Dopo un lungo periodo ho riacceso e provato il mio Sinclair Spectrum 128k (RGB con Bright MOD).

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E’ stato rilasciato un nuovo aggiornamento del sistema operativo (OS) per la Everdrive N64 Flash Cartridge (Nintendo 64) di Krikzz. Le istruzioni per l’aggiornamento le potete trovare qui.

Changelog:

• Allows to load/save controller pak to file. Please use any .mpk file and c-down button. It works only if controller pak plugged into joy port1. /ED64/dummy.mpk file can be used for exchange.
• Ability to force default save type.
• Ability to force M-PAL TV mode. Not sure if it work properly, cuz i don’t have PAL-M system for tests.
• Os can run Banjo-Tooie U without manual patching.

Download: Everdrive N64 - OS Update v1.29 (1820)

source: krikzz.com

Ci spiace, ma questo articolo è disponibile soltanto in English.

L’Atari++ è un emulatore Atari 8 Bit dei seguenti modelli: Atari 400 e 800, l’Atari 400XL, 800XL e 130XE, e la console Atari 5200.

L’emulatore puo’ essre compilato senza troppi problemi su sistemi operativi Linux (Linux, Solaris, Irix).

Download:

• Atari ++ v1.71 (Linux) (1296)
• Atari ++ v1.71 (Win32) (1600)

source: xl-project.com

SID Duzz it, e’ un’ottimo SID Music Editor programmato da Geir Tjelta del gruppo SHAPE.

Download: SID Duzz\' It v2.1 (1025)

source: csdb.dk

HermIRES e’ un hires bitmap (Art Studio 1 format) editor per il Commodore 64.

The format has some restrictions, here are the rules:

• The maximal resolution of the picture is 320×200
• Only 16 fix C64 colours can be used (no gradient either)
• In a 8×8 pixel-block only 2 colours can used to be displayable by C64 (this is detected in HermIRES, but .hbm files can be saved with clashes too.)
• On a real C64 the PAL will blur the screen-content a bit, should check on CRT, or at least VICE emulator’s CRT simulation.

Changelog:

Added:

• Color swapping fast-button – Tilde “`” button (BitBreaker’s idea)
• Show pen-diameter preview circle if diameter is bigger than the default
• *dense (pixel-scale) grid toggleable (in bigger magnifications too).
• *added ‘Deny painting’,'Reuse existing colour’ and ‘Set block colour’ mode to ClashTest – different settings on/off in case clash would happen…
• *showing zoomed area in the preview, allow going to area in zoomed mode when left-clicking on preview
• Showing ongoing progresses by text/graphics (loading/converting/drawing…)
• Selectable CRT emulation for Preview/Grid only… (for faster operation on slow machines)
• Undo step number displayed (should undo history also be saved?)

Fixed:

• Control/shift/alt stucked in Win7 with allegro devpak 4.2… -> using allegro devpak 4.4.2 version instead!
• Reduced overall CPU usage – refined timed and pixelling/detection events
• iI Windows it was slow (especially in CRT emulation) -> wrote optimized software CRT-emul.pixelling for GridDrawer, not relying on hw-acceleration
• *pressing F1..F4 fucked up (enlightens) toolbar sometimes – solution: timing stabilizer / thread safety check solved it
• Preview-zoom title-text was overwritten by Grid-Zoom-text in the smallest resolution mode with 2-digit magnifications
• *there was ‘allegro error #11′ and ‘segmentation fault’ at lower than required resolution – it was logical mistake in resolution-decider loop
• Made dithered and big-pendiameter filled rectangle/circle drawing faster (set the steps according to pen-diameter)
• *allegro filename-extension detection was wrong – if ‘.’ used in filename and no extension given, only the name before was saved to disk! -> used ustrcmp & strcat instead
• *C64-executable format name-tag (caption) now editable (deleting it disables it)

Download:

• HermIRES v1.25 (Linux) (1017)
• HermIRES v1.25 (Windows) (1140)

source: hermit.netne.net

E’ stato rilasciato del nuovo Software per Commodore 64 dai seguenti gruppi: Avatar, Onslaught, Bad Taste, uppercase Software e Excess.

Download:

• S-Blox v1.0 (1093)
• Octron (1095)
• KAH - Kill All Humans (1039)
• Heng - HiRes Engine (1034)
• Sigma Wing Preview (1018)
• Helikopter Jagd + (1091)
• Super Mario Bros Preview (1073)
• All Games in One Archive (2547)

source: csdb.dk

NAV, è un nuovo file browser per il Commodore 64 con NAV è possibile utilizzare il mouse in porta 1 e il joystick in porta 2 o la tastiera per navigare.

NAV può funzionare con un massimo di cinque unità floppy esterne ed è stato testato con le seguenti interfaccie:

1541, 1571, 1581, uIEC, IDE64

Download: NAV (D64) (1203)

source: commodoreserver.com

Calendario in formato PDF rilasciato da Marcin Dworaczek (Moonie aka / MSB) per il nuovo anno.

Le immagini contenute nel calendario sono state rilasciate nell’ultima edizione del SillyVenture Party (SV2k12), e provengono dai seguenti autori: Piesiu, Ripek, Rocky, Ooz, Ukko, Templeton, Odyn1ec e Bracket.

Download: SillyVenture 2013 calendar (1425)

source: sillyventure.eu

Altirra è un emulatore di Atari 8 bit per Windows/DOS. Emula i vari modelli di computer Atari, infatti include il modello 800, 800XL, 130XE.

Ha un sacco di opzioni e funzionalita’ considerando che l’emulatore e’ ancora nelle fasi iniziali di sviluppo. Tutto sommato un bel emulatore per gli amanti del vecchio computer ATARI 8 Bit.

Download: Altirra v2.20 (979)

source: virtualdub.org

E’ stato rilasciato del nuovo Software per Commodore 64 dai seguenti gruppi: Genesis Project, TRIAD, Really Proud Lamers e Laxity.

Download:

• Tone-Loco + 100% [pal/ntsc] (1317)
• SRogue v1.0 &D (1030)
• Tone-Loco (1014)
• Gorf [max machine] +2D (1040)
• Blok Copy PETSCII Edition +3H (1064)
• Computer TitleBout +D [ntsc/pal] (1049)
• S-Blox (Beta 2) (1036)
• All Games in One Archive (2508)

source: csdb.dk

Dopo 3+ anni di Sofferenze e Bestemmie alcuni giorni fa’ abbiamo abbandonato definitivamente uno dei peggiori hosting condivisi della rete.

Stiamo parlando di Dreamhost.

Il sito Nightfallcrew.com / Retrocomputermania.com / Retrothings.org ora gira su un server dedicato e virtualizzato Proxmox (KVM).

HermIRES e’ un hires bitmap (Art Studio 1 format) editor per il Commodore 64.

The format has some restrictions, here are the rules:

• The maximal resolution of the picture is 320×200
• Only 16 fix C64 colours can be used (no gradient either)
• In a 8×8 pixel-block only 2 colours can used to be displayable by C64 (this is detected in HermIRES, but .hbm files can be saved with clashes too.)
• On a real C64 the PAL will blur the screen-content a bit, should check on CRT, or at least VICE emulator’s CRT simulation.

Download:

• HermIRES v1.2 (WINDOWS) (1011)
• HermIRES v1.2 (LINUX) (918)

source: hermit.netne.net

Commodore Free Magazine Issue #66

Magazine dedicato alla scena Commodore scaricabile gratuitamente.

Download:

• Commodore Free Magazine Issue #66 (D64) (1067)
• Commodore Free Magazine Issue #66 (PDF) (1264)
• Commodore Free Magazine Issue #66 (TXT) (1372)

source: commodorefree.com

Hoxs64 scritto da David Horrocks e’ un’ottimo Emulatore di Commodore 64 per Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+).

Changelog:

• Bug fix to VIC. Removed faulty VIC ClockNextWakeUpClock runtime (not debugger) mode optimiser code that had caused the Technological Snow demo by Agony Design to fail since v1.0.6.3.
• EasyFlash v2 title screen glitch now fixed by correcting the “hard reset” code to set the sprite Y expansion flip-flops.

Download:

• Hoxs64 64 bit v1.0.8.3 (966)
• Hoxs64 32 bit v1.0.8.3 (910)
• Hoxs64 Ansi Win98/2K v1.0.8.3 (888)

source: hoxs64.net