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The Altera USB-Blaster adapter interfaces a USB port on a host computer to an Altera FPGA mounted on a printed circuit board. The cable sends configuration data from the PC to a standard 10-pin header connected to the FPGA.

You can use the USB-Blaster adapter to iteratively download configuration data to a system during prototyping or to program data into the system during production.

Download:

• Altera USB Blaster User Guide (897)
• Altera Quartus II Web Edition (1215)

CCS64 is a Commodore 64 Emulator for PC developed by Per Håkan Sundell.

CCS64 is shareware. This means that the program is free to use and to copy, but if you like it and use it regularly I would appreciate that you would register the program.

Download: CCS64 v3.9 (1054)

source: www.ccs64.com

Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Hokuto Force, Really Proud Lamers and Laxity.

Download:

• Bable Bable +2 (1619)
• Sheep Out! +2H [pal/ntsc] (1650)
• Camels in Space +2 [pal/ntsc] (1644)
• Sheepoid +7HFD 101% [pal/ntsc] (1885)
• Better Dead Than Alien +6PDFH [pal/ntsc] (1631)

source: csdb.dk

Shadowolf has published a web page where you can download the beta version of  SD2IEC firmware.

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).

source: SD2Iec Firmware (Latest nightly build)

CBM prg Studio Version 2.3.0 is released. There are a lot of new features in this version. I’d really appreciate it if you report any bugs you find or have any suggestions/comments.

CBM prg Studio allows you to type a BASIC or Machine Code program in using a nice Windows environment and convert it to a ‘.prg’ file which you can run on an emulator, or even a real C64 or VIC20 if you’re feeling brave and have the right kit.

CBM prg Studio is the result of merging C64PrgGen and VIC20PrgGen. Adding new features and fixing bugs in two apps which were 95% similar was a bit of a nightmare so merging them made sense.

It was also a good opportunity for a face lift and to add some new features, such as:

• Programs are project based, meaning all related source files, sprite files etc. are kept in one place and multiple source files can be linked more easily.
• Tabbed MDI.
• Syntax highlighting.

What CBM prg Studio isn’t is a front-end for tok64, cbmcnvrt, bastext or any other tokeniser / detokeniser / assembler. It’s all been written completely from scratch.

New Features in v2.3.0:

• Support for the C16 and Plus/4 machines.
• Undo/redo for character, sprite, and screen designers.
• Support for illegal opcodes.
• Screen designer added to C128 platform (40 column, c64 mode only).
• Start page.

Major bugs fixed:

• Commodore key (in screen designer) producing wrong code for certain colours.
• PI keyword not recognised.
• DATA keyword coloured incorrectly.
• Occasional duplicate start address in new project wizard.
• Wrong link address for VIC 20 projects in generated SYS call.
• Renumbering programs with no destination line numbers after GOTO, GOSUB etc.
• Lowercase text not handled correctly by ‘text’ directive.
• Some minor MMI issues.

Download: CBM prg Studio v2.3.0 (999)

source: ajordison.co.uk

Commodore Free Magazine Issue #61

Free to download Commodore magazine dedicated to Commodore Computers.

Download:

• Commodore Free Magazine Issue #61 (D64) (1114)
• Commodore Free Magazine Issue #61 (PDF) (1052)
• Commodore Free Magazine Issue #61 (TXT) (1220)

source: commodorefree.com