Commodore 128 4k Game Coding Competition 2011

August 1st, 2011 No comments

The web page Commodore128.org is organizing a Coding competition.

RULES:

  • Entries must be original programs.
  • Entries must NOT be larger than 4096 bytes (4kb)
  • The result must be playable on a real 128 and VICE.
  • The competition starts Saturday October 29th 2011 at 5pm EST (Australian, not US)
  • Entries must be submitted on or before April 1st, 2012.
  • Entries must only be for the 128′s 40 or 80 colum modes – CP/M & 64 modes will be ineligible.
  • There will be a competion page at www.commodore128.org with the submissions & you’ll have the opportunity to vote for your favourite game (which will determine the winners).
  • All entries must be released under GPL & with the source included.

SUBMISSIONS:

  • Submissions must be made by email to landover (at) tpg.com.au
  • Format of submissions to be in either D81, D64 or PRG format & then zipped.

PRIZES:

  • 1st prize of $AU100
  • 2nd prize of $AU50
  • 3rd prize of $AU25

source: commodore128.org

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C64 Game: Blood2 & Redrunner and Blok Copy by Onslaught

August 1st, 2011 No comments

Some new cracked and trained games from your favorite group Onslaught. Blood 2 & Redrunner for Commodore 64 and Blok Copy for DTV.

Download: Blood 2 + (1224)

Download: Redrunner +5 (1205)

Download: Blok Copy DTV +3D (1244)

source: noname.c64.org

Atari Monitor SM124

July 31st, 2011 2 comments
Atari Monitor SM124

Autopsy:

The Atari SM-124 is a high-resolution monochrome monitor designed to be used with the ST series of computers. It is capable of 640×400 resolution at 72Hz in black and white and has a very sharp picture, though the actual viewing area onscreen is quite small, a large black border of about .5 inches or more surrounding the entire screen.

For serious work on the ST, including MIDI sequencing, telecomunications, word processing, etc. the SM-124 is a much nicer monitor than it’s color counterpart

Atari Mega ST2 (PCB Rev 5.0)

July 31st, 2011 3 comments
Atari Mega ST2 (PCB Rev 5.0)

Autopsy:

The Mega ST was Atari’s first major enhancement to the ST line of computers. With 1MB or 4MB memory (expandable with add-on cards), built in BLITTER graphics chip, and MegaBUS expansion Slot all packaged into a nice clean pizza-box case the ST line of computers received a boost in power, expandability and professional looks.

Atari was moving forward in the right direction. Also introduced along with the Mega ST line was Atari’s direction into the desktop publishing field.

Atari introduced the SLM804 Laser Printer which attached to the Atari DMA interface port and also the desktop publishing package. Also introduced was the Atari Megafile hard drive system to add stackable harddrive modules onto the Mega ST.

Super Com 72 (Nes on a Chip)

July 29th, 2011 13 comments

Super Com 72  (Nes on a Chip)

Autopsy:

You can see the review of the Super Com 60 here

It’s a famous famiclone and it will play famicom (nes) games. It’s compatible with JAP/USA cartridges without regional lockout chip (CIC). The console comes with 72 games included.

Sinclair QL-Toolkit

July 29th, 2011 No comments
Sinclair QL-Toolkit

Autopsy:

This is the program QL Toolkit for the Sinclair QL home computer written by Tony Tebby (the author of the QDOS and SMSQ/e operating systems) and published by Sinclair on their Silver Label.

QL Toolkit offered a lot of facilities which Tony had originally devised for the original QL QDOS operating system, but which were never released.  It included commands to control jobs, improvements to SAVE and COPY commands, wildcard file handling, and much more.

It also contains a host of example SuperBASIC programs on the microdrive cartridges. It was later to become Toolkit II (or Super Toolkit) which was recognised as the standard toolkit upgrade to the Sinclair QL Home Computer.

C64 Music: Sounds of the Amiga #3

July 28th, 2011 No comments

Sounds of the Amiga #3, released by Triad. Another nice pack with SID-covers of your favorite amiga tunes!

Download: Sota #1 (1005) Sota #2 (858) Sota #3 (905)

source: noname.c64.org

D64Lister v1.7.1

July 28th, 2011 No comments

Author’s Introduction: Because I wasn’t satisfied with all the available D64 lister programs in several aspects I decided to make my own one. The D64Lister is of course Freeware.

The D64Lister is featured with following abilities and properties:

  • Windows based (Win9x, WinNT, Win2000, WinXP, WinVista, Windows7)
  • Multifile support.
  • Extended Recursive OpenDialog with Directory selection.
  • D64 Images as parameter.
  • Images can be drag&dropped.
  • 40 Tracks Support (SpeedDOS, DolphinDOS, PrologicDOS)
  • 99% PETSCII -> ASCII conversion.
  • 99% Original C64/1541 behaviour.
  • ASCII Textfile generation.
  • RichTextFormat file generation.
  • Appending of new Textfiles to existing ones.
  • Upper/Lower -> Upper/Graphics Char switching.
  • Emulated C64Screen.
  • C64Screen is zoom – and scrollable.
  • Comfortable OptionsDialog with *.ini File.
  • GEOS File support.
  • Auto Upper/Lower Char switching for GEOS Files.
  • GEOS File Details.
  • GeoWrite Textviewer with styles, fontsizes, formats and photoscraps.
  • GEOS Font Shower.
  • GeoPaint Viewer.
  • PhotoScrap Viewer.
  • PhotoAlbum Viewer.
  • GeoPaint pictures and PhotoScraps are saveable.
  • Fonts zoom – and saveable (as bitmap)
  • Zoomable display of GEOS icons.
  • Export function for supported GEOS Filetypes
  • Show BAM (with diskerrors like StarCommander)
  • Show BAM entry -> filename, filename -> BAM entries.
  • BlockViewer in hex or char.
  • FileViewer with BASIC Command Detokenize, C64 program export and Hex View.

Download: D64Lister v1.7.1 (876)

source: hardworks.de

Attitude Diskmagazine #12 Summer Edition released

July 28th, 2011 No comments

Attitude is a disