ACID 64 Player Pro is the sequal of Acid 64 Player and is a cycle based Commodore 64 music player designed for playing SID tunes on sound cards/devices that have a real SID chip (6581/6582/8580) on board like the HardSID cards and HardSID 4U USB device.

ACID 64 emulates the MOS 6510 micro processor, the 6526 CIA chip and partially the 6569 VIC chip to run the code of a SID tune and it controls the SID chip on the device for playing the Commodore 64 music.

What’s new in version v3.0.3:

New:

• Support for the new HardSID USB devices: Uno and UPlay.
• Auto detection of turned on/off USB devices.
• Added sorting on column of every grid.
• Emulated SID reading.

Improvements:

• When performing e.g. mute/unmute, filter on/off or pause then no time gap isn’t noticed anymore while playing on a USB device.
• Seek bar is always going smooth now and still synched with the 6510 CPU clock.
• Improved fast forward.
• HardSID.dll isn’t required anymore for USB devices.
• Many small improvements.

Fixes:

• Works now without administrator rights.
• When using dual monitor ACID 64 will now be centered on the screen instead of the desktop.

screenshot:

source: acid64.com

PONG is one of the earliest arcade video games, released by Atari way back in 1972. (It was not the first video game, but it’s venerable indeed.)

We’re certainly not the first to build a real-world analog of a video game or even of PONG itself.

source: evilmadscientist.com

Achim released his game Space Limits II for the Commodore C64. This 4 kbyte game is the successor of Space Limits from 2009.

source: commodore-gg.hobby.nl noname.c64.org

The SIDstick is a pocket-sized chiptunes player. Chiptunes are songs written to be synthesized in real-time. A lot of chiptunes are ripped from classic videogames, and some are new works. The SIDstick plays the most common variety of chiptunes, music written for playback on a SID chip. Main features:

• Removable Storage supporting microSD cards, 1 card can hold 20,000 songs.
• 20+ hour battery life.
• Super Hi-Quality hardware-based playback at 31kHz sample rate, >16 bit resolution.
• Completely Open, hardware and software are available under the MIT license.
• Upgradable with connections on the board.

source: gadgetgangster.com wikipedia hvsc.c64.org

Cartograph is a native Commodore 64 application created for designing tile-based maps/levels.

This versatile tool allows you to create maps and levels for your games, matrices and data for demos and tools and much more.

Changelog:

Cartograph V1.3 increases productivity and decreases the amount of time needed to create your data. Some of the major changes include six new fill modes (random and pattern), six more data types, REU support (backups and undo), and RLE compression. Maps created with earlier versions are 100% compatible with this new release.

source: arkanixlab.com c64dev.com

from 1541 Ultimate homepage:

Finally, you might think! An update on the 1541U-II… As time is going fast, the moment that all the hardware parts for the 1541U-II will be ready is drawing near. It all was not too easy, but things are going now the way they should.

The major difficulty showed to be the plastic case. Finally I have found a contractor who is willing to make the plastic case exactly as I wanted it, for a reasonable price. Unfortunately, the mould for plastic injection is quite expensive; in fact about double of what I expected initially, based on an unrealistic quote that I got a few months ago. Because of the large interest in the 1541U-II, I decided to just continue with it, and leave the selling price of the total product intact.

Earlier this week, I received the first pictures of the first try-outs of the injection mould tool. The result shows a little problem in the design, with the planned material (ABS). Due to the thick and sturdy plastic constuction on the inside, sink marks are visible on the outside.

The manufacturer has tried to run the case with a different material (PA), which looks a lot better. However, due to different shrinkage characteristics, the mould tool needs to be adapted to adjust for the difference in material. (You can see this, that the matte version does not close perfectly…) They will do this, but it will take one week extra before the cases are ready. The final color won’t be black (unless I am getting a lot of angry E-mails now.. ;-), but light cream color, to match the C64C better.

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The date is final: 1-3 October 2010 in The Netherlands.

Party location is near Eindhoven Airport which has several low cost airlines like the ryanairs and wizzairs and there’s also a trainstation nearby, which is easy to reach coming from Eindhoven.

source: c64.sk noname.c64.org

Spreadsheet with intuitive interface, powerful calculation engine, graphics generator, color themes, and much more.

source: plus4world.powweb.com

Some new Games for VIC-20

• The Improbable War. A turn based strategy game with “fog of war” elements and a retro-futuristic theme.
• Ten Ten Again. A variation on the game Ten Ten.

source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)

This converter converts a truecolor Jpeg/Bitmap picture to three seperate c64 hires bitmaps which when flicked together fuse the colors together tocreate a rendition of the original image.

History:

25/01/10

• Speedup of approximately 20-30%
• Extra ‘Heavy filter’ implemented.

23/01/10

• Added Luma only conversion option.  This ignores the color content of the image and converts according to brightness.
• Linux Version.

21/01/10

• Major bug fix. some brightness check flags were toggled incorrectly for each 8×8 or 8×2 block resulting in close colors being filtered out and replaced by bad luma combos.
• Added ‘ass lace mode’ to standard non fli mode + (non super flicker reduction).
• Added weaker dither (dither 1). Default of dither 1 in previous versions is now ‘dither 2′.
• Optimisation of conversion routines. Now runs slightly faster.

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I have bricked my fonera and now the power light comes on but the fonera reboot cycling. I cannot access the web gui /ssh or telnet through redboot. Serial Connection fix all  my problems.

Gallery:

source: dd-wrt.com

This converter converts a truecolor Jpeg/Bitmap picture to three seperate
c64 hires bitmaps which when flicked together fuse the colors together tocreate a rendition of the original image.

History:

21/01/10

• Major bug fix.  some brightness check flags were toggled incorrectly for each 8×8 or 8×2 block resulting in close colors being filtered out and replaced by bad luma combos.
• Added ‘ass lace mode’ to standard non fli mode + (non super flicker reduction).
• Added weaker dither (dither 1). Default of dither 1 in previous versions is now ‘dither 2′.
• Optimisation of conversion routines. Now runs slightly faster.

18/01/10

• Tweaked non luma overload reduction mode to accept some more color combinations.
• NTSC/PAL Exe toggle.
• FLI X2 mode.
• Super Flicker Reduction.

11/01/10

• Initial Release.

source: noname.c64.org

Replacement the Sinclair QL membrane and reassemble the Keyboard.

source: rwapsoftware.co.uk

This converter converts a truecolor Jpeg/Bitmap picture to three seperate
c64 hires bitmaps which when flicked together fuse the colors together tocreate a rendition of the original image.

History:

18/01/10

• Tweaked non luma overload reduction mode to accept some more color combinations.
• NTSC/PAL Exe toggle.
• FLI X2 mode.
• Super Flicker Reduction.

11/01/10

• Initial Release.

source: noname.c64.org

After many years, Resource release a new version of Project One (Converter and Paint program).

source: resource.cx noname.c64.org