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SD2Iec new stable Firmware Released

March 9th, 2009 No comments

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:

2009-03-08 – release 0.8.0

  • Direct sector access of the real storage device
  • Ignore DEL files in file_open
  • Drive mapper
  • EXOS V3 fastloader support
  • Requires avr-libc 1.6.x

2009-03-07 – release 0.6.7

  • Bugfix: Close previous file if secondary is reused without close
  • Bugfix: Minor Jiffy timing fix on EOI

source: sd2iec.de gitweb forum thread

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1541 Ultimate Firmware v1.6 released

January 28th, 2009 No comments

1541 UltimateThe annoying bug in the firmware that had rendered the Ethernet interface almost useless has finally been fixed.

In comparison to 1.5, the following has been fixed:

  • Reads from the Ethernet chip have been fixed. The unit now correctly receives packets.

download: 1541U Homepage

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SD2Iec Firmware v0.8.0 PRE1 Released

October 4th, 2008 No comments

SD2Iec LogoSD2Iec – is a hardware mass storage device using an SD/MMC card and interfacing with the IEC bus.

Changelog:

2008-10-02 – release 0.8.0pre1

  • Implement Dreamload emulation.
  • RTC support.
  • Dataflash support.
  • Multi-file scratch.
  • Copy command.
  • Large buffer support.
  • Final Cartridge 3 freezed file fastloader support.
  • D71/D81 disk image support.
  • Parse FSINFO sector for faster FAT32 free space calculation.
  • Partial REL file support.

download: sd2iec.de

source: gitweb forum thread

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