C64-Archiv descriptions:

• Scans and stores your C64 – (games) – collection with only a few clicks.
• Easily manages your C64-programs by creating your own categories.
• Starts the C64-programs in different emulators.
• Delivers instructions for the emulators VICE and CCS64.
• Stores the C64-programs from files with the extensions .d64, .d71, .p00, .prg and .t64.
• Stores files by name with the extensions: .tap, .vsf (VICE-snapshot-file) and .c64 (CCS-session-file)
• Stores the C64-programs in files with the extensions: .zip, .7z and .cab.
• Supports multi-language.

Version 3.0 – What’s new?

• NEW: Gamebase64 frontend with the possibility to download games.
• NEW: Simplified editing of profils.
• NEW: Profils for HOXS64.
• NEW: Startup Wizard.
• NEW: In the main window you can hide the tree.

source: Mikes Pages

Autopsy:

Many thanks to a friend for the Apple SCSI terminator.

Hints: Macintosh Plus can boot from Cartridges.

from Wikipedia:

SyQuest Technology, Inc., now known as SYQT, Inc., was an early entrant into the removable hard disk market for personal computers. The company was started in 1982 by Syed Iftikar; it was named partially after himself because of a company meeting wherein it was decided that “SyQuest” ought to be a shortened name for “Sy’s Quest”.

Its earliest products were 3.9″ (100mm) removable hard drives, and 3.9″ (100mm) ruggedized hard drives for IBM XT compatibles and military applications. Some of their early fixed drives appear to be rebranded Seagate drives, especially when one compares the drive lists on this data recovery site with this product table. For many years SyQuest held the market, particularly as a method of transferring large desktop publisher documents to printers.

SyQuest aim their products to give personal computer users “endless” hard drive space for data-intensive applications like desktop publishing, Internet information management, pre-press, multimedia, audio, video, digital photography, fast backup, data exchange, archiving, confidential data security and easy portability for the road.

source: wikipedia

Autopsy:

from Wikipedia:

The Expansion Module #2 is a driving controller expansion that consists of a steering wheel, gas pedal and the pack-in game Turbo. The driving controller is also compatible with the games Destructor and Dukes Of Hazzard.

source: wikipedia

Autopsy:

from Wikipedia:

The Speak & Math was published in 1980 with a shape identical to both the Speak & Spell and the Speak & Read but with a completely different keyboard layout, different game features, and a different color scheme. Where the American Speak & Spell had been colored red with yellow and orange accents, the American Speak & Math was gray with blue and orange highlights. The Speak & Math was designed to focus on mathematics in children of ages 6–12 with a library of over 100,000 random and preprogrammed problems.

It was regarded as the spiritual successor to TI’s earlier DataMan series[81], with the difference mainly relating to the addition of speech synthesizing software and the visual display. The Speak & Math was only released to American and British markets.

In 1982, a compact version of the Speak & Math was developed contemporaneously with the Speak & Spell Compact. This version was only released in French as Les Maths Magique (lit. The Magical Math). A redesigned version was developed in 1985 for British markets under the name of Maths marvel. This was later released in Italian as Dotto Conta-Parla, in French as le Calcul magique (lit. Magical Calculator), and in German as Mathe-Fix.

The Speak & Math was very minutely redesigned in 1986, under the same name, with the new version representing nothing more substantial than a redesign of the faceplate graphics. In 1990 the Super Speak & Math was released as a major redesign similar to the first version of the Super Speak & Spell. As with the Super Speak & Spell, the display screen of the Super Speak & Math was changed to an LCD screen instead of the former VFD screen.

The keyboard was also expanded and given more functions. The general structure of the console was also altered similarly to the Super Speak & Spell such that the handle which had come at the top of the screen in prior Speak & Math units was now found on the bottom of the toy and ergonomic features were added to the shape.

source: wikipedia

Autopsy:

Memory expansion boards add random access memory (RAM) to your computer system, often increasing the speed, storage, and power of your machine.

Cartridges list:

• Donkey Kong by Nintendo.
• Cosmic Avenger by Universal.
• The Official Turbo by Sega.
• Smurf by Peyo.

click here for the CBS Coleco Vision category.

Commodore 65 (C64 DX) Prototype on Ebay.

from Wikipedia:

The Commodore 65 (also known as the C64DX, not to be confused with the Commodore SX-64 portable unit) was a prototype computer created by Fred Bowen and others at Commodore Business Machines (CBM) (part of Commodore International) in 1990–91. The project was cancelled by CEO Irving Gould.

The C65 was an improved version of the Commodore 64, and it was meant to be backwards-compatible with the older computer, while still providing a number of advanced features close to those of the Amiga. When Commodore International was liquidated in 1994, a number of prototypes were sold on the open market, and thus a few people actually own a Commodore 65.

Estimates as to the actual number of machines found on the open market range from 50 to 2000 units. As the C65 project was cancelled, the final 8-bit offering from CBM remained the triple-mode, 1–2 MHz, 128 kB (expandable), C64-compatible Commodore 128 of 1985.

download screenshot: C65 Commodore Ebay Auction 18-12-2009

source: ebay auction wikipedia

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

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:

2009-12-16 – release 0.8.3

• Bugfix: Really prevent random corruption on FAT32 media.
• Bugfix: Free buffer after copying files.

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki

from 1541ultimate Forum:

Videoreview about the comparison of “MMC Replay” (Individual Computers) and “1541 Ultimate” with an detailed tutorial about connecting and using.

Also it shows some very interesting additional features like using a real 1541 drive together with 1541U.

-> Video 1 – Introduction
-> Video 2 – Test: MMC Replay
-> Video 3 – Test: 1541 Ultimate 1/2
-> Video 4 – Test: 1541 Ultimate 2/2 + Fazit

source: 1541ultimate Forum

from Homepage:

I designed this project after I recently dug my Commodore VIC-20 out of storage.  Some of my game cartridges needed much cleaning, and even after that, some didn’t work anymore.

The Multicart was developed so that multiple games could be played on a single cartridge.  The VIC-20 had many excellent arcade games like Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Dig Dug, …ect.

This cartridge combines 32 of the best VIC-20 arcade games on one cartridge.

source: www.gamingenterprisesinc.com/vic20

Autopsy:

Datel’s 3 Slot Cartridge Expander for Commodore 64 (works on a 128 in 64 mode only).

Features:

• Accepts 3 Cartridges.
• Switch in/out any slot.
• Fully Buffered.
• Onboard safety fuse.
• High Grade PCB.
• Reset Button.

DLH’s Commodore Archive latest news:

• 1084-P Service Manual 314890-01 (1988 July) (39 pages)
• 1084-D PAL Service Manual (45 pages)
• Super Snapshot V5.2 (Dutch)
• Tech Topics Issue 29 1990 Apr-Jun (25 pages)
• Tech Topics Issue 30 1990 Jul-Sep (12 pages)
• Tech Topics Issue 31 1990 Oct-Dec (18 pages)

source: DLH Commodore Archive

EasyProg is a program for the C64. It is used to write (“burn”) cartridge image files (*.crt) onto an EasyFlash.

Changes:

• Support files split and compressed with EasySplit.
• Support for xbank format.
• Sort directory entries case-insensitive.
• Allow 255 entries in directory dialog.

source: easyflash homepage

CBS ColecoVision RGB pinouts only for the French (Secam) AV Out version.

Here my first ColecoVision RGB hack.

source: colecovision.dk