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Plug & Play TV Games Collections

11 December 2008 Nessun commento
C64 DTV Inside here

Games Include:

  • Jakks Ms. Pac-Man TV Game: Galaga, Mappy, Pole-Position, Xevious, Ms. Pac-Man.
  • Jakks Atari Classic: Gravitar, Asteroids, Real Sports Volleyball, Centipede, Adventure, Pong, Missile Command, Breakout, Yars’ Revenge, Circus Atari.
  • Atari Paddle Controller: Super Breakout, Casino, Warlords, Steeple Chase, Nightdriver, Breakout Canyon Bomber, Demon to Demand, Video Olympics, Pong, Arcade Warlords, Circus Atari, Streetracer
  • RadicaUK Tetris: This special TV arcade game contains not just the original version of Tetris, but also fellow variants Garbage, Timed, Hot Line and Battle Tetris. There’s even a the option for a two player game for some head to head action.
  • C64 DTV: AlleyKat, California Games, Championship Wrestling, Cyberdyne Warrior, Cybernoid, Cybernoid II, Eliminator, Exolon, Firelord, Gateway to Apshai, Head The Ball, Impossible Mission I,Impossible Mission II, Jumpman Junior, Marauder, Maze Mania, Mission Impossible, Nebulus, Netherworld, Paradroid, Pitstop, Pitstop II, Rana Rama, Speedball, Summer Games, Super Cycle, Sword of Fargoal, Uridium, Winter Games, Zynaps.

link: jakkstvgames

Commodore Disk Drive 1571

Description:

The Commodore 1571 was Commodore’s high-end 5¼ floppy disk drive. With its double-sided drive mechanism, it had the ability to utilize double-sided, double-density (DS/DD) floppy disks natively. This was in contrast to its predecessors, the 1541 and 1570, which could read or write such disks only if the user manually flipped them over to access the second side. (from Wikipedia)

wiki: 1571-Wiki

Conic Colour TV Game (1976+)

28 November 2008 Nessun commento

Description:

  • Country: US
  • Most common: Italy/Germany (PAL)
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Year: 1976+
  • Video Output: RF modulated signal
  • Games: 6
  • Chip game used: AY-3-8500

The Conic Color was originally designed to output an RF modulated (VHF) signal but with a mod you can get a better signal with the Composite Video .

source: pong-in-a-chip

Duette Color C4016 Video Games (1978+)

27 November 2008 Nessun commento

Description:

  • Country: US
  • Most common: Italy/Germany (PAL)
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Year: 1978+
  • Video Output: RF modulated signal
  • Games: 18
  • Chip game used: AY-3-8610 and AY-3-8765

The Duette Color was originally designed to output an RF modulated (VHF) signal but with a mod you can get a better signal with the Composite Video .

source: pong-in-a-chip

Commodore 64 Aldi

27 November 2008 Nessun commento

Description:

  • Country: US
  • Most Common: Germany
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Year: 1987

Externally, the C64 Aldi had same case colour as a standard C64 but the keyboard was light grey, like the future C64G and C64C.

Internally, the motherboard was redesigned to minimize production costs, most of the TTL chips were removed, replaced with a new MMU chipset. First releases of this board had some compatibility problems with C=64 peripherals – they lacked the 9V user port voltage, but this limitation was repaired in the next revisions.

Although made in USA, the Aldi was sold only in Germany as a game machine through only one distribution channel, a supermarket chain called… Aldi, hence his name, given by the German 64′er magazine.

In 1989, the C=64 Aldi would be replaced by the grey C=64G which would use the same motherboard.

wiki: C64-wikiOLD-Computers.com

Floppy Drive Commodore

22 November 2008 Nessun commento

Description:

  • 1541: Alps Electric mechanics (push-down drive door), chip broken (7406), repaired and now works, clean up, original roms.
  • 1541: Newtronics (Mitsumi) mechanics, tested and working, clean up, jiffy roms.
  • 1541C: Newtronics (Mitsumi) mechanics, tested and working, clean up, jiffy roms.
  • 1581: Tested and working, clean up, jiffy roms.
  • 1541-II: Tested and working, clean up, original roms.
  • … to be continued …

wiki: 1541-Wiki

download: jiffy roms

Found some C16/Plus4 Cartridges

18 November 2008 Nessun commento

Commodore 796M LED Electronic Calculator

17 November 2008 2 commenti

Item Information:

  • Manufacturer: Commodore (england)
  • Country of Production: Japan
  • Year of Production: 1976

link: vintagecalculators.com

Commodore paddles

15 November 2008 1 commento

La paddle è una periferica per videogiochi, formata da una manopola che controlla in modo continuo una posizione lungo un asse, e da uno o più pulsanti.

Già le prime console e i primi personal computer potevano essere accessoriati con le paddle oltre che con i joystick e alcuni videogiochi erano fatti appositamente per essere giocati con le paddle.

Diversi videogiochi storici degli anni settanta sono controllati con la paddle, e il primo ad usarle fu proprio il celebre PONG. Il nome paddle, che significa letteralmente “pagaia”, deriva appunto da PONG, che è ispirato al tennis tavolo le cui racchette in inglese sono comunemente chiamate paddle. La periferica finì per prendere il nome di ciò che muoveva sullo schermo.

source: wikipedia

Sid Switcher (6581 <-> 8580)

15 November 2008 Nessun commento

Questo mio progetto vi dara’ la possibilita’ di Switchare due SID (6581 / 8580). Alcuni brani musicali (SID tunes) sono stati scritti per il SID 6581 e non suonano correttamente sul SID 8580 e viceversa, con questo semplice progetto potrete switchare il SID a piacimento. Questo non e’ un clone del SId2Sid Clone. Questo e’ un SId Switcher ;-D

source: 6581-Wiki

Found some C64/128 Cartridges

10 November 2008 Nessun commento

FastLoader is a clone of Epyx FastLoad.

Pong from Polistil (1979) with AV output.

6 November 2008 1 commento

Here’s the Pong in a chip from Polistil (1979) with the Famous chip TMS1965 (GI AY-3-8500 pins compatibile) from Texas Instruments.

have added a Composite Video / Audio output  intested of VHF antenna output.

wiki: Pong-Wiki

Unboxing my 1541 Ultimate

Here’s the full unboxing of 1541 Ultimate, Gideon has shipped it 21/10/2008 and it arrived six days later.

Now i’m testing with some Demo’s and Game’s (Single/Multi Disk) all work perfectly.

source: 1541ultimate C64-Wiki

Commodore 128D MultiKernel

Ready to play

Autopsy:

Commodore 128D:

  • Serial NO. DA 4 141980
  • Funkentstört n. DBP-Vfg 1046/84
  • Made in W.Germany

testo tratto dalla Homepage di Wikipedia:

Il Commodore 128 è un modello di computer della CBM Commodore Business machines commercializzato nel gennaio del 1985, tre anni dopo il suo celebre predecessore, il Commodore 64.

Il C 128 nacque dopo lo sfortunato tentativo del 1984 di rimpiazzare il VIC-20 e il Commodore 64 con le macchine della serie TED (dal nome della particolare componentistica), ossia il Commodore 16 (detto anche C16) e il Plus 4, quest’ultimo destinato all’utenza professionale: queste macchine non erano però compatibili con i due predecessori e non potevano sfruttare la gran massa di programmi e giochi scritti per il C64.

Vista la pessima accoglienza delle due nuove macchine sul mercato e resosi conto dell’errore commesso, il management di Commodore cercò di riparare con il Commodore 128, che era compatibile con il C64 ma implementava alcune delle caratteristiche avanzate delle macchine TED, come il BASIC 3.5 che venne ulteriormente sviluppato e portato alla versione 7.

source: wikipedia

DTV (c64) Yellow Box *updated*

21 October 2008 4 commenti

Tieni il puntatore del mouse sulla foto per una breve descrizione.

Questo e’ il mio Commodore Dtv (c64) Modded, mi manca solo una cosa da aggiungere l’interfaccia sd2iec (che si occupa dell’emulazione del Floppy Drive 1541 emulator).

Modifiche che sono state fatte:

  • PS/2 keyboard connector.
  • External IEC connector.
  • 2 joystick ports with switchable reset line for dtvtrans.
  • 5V power regulator.
  • Switch for external/internal battery power.
  • Switch Power On/Off.
  • Shadowolf’s Keyboard Twister.
  • Floppy Drive Reset.
  • Commodore 64 Reset.
  • Spiff Color Fix.
  • FlashRom Fix (write enabled)

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