SRAM saves bugfix.

Download: Everdrive N64 - OS Update v1.28 (1451)

source: krikzz.com

Categories: Hardware, News & Rumors, Today

Super Com 60 (Nes on a Chip)

July 28th, 2012 3 comments

Super Com 60  (Nes on a Chip)

Autopsy:

You can see the review of the Super Com 72 here

It’s a famous famiclone and it will play famicom (nes) games. It’s compatible with JAP/USA cartridges without regional lockout chip (CIC). The console comes with 60 games included on the cartridge.

Syntax Societys Summerparty 2012 (C64): World in Progress by GP

July 27th, 2012 No comments

World in Progress C64 Demo by Genesis Project was awarded the first place at the Syntax Societys Summerparty 2012.

Download: World in Progress Demo by Genesis Project (1159)

source: noname.c64.org

Commodore 64 Gold Edition on Ebay

July 26th, 2012 No comments

Commodore 64 Gold Edition on Ebay.

from Richard Lagendijk Homepage:

This a special edition of the Commodore C64, celebrating the 1.000.000th sale of the C64 in Germany. This is one of the most desirable Commodore items. There are about 300 golden Commodore C64 produced. The numbers from 1.000.000 until 1.000.100 were for the staff of the Commodore factory Braunschweig.

The rest was given to hard- en software companies, magazine-publishers and distributors. The C64 is a computer system with a keyboard, external power-supply and a motherboard. On the motherboard you will find a MOS 6510 processor, RAM / ROM memory, MOS 6569 VIC-II video chip, MOS 6581 SID sound chip and twice a MOS 6526 CIA. PAL version.

source: ebay.de richardlagendijk.nl

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The VC 314: Rasperry Pi in a Commodore 64

July 25th, 2012 No comments

Retrotext has made a interesting modding of a not working Commodore 64 with a Raspberry Pi.

For this project Retrotext has used the following things:

  • Commodore C64 with a working Keyboard.
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Keyrah USB interface.
  • 4-way USB port.
  • Three RCA connectors.
  • Ethernet and HDMI cable.
  • On/off Switch.
  • Power Supply and some other items.

The Commodore 64 runs under the Vice emulator (Linux) on the Raspberry Pi so we can play our favorites games.

About the Resperry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a  small, inexpensive computer that is capable of running tasks like most other PCs, however it is smaller, a lot smaller in fact it measures  85.60mm x 53.98mm x 17mm , almost the size of a credit card and costs £25. It has an ARM11 chip at its heart, which finds its origins in early UK microcomputers, notably first in the Acorn Electron, the brain child of  Mk14, ZX80 and 81s’ Chris Currie and Austrian physicist Herman Hauser.

source: retrotext.blogspot.co.uk

Categories: Hardware, News & Rumors, Today

Everdrive MD – OS Update v35 released

July 24th, 2012 No comments

It was released a new OS Update for the Everdrive MD Flash Cartridge (Megadrive/Genesis) by Krikzz. The upgrade instructions can be found here.

Changelog:

  • SRAM auto backup bug was fixed.

Download: Everdrive MD - OS Update v35 (2223)

source: krikzz.com

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Compaq Portable III (Model 2660) with External Expansion Chassis

July 24th, 2012 10 comments
Compaq Portable III (Model 2660)

Autopsy:

from Wikipedia:

The Compaq Portable III is a computer released by Compaq Computer Corporation in 1987. It was advertised as being much smaller and lighter than the previous portable x86-PCs, however it was still quite large by today’s standards.

Its street price upon its release was 4999 USD for a model equipped with an 12 MHz Intel 80286 CPU, 640 kB RAM, 1.2 MB 5.25″ floppy, 20 MB hard disk (type 2), and a 10″ amber colored gas-plasma display or 5799 USD with the upgraded 40 MB hard disk. There was also an optional ISA Expansion chassis allowed for 2 full length 16-bit ISA add-in cards for 199 USD. Power is supplied using a mains electricity outlet, no battery exist.

source: wikipedia