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Relaunch64 V3.3 – C64/65xx cross-development IDE

August 1st, 2014 No comments

Relaunch64 is an IDE (text-editor) for C64 assembler-coding on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Relaunch64 has a clean and intuitive user interface, yet it offers many features that make coding faster and easier.

Java 7 or higher is required to run Relaunch64. The program is licensed under the GNU GPL 3 (or higher) and free for private and professional use.

This editor works together with common cross assemblers like Kick Assembler, ACME, or 64tass. Other assemblers might work as well, but syntax highlighting may not be 100% correct.

Download: Relaunch64 v3.3.0 (Windows/OSx/Linux) (1064)

source: popelganda.de

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C64 Game: Your Father’s Nightmare +2M 101% / Aurum 100% +T

June 30th, 2014 No comments

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

Titles:

  • CubeSim64 Preview
  • Battle in Space +4
  • Oops! +4DH
  • Battle Chess +D [EasyFlash]
  • Crazy Painter +4HD
  • Snakman +2D
  • Purple Turtles +2HDG
  • Captain Future Preview +3E
  • Suicide Strike 101% +3DG
  • Softporn Adventure &Sol
  • Xain’D Sleena +2
  • Xain’D Sleena
  • Pluff +2TD
  • Amity Island +3H
  • A.R.C.O.S. +2 TD
  • Knights & Demons +2D
  • 8bit Fighters Preview
  • Downfall Preview V2
  • Rylan +4ED
  • Aurum 100% +T
  • World Boxing Champ &DGPM
  • Your Father’s Nightmare +2
  • Graham Gooch All Star Cricket Preview
  • Single Extreme Freedom
  • Your Father’s Nightmare +2M 101%

Download: All Games in One Archive (3291)

source: csdb.dk

Commodore 64 DiskMagazine – Scene World #23

June 30th, 2014 No comments

Scene World is a C64 magazine on disk dedicated to various activities of both C64 scenes.

“Both” means, that we are supplying information and texts of both scenes; NTSC and PAL.

Download: Scene World #23 (1224)

source: sceneworld.c64files.com

The TI99 IUC (Italian User Club) makes me a Interview

June 30th, 2014 No comments

The TI99 IUC makes me a Interview. Happy reading.

source: ti99iuc.it

Categories: Event(s), News & Rumors, Today

Tale of a dear friend of a day spent in my laboratory.

June 28th, 2014 No comments

A very nice tale of a dear friend of a day spent in my laboratory. Happy reading.

source: ti99iuc.it

Categories: Event(s), News & Rumors, Today

SD2Snes Firmware v0.1.7 status update

June 25th, 2014 No comments

SD2Snes Firmware v0.1.7 status update

Directly from the SD2Snes Homepage:

Here’s what I’ve been working on in the meantime:

  • More refactorings of the menu ROM. This will facilitate further UI development (sub-menus etc.)
  • NMI+IRQ hook routine – these are required for WRAM cheats and in-game reset. The latter is in working state as of now. I’d like some input on which key combinations would be desirable ;-) (some conflicts can arise with existing SNES mods, see below). There is now a dedicated memory area in FPGA block RAM mapped to $2a00-$2aff which is used for the hook routine and command exchange between a running game and the sd2snes main CPU.
  • Game loading handshake between SNES menu and sd2snes CPU – this is a technical prerequisite for error handling (such as missing supplementary files, write-protected SD Card, etc.)
  • LED blink codes for file system errors – e.g. in case the SRM file cannot be saved this will tell you that something’s gone wrong. Also the sd2snes will retry saving until it works so you have the chance to swap out the SD Card etc.
  • “Screen saver” – the screen is darkened after some idle time to reduce wear on CRT and plasma screens.
  • Memory sharing between SNES and the sd2snes CPU is greatly simplified (The FSM is reduced to only 5 states instead of 18) and timing is more relaxed. This should help with stability on a wider range of consoles.
  • Fixed some compatibility issues with a number of games. (Super Play Action Football (S-RTC interference), GP1 Part II (WRAM initialization), Human Grand Prix (mapper detection bug))

To do for the upcoming release:

  • Cheat management – technical prerequisites for cheats (ROM+WRAM) are met, now to code the GUI for it…
  • Finish on-the-fly file browsing
  • Decide on key combinations for in-game functions. (en/disable cheats, kill cheat engine, reset game, reset to menu)

About key combinations:

I wanted to use combinations that don’t interfere with my SNES IGR mod. This mod uses L+R+Select in combination with Start, A, B, X, or Y to perform different operations. In that scenario I still had the four directional buttons left to put other functions on. However :D With borti4938′s release of the feature-enriched uIGR these are now taken.

So far this is my new proposal for key combinations (UPDATED 2014-06-24):

  • L+R+Select+Start = Reset game
  • L+R+Select+X = Reset to sd2snes menu
  • L+R+Start+B = Kill in-game routines (in case they interfere with game operation).
  • L+R+Start+A = Disable cheats
  • L+R+Start+Y = Enable cheats

Updated to reflect some of your suggestions. Already looks better to me. I steered clear of L+R+Start+X because it’s similar to L+R+Select+X. ;)

source: sd2snes.de

Categories: Firmware, News & Rumors, Today

ASAP v3.2.0 – Another Slight Atari Player

June 24th, 2014 No comments

ASAP is a player of 8-bit Atari music for modern computers and mobile devices. It emulates the POKEY sound chip and the 6502 processor.

The project was initially based on the routines from the Atari800 emulator, but the current version has a completely new original emulation core.

Changelog ASAP 3.2.0 (2014-06-23):

  • Reduced amplitude by half to avoid clipping on loud tunes.
  • Silence detection regarded GTIA and COVOX sounds as silence.
  • asapconv supports conversion to one WAV/RAW/MP3/XEX file per subsong.
  • File Information window in the foobar2000 plugin.
  • Updated the XBMC plugin for the new XBMC.
  • OS X VLC plugin no longer requires OS X 10.8.

Android changes:

  • Android 4.4 can now read the memory card.
  • Switch to the next song when the current one ends.
  • Playback couldn’t be resumed after a while of pause.
  • Search files using on-screen keyboard.
  • Removed HTTP playback.
  • Files with duplicate titles were lost in the details view.

Download: ASAP v3.2.0 (1644)

source: asap.sourceforge.net

Apple IIgs ProTERM 3.1: Serial Console & Telnetting BBS

June 23rd, 2014 No comments
Apple IIgs ProTERM 3.1: Serial Console & Telnetting BBS

Apple IIgs ProTERM 3.1: Serial Console & Telnetting BBS.

Download: ProTERM v3.1 Intrec Software (1220)

AspeQt v1.0.0 Preview-6 (Atari serial peripheral emulator for Qt)

June 12th, 2014 No comments

AspeQt is a cross-platform, free and open source Atari 8-bit serial peripheral emulator. The name is an acronym for Atari serial peripheral emulator for Qt, Qt being the cross-platform application development framework used by AspeQt.

AspeQt emulates various Atari 8-bit peripherals like disk drives and printers via an SIO-2-PC cable. If you are familiar with software like Sio2Pc, APE, Atari810, AtariSIO etc., you probably won’t have any problems getting used to AspeQt.

Even though AspeQt is not fully mature yet, it is easy to use and, despite its shortcomings, has many features that you may find useful, the highlights being:

  • Cross-platform GUI with drag and drop support.
  • 15 emulated disk drives with support for 512 bytes per sector disk images.
  • High speed operation up to 6 times faster than the normal speed (With compatible OS / DOS)
  • Ability to use PC folders as emulated disks.
  • Disk image explorer for viewing and modifying disk image contents.
  • Ability to run Atari executables directly without using disc images and Doses.
  • Printer emulation with preview and ATASCII support.
  • Cassette image playback with custom baud rate.
  • Ability to save and restore AspeQt sessions with its UI settings..=
  • Normal and mini UI modes.

Version 1.0.0 Preview-6 (May 23, 2014) (Ray Ataergin):

  • Windows registry entries for AspeQt are now stored under “atari8warez.com” registry tree, the program will automatically migrate settings on the next run. Existing AspeQt session files storing session settings are not affected by this change
  • Code needed to compile AspeQt under Mac OS X is added (David Voswinkel – optixx) (see compile.rtf file included with the source archive)
  • Folder images are now emulated in DOS 2.5 disk format rather than DOS 2.0 This gives more unique sector numbers to work with before they are re-used in a circular fashion.
  • Fixed the “Not a binary file” error loading certain executable files.
  • Text conversion is now OS platform aware (Win, Linux, OS X)
  • Explorer Window Stay-on-top feature is now user selectable and persistent across sessions.

Download:

source: aspeqt.sourceforge.net

Flashback 2014: C64 – Official demo party results

June 9th, 2014 No comments

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

C64 Demo:

  • Eclectic by Onslaught
  • Rog by Funkentstört
  • Flashback by Software of Sweden

C64 Music:

  • Klotokok by iLKke
  • eXTRATERRESTRic sYMPHo by dEViLOCk
  • Cloudy Days by Gaetano Chiummo

C64 Graphics:

  • Nature by JS
  • Abstract Mutualism by Slayer Grafix
  • The Procurement of the Crimson Skull by iLKke

Download: Flashback 2014 full Party stuff (1320)

source: csdb.dk defame.com.au/home

C64 Game: Commando Arcade / Maze of the Mummy Preview +6 …

June 1st, 2014 No comments

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

Titles:

  • Battle for Normandy 101% +D
  • Bubble Escape 2K +1D
  • Harrier Attack HS &D
  • Maze Dash +3
  • Blob Preview V3 +1
  • Maze Dash +4MH
  • Magic Duel [Doreco Party Edition]
  • Bellringer III V1.5 +4HFD [pal/ntsc]
  • Scuba Dive HS &D
  • Gnom [norwegian]
  • Amazon 100% +5EF [pal/ntsc]
  • Commando Arcade
  • Wild West Seymour +2DPG +PIC +SOL +MAP
  • Steinberg Pro-16 Plus, Version 2.4
  • Star Lifter HS
  • Denga +2
  • Maze of the Mummy Preview +6
  • Faster Than Light Preview +2
  • Labyrinth (Commodore Disc) +
  • Fuse &MHD

Download: All Games in One Archive (3047)

source: csdb.dk