E’ stato rilasciato un nuovo aggiornamento firmware v2.1 per l’interfaccia 1541 Ultimate II di Gideon. Questa versione del firmware funziona Solo con l’interfaccia Ultimate 1541 II. La versione del Firmware per l’interfaccia Ultimate-I verra’ rilasciata nei prossimi giorni.

Major improvement in latest release:

• MAJOR bug fix: Updater caused to unit to fail when “Force update” was selected on the first batch Black boards (with Atmel Flash)…
• Updater updated: Now possible to clear all configuration pages in flash.
• Issue fixed with configuration of objects that did not have a config page yet (write/effectuate decoupled).
• Issue fixed with re-freezing into an empty D64 (or file with headers but no items); caused a blank screen.
• Version number of FPGA increased [to $A6], because REU was fixed. (See previous commit).
• Simulation environment set up for REU.
• REU verify bug fixed. More testcases to be added.
• …/target/simulation/sim/$ make reu_tc_1.gui will start ModelSim with the REU testcase.
• Missing simulation package added.
• SdCard cannot be renamed, of course… fixed…
• Build of MK1 firmware fixed, using the 250E FPGA.
• Makefile changed to output a warning when ISE locations from the project is used, instead of your own.
• Tested on ‘clean’ system with Xilinx ISE 13.1 installed.
• Missing file added: sid_mapper.vhd. Why did nobody notice this? :D

download: 1541ultimate.net

La cartuccia Chameleon Turbo 64 è estremamente facile da utilizzare dal momento che non serve aprire il proprio computer perche’ si collega alla porta di espansione del C64.

La cartuccia può funzionare anche come unità “stand-alone” questo perche’ al suo interno il cuore e’ un chip FPGA che emula quasi (ancora in beta) del tutto un Commodore 64, compreso il Floppy Drive.

Tengo a precisare che la cartuccia puo’ essere collegata ad un normale monitor VGA (LCD o CRT).

Changelog:

Beta-5 to Beta-5a:

• Fix crash when turbo limit is set in menu without activating turbo. (or when disabling active turbo with button while a limit is set)
• Fix D030 mirror of the turbo bit emulating C128 2Mhz mode with Chameleon turbo.

Beta-5a to Beta-5b:

• Eliminate spurious resets by masking reset line in standalone mode.
• Fix keyboard matrix so joysticks are properly emulated (IR, numpad) in standalone mode.
• Block normal button functions in menu mode (only exception is reboot by pressing 0.7s on right button)

source: syntiac.com

L’interfaccia SIO2SD per Atari 8-bit XL / XE è un dispositivo che consente di caricare i giochi e applicazioni da schede di memoria SD/MMC. L’interfaccia viene connessa tramite il connettore SIO (Serial Input/Output) dell’Atari.

Changelog:

RC4 -> RC5

• Changes in SD initialization routines (“card init error” should appear much less frequently)
• SD speed is choosen automatically (SD speed option was removed)
• Fixed card insertion/removal logic.
• Added ability to go directly to setup when card is not present (using dbl-shift)

source: sio2sd-dev.gucio.pl

La cartuccia Chameleon Turbo 64 è estremamente facile da utilizzare dal momento che non serve aprire il proprio computer perche’ si collega alla porta di espansione del C64.

La cartuccia può funzionare anche come unità “stand-alone” questo perche’ al suo interno il cuore e’ un chip FPGA che emula quasi (ancora in beta) del tutto un Commodore 64, compreso il Floppy Drive.

Tengo a precisare che la cartuccia puo’ essere collegata ad un normale monitor VGA (LCD o CRT).

Changelog:

• Framebuffer writes now use MMU.
• Framebuffer writes can be switched off (buffer can be used by software)
• Cartridge buttons emulated on PS/2 keyboard (F11,F12 and PrintScreen)
• Chameleon can use real BASIC and Kernal ROMs in machine in cartridge mode.
• Emulated IEC bus can be disconnected from C64 (Chameleon is drive emu)
• FLI bug fixed.
• Added Stereo SID support.
• Turbo feature added.
• Relative CPU speed displayed in VGA debug bar.

source: syntiac.com

L’interfaccia ‘HxC Floppy Drive Emulator‘ è un sistema hardware e software creato da jfdn aka Jeff.

L’obiettivo di questo progetto è quello di sostituire l’unità floppy disk con un dispositivo elettronico che emula il floppy drive (lista dell’hardware supportato).

Esistono due interfaccie di emulazione:

• Una versione USB che permette di collegare l’interfaccia floppy disk drive del computer a un PC tramite un cavo USB.
• Una versione SDCARD che permette di emulare i floppy disk tramite le immagini memorizzate su una SDCARD.

