Tomasz “Tebe” Biela has released an update of the program Graph2Font v3.9.0.5.

This project began many years ago as a simple graphics converter for Atari but over the years the features are significantly increased. The converter runs under Windows.

source: g2f.atari8.info

I have created a funny Poster with some things from my Museum.

Download: NightfallCrew Poster (29Mb / 4677 x 3307)

Contiki is a small, open source, highly portable, multitasking computer operating system developed for use on a number of memory-constrained networked systems ranging from 8-bit computers to embedded systems on microcontrollers, including sensor network motes.

The name Contiki comes from Thor Heyerdahl’s famous Kon-Tiki raft.

The Contiki 2.x contains only very little assembler coding and even less target-specific assembler coding. This allowed for easy porting to targets beside the C64 namely the C128 and Apple II. Porting to other cc65 targets wasn’t done due to missing Ethernet hardware.

The major changes are:

• Support of the Atari 8-bit machines with the ethernet cart described on http://www.atari8ethernet.com
• FTP client app (only download although UI suggests upload too)
• Twitter client with OAuth workaround (using SuperTweet.net)
• New high contrast color scheme for Contiki UI apps on the C64.

source: lemon64.com wikipedia cbm8bit.com

Jason “Gwobby” Kendall has released a new Version of his game Gwobby Strikes Back! with a lots of new features and fixes.

What’s New in this Update?

• Over one hundred and thirty thousand different levels.
• Improved animation, sprites.
• Additional sequences assassination.
• Hard platforms are maintained by the first 4 levels.
• The ball can give extra power force.
• The ball under renewed at the early levels.
• Press any key during the boot screen to go intros.
• The game is a little faster, better jumps and many other minor improvements.

source: atarionline.pl

This is the 5th edition of the New Years Disc for Atari. In this issue you can find a lots of interesting things to begin a new year with our beloved Atari.

In this issue you can find:

[Disc one]:

• Kleeblatt and Schneemann done by me.
• Jacfield Badekapp Miel and 3 by JAC!.
• Atallax to map & PG.
• 2011 Intro to Heaven.
• Happy New Year by Sikorski.

[Disc two]:

• Spectipede to Rybags.
• Happy 2011 Inspiration Soft bby.
• Spectipede code notes by me, text by Rybags.

source: atarionline.pl

iAN CooG Site has been update with a new version of the Generic C64 prg Unpacker v2.24 (Source included).

History:

v2.24 – 2010.08.01-2011.01.04

• sysline detection added also during pass 1. Very rarely needed but still happened a couple of times that a sysline re-evaluation is done by the unpacker so can’t be avoided.
• Slightly better $d011 handling, should help bypass more intros.
• Added handling on more alternative kernal entry points.
• Limit numeric parameters to $ffff

For the latest scanners added look the readme inside the archive.

source: iancoog.altervista.org

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

Limon is a fantastic WAV player for Commodore 64.
You need a REU interface (Commodore’s RAM Expansion Unit) for run this program, alternatively you can use the Vice Emulator or the interface Ultimate 1541 v2.0+

You must see this video and listen the audio!

source: noname.c64.org

The Chipophone is a homemade 8-bit synthesizer, especially suited for live chiptune playing. It has been built inside an old electronic organ.

All the original tone-generating parts have been disconnected, and the keys, pedals, knobs and switches rerouted to a microcontroller which transforms them into MIDI signals.

Those are then parsed by a second microcontroller, which acts as a synthesizer.

Here some video examples:

• The Chipophone (Presentation video).
• Carol of the Bells.
• Delta composed by Rob Hubbard.
• DuckTales, The Moon.
• Legend of Zelda.
• Little Nemo: The Dream Master.
• Pokémon Trading Card Game.
• Spellbound composded by Rob Hubbard.
• Think Twice III.

source: linusakesson.net

CBM-Command is a disk manager for the Commodore 64 / Commodore 128 / Commodore VIC20 and Commodore C16 computers. It is written like Norton Commander or Midnight Commander, but is much simpler due to the target platforms. Both the C128/C64/VIC20/C16 have their own native version of the application.

Release Notes – Version 2.0 Beta 2 – 2011-01-01

Changes:

• (64, 128, Plus/4) Changed the timing code back to version 1.7 because the clock() function in cc65 does not reflect accurate timing.
• (VIC, PET) The time(NULL) function is not available on these targets and thus had to be removed.
• Help Hot-Key Fixed – Now when you press either F1 or H you get the help file (if the CBM-Command disk is in the drive you started CBM-Command from).
• Updated Help File – the new help file by popmilo has been incorporated into the disk.
• Directory navigation hot keys fixed.

Known Issues:

• None – if you have a bug to report, PLEASE do so to the CBM-Command website or mailing list.

source: cbmcommand.codeplex.com

This is a tiny eprommer software. You need a external interface connected via commodore 64 userport for burn eprom. The programmed chip will be used later with the Easyflash cartridge.

source: noname.c64.org

Some new Games & Utility for Commodore VIC-20.

• The VIC-20 Bible Series II: Pentateuch – 40 column version and graphics. Browse the first five books of the Old Testament (King James Version) in full 40 column screen. You can select single chapters, and scroll the text with cursor up/down. Take a look at the hi-res cliparts used as “book covers”, to graphic depictions of the main episodes of Graphics, and read about the very first steps of mankind in full 40-column text processing made using Mike’s Minigrafik. Mike also elaborated a text compression / extraction routine to fit the whole Torah in your VIC-20
• Face Versus Heel. A pro-wrestling simulator where the outcome is determined by a random number generator, but good tactics can maximize your chances.

source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)

Autopsy:

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Many thanks to Fabio D. Bovelacci for his donation. This is my second computer (ZX-81 is the first one), i spent a significant portion of my childhood in front of this one.

from old-computers.com homepage:

The SC-3000 is a computer based on the hardware of the first videogame systems released by Sega in Japan : the SG-1000 series. It can use the same game cartridges marketed for these consoles.

The SC3000 can’t be used without a ROM cartridge, which can be either a game or language. There were three different BASIC cartridges. One came with only 1Kb of RAM (and you had only 512 bytes free !), the second with 16Kb and the last with 32Kb. In official adverts, they show a total RAM of 48Kb. This was counting the VRAM and the 32Kb BASIC cartridge…

Several great games were adapted by Sega for this computer. Several graphic characteristics of the SC-3000 are fairly close to MSX ones. For example, it was one of the first computers to offer 32 sprites. Some months later, Sega released the SC-3000 H which was the same system but with a mechanical keyboard.

This computer was also marketed by Yeno under the same name (Yeno SC 3000 & SC 3000H). It was exactly the same computer except for the Yeno brand…

source: old-computers.com sc-3000.com

“NRV” from Chile has started a new project on Atari 8bit machines called “Project M”.

This is basically a clone of very well popular Wolfenstein 3D PC game. This update of Project M v2 contains improvements and several bugs

source: atariage.com youtube.com

After this update, the collection should contain 39,626 SID files!

Thanks to all the people who have helped to make HVSC the collection that it is today, without your help it would be a much tougher task.

This update features (all approximates):

• 933 new SIDs.
• 217 fixed/better rips.
• 5 PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs eliminated.
• 21 repeats/bad rips eliminated.
• 561 SID credit fixes.
• 258 SID model/clock infos.
• 28 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified.
• 6 tunes from /GAMES/ identified.
• 41 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories.
• 9 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories.

source: hvsc.de