Dopo un lungo periodo di attesa Subchrist ha rilasciato un’aggiornamento del programma Sprite Pad per Windows XP. Sprite Pad e’ un sprite Editor per Commodore 64.

Improvements and changes in this version:

• Rotations. A World first?, Free rotate with variable angle limiter, auto-generate rotation sequences in any mode with 1 degree accuracy.
• Overlays. Allows the designing of 2 sprites as one + animation and rotation support!.
• Multiple Palettes. User editable palette file supports up to 20 additional palettes. (Default palette is now technically accurate).
• Single page layout. No more page flipping!.
• ‘Floodfill’, ‘Fat Brush’, ‘Pixel Swapper’, ‘Paste Into’. + Many more fixes and improvements.

General Program Features:

• Edit and animate both multicolour and high-resolution sprite images.
• 256 Sprite browser.
• Simple file format allows easy import into Commodore 64 software projects.

System Requirements:

• The program has been designed, programmed and tested on a 32-bit Windows XP (SP3) system.
• The development machine has an Athlon XP 2400+ (2Ghz) with 512MB of RAM and an old 64MB Nvidia Geforce4 MX GFX card.

source: subchrist homepage

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

Changelog:

• Fixes to the key matrix.
• Fixed Time Of Day alarm fail to trigger bug that was introduced in v1.0.5.27 that may cause the game Hypersports to get stuck on the clay shooting part.
• Audio resample mode is now on when restoring default settings.
• Adjusted all VIC $D011 and $D016 mode change transitions to give pixel exact output.
• Improved keyboard matrix emulation. Space bar now works correctly in the Nitro 16 demo.
• Adjusted VIC light-pen timing.
• Adjusted CIA6526A IRQ timing.
• Common code base now supports both x86 and x64 compiles. (x64 bit version is tested on Windows 7 with full DirectX install).
• Added WinXP styles that use common control library 6.
• Adjusted audio sync.

source: hoxs64.net

testo tratto dalla homepage di Style64:

Style C64 TrueType fonts è il nostro contributo di una perfetta rappresentazione del set di caratteri (fonts) del Commodore 64.

L’archivio e’ scaricabile Gratuitamente dal nostro sito e include diversi formati: TrueType e Embedded OpenType (.EOT), Web Open Font Format (.WOFF).

source: style64.org

Questa e’ una nuova versione del Java SidPlayer (Command line & Gui Interface).

Questa applicazione Java funziona su Mac OSX, Linux e Windoze.

Scarica qui la versione finale v2.0 del Java SidPlayer (Live Installer).

source: jsidplay2.sourceforge.net

CartographPC è un’applicazione Windows creata per sviluppare mappe e livelli per giochi / demo e molto altro ancora.

Version v2 – What’s new?

• New: Hires mode (8×8) 16 colors (0-F)
• New: Right mouse button deletes color while editing tile (sets to black-0)
• New: Selecting color changes whole tile color (black-0 not selectable, used as default background)
• New: CTRL+Left mouse button paste buffer into datamap.
• New: Edit/color individual tiles.
• New: Tile cut/paste into tileset.
• New: Left mouse button selects tile.
• New: Right mouse button and/or right mouse button drag selects tile.
• New: CTRL+Left mouse button paste tile into tileset.
• New: Tile rotated (+90 to 360)
• New: Tile inverted (current color to black-0 and black-0 to current color, hires only)
• New: Tile shift (up / down / left / right)
• New: Tile mirror X / mirror Y.

Prosegui la lettura…

Migliorie e Fix presenti in questa nuova versione:

• 32-bit and automatic bitdepth option in fullscreen mode (8 bit full screen mode might be slow under newer Windoze’s)
• Copy & paste to/from the clipboard now respects upper/lower case mode.
• Partially implemented 48 bps mode of the T6721A speech LSI.
• G64 image support is no longer read only (yay, at last)
• Reading from open address space.
• Plenty of bugfixes (drive, TED, autostart, monitor etc.)

source: yape.homeserver.hu

ACID 64 Player Pro e’ l’evoluzione del Player Acid 64.

L’ACID 64 Player Pro e’ un lettore di Brani Musicali SID del Commodore 64 ed e’ stato progettato per funzionare con le schede HardSID 4U (USB) che hanno un vero e proprio chip SID (6581/6582/8580) a bordo.

L’ACID 64 Player Pro emula il Micro Processore MOS 6510, il chip CIA 6526 e in parte il VIC 6569.

Cosa c’e’ di nuovo nella versione v3.0.4:

Prosegui la lettura…

Questa e’ una nuova versione del Java SidPlayer (Command line & Gui Interface).

Questa applicazione Java funziona su Mac OSX, Linux e Windoze.

Scarica qui l’ultima versione Beta del Java SidPlayer (Live Installer).

source: jsidplay2.sourceforge.net

Con questo programma è possibile convertire immagini in formato MUIFLI (interlacciato) o NUFLI (statica), come abbiamo gia’ visto nel Crest Slide Story o le immagini di Carrion Oldschool Pixel 100%.

Questo programma gira sotto OSX/Win/Linux (BSD).

source: download mufflon

iAN CooG ha rilasciato una nuova versione del Generic C64 prg Unpacker v2.23 (Sorgenti Inclusi).

History:

v2.23 – 2010.06.12 – 2010.07.30

• Found a Time cruncher hack expecting registers set by JSR $FD15 ($31/$30/$ff), now it’s handled correctly in pass 1.
• In verbose mode, now also number of iterations and total cycles taken by the simulated CPU are printed, just to see which is the slowest&fastest unpacker.
• Raised max iterations to support VERY intensive unpackers like ALZ64, worst testcase I found needs 27097007 (0x019D77AF) iterations to finish unpacking. This cruncher isn’t really meant for crunching programs ranging from $0801 to $ff00 due to its slowness, but still has to be supported even when abused =) New max value is set to 0×02000000, should be more than enough for anything that actually reaches end of unpacking, and won’t cause too much delay with programs that can’t be really unpacked or with endless loops.

Prosegui la lettura…

Principali Funzionalita’:

• Memorizza i giochi del Commodore 64 con un semplice wizard.
• Gestisce facilmente i programmi del C64 con la creazione di categorie.
• Avvia i programmi del C64 con diversi emulatori.
• Fornisce istruzioni dettalgiate per gli emulatori VICE e CCS64.
• Gestisce e Memorizza i files con le estensioni. D64,. D71,. P00,. PRG e. T64.
• Gestisce e Memorizza i files con le estensioni: .tap .vsf (VICE-snapshot-file) e .c64 (CCS-session-file)
• Gestisce e Memorizza i files con le estensioni: .zip, .7z e .cab.
• Supporto multi linguaggio.

Versione v3.2 – Cosa c’e’ di nuovo?

• NEW: PDF-files can be stored.
• NEW: Search window in the Gamebase list.
• NEW: Italian translation (Thanks to xAD/nIGHTFALL)
• NEW: The creation of profiles for tools was simplified.
• FIXED: Improved display of the filesizeBUG fixed: Search window not closed at exit.
• BUG fixed: Error with long filenames.

source: Mikes Pages

Convertitore ASCII <–> PETSCII per Windows (Richiede .Net Framework 4).

Il PETSCII (acronimo di PET Standard Code of Information Interchange), o CBM ASCII, è una variante del sistema di codifica ASCII usata nei computer della Commodore a partire dal 1977.

source: noname.c64.org

Lo svilupparore “IlTimido” ha rilasciato un nuovo frontend per Windows chiamato C64 Memories. Questo frontend e’ focalizzato sulle collezioni TOSEC che tutti conosciamo.

C64 Memories features:

• Full support for Tosec naming convention: displayed data about games are taken directly from the filename.
• Supports nearly all C64 images: .D64 .T64 .TAP .PRG .P00 .D71 .D80 .D81 .D82 .G64 .G41 .X64
• Comes with a C64 emulator: C64 Memories uses a slighlty modified version of Vice2.2 emulator.
• Directories display: the list of the content of a .D64 or .T64 file is displayed in automatic by C64 Memories.
• Favorites folder: you can add your favorite games in the favorites folder (and every disk/tape of a sequence is added in automatic).
• Search filters: you can filter results for the first letters, substrings and you can show only the first disk/tape of a sequence.
• Snapshots galleries: your can take screenshots from inside the games and the pictures will be displayed in automatic in C64 Memories.
• Notes: you can add custom notes for every single game.
• Ratings: you can rate every single game.
• Search providers: you can easily find additional informations (review, screenshots, remake, music) over the Internet for every single game just by pressing a button!

source: c64scene.com c64memories

CartographPC è un’applicazione Windows creata per sviluppare mappe e livelli per giochi / demo e molto altro ancora.

Version 1.5 – What’s new?

• New: Complete re-write of CartographPC engine.
• New: Resizable main window.
• New: Tileset and datamap names shown in information window and titlebar.
• New: User selectable stamp size (mouse driven)
• New: Copy from datamap.
• New: Paste into datamap.
• New: Check size of copy buffer.
• New: Random fill – works as a fill area will not overwrite entire map.
• New: Undo feature completly re-written.
• New: Open .PRG (ultrafont charset)
• New: Open .CHR files (CharPad)

source: arkanixlabs.com Prosegui la lettura…

Hoxs64 e’ un semplice ma funzionale Emulatore di Commodore 64 per Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9).

Changelog:

• More settings options CIA6526(A).
• Improved the VIC emulation for an pixel exact output.
• Adjusted IRQ DMA behaviour.
• Restore key bug fixed.
• Optimised the DirectX video device creation.
• Many corrections of the VIC emulation.
• Added light pen IRQ re-trigger behaviour.

source: hoxs64.net