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C64 Game: Space Pope 2013 Edition +4H / Zombie Brain Eaters +2D …

March 29th, 2013 No comments

ST-Paint Beta (26/03/2013) by Peter Jørgensen

March 28th, 2013 No comments

ST-Paint is a Drawing program that lets you make Atari St picture on Windows based PC.

ST-Paint is still in a beta phase and it’s made by Peter Jørgensen same author of the program Ym2149 Tracker.

Note from the author:

  • NEW: Add surport for drag and drop.
  • FIX: Remove Spelling Error.

Download: ST-Paint Beta (26/03/2013) (952)

source: fedepede04.dk

Commodore 64 Gold Edition on Ebay.de (Sold out – € 5.900,00)

March 27th, 2013 No comments

Commodore 64 Gold Edition on Ebay.de.

from Richard Lagendijk Homepage:

This a special edition of the Commodore C64, celebrating the 1.000.000th sale of the C64 in Germany. This is one of the most desirable Commodore items. There are about 300 golden Commodore C64 produced. The numbers from 1.000.000 until 1.000.100 were for the staff of the Commodore factory Braunschweig.

The rest was given to hard- en software companies, magazine-publishers and distributors. The C64 is a computer system with a keyboard, external power-supply and a motherboard. On the motherboard you will find a MOS 6510 processor, RAM / ROM memory, MOS 6569 VIC-II video chip, MOS 6581 SID sound chip and twice a MOS 6526 CIA. PAL version.

source: ebay.de richardlagendijk.nl

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

Javatari v3.12 (Atari 2600 emulator)

March 26th, 2013 No comments

Javatari is a multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java with no external libs.

Features:

  • Unique Client-Server multiplayer mode. Runs great in low-latency networks such as LANs.
  • Cheat and turn off Collisions. Finally discover the ending of River Raid!
  • Complete Save State/Load State functions.
  • Scanlines and TV screen emulation modes.
  • Real Atari console user interface.

Changelog;

  • Preliminary support for built-in ROMs.
  • Auto-load of built-in ROMs.
  • Auto-detection of Paddles Mode per ROM.
  • Option to start with Paddles Mode ON.

Download: Javatari JAR v3.12 (Needs Java 6) (797)

source: javatari.org

HermIRES v1.28 C64 hires-bitmap editor

March 25th, 2013 1 comment

HermIRES it’s a cross-platform hires bitmap (Art Studio 1 format) editor for the Commodore 64.

The format has some restrictions, here are the rules:

  • The maximal resolution of the picture is 320×200
  • Only 16 fix C64 colours can be used (no gradient either)
  • In a 8×8 pixel-block only 2 colours can used to be displayable by C64 (this is detected in HermIRES, but .hbm files can be saved with clashes too.)
  • On a real C64 the PAL will blur the screen-content a bit, should check on CRT, or at least VICE emulator’s CRT simulation.

Changelog:

  • Gave 45 pixel taskbar-height for GUI-size auto-detector (more tolerance)
  • LoadVPL() is now before LoadFile() in ‘main’ (by commandline-argument or from config-setting) so opening .png/.bmp at startup is converted correctly with the latest palette.
  • Caption name now doesn’t contain the extra letter at the end (string-delimiter 0 was put in wrong place by loop)

Download:

source: hermit.netne.net

SNDH Atari ST YM2149 Archive v4.1 released.

March 25th, 2013 No comments

SNDH archive v4.1 released – 3726 SNDH files (total 7003 tunes)

Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music.

But in the mid 90′s, BDC of Aura crew became tired of this inelegant system and decided to fix the issue once and for all. He then created the ‘SNDH’ file format. SNDH is actually the original songfile and replaycode with a header bolted on top of the music and replayer. The header has a unified calling interface no matter what type of chip music is hidden beneath it, and it has extended datas about the music.

Download: SNDH Atari ST YM2149 Archive v4.1 (1299)

source: sndh.atari.org

Categories: Atari, News & Rumors, Today

HxC Floppy Emulator: Software v2.0.12.2 & HxC Slim Firmware v2.0.2.2

March 24th, 2013 2 comments

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.

Firmware Slim SD HxCFloppyEmulator v2.0.2.2:

  • First public SD Slim version firmware.

Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.12.2:

  • GUI now Based on FLTK : http://www.fltk.org/
  • Windows / Mac / Linux support ( http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1120  ;) )
  • New library : libhxcfe -> Contains the floppy management functions (track generator/images loaders/analyser/file system layer…).
  • New library : libusbhxcfe -> Contains the HxC USB Floppy Emulator support layer.
  • New Integrated DOS Disk browser : Can generate / add / get / remove files from any DOS HFE files.
  • New Track Viewer/Analyser : Low level floppy track is now analysed and displayed.
  • “Load Raw image” : Predefined floppy disk format description in XML (based on Expat XML Parser)
  • New low level Track format : TYCOM (custom FM) & MEMBRAIN (custom MFM)
  • Floppy disk dump : “missing sector” issue with some FDC corrected.
  • FM Track format : desync added to the end of the track to solve the SCAN command issue with some FDC.
  • Disk Browser : Support of special/custom 2.5MB DD & 4.5MB HD FAT floppy disk format.
  • Batch converter : It is now possible to batch convert RAW images files.
  • Track pregap support/setting added.
  • Some issues corrected & enhancement in the following loader : D88,JV3,DMK,IMD,AFI,EDE,OricDSK,Emax…
  • New file export support : TI99/4A V9T9 file image
  • New Loader : Kryoflux Stream Loader (*XX.X.raw) / analyser.
  • New Loader : Sega System24 Loader (*.S24)
  • New Loader : Apple 2 NIB image support added. (*.NIB)
  • New Loader : Casio FZF floppy image support added.
  • W30 Loader : Roland S50/S330/S550 image support added.
  • HFE Files : New alternate format flags for the track 0 side 0 & side 1.
  • Sanity check function added to some loader.
  • And a lot of minor corrections/enhancement too.

Download:

source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl

C64 Game: Psycho Soldier +7DFIR 101% / Berzerk RSE +4DF 101% …

March 24th, 2013 No comments

C64 Game: Black Hawk +9D / Berzerk Redux Special Edition +4D …

March 21st, 2013 No comments

AspeQt v0.8.8 (Atari serial peripheral emulator for Qt)

March 18th, 2013 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:

  • Up to 15 disk drive emulation.
  • Up to 6x SIO speed (125,000bps)
  • Support for ATR, XFD, PRO and ATX (preliminary) disk images.
  • Mount folders as emulated disks.
  • Disk image explorer.
  • Directly boot Atari executables.
  • Text only printer emulation with PC print, save, and ATASCII font support.
  • Cassette image playback.
  • Multilingual GUI (English, Polish, Slovak, German, Turkish and Russian)
  • AspeQt client module (AspeCl) for Atari, communicates with the server and performs a variety of remote operations.

Changelog:

  • Added an option (Options/Emulation menu) to selectively enable/disable filtering of underscore character from file names in Folder Images (Ray Ataergin)
  • Fixed a problem where “Unmount All” menu item was only unmounting the first 8 images. (Marcin Sochacki)
  • Updated Polish language translations (Marcin Sochacki – TheMontezuma)

Download:

source: aspeqt.sourceforge.net

C64 Game: Little Sara Sister Trilogy 101% / Invasor +2 / Memotest …

March 15th, 2013 No comments

(Italian) Articolo sul Blog di Simone sulla riparazione dell’Atari 800XL

March 9th, 2013 No comments

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

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

(Italian) Jurassic News numero #46

March 8th, 2013 No comments

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

Categories: Magazine, News & Rumors, Today

Stella v3.81 (multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator)

March 7th, 2013 No comments

Stella release v3.8.1 for Linux, MacOS X and Windows is now available.

Changelog:

  • Added support for TIA RSYNC writes, thanks to Omegamatrix of AtariAge. This allows the recently released “Extra Terrestrials” ROM to run, as well as improving emulation of “Fatal Run” and several other test ROMs.
  • Fixed typo in TIA HMOVE writes, thanks to Thomas Jentzsch. This fixes the constant collision issues in “Kool-Aid Man”, and several other homebrew ROMs.
  • Fixed sound issues on OSX PPC machines (all sound was in little-endian format, but PPC is big-endian).
  • The OSX DMG archive now contains proper modification dates.

Download: Stella v3.81 (1181)

source: stella.sourceforge.net

Javatari v3.10 (Atari 2600 emulator)

March 6th, 2013 No comments

Javatari is a multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java with no external libs.

Features:

  • Unique Client-Server multiplayer mode. Runs great in low-latency networks such as LANs.
  • Cheat and turn off Collisions. Finally discover the ending of River Raid!
  • Complete Save State/Load State functions.
  • Scanlines and TV screen emulation modes.
  • Real Atari console user interface.

Changelog;

  • Better compatibility in Linux and Mac OSX.
  • AdAdded Joystick support (Windows and Linux):
    • Fully selectable axes with deadzone adjustment.
    • Paddles analog emulation with adjustable sensitivity and centering
    • Other console controls can be mapped to Joystick buttons

Download: Javatari JAR v3.10 (Needs Java 6) (805)

source: javatari.org