E’ finalmente arrivato lo stampato del nostro SID Playe rev v2.0.
Ora manca solo l’assemblaggio dei componenti e il test.
Gallery:
Note:
The return of the Hybrid Sid Player by xAD/Nightfall & Gianluca Renzi (RetroBit Lab).
Basato sul progetto e lo schema hardware di Markus Gritsch pubblicato negli anni 2011-2015 sul forum dangerousprototypes. Grazie Marco
Questi sono i risultati ufficiali del Revision 2022 Online Party. Per maggiori informazioni o aggiornamenti visita il sito CSDB.
C64 4K Intro:
- 6 – BITSY-BIGLY by Onslaught
- 9 – 4k Love Not War by Excess
C64 Game:
- 1 – The Great Giana PETSCII Sisters by Vintage Computing Carinthia.
Mixed:
- 8 – Easter Bunny by Katon (Graphics).
- 9 – Hotheat by Sulevi (Graphics).
- 10 – Spacerace by Clownboss (Graphics).
- 11 – House by Slaxx (Graphics).
- 12 – The Dance by Copyfault/Electric (Graphics).
- 14 – Kiev 2033 by Almighty God/q0w (Graphics).
- 15 – Launch Fever by DanDee (Graphics).
Mixed Graphics:
- 1 – 40 Years of Love by Atlantis.
- 4 – Gridrunner by Extend.
- 7 – PETrowave by Pretzel Logic.
- 9 – Kill That Spider by Atlantis.
- 11 – Pull My Strings by Onslaught.
- 12 – Orca Tribe by Soundcat.
- 15 – Happy Birthday! by Aki.
- 20 – Osterhase by Logiker.
- 21 – Haus (1919-1933) by MXM.
Mixed Music:
- 1 – Latest Revision by MultiStyle Labs.
- 3 – Sucisap by Artline Designs.
- 4 – Lockdown Pop II by Fairlight.
- 5 – Burn Now Like the Sun [fm-yam] by Atlantis, MultiStyle Labs.
- 8 – Recycled Bin by Lethargy, Singular.
- 9 – Mechaboy by PVM.
- 13 – Quarantine by Finnish Gold.
- 15 – Prayer for Chiptunes by Defilus.
Mixed Demo:
- 3 – Salvaged by Proxima.
- 5 – Anniversary by Finnish Gold.
- 8 – Anthology 1988-2022 by Babygang.
- 10 – Joetro by Bonzai, Wrath Designs.
- 14 – SNG Invitetro by Maze, Tweak.
Productions released outside compos:
- Canned Goat Cheese by Hokuto Force (Music)
- Elaine by Pretzel Logic (Music)
- Step Acide by Artline Designs (Music)
- Vandalism News #72 by Vandalism News Staff/Offence/Onslaught (Diskmag)
Releases containing information on this event:
- ReACtion – Revision Satellite Party 2022 Invitation for Revision 2022 Satellite Party by AC
Download: Revision 2022 Online Party stuff (646)
source: 2022.revision-party.net
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Mille grazie a Fabs/Hokuto Force, Onslaught per il Logo. La foto è stata realizzata utilizzando un U64 con uscita video RGB e un monitor Sony.
Scarica il logo Nightfall in formato PRG da qui
E’ stato rilasciato un nuovo aggiornamento firmware per la Kung Fu Flash Cartridge di Kim Jørgensen.
Changelog:
- Optimize VIC-II read access for ultimax cartridges (issue #94)
- Disk emulation support large PRGs
- Improve disk emulation loading speed
- Load and mount is now default for PRGs
Note:
Disk emulation is now active by default when launching PRGs. If this is not desired or if the PRG requires EF3 USB support then the old load option is still available in the file options menu (shift+return or long press fire).
A lot of changes has been made to optimize the C64/KFF communication. Please let me know if you detect any broken functionality in this release
Download:
source: github.com/KimJorgensen/KungFuFlash
Questi sono i risultati ufficiali del Demo party BCC #16 che si e’ concluso il 27/02/2022. Per maggiori informazioni o aggiornamenti visita il sito CSDB nella sezione BCC #16.
C64 Demo:
C64 Music:
- 1 – Psychic Carpet Bombing by Mibri
- 2 – Destination: Groovetown by Danko/Vincenzo
- Renaissance Intermezzo Fugaliuz by Xiny6581
- 4 – Six Trees on the Run by Røly
- 5 – Fractalyzed by Proton
- 7 – Random Access Memory by Warp 8
- 8 – Az Én Leguánom Nem Viselhet Cipőt by dalezy
- 9 – BCC Party Digi Entry by DeMOSic
- 10 – Bhagwan im Backwahn by Stabile Altbauten
- 11 – SYS4000@16 by Sonki
C64 Graphics:
- 1 – Obscena Vaselina by The Sarge
- 2 – Spy Eye by Mikael
- 3 – Dawn of Aliens by Spiham
- 4 – Blitz Feline by Lobo
- 5 – Crazy Teddies by Fabs
- 6 – Salvation Totem by Fabs
- 7 – Flor del Norte by Almighty God
- 8 – Crises Revisited by Fabs
- 9 – Rise of the Metal Vests by Neuronik
- 10 – Back 2 1990 by Slaxx
- 11 – Together We Stand by Slaxx
- 12 – Lizard by Nordischsound
WiLD Demo:
- ?? – DT 111 Intro Patch by Der TrixXxer
C64 Fast Intro:
- 1 – Fairyland by Fairlight
- 2 – Deep in the Forest by Atlantis
- 3 – Tank à chat by Dentifrice
- 4 – PETSCII Aquarium by Vintage Computing Carinthia
- 5 – Locked Up by Xenon
- 6 – Stacy Overlords At A Wavy Seaside by Mayday!
- 7 – Maniac Maniac by Lethargy
- 8 – Sehr bunt! by Saufbox
Mixed Graphics:
- 1 – Street Sports Skeletons by Lobo
- 2 – Bobba Pet by Hokuto Force
- 3 – Woman Dragon Car by Slipstream
- 4 – Sturmtruppen by Hokuto Force
- 5 – WRC by Hokuto Force
- 6 – Karl Marx by Hokuto Force
- 7 – Spies Galore by 4gentE
- 8 – Et1999cc Logo by Hokuto Force
- 9 – Watching by 4gentE
Mixed Music:
- 1 – Pulstar by Finnish Gold
- 2 – In The Morning by Pretzel Logic
- 3 – All The Wrong Places by Hokuto Force
- 4 – Zombies SB 2022 by Mayday!
- Peraustrinia MMXXII by Hokuto Force
- 6 – Overlord Up-Tempo Rock Remix by Mayday!
- 7 – Castlevania – Vampire Killer V2 by Hokuto Force
- 8 – Base of Love by Hokuto Force
Mixed Game:
- 1 – Escape from Callisto Preview by Hokuto Force
- 2 – The Crazy Drill Man! by Hokuto Force
Productions released outside compos:
- Early Bird by C64 Club Berlin (One-File Demo)
Download: BCC #16 Full Party Stuff (717)
source: csdb.dk
Questo Amiga 1200 mi e’ stato spedito da un conoscente per eseguire la solita sostituzione dei condensatori e inoltre revisionare il tutto e migrare il pcb in un nuovo case con una nuova tastiera colorata.
Lavori che sono stati fatti:
- Sostituzione di tutti i condensatori elettrolitici.
- Pulizia connettore di espansione che in alcune parti era ossidato.
- Pulizia generale del PCB.
- Installazione Kickstart OS3.2
- Sostituzione condensatore elettrolitico nel Floppy Drive Panasonic JU-253-043P
- Pulizia Floppy Drive.
- Ingrassaggio con grasso siliconico parti meccaniche Floppy Drive.
