from 1541 Ultimate homepage:
Some of you might have noticed that the order form has been temporarily closed, and many questions and rumours have been going around about the future of the 1541 Ultimate. The reason behind all this, is that behind the screens I have been working on a successor of the “1541 Ultimate”. How this unit will be called has not yet been determined, but it could be something as simple as “1541 Ultimate II” or “Ultimate Cartridge”.
What is it, and why was it designed? Basically, it is a scaled down version of the 1541U. It will provide similar functionality, although some things have been changed. It will no longer support full-size SD-cards, but only MircoSD, or “Transflash”. Also, Ethernet will not be supported until further notice. It will support tape emulation out of the box (without the need for special FPGA images) and it will provide a real-time clock function with battery back up. Audio output has been significantly improved, which might seem useless for just the drive sounds, but this enables the creation of FPGA images that provide additional sound channels of useful quality. The power consumption has been reduced as well. There is one extra cool feature that will not yet be disclosed ;-)
And last but not least… This unit will come with a case! At least, that is the plan; there are some negociations going on with manufacturers for plastic insertion moulding. It seems feasible to have this done, although it’s pricy for low quantities. A prototype is 3D-printed this week; the prototype board is already there and functional.
source: 1541ultimate.net
Berzerk Redux is based on the classic arcade game Bezerk and is a multi-directional shooter video Arcade game.
source: noname.c64.org wikipedia
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.
Commodore 64 Emulator it´s finally here.
The best-selling single personal computer of all time, with over 30 million units sold worldwide.
Commodore 64 Emulator has been submitted to App Store and awaiting approval by Apple.
Key Features:
- Full speed, Commodore 64 emulator.
- SID sound emulation.
- Auto-save, to continue exactly where you left off.
- Realistic joystick and beautifully crafted C64 keyboard.
- Portrait and Landscape play.
- Vertical and Fullscreen gaming (auto rotate for iPod users)
- and much more…
source: c64iphone.com
BreadBox64 is a Twitter client for the C64/128 which allows you to tweet from a real C64 and show your friends timeline.
It uses Contiki, a very nice embedded OS, and the MMC Replay cartridge with the RR-Net add on for the physical connection to the net.
source: vandenbrande.com
CommOS 10 (or CommOS 3.0) contains:
- My Computer.
- File Manager.
- Control Panel.
- Notes 1.0
Remember CommOS 10 is designed for 64HDD Professional.
source: commodore.host.sk
from ArduinoNut Blog:
A little vulgar I know, but it’s an adequate expression of how I’m feeling right now. The SD2IEC is working beautifully.
Up to this point it was suffering from some syndrome resulting in erratic behaviour at best to a more normal position of outright refusal to work. I could make things work sometimes by shimmying wires around, so this seemed to be the obvious first move.
I stripped all the long wires away and remade the connections. It’s often easier to see where a wire should be routed second time around…
source: arduinonut.blogspot.com
Loriano’s 1541 Ultimate Case:
Click here to see the final pictures of the new add-on for cartridge mode operation of the 1541 Ultimate Case. For order please email Loriano directly.
source: logan-5.co.uk 1541ultimate.net
As announced at the C4 EXPO, I am working with Mark Fellows (Highland IT Solutions) to finalize a licensing agreement for ‘JiffyDOS’ ROM Overlay manufacture and distribution.
In addition to hardware ROM enhancement units, I will also offer image downloads for 1541 Ultimate, C64DTV, and emulator users, as well as an amnesty offering for unlicensed copies.
To minimize manual manufacturing processes inherent in the current EPROM-based JiffyDOS offerings, my goal is to utilize the ROM-el EEPROM/FLASH solution for JiffyDOS hardware offerings.
source: jbrain.com
SCA – streamed char animation – is an animation (image sequence) with the dimension of 200×160 pixels, converted into the C64 charsets (25×20 chars).
One frame includes two multicolor charsets, the whole animation uses one static video and color RAM. SCA Converter utility (application) creates this kind of animation on Windows platforms.
application screenshot:
source: ide64.org
SID Duzz it, it’s a SID Music Editor by Geir Tjelta of SHAPE.
source: noname.c64.org
This is a game programming competition, not a game playing competition.
The idea of this competition is to write a new game for the MiniGame compo.
source: minigamecomp.org.uk
C64 VGE is small graphics editor in which You can make little sized pictures beacause of using lines and small amount of pixels to draw them.
It was used to made graphics for almost 4K intro “4K Wannabe” by Black Sun and now it’s released to public, maybe it’ll be usefull for someone other than me.
There are 3 example pictures from “4K Wannabe” supplied with editor for You to grasp the concept.
source: noname.c64.org
From the Homepage.
ROM-el ROM Eliminator: Another project of mine requires a way to replace the 2364 ROMs on Commodore computers, so I started looking for a 2764 to 2364 adapter.
After designing one, I determined that DIP EPROMs are starting to get very expensive, so I set about designing a Flash version. My tentative name is ROM-el. Since Flash is considered ROM as well, the name is a bit off, but I liked it, and only the pedantic will probably care.
64Nic: 2 64NIC+ boards arrived on April 20, and I assembled one in the evening. Initial testing with Devia’s NIC-Test was unsuccessful, so I gave up for the night. After work on the 21st, I pored over the schematics and determined I had miscopied a resistor layout from Eric Pratt’s 64NIC design. The resistor must be tied to ground, not Vcc. Dubious that such a small change would make the board work, I nonetheless made the change and …. it did nothing.
I decided I’d ruined one board, so I assembled the second board, taking care to make the resistor mod before plugging it in. Devia’s NIC-Test worked immediately. Later, I tried the apparently ruined board and it also worked, so it appears I did not completely ruin the board.
Given the success, I immediately released the board to production that evening.
source: jbrain.com
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