Note di rilascio del firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.6.0.0:

• File browser.
• Direct access mode.
• HFE file renaming Function.
• New boot/power up mode.
• Autoboot/file selector program boot mode enhanced.
• Write support.
• Various bugs corrected and code enhancement.
• … full release notes here

source: hxc2001.free.fr

L’interfaccia SIO2SD per Atari 8-bit XL / XE è un dispositivo che consente di caricare i giochi e applicazioni da schede di memoria SD/MMC. L’interfaccia viene connessa tramite il connettore SIO (Serial Input/Output) dell’Atari.

Changelog:

RC3 -> RC4

• Fixed SIO routines (mainly incompatibilities with software made for TOMS turbo)

source: sio2sd-dev.gucio.pl

L’interfaccia SIO2SD per Atari 8-bit XL / XE è un dispositivo che consente di caricare i giochi e applicazioni da schede di memoria SD/MMC. L’interfaccia viene connessa tramite il connettore SIO (Serial Input/Output) dell’Atari.

Changelog:

RC1 -> RC2

• Fixed LCD handling bug (RC1 doesn’t work without LCD)
• Added “swap” command (K3 in VDISK MODE swaps mappings of D1 and D2)
• Added “rol4″ command (K4 in VDISK MODE moves mappings D1<D2<D3<D4<D1)
• Added “ror4″ command (SHIFT+K4 in VDISK MODE moves mappings D1>D2>D3>D4>D1)

RC2 -> RC3

• Fixed xex-loader.
• Added new key combinations OPTION+SELECT and OPTION+START to turbo-loader (new turbo IRQ locations: $700 and $500).

source: sio2sd-dev.gucio.pl

E’ stato rilasciato un nuovo aggiornamento firmware v2.1 per l’interfaccia 1541 Ultimate II di Gideon. Questa versione del firmware funziona Solo con l’interfaccia Ultimate 1541 II.

Major improvement in latest release:

• Config menu is now ‘hot’, meaning that all settings that can be applied when exiting the menu will be applied immediately without reboot.
• Audio options added.
• Stereo SID emulation added.
• Initial support for domark cartridges added; not yet tested (and no support from the menu in this release).
• Improvements made in file system handling.. (It’s not ‘clean’ yet, but delete and rename now work)
• Issue solved that caused errors when more than one cluster was used for a directory.
• Bug fixed that caused a crash when partition list was skipped.
• Some additional testing with SID support.
• Created module for selecting audio options in the Ultimate configuration menu. Address for second SID now configurable.
• Some experiments done with EM1010 USB to Ethernet module. The module doesn’t comply with the USB philosophy of interrupts.. it *always* gives an interrupt every poll.. (wrong!) But nevertheless, managed to send a DHCP discover and receive a reply from the router. :) (not yet functional in this release)
• Command Interface created and handler set up for testing VHDL. (not yet functional in this release)
• Cartridge Logic restructured to make it a little more plug and go.
• Reading of ISO9660 added (both as .iso file, as well as from external USB CD-ROM..)
• Partition list skipped when there is just one.

download: 1541ultimate.net

L’interfaccia SIO2SD per Atari 8-bit XL / XE è un dispositivo che consente di caricare i giochi e applicazioni da schede di memoria SD/MMC. L’interfaccia viene connessa tramite il connettore SIO (Serial Input/Output) dell’Atari.

Changelog:

Supported cards:

• MMC/SDSC/SDHC (and very likely with SDXC, but only FAT32 formated)

Supported partitioning schemas:

• no partition, MBR (Master Boot Record), GPT (GUID Partition Table – EFI)

TURBO:

• additional turbo mode. I’ve called it 7-bit mode (7th bit of command switches turbo). This is new turbo mode very similar to XF551 turbo mode.

Number of simulated drives:

• 15 + 100

Configuration program:

• has to be present on SD card, but any program can be used.
• New ATR files and new folders can be created using SIO commands.
• “Empty disk” mode (ATR file created automatically during format command).
• Deleting files from card using SIO commands.
• Renaming files and folders using SIO commands.
• Reading and writting all files using SIO commands (inside ATARI folder and subfolders).
• 100 extra “virtual drives” V0..V99, which can be mapped to any drive from D1 to D15.
• Fast mapping – Drives V0 to V3 have additional, special meaning. When one of keys from K1 to K4 is pressed during start then device overrides mapping of D1 and maps one of those drives to D1 (K1 = V0, K2 = V1 etc.).
• Builtin very simple TURBO loader (for 7th bit mode – turbo mode similar to one used in XF551).

source: sio2sd-dev.gucio.pl

Micro SwinSID (SwinSID88) è un’ambizioso progetto di emulare l’integrato 6581/8580 della MOS Technology (SID) utilizzato nel Commodore 64 ma anche in altri progetti. Aggiornamento Firmware (27022011):

• This new firmware brings 6581 filter emulation by connecting B0 AVR pin to ground (on the Photo).
• Filter distrortions are still not emulated, only filter cutoff is affected.

source: forum64.de

L’interfaccia ‘HxC Floppy Drive Emulator‘ è un sistema hardware e software creato da jfdn aka Jeff.

L’obiettivo di questo progetto è quello di sostituire l’unità floppy disk con un dispositivo elettronico che emula il floppy drive (lista dell’hardware supportato).

Esistono due interfaccie di emulazione:

• Una versione USB che permette di collegare l’interfaccia floppy disk drive del computer a un PC tramite un cavo USB.
• Una versione SDCARD che permette di emulare i floppy disk tramite le immagini memorizzate su una SDCARD.

Note di rilascio del firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.5.1.0:

• Direct access mode : Bad Write mode corrected.
• Display: Negative Track position bug corrected.
• Internal : write mode selection code clean up.
• … full release notes here

source: hxc2001.free.fr

L’interfaccia ‘HxC Floppy Drive Emulator‘ è un sistema hardware e software creato da jfdn aka Jeff.

L’obiettivo di questo progetto è quello di sostituire l’unità floppy disk con un dispositivo elettronico che emula il floppy drive (lista dell’hardware supportato).

Esistono due interfaccie di emulazione:

• Una versione USB che permette di collegare l’interfaccia floppy disk drive del computer a un PC tramite un cavo USB.
• Una versione SDCARD che permette di emulare i floppy disk tramite le immagini memorizzate su una SDCARD.

Note di rilascio del software HxCFloppyEmulator v1.5.2.0/v1.5.2.1:

• BUG : Floppy dump tool broken. fixed.
• New files Support : Atari ST DIM image (*.DIM) added.
• New files Support : TI99 V9T9 (*.V9T9 / *.PC99) added.
• IPF File format (http://www.softpres.org/) overlap bug corrected.
• Internal : Tracklen is now the number of bit in the track.
• Internal/HFE generator : Track encoding code now set correctly.
• ISO/IBM track generator : ISO FM track data mark value corrected/changed to 0xFB.

Note di rilascio del firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.5.0.0:

• SDcard : Init frequency corrected.
• SDcard : Multi sector read & Write access added.
• SDCard access time improved (Slow sdcard issues corrected)
• Some important parts of the floppy write support fully rewritten : Important codes improvement (speed & size)
• New MFM/DD  write support bitrate added.
• FM write support added.
• E-mu write support added (E-mu emulator, E-mu emulator II,…)
• Two floppy drive emulation improvement/bug corrected.
• SDCard HxC Floppy emulator settings (sound/blacklight…) are now stored into the eeprom and used at power up. At power up the last known settings are used.
• … full release notes here

source: hxc2001.free.fr

Micro SwinSID (SwinSID88) è un’ambizioso progetto di emulare l’integrato 6581/8580 della MOS Technology (SID) utilizzato nel Commodore 64 ma anche in altri progetti.

Nella foto, il programmatore AVR ISP autocostruito utilizzato per programmare il nuovo firmware.

Aggiornamento Firmware (10012011):

• Much improved ADSR envelope fading based on a real SID counter design.
• More soft filter.

Hardware tip:

To increase audio quality and volume level replace R4 (2k2) resistor with 1K. This will boost volume by about 50%

source: forum64.de

SD2IEC – è un’interfaccia hardware basata sul microcontrollore Atmel ATmega644 (ATmega1284p) che emula il Floppy Drive 1541 del Commodore 64/VIC20 e grazie all’usilio di una normalissima scheda SD possiamo caricare centinaia di giochi/demo e altro ancora al posto di utilizzare gli ormai ‘introvabili/obsoleti’ Floppy da 5¼ pollici.

Hardware e Firmware sono disponibili sotto licenza open source (GPL).

Changelog:

2010-12-25 – release 0.10.1

• Bugfix: Remove remains of previous commands while parsing B-*
• Bugfix: Fix response of UI command for unknown suffix chars.
• Small improvement of JiffyDOS transfer speeds.

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread c64-wiki

Dtv2ser è un dispositivo hardware che utilizza il protocollo DTVTrans di TLR per comunicare con il DTV attraverso un’interfaccia seriale RS232.

Il DTV2SerTrans di Lallafa’ utilizza le stesse caratteristiche del Dtv2Ser ma integra anche un convertitore USB -> Seriale per essere utilizzato con tutti i computer di ultima generazione (PC / MAC).

Il nuovo firmware integra il supporto per l’interfaccia Arduino 2009.

Changelog version v0.5 – 11.12.2010:

dtv2sertrans:

• Fixed double open problem in pySerial on Windows.
• Added missing ‘g’ command available in TLR’s dtvtrans for usage compatibility.

dtv2ser firmware:

• Added support for Arduino 2009 board (ATmega168, 16 MHz, 250kB/s transfer)

source: lallafa.de