I must thank my friends which have contributed to the growth of my Repair Laboratory with donations of spare parts.

For this donation i thank: Andrea Pierdomenico, Paolo M.R, Paolo Cognetti.

The items listed below are in poor condition and they are not working.

Donated items:

• 2 x Atari 800 XL
• 1 x Amstrad CPC 464
• 1 x Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2
• 2 x Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k
• 3 x Commodore 6499
• 1 x Joystick Spectravideo
• 1 x Joystick Suncom Slik Stik
• 1 x Joystick Competition Pro deluxe version (PC)
• 1 x Commodore VIC-20 RF Modulator
• 1 x Commodore VIC-20
• 1 x Philips MSX VG-8020
• 3 x Commodore 64 Power Supply
• 1 x Commodore Amiga 500 Power Supply
• 1 x Philips NMS 800 Data Recorder
• 1 x SVI Spectravideo 904 Data Cassette
• 1 x SVI Spectravideo 728 MSX Home Computer
• 1 x Commodore 16
• 1 x Commodore Floppy Drive 1541
• 1 x Apple IIc
• 6 x Sinclair Spectrum Microdrive (only the drive)
• 1 x Motherboard XT Clone
• 1 x Motherboard XT IBM 5150
• 1 x Power Supply Clone XT 5150
• 1 x MDA Graphics Card ISA
• 1 x Floppy Controller ISA
• 1 x Motherboard Amiga 600
• Some Floppy Disk.
• Some Tape Cassette.
• Some cables.

This is the official demo party results from X-2014 (Top 3 Entries only). See also the CSDB X2014 section for more informations and downloads.

C64 Demo Competition:

• Comaland / Censor & Oxyron
• The Booze Demo / Booze Design
• RGB / Fairlight & Offence & Prosonix

C64 Graphics Competition:

• Duck It / PAL / Offence
• Tentacles / Redcrab / G*P
• Fakers Home Boobs Palace / Yazoo / Oxyron / Censor

C64 Music Competition:

• 64 Forever / Linus / Viruz
• Featuring Daft Punk / Randall / MSL
• Title Needed / GRG / Shape

Download:

• X-2014 Full Party Stuff (1522)

Video:

• X-2014 Youtube

source: csdb.dk

Ikari has released a new firmware for the SD2Snes Flash Cartridge (Super Nintendo/Famicom). The upgrade instructions can be found here.

Full Changelog:

A minor update, mainly in the name of stability. This hopefully eliminates glitches unrelated to the in-game buttons on some consoles, e.g. Seiken Densetsu 3 rebooting intermittently or graphical glitches in DKC 2+3, that had been introduced with v0.1.7 preview 1.

• Reintroduce more aggressive filtering for control and address lines from the SNES, previously removed after v0.1.6
• Unify and centralize signal edge detection for all sub-units (e.g. S-RTC, MSU1, BSX, DSP etc.) instead of each unit having its own (slightly different) edge detection.
• In-game controller scan has become slightly more time effective under certain circumstances (Auto Joypad Read enabled but no NMIs).
• In-game hooks are now disabled for 10 seconds after loading or resetting a game to help certain games get past their boot screens. This will be configurable in the final.
• Reconfigure the FPGA only when necessary on warm reset, speeding up “reset to sd2snes menu” by a couple hundred milliseconds.
• Fix an MMIO access priority bug for DSPx.
• Fix BS-X ROM detection for games with 2 startups left.
• Fix directory browsing being broken after setting the clock.

Download: SD2Snes Firmware v0.1.7 Beta/Preview Rev 3 (1577)

source: sd2snes.de

I must thank Davide M. for the donation.

Gallery:

The Commodore 4040 is the replacement for the previous models 2040 (USA) and 3040 (Europe). It’s a dual drive 5¼” floppy disk subsystem for Commodore International computers. It uses a wide case form, and uses the IEEE-488 interface common to Commodore PET/CBM computers.

These drive models use a similar single density, single side floppy data storage format to that used by the Commodore 1541 drive, but with a slightly different data marker indicating which model originally formatted the disk. The low-level disk format was similar enough to allow reading between models, but different enough that one series of drive models could not reliably write to disks formatted with one of the other model series.

Download: CBM 2040-3040-4040-8050 Disk Drive Manual (2332)

Testing the Floppy Drive with the ZoomFloppy interface:

source: wikipedia

Some new games or tools (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups.

Titles:

• Robin of the Wood +12DG +PIC +MAP
• Camelot Warriors +8DG +Pic +Map
• Wizball USA +2 [ntsc/pal]
• Sergeant Seymour Robotcop +25D
• Tazz HS
• Rasdumje +1D
• Robin of the Wood +33D
• City Champ Preview
• Mario Clone Preview
• Blopp +1ED
• Fireblaster Preview
• Crystal Chamber Preview
• Ciphoid 9 +6DIH 101%
• Tales of the Arabian Nights +32D
• Air Sea Battle
• UFO Attack +J
• Looter 100% +1J
• Air Sea Battle +J
• Looter +
• UFO Attack
• Head-On +2D [onefiled]
• Invader Alert +ED 101%
• Savage Island 101% +1S
• Centipede Junior +1J
• Up’n Down +23D [crazy hack]

Download: All Games in One Archive (3170)

The 12th X party will be held from October 24th until October 26rd 2014. The party will be at the location: De Hoof 18, Someren – the Netherlands. Competitions: C64 Demo, C64 Music and C64 Graphics.

source: x-2014 homepage

The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.

The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).

There are two differents emulators:

• A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
• A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.

Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.26.0:

• New Loader : PC Magazine (FLP) file format support added.
• GUI – Track viewer window : Track editing functionality added, internal sanity check added.
• libhxcfe : Casio FZF loader -> non sector-aligned file image size issue corrected.
• libhxcfe : Generic flux stream analyzer enhanced – Track encoding & RPM correctly reported.
• Batch converter : Now use the folder name for the output filename while converting KF stream files (raw).
• FAT12 Disk Browser:  PC98 FAT disk support enhanced, free space reporting corrected.
• Raw Loader – Predefined raw formats added (XML) :
  • Logical Interchange Format (LIF) 3″1/2 264KB (single side).
  • Logical Interchange Format (LIF) 3″1/2 616KB (double side).
  • Logical Interchange Format (LIF) 3″1/2 1232KB (HD).
  • Logical Interchange Format (LIF) 5″1/4 264KB.

Download:

• HxCFloppyEmulator v2.0.26.0 (1272)

source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl