La “High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC)” è un collezione che raccoglie migliaia di brani musicali del Commodore 64 (noti anche come brani SID).

Questa collezione e’ completamente gratuita ed e’ opera di un Team di persone che negli anni ha lavorato per rendere la migliore raccolta di SID tunes.

This update features (all approximates):

• 430 new SIDs
• 50 fixed/better rips
• 3 repeats/bad rips eliminated
• 201 SID credit fixes
• 26 SID model/clock infos
• 7 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
• 5 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
• 22 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
• 10 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories

Download:

• HVSC Update #66 (1287)
• Complete HVSC #66 (1368)

source: www.hvsc.c64.org

Ringrazio il mio amico Andry per avermi donato molto software su cassetta

Titles:

ORIC-1 48k Software:

• Star Fighter / Durell Software
• Oric Munch / TanSoft
• Kilburn Encounter / TanSoft
• Super Advanced Breakout / TanSoft
• Super Advanced Breakout / Oric Software
• Defence Force / TanSoft
• Rat Splat / TanSoft
• Ultima Zone / TanSoft
• Oric Flight / Oric Software
• Teach Yourself Basic / Oric Software
• Oric MultiGames 1 / Oric Software
• House of the Death / TanSoft
• Zodiac / TanSoft
• Chess / TanSoft
• Nowotnik Puzzle / TanSoft
• Zargons Revenge / TanSoft

DRAGON 32K Software:

• Golf / PSS
• Ultimate Adventure / Microdeal Software
• Flipper / Microdeal Software
• Ultimate Adventure 4 / Microdeal Software
• Intergalactic Force / Microdeal Software
• Katerpillar Attack / Microdeal Software
• Morbid Mansion / Blably Computer Games
• Transylvanian Tower / Richard Shepherd Software

Prosegui la lettura…

Ringrazio il mio amico Andry per avermi donato del software per Coleco Adam.

Titoli:

• The Adam Home Software Library [Tape] / Coleco
• A.E and Choplifter [Tape] / Broderbund – Coleco
• Smart Filer [Tape] / Coleco
• Monkey Academy [Cartridge] / Coleco
• Wacky Word Games [Tape] / Coleco
• Smart Letters & Forms [Tape] / Coleco
• Electronic Flashcard Maker [Tape] / Coleco
• Telly Turtle [Cartridge] / Coleco

Ringrazio il mio amico Andry per avermi donato alcune cartucce ColecoVision

Titoli:

• Pitfall / Activision (Boxed)
• Zaxxon / Sega (Boxed)
• Roc’n'Rope / Konami (Boxed)
• Congo Bongo / Sega (Boxed)
• Destructor / Coleco (Boxed)
• Donkey Kong Junior / Nintendo (Boxed)
• Donkey Kong / Nintendo (Boxed)
• Super Action Football / Coleco (Boxed)
• Bunp’n'Jump / Data East (Boxed)
• Mr.Do / Universal (Boxed)
• Smurf / Peyo (Boxed)
• Front Line / Taito (Boxed)
• Space Panic / Universal (Loose)
• Popeye / Parker (Loose)
• Pepper II / Exidy Inc. (Loose)
• Jumpman Junior / Epyx (Loose)

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

E’ stato rilasciato del nuovo Software per Commodore 64.

Titoli:

• Jack the Ninja Preview
• Super Stardust Preview
• Let’s Invade Preview +
• Zombie Preview +
• Zombi Terror +DGMW
• Scary Monsters +3DH
• Bugs Bunny Preview +4
• Donkey Kong + (X2016 Version)
• Donkey Kong
• FranticTen
• Let’s Invade! +7D
• Let’s Invade!
• Drag Race Eliminator V3.1 &D
• Wizard and Ultimate Wizard +2GMH
• Goblin Towers (1983+1987) &DS &Map
• C-2048 [2016] +H
• Power Gate Preview +
• An Unusual Dream
• Crazy Music
• Seek’n'Destroy Preview +3
• Jail Break +5DHF
• Argos +2T
• Race +1T
• Survive +2H
• All About Dinosaurs +D [iffl]
• Quadriga +TD
• Torussa-Life +TD
• Compuzzle +TD
• Basic Sex
• Gearhead Garage Basic
• The Uni Games V0.4
• Shotgun X-Mas Edition
• Motorman Preview V2
• Wizerior II Preview
• Jupple Dust Preview
• Bergbert III – The Blue Knight [seuck]
• Wizard’s Dominion &D
• Operation Omega Blast [demo]
• HackAttack

Download: All Games in One Archive (3694)

source: csdb.dk

E’ stata rilasciata una nuova versione del programma CBM prg Studio. Ci sono un sacco di nuove funzionalità e fix in questa versione e sono sempre gradite le segnalazioni di bug o suggerimenti/commenti.

CBM prg Studio e’ un kit di sviluppo che gira in ambiente Windows e vi permette di programmare in Commodore Basic e Linguaggio Macchina(LM), il programma potrà poi essere compilato in un file eseguibile “.PRG” per Commodore 64 / VIC-20 o PET.

La suite è anche completa di un ottimo sprite editor che permette di definire fino a 128 pattern, nonché di un funzionale char editor, che permette di avere una gestione completa e sotto controllo della procedura per la ridefinizione del charset interno al C64 e al Vic20.

Infine il CBM prg Studio, offre una completo e facile controllo della complessa gestione della tastiera del C64 e Vic20 ed in particolare dei caratteri PETSCII che contraddistinguevano le macchine sotto il marchio Commodore e che rappresentavano una chiave fondamentale per la programmazione in ambiente Basic, alla stregua di un vero e proprio macro linguaggio.

CBM prg Studio sostituisce le ormai obsolete Tools: C64PrgGen e VIC20PrgGen.

New features in v3.9.0:

• Assembler:
  • TARGET directive.
  • Logical operators with ‘ifdef’.
  • Complex expressions for constants.
• Debugger:
  • Pass label names to debugger.
• Screen Editor:
  • Show ECM register in status bar.
• Sprite Editor:
  • Easier navigation.
• Character Editor:
  • Change scratchpad background colour.
  • Easier navigation.
• General:
  • Command window.
  • Autolaunch prg name is per project.
  • Import SEQ files.
  • Force rebuild of source.
• BASIC:
  • Abbreviated commands for BASIC 3.5.
  • Removed spaces on code generation.
  • Force rebuild of source.

Bugs Fixed:

• Screen Editor:
  • ECM tools (re-colour, box, text).
• Assembler:
  • Some character translation issues (‘[', ']‘, ‘_’) etc.
• BASIC:
  • Fixed quoted and DATA strings for basic 3.5.
  • Renumbering certain ‘ON…’ lines.
  • Reformatting code.
  • Syntax highlighting for BASIC 3.5
  • Much faster code generation
  • Some incorrect tokens for BASIC 7+

See the help for a complete list of new features and fixed bugs.

Note In this version, each target machine can have its own default project directory. If you are upgrading from a previous version (before version 2.5.1) of CBM prg Studio you may be asked to set up your project directories again. Your current projects will not be affected.

Download: CBM prg Studio v3.9.0 (912)

source: ajordison.co.uk

E’ stata rilasciata la 66° edizione del Diskmagazine Vandalism di Onslaught / Offence / Vandalism News Staff.

Download:

• Vandalism News #66 (1059)

source: csdb.dk

Questi sono i risultati ufficiali  (solo i primi 3 posti) del Demo Party X-2016 che si e’ concluso in questi giorni. Per maggiori informazioni o aggiornamenti visita il sito CSDB nella sezione X-2016.

C64 Demo Competition:

• The Phoenix Code / Bonzai
• Lunatico / lft
• Wonderland The 13th / Censor Design

Demo Competition (Onefilers Only):

• Bobs By Censor / Bob/Censor Design
• Shezzboard / Scan/House Designs
• Bonfire! / Viscid/Neoplasia

C64 Graphics Competition:

• Song For The Dead / Duce/Extend
• Them Apples / ptoing
• No Shit! / redcrab & Mermaid/G*P

PETSCII Competition:

• We are all ejected / Archmage/SHAPE
• Pipe of Picard / Electric/Extend
• Bosse / redcrab/G*P

C64 Music Competition:

• Rastaline Dub / LMan/MultiStyle Labs
• High Roller / Flex/Artline Designs
• The Ugly Arpling / Stinsen/G*P

Download:

• X-2016 Full Party Stuff (1128)

source: csdb.dk

E’ stato rilasciato un nuovo aggiornamento del sistema operativo (OS) per la EverDrive N8 NES Flash Cartridge (Nintendo NES) di Krikzz. Le istruzioni per l’aggiornamento le potete trovare qui.

Changelog:

• Fixed MMC4 (glitches in Fire Emblem)
• New mappers support. 31, 137, 138, 139, 141, 147, 168
• Removed “audio mix vol” option. Now it always in “Hi” state.
• Removed “Mapper info” menu due the lack of memory space.
• Minor bugfix.

Download: -EverDrive N8 NES OS Update v14 (1306)

source: krikzz.com

Cosa sono le DiagROM?

Le DiagROM sono delle ROM diagnostiche per gli Home Computer della serie Commodore Amiga. Queste ROM tornano molto utili in alcune sistuazioni, tipo quando il computer non esegue correttamente il boot o si blocca.

Updatehistory:

• 2016-10-22: Fixed bugs in new Chipmemdetection that made it not detect any chipmem if there was missing/Broken chipmem in the beginning. Added errorhandling in the startprocess, so it can show on serialport if there was a exceptionerror. also will show colorcodes on screen. done some smaller bigfixes. Will bump versionnumber and this will be the stable version. It will take a while until next stable version is bumped. Need to do floppy, serial, paralell tests etc before that will happen. but you always have the daily version.
• 2016-10-12: New Chipmem detection now handles shadowram so it should stop detecting memory instead of giving false 2MB Chip. IF no Chipmem avaible and machine can detect fastmem (NON autoconfig. more or less only A3000/4000 motherboardmem) it will now start using fastmem only. (screen flickers in different colors instead of printing text, nullmodem only) Fixed addresserrorbugs at CIA and joystickport tests on machines with 68000CPU. also should have correct CIA timing on slow machines. IF fastmemshadowram is detected during memorytests, test will exit. MANUAL test have a option to disable that test.
• 2016-10-07: LONG time no updates. Familystuff. Anyway. decided to do a total redo of initcode especially chipmemdetection. Detection is slower, but progress is printed on serialport so you can see address checked and if failure (in the beginning of the detection) you will see what it wrote and what is read to help debugging of chipmemproblems. Screen should flicker in green while detecting. drawback is that some tests (cia and joyport tests) now generates an addresserror. Will have a look of that.

Download: DiagoROM v0.8 Stable (1035)

source: diagrom.com

La scheda Vampire 600 V2 è un acceleratore hardware per Commodore Amiga 600. Non esiste nulla di simile sul mercato in grado di competere con le sue prestazioni ed il prezzo.

Caratteristiche Principali:

• 128MB di Fastmem RAM.
• Uscita digitale (HDMI).
• SD card per HDD storage.
• 64 bit core e piena compatibilita’ a 32 bit.
• Aggiornamento del firmware senza bisogna di programmatori esterni.
• Supporto per FPU e 16 bit Audio sono previsti con gli aggiornamenti futuri.

Galleria dell’installazione e testing:

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Video Vampire A600 V2 Unboxing/Testing

source: apollo-accelerators.com kipper2k.com

E’ stato rilasciato del nuovo Software per Commodore 64.

Titoli:

• Collapse +20D
• Carrier-Bourne Fighter Simulation &D
• ALI V4 [german]
• The Pirates of the Dark Waters V2
• Dare Devil Denis +2DG
• Slavia 2 Deluxe
• Tasiemiec
• Rise and Shine Professor Miggles
• Dog
• Lumberjack
• Zombie Massacre
• Princess Saver 2000
• Valentine’s Day Shopping Simulator
• Bonkey Kong
• Goblin
• Granny’s Teeth
• Stareggs +4DGH
• Goblin +
• Bonkey Kong +
• Zombie Massacre +2H
• Freebooter Preview
• Exodus Preview
• Lumberjack +
• Lumberjack +1H
• Dog +
• Rise and Shine Professor Miggles +
• Granny’s Teeth +5D
• Antarctica
• Winky Blinky +
• Watschinator
• Super Ski
• I Ate the Purple Berries
• M4573R84G3L5
• :10
• $#!7
• Dropout
• Attack of the Mutant Cabbages +
• Picross +
• I Am the Flashing C64 Cursor +D
• Picross
• Firefighter Jenny
• I Am the Flashing C64 Cursor
• Super Ski +3
• Winky Blinky
• Attack of the Mutant Cabbages
• Granny’s Teeth [post compo version]
• Pour Le Merite +2D [seuck]
• Sylphwyrm +2D [seuck]
• Hack Attack Preview +D
• Firefighter Jenny +3
• Dropout 64 +D
• Granny’s Teeth +4
• Red Baron 3000 Preview
• Snafu’64
• Baker Street Detective +DGW
• 4K Game Collection 64K CRT
• Granny’s Teeth +5HD
• Charlie Chaplin Preview
• Colon +1TD
• Ninja Massacre +4DGPF
• Hack Attack +D
• Atlantian Preview
• Maelstrom +D

Download: All Games in One Archive (3619)

source: csdb.dk

Assemblaggio e Sostituzione del vecchio DualSID con il MixSID.

A differenza del DualSID ho dovuto sostituire i due condensatori elettrolitici (vedi foto) perche’ il PCB del MixSID e’ molto piu’ largo e i due condensatori impedivano la corretta installazione del PCB nello zoccolo del SID.

Per le caratteristiche tecniche del MixSID andate qui

Gallery:

source: henning-bekel.de