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
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 (1181)
source: csdb.dk defame.com.au/home
Commodore A500 Keyboard: Keep the useful things from the useless things.
Commodore Amiga 500 Keyboards Join & Fix.
Unfortunately from five keyboards i have made only one in a good shape and full working.
Commodore Amiga 500/600 PSU Repair
Amiga 500/600 (PSU) PowerSupply #1
Defect:
- Short-circuit and the fuse blows.
Replace parts:
Amiga 500/600 (PSU) PowerSupply #2
Defect:
- Short-circuit and the fuse blows.
Replace parts:
Amiga 500/600 (PSU) PowerSupply #3
Defect:
- Short-circuit and the fuse blows.
- The PCB is half broken.
- Some components have suffered of too much heat.
- The locking pins of the cover are broken.
- Dirty and Yellowed.
I don’t made the repair. I recovered what might come in handy.
Gallery:
The Gotek is a USB Floppy Drive emulator very cheap, you can buy it from eBay at €24.00 €20.00 including the shipping cost.
Let’s start by saying that this Floppy Disk Emulator with the original firmware is totally useless for our purpose, like to connect it to an Amiga and in the near future to a Atari ST or Amstrad CPC. The new firmware written by Herve Messinger replaces the original firmware, to do this you need a simple converter from USB to TTL Serial Interface to program the STM32 ARM Cortex MCU.
I would add this thing; this Floppy Drive Emulator is not absolutely comparable to the HXC Floppy Emulator of Jean-François DEL NERO (Jeff) where in addition to supporting dozens of Floppy Formats/Hardware and the Firmware is in development from several years but it’s a nice and inexpensive alternative.
For more information, firmware and programming tool you need to go here the official blog of Herve Messinger.
Video:
source: cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com
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 (2756)
source: csdb.dk
Gallery:
Commodore SX64 Keyboard Fixed.
Defect:
- Some keys works and some not.
Work done:
- Cleaning with a “Contact Cleaner” to remove the oxidation of gold contacts under the membrane.
- Cleaning all keys.
- Cleaning the keyboard case (inside/outside).
Gallery:
Replacement NiCd Battery of a Commodore SR4190R Calculator.
Defect:
Replaced parts:
- Replaced 3 x NiCd Rechargeable Batteries 1.2v.
Gallery:
Commodore SX64 (USA/NTSC) Repair.
Defect:
- Black screen and then noise of a misaligned drive (don’t read anything).
Replaced parts:
- Replaced 1 x 906114 PLA (UE4)
Other things:
- Aligned the Floppy Drive using the original copy of the Free Spirit Software Drive Alignment.
- Removed the broken switch to disable the write protection and disconnected a LED on the front side of the SX64.
- Connected the sensor wires cut.
- Cleaning the Floppy Drive.
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.
Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.22.0:
- GUI – Track viewer window : New viewer mode -> Disk surface view mode.
- Raw loader : UKNC Russian computer support added.
- New Writer : BMP file (Disk/circular layout) -> Disk layout can now be exported into a BMP file (for disk analysis) !
- libhxcfe : Correction of the UTF8 path support in some loaders/writers.
- New Loader : SPS CT Raw file format support added. (NOTE : No flakey bits support for the moment !)
- libhxcfe : Generic flux stream analyzer enhanced.
- Disk Browser : ADFLib fseek corrected.
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl
Apple IIc Rom v4 Upgrade & Repair.
Defect:
- The second RAM in the auxiliary memory is faulty.
Replaced parts:
- Replaced 1 x RAM 4264 (ARD1)
Upgrade:
- Apple IIc ROM upgraded to the latest version V4 (MON)
Download:
Commodore CBM/PET 3032 Motherboard Repair.
Defect:
- Garbled screen and then “Illegal Quantity Error” message or 31 Bytes free
Replaced parts:
- Replaced 1 x NE555 (A2)
- Replaced 2 x Unstable RAM 4116 (I2/I3)
- Replaced 1 x 74LS153 (E4)
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