This is the official demo party results from Silesia Party 8. See also the Silesia Party homepage for more informations.

C64 Demo:

• 1 – ES1RA by Arise
• 2 – ReDiscovered by Samar Productions

C64 4K Intro:

• 1 – I Want To Fall by Arise        
• 2 – 4Kindness by PVM    
• 3 – Raster Pump by Samar Productions

C64 Music:

• 1 – 90s Still Within by Jammer
• 2 – Resocialize Me by AceMan
• 3 – Insidious Pleasures by Randy
• 4 – Glacial Blues by Toggle
• 5 – Kernal Panic by V0yager
• 6 – Superchunk by Isildur
• 7 – Light SID of the Moon by MotionRide

C64 Graphics:

• 1 – Jazz-man by Joodas
• 3 – Tango by Alakran
• 4 – Fire of the Mind by FatFrost
• 5 – Boyhood by Isildur
• 6 – Narcissism by Rail Slave

WiLD Demo:

• 1 – Miles Away by Mayday!

Productions released outside compos:

• C64 Debugger V0.60 by Samar Productions (Other Platform Tool)

Download: Silesia Party 8 full Party stuff (1065)

source: noname.c64.org/csdb silesia-party.pl

The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) is a freeware hobby project which organises Commodore 64 music (also known as SID music) into an archive for both musicians and fans alike.

The work on the collection is done completely in the Team and contributors’ spare time and is proudly one of the largest and most accurate computer music collections known.

This update features (all approximates):

• 600 new SIDs
• 139 fixed/better rips
• 1 repeats/bad rips eliminated
• 313 SID credit fixes
• 299 SID model/clock infos
• 4 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
• 21 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
• 16 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
• 16 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories

Download:

• HVSC Update #67 (1261)
• Complete HVSC #67 (1420)

source: www.hvsc.c64.org

For those who don’t know. The TI Treffen  is a historic European gathering of TI-99/4A  enthusiasts  from  all  over  the  world,  has  taken  place  since  1986  and  is organized every year in a different city.

This year, for the second time, it is Italy’s turn to  host  this  beautiful  and  long-awaited  event. The TI-99 Italian User Club is organizing this event in the Italian capital! The TI-99/4A will be the protagonist of this full immersion.

The live auction and competition section with available TI-99 material must  not  be  missed.  And  see  also  the  presentation  of  new  hardware  and  mini-conferences-on-topics-concerning-the-TI-99.

source: ti99iuc.it

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

Titles:

• Good Guy – Bad Guy
• Abu Simbel Profanation
• GN2P
• GN2P (D64)
• GN2P (EX)
• Abu Simbel Profanation +2
• Katakis +6DHFI
• Paul’s Gamble Machine +D
• The Last Ninja II +8DG
• Cold Devil Preview
• Hollywood or Bust +6DWF
• VVVVVV +
• Zap Zone +2H
• Dark Destroyer 2117 +2 [seuck]
• Zap Zone
• Dark Destroyer 2117 [seuck]
• VVVVVV Preview V2
• Highlander +3DG
• Goat
• Gunfright V1.10
• Zap Zone +2
• GN2P +F
• Bounty Bob Strikes Back – Protected
• Break Free! +2
• Modulot +
• Modulot
• Seawolf +F
• Squad 1 +6H
• Jetpac Wars Preview V2 +
• Crab in New York +
• Grand Monster Slam +5H [ide64]
• Tennis-Cat +2T [english]
• Computer Space 2001 +1JD
• Frutty Man 64 +2
• Rowman
• The Bard’s Tale – Tales of the Unknown +2TD [easyflash]
• Rowman +2HT
• Delta Run [seuck]
• Night Racer +HDFM
• Delta Run +2DH [seuck]
• Alien Attack +1D
• H.E.R.O. II Preview
• Ignition +FTD
• Cubis +1FDT
• Wolf3D (SuperCPU)
• La Carretera [spanish]
• Wurmli +2D
• Galencia Preview +

Download: All Games in One Archive (4987)

source: csdb.dk

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

Changelog:

• Fix critical DAC timing quirk causing audio distortion with MSU1.
• Fix clock glitch on SD card access leading to audio/video distortion with MSU1 in rare cases.
• Properly map SRAM to banks f0-ff instead of f0-fd in Mode 20 (“LoROM”) memory map.
• Add support for headered bsxbios.bin
• Slight SD Card read performance optimization for MSU1 (try and avoid unaligned reads)
• Change initial SRAM fill value (by devinacker)
  • Fixes Ken Griffey Jr., Ou-chan, possibly other games that handle checksums badly.
• Always start game on PPU2 field 0
  • Theoretical compatibility improvement.

Download:

• SD2Snes Firmware v0.1.7e (1515)
• SD2Snes Firmware v0.1.7e (Sources) (1412)
• SD2Snes Firmware v0.1.7e (Changelog) (1780)

source: sd2snes.de

A new version of the firmware for the interface 1541 Ultimate II+and 1541 Ultimate II is released.

Release notes Ultimate-II+ v3.1a rev 495:

• USB fixes:
  • No more blocking timeouts, that may hang indefinitely
  • Fix for a bug accessing USB2LAN adapters
• Other:
  • U2 audio output fixed; as it was harsh and ugly.
  • Small bug fixes.

How to update?

• For the 1541 Ultimate-II:
  • Navigate to the unzipped file ‘update_audio_495.u2u’ or ‘update_dual_drive_495.u2u’ and select “Run Update”
• For the 1541 Ultimate-II+:
  • Navigate to the update_495.u2p file, and select “Run Update”.

Download:

• 1541 Ultimate II+ v3.1a rev 495 (1351)
• 1541 Ultimate II v3.1a rev 495 (1270)

source: facebook.com 1541ultimate.net