- Pitturazione del tasto di espulsione Floppy Disk con colore Nero opaco (Assieme al nuovo case viene fornito solo il tasto di colore nero per Floppy Drive Chinon)
- Fissaggio adattatore CF Card.
- Installazione del PCB e tastiera colorata nel nuovo case.
- Test di corretto funzionamento con Floppy Disk e CF Card.
Galleria:
Questo drive presentava due problemi diversi.
- Il Floppy Drive non si accendeva proprio.
- Il motore girava senza mai fermarsi, indifferentemente se era inserito un Floppy Disk oppure no.
Riparazione:
Il Floppy Drive non poteva funzionare perche’ mancava il FUSIBILE all’interno dell’alimentatore (trasformatore) esterno. :-D
Il secondo problema invece era causato dalla RAM-I/O-Timer (RIOT) 6532 che aveva deciso di smettere di funzionare.
Sostituita la RIOT ed eseguita una buona pulizia e ingrassato alcuni parti meccaniche con grasso siliconico, tutto ha ripreso a funzionare meglio di prima :-D
Galleria della riparazione:
Questo povero Commodore 64 che era gia’ stato precedentemente riparato da me ma presentava questi nuovi problemi.
- Out of Memory
- Black Screen
- No Cursor.
- Garbage screen.
Il problema del black screen a intervalli non regolari con l’out of memory e’ stato risolto sostituendo la CPU 6510, appena la CPU scaldava un poco piu del normale
il computer visualizzava solo uno schermo nero, raffreddando la CPU comunque non funzionava ma almeno veniva visualizzato qualcosa.
Il problema dell’out of memory erano 4 ram morte + 1 precedentemente sostituita e ho deciso di zoccolare le rimanenti 3.
Ultimo problema, non c’era il cursore e a volte veniva visualizzato uno schermo incomprensile, come sappiamo bene tutti dovrebbe essere guasta la CIA 6526 in posizione U1 per il cursore assente.
Invece della CIA 6526 era lo zoccolo del 6569R3 , sostituito lo zoccolo e’ ricomparso il cursore e sono spariti altri fastidiosi glitch.
Riparazione Commodore Floppy Drive 1541 (1540050) #1
Difetti:
- Problemi di accesso al Floppy Drive (IEC): il drive si resetta correttamente ma il computer rimane fermo sul “searching for”
- Il led ROSSO fa due lampeggi poi si ferma e riparte e il motore funziona continuamente.
- Il led ROSSO lampeggia ripetutamente ogni secondo senza fermarsi e il motore funziona continuamente.
Componenti Sostituiti:
- Sostituito 6522 (UC3)
- Sostituito 6522 (UC2)
- Sostituito 901229-03 ROM (UB4)
Riparazione Commodore Floppy Drive 1541 (251830) #2
Difetti:
- Il led ROSSO lampeggia ripetutamente ogni secondo senza fermarsi e il motore funziona continuamente.
Componenti Sostituiti:
- Sostituito MOS 8713 [74LS04] (UC6)
The Return of the HybridSID Player PCB rev v2.0 by Xad/Nightfall & Gianluca Renzi (RetroBit Lab). Basato sul progetto di Markus Gritsch pubblicato negli anni 2011-2015 sul forum dangerousprotypes. Grazie Markus.
Dopo la prima revisione dello stampato ci siamo accorti che c’erano alcuni problemi di progettazione e di conseguenza di un corretto funzionamento.
Qui di seguito una breve descrizione dei fix e miglioramenti che sono stati fatti per la nuova versione dello stampato del SID Player.
PCB rev v2.0 St.Valentine’s day version:
- OLED non si spegneva con l’interuttore di power on/off.
- Pinout errato dello switch ALPS e di conseguenza non si poteva alimentare lo stampato tramite alimentatore/power bank USB.
- Rimosso diodo Zener.
- Aggiunti due nuovi ponticelli per selezionare (AB – BA) per l’encoder rotativo.
- Encoder Rotativo 20 passi, il precedente era errato.
- Rimosso circuito per lo switch dei due LED per segnalare che SID viene utilizzato per la riproduzione del brano.
- Rimappati i due LED switch SID su due piedini MCU (RB15 – LED SOCKET #1, RB12 – LED SOCKET #2)
- Rimossa la possibilita’ di utilizzare OLED 0.96″
- Allineato OLED 1.3″ sulla linea del ZIF Socket.
- Spostato segnale di reset che veniva utilizzato dall’OLED 0.96 sul connettore free pins.
- Sistemati i fori per fissaggio OLED 1.3″
- Rimappati i seguenti pins (RD5 – SID_RW, RD6 – SID2_CS, RB9 – KEY_FFWD, RB10 – KEY_PAUSE) per liberare piedini 5v tolerant.
- Aggiunte due nuove resistenze di pull-up per tasto PAUSA e FFWD.
- Riprogettato tutto lo stadio amplificazione per l’uscita cuffia utilizzando TPA6111A2 e NE5532.
- Ottimizzazione PCB tracks.
- Facilitato il DEBUG della CPU creando una “cornice” dove ogni PAD corrisponde ad un piedino della MCU.
E’ stato rilasciato un nuovo aggiornamento firmware per la Kung Fu Flash Cartridge di Kim Jørgensen.
Changelog:
- Support VICE v2.0 CRT file format (C64 and C128)
- Support WarpSpeed 128
Download:
source: github.com/KimJorgensen/KungFuFlash
NEW TAG: C64 BIG GAME PACK
E’ stato rilasciato del nuovo Software per Commodore 64.
Titoli:
- Swooper +
- Boulder Dash Junior VII +2H
- Got Milk +1D
- Swamp Attack +1D
- Buck Rogers – Countdown to Doomsday [EasyFlash]
- Sonic the Hedgehog [REU]
- Sonic the Hedgehog +4 [REU]
- Pool of Radiance [EasyFlash]
- Boxed Away – Search for Mr. Skatla
- Curse of the Azure Bonds [EasyFlash]
- Pax Pac-Man V1.1 +1D
- Scramble Infinity
- Secret of the Silverblades [EasyFlash]
- Sonic the Hedgehog +5 [REU]
- Sonic the Hedgehog V1.1 +5 [REU]
- Santa’s Rats Issue V1.0.0 +3
- Champions of Krynn [EasyFlash]
- Sonic the Hedgehog V1.1 [REU]
- Tenebra
- Death Knights of Krynn [EasyFlash]
- Tenebra +3
- Tenebra &DP
- Tenebra +1P
- CT-Fishing Mini Game Preview +
- Gyro Shoc Preview +2
- Scramble Infinity +4
- GøbLiИ Preview
- Sam’s Journey Season Special
- Giana Sisters +9DFH
- Santa’s Rats Issue V1.0.3 +C
- GøbLiИ Preview +2
- Spilldown 2 +1D
- Sam’s Journey Season Special +
- Doomball
- Beach Head II +HD [IDE64]
- Sonic the Hedgehog V1.2 [REU]
- Santa’s Rats Issue V1.1.0 +4H
- Scramble Infinity +7DH [EasyFlash]
- Santa’s Rats Issue V1.1.0 +3
- Lift +3
- Scramble Infinity V1.2
- Tenebra +4P
- Retaliate CE V1.0 (Community Edition)
- Sonic the Hedgehog V1.2 +5
- Scramble Infinity V1.2 +7D [EasyFlash]
- Retaliate CE +3
- Apeshit
- Scramble Infinity V1.2 +4
- Apeshit V1.01
- A Space Game +2
- Cosmic Combat DX V1.1 – Final [seuck]
- Apeshit V1.01 +
- Frankenstein +D
- Boxed Away – Auf der Suche nach Mr. Skatla V1.01 [german]
- The Nightland
- Boxed Away – Search for Mr. Skatla V1.01
- Datafinans [swedish]
- Scramble Infinity +5D
- Tillbaka till nutiden [swedish]
- Scramble Infinity V1.2 +4D
- Black Jack [swedish]
- Skol äventyret [swedish]
- Paper Planes +1D
- Giana Sisters +9DFH Fixed
- Burnin’ Rubber
- War Play
- Top Gun 2022
- Night Drive
- 8bit-Slicks
- Night Drive +1D
- Robot Jet Action
- Robot Jet Action +5FD
- Hide The Pickle
- Miner 2049′er
- Pieces +3FP
- The Final Programme
- Puzzle Bobble
- Commodorolympics
- Puzzle Bobble Preview +2
- Eindeloos +3DG [dutch]
- Rootin’ Tootin’ +4HGD
- Bagman Comes Back V1.0.1 +3
- Lift +4HDG
- Castles & Monsters +2D [seuck]
- Lady Pac V1.0.6 +2
- Olympics 2004 Athens
- The Job (R5)
- Apeshit V1.01
- Curse of the Vampire
- Elasto Mania Preview +1D
- Spool250
- Buccaneer’s Cache (R2)
- Closet of Mystery
- Pub Hubbub
- Tristam Island (V11)
Download: All Games in One Archive (3960)
source: csdb.dk
E’ stata rilasciata una nuova versione del firmware per il Mega Blaster 2 di Aidan Lawrence.
Il Mega Blaster 2 di Aidan Lawrence è un lettore hardware di brani musicali di videogiochi (VGM) Sega Genesis/Mega Drive e per riprodurli utilizza i chip audio originali utilizzati dalla console.
Changelog from version v0.1 to 1.28:
- 1.28: This firmware update fixes two things:
- The PSG frequency register now updates when only the low-byte is written to. This is uncommon on VGM files for “real” genesis games, but occasionally occurs on some homebrew tracks, causing the PSG to sound out-of-tune or flat out incorrect. Thank you to @natarii for solving that issue and graciously sharing your solution.
- FM channel muting has been fixed. Previous versions were targeting incorrect key-on registers.
- 1.27: Added a new sync-tone feature.
- For users looking to sync-up individual channel audio streams in their external recording software, this update adds a “Sync-tone” feature that may give you a helping hand.
- When the sync-tone feature is enabled, every unmuted FM and PSG channel will emit three tones on and off, 250ms between each key on/off. Then, 250ms later, the track will start. The YM2612/3438 use FM Channel 6 for PCM samples sent to the DAC, therefore, you can sync the PCM track using Channel 6.
- This update is handy for syncing up oscilloscope videos. You can mute all but one sound chip channel at a time, record your ‘scope video, then do the same for each channel. The sync-tone will help you find the starting point of each stream, even if a particular channel is muted at the start of a soundtrack.
- Pro tip: The PSG’s 3rd square-wave channel and noise channel will interact with one another if they are both un-muted at the same time. If both channels are active when the sync-tone is played, the PSG may sound detuned or inconsistent. It’s recommended to only have either the 3rd square wave channel OR the noise channel un-muted at a time.
- 1.26: Fixed DAC stream playback.
- 1.25: Fixes shuffle RNG.
- Music player used to select the same sequence of songs every time. This patch correctly calls the built-in true random number generator (TRNG) on the microcontroller to generate new random sequences of songs on every boot.
- 1.24: New Feature: Individual channel muting for both FM and PSG courtesy of @renedare
- You can toggle each FM and PSG channel individually by going to the new “Channel Control” menu by scrolling down the Main Menu.
- There, you can toggle each individual channel “ON” and “OFF.”
- If you’ve ever wanted to deconstruct a Genesis soundtrack into it’s constitute instruments, this update is for you!
- This feature is experimental, but works quite well already.
- DAC streams and PCM samples are played out of FM Channel 6.
- 1.23: OPTIONAL
- This firmware allows for SI5351(A) variant clock generators to be used. This new firmware will detect if your unit is using a SI5351 or SI5351A clock generator and will configure it automatically. These devices are functionally identical but have different I2C addresses. There’s no difference in performance between these two parts.
- This change was made to allow for component choice flexibility given the current electronics component shortage occurring as of mid-2021.
- 1.22: Fixed the following bugs:
- Folders with a large number of files incorrectly reported their index, causing strange out-of-order issues while in the “IN_ORDER” playback mode.
- “SHUFFLE_ALL” and “SHUFFLE_DIR” playback modes had a couple of issues regarding file indexing as well, causing the player to overflow it’s random file history list and subsequently pick invalid file indexes when traversing through the random track history.
- Random track history has been extended to 20 tracks; up from 5.
- 1.21: Prevent writing to the OPN2 test registers (0×21 and 0x2C)
- Some broken VGM files will write to these registers and cause huge distortion issues. This is technically an illegal operation and by blocking these writes, a few common broken VGM packs now function correctly, such as:
- Rocket Knight Adventures
- Comix Zone (also has some minor messed up PCM stuff, but that’s in the domain of the VGM author, not my player)
- 1.2:This new patch fixes a bug that prevented sequential folders beginning with the same substring from being opened correctly. Thanks to Bill over at the SdFat project for the help!
- 1.1: The manifest system has been removed in favor of a dynamic system at the expense of a bit more compute time and RAM usage.
- The manifest system was fairly slow and unreliable, especially when the SD card was filled with lots of files.
- You will no longer have to wait at startup for the manifest to build or verify itself.
- I’ve also put in a check for useless meta folders like System Volume Information and .DS_Store
- If these are found on the root directory, the are removed on boot. If these meta files are found after entering a directory, they will be removed after selecting a track. These may still show up in your file menu temporarily, but should go away after a refresh and never appear again unless the SD card is re-written to.
- 1.0: Double-tap the RESET button and drag the firmware.uf2 file onto the “drive” that pops up on your computer to flash!
- 0.1: The very first firmware release! Here’s to the future!
Download: Mega Blaster 2 v1.28 (502)
source: github.com/AidanHockey5/MegaBlaster2 aidanlawrence.com
The return of the Hybrid Sid Player by xAD/Nightfall & Gianluca Renzi (RetroBit Lab)
Basato sul progetto di Markus Gritsch pubblicato negli anni 2011-2015 sul forum dangerousprotypes. Grazie Markus.
Changelog:
v1.18 – 28/1/2022
Fixed:
- When you are in Manual mode of playing SID the timeout timer wrongly are also increased into a variable but this timer works only for the modes: auto/random/intro.
- Wrong STATIC variable for the debug via serial. the serial debug don’t works correctly in some part of the code. %-)
- Wrong variable for the Timeout check if the time is longer then 99 seconds. %-)
Updated:
- Freed and remapped to another destination the MCU pins of PAUSE and FFWD buttons to use them with the CS for the SID #2 and R/W because we needed 2 MCU pins 5v tolerant and there aren’t many left :/
- Described some parts of the source code.
- Added new parameters to the configuration file (config.ini).
- Playback timeout in seconds of the .SID files for AUTO/RANDOM and INTRO modes.
- Configure the best baudrate for the debug via Serial.
- Disable or Enable the visualization of the VU-METER for the 3 sid voices.
Below is an excerpt from the “config.ini” file.
# Serial Debug Baudrate – default: 115200
SERIAL_BAUDRATE=115200
# Set the Timeout in Seconds for the AUTO/RANDOM playing mode – default: 2 minutes
AUTORND_TIMEOUT=120
# Set the Timeout in Seconds for the INTRO playing mode – default: 15 seconds
INTRO_TIMEOUT=15
# Write 0 if you want to disable the visualization of the vu-meter for the 3 x sid voices.
# Default: 1
SID_VUMETER=1
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