ManoSoft presenta il suo ultimo aggiornamento per l’interfaccia di emulazione Floppy Drive 1541 per Commodore 64/VIC20.

Questa versione del pcb NON richiede alimentazioni o cavetteria esterna l’interfaccia e’ stata progettata per autoalimentarsi e connettersi al bus IEC.

Questa interfaccia e’ basata sul firmware SD2IEC di Shadowolf. il Firmware e’ disponibile sotto licenza Open Source (GPL).

Il  firmware supporta:

• D64/D71/D81/M2I support (reading/writing even with direct sector access using U1/U2).
• PRG/P00 etc. support.
• limited REL support.
• subdirectory support (CMD command syntax).
• support for Turbo Disk/Fast Load/Speeddisk fastloader.
• supports the JiffyDOS fast serial bus protocol, the Final Cartridge 3 fastloader & -saver, DreamLoad & Exos.
• supports an external “disk change” button.
• supports FAT long file names and FAT12/16/32 formatted SD and SDHC cards.
• supports sector access of SD cards from the C64.
• supports most typical IEC functions (LOAD, SAVE, OPEN, GET, PUT, CLOSE, …)

source: c64scene.com c64sd.roxer.com

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Il programma GameBase64 Browser per MAC OS X è un frontend per il database Gamebase64 e serve per catalogare i giochi del Commodore 64. Il Database contiene oltre 20.000 giochi inclusi Manuali, Copertine e musiche SID.

News (07-May-2010):

• Fixes the problem with automatic updating. Oops!
• Please download manually.

source: sidmusic.org/gamebase64browser gamebase64.com

CBM-Command è un disk manager per Commodore 64 e Commodore 128.

L’interfaccia assomiglia al Norton Commander / Midnight Commander ma molto più semplice. La versione per Commodore 128 gira a 80 colonne.

Release Notes – 2010-05-10

New Features:

• Launching PRG Files.
• New color schemes to better match the C128 and C64 platforms.
• Function Keys.

Changes:

• File copying is now faster on really fast drives by using 1018 byte buffers instead of 254 byte buffers.
• Files selected in the right panel can now be copied to the left panel.
• When no drive has been selected, opening a panel will now use the drive that the program was loaded from.
• Many, many other bug fixes.

source: cbmcommand.codeplex.com

E’ stata rilasciata una nuova versione dell’emulatore Emu64.

L’emulatore in questione e’ completamente in lingua Tedesca e non conoscendo questa lingua ho qualche problema nel descrivere le nuove features.

source: emu64.de

CBM-Command è un disk manager per Commodore 64 e Commodore 128. L’interfaccia assomiglia al Norton Commander / Midnight Commander ma molto più semplice.

La versione per Commodore 128 gira a 80 colonne.

source: cbmcommand.codeplex.com

Il sito di iAN CooG e’ stato aggiornato,  potete trovare una nuova versione del Generic C64 prg Unpacker v2.21 (sorgenti inclusi).

History:

2.21 – 2010.03.26-20010.05.03

• better parsing of scanner functions.
• all printf() in scanners moved on a single source, to have a single string pool, thus reducing a bit the final exe size (about 16kb, oh well ;)

source: iancoog.altervista.org

Questa e’ un’applicazione per migliorare/organizzare la ricerca di files per Commodore 64. Scritto in PHP con database MySQL.

Features:

• [ Search.....] Filename, Sysline, Label & BAM and organize data via the [edit] function.
• [ Matcher....] Scan your archive for missing releases.
• [ Import.....] Import your collections of Commodore data.
• [ compare....] Compare uniqeness of a new collection against the database.
• [ Publishers.] Add information about publishers to catalog your archive.
• [ Collections] Fast view of your imported collections.
• [ Statistics.] See detailed and statistical information of your collections.
• [ Missing....] View or add missing release information.
• [ Help.......] Help file.

Supported file types:

• Fully : D64, D71, D81, LNX, PRG, Pxx, T64, SPY, LBR.
• Partly: G64, TAP, X64, ARK, ARC & CRT.

source: noname.c64.org

AceDOS per Commodore 128 supporta le unità: 64HDD (Professional), IEC-ATA e 1541Ultimate SD-DCA (SD – direct card access).

AceDOS puo’ essere utilizzato anche con le unità standard, ma alcune funzioni verranno disabilitate.

source: mirkosoft homepage

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

Nuovi Giochi e Utility per Commodore VIC-20.

• Go Left. The object of the game is to go left. A player may fail by not going left. Points are scored by correctly going left. Follow the on-screen directions. (This game appears on the white side of the Denial Collection 3)
• Font 1. A replacement font for the VIC 20.
• The Dungeon of Doom – RPG Creator. Funny, colourful, and comprehensive RPG creator, including dungeon and character generators – both with excellent graphics!

source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)

Commodore Free Magazine Issue #39

Contents:

• Editorial.
• Readers Comments.
• Commodore USA, LLC.
• NEWS
• - New Version: D64Lister 1.7.
• - CCS64 Updated.
• - BASIC Game Competition.
• - Amiga Zorro RAMBoard.
• - Digital Talk 90.
• - TAP Clean.
• - Clear Competition Pro.
• - Commodore Plus/4 Spreadsheet.
• - Datatool.
• - Return Issue 2.
• - VIC20 Twitter Client.
• - New Version of SD2IEC Released.
• - PET Alive!
• NOSTALGIA
• - Commodore Free.
• - John Fielden.
• - Peter Badrick.
• - Chris Syntichakis.
• - Commodore Free (2)
• - Shaun Bebbington.
• - Charles J. Gutman.

source: commodorefree.com

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

Version 1.1 – What’s new?

• New: Random fill.
• New: Undo.
• New: Export datamap.
• New: Drag’n'drop to load tilesets.
• New: Drag’n'drop to load datamaps.
• New: User settings.
• New: Load default tileset.
• New: Load default datamap.
• New: Save datamap on exit.
• New: Highlighted tile in tileset window.
• Updated: Layout.
• Updated: Save / Save as.

source: arkanixlabs.com

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.

Version 3.1 – What’s new?

• NEW: Views “Last started “, “Top 100″ (= Most recently used)
• NEW: Improved Gamebase list with up to 30 columns.
• NEW: Customizing views.
• NEW: Profiles for the emulator Emu64.
• NEW: .CRT, .TXT, .NFO and .DIZ-files can be stored.
• NEW: French translation (Thanks to Max from MCC64.be).
• BUG FIXED: Wrong copy from parameters.
• FIXED: Various minor bugs.

source: Mikes Pages

Questo programma serve ad estrarre screen in modalita’ Hires/Multicolor da un file snapshot del VICE in formato “.vsf”.

Changes since Vice Snapshot Grabber 3.0:

• MultiColor bitmap screens are saved additionally as koala image (.koa). Loadable directly by MultiColor V0.2.1 for example.
• HiRes bitmap screens are saved additionally as interpaint HiRes (.ip64h). Loadable in GIMP with cbmplugs.

source: noname.c64.org

Geolink è una nuova applicazione GEOS per il Commodore 64 scritta da ShadowM e utilizza lo stack TCP/IP (IP65) per connettersi alla rete.

source: lyonlabs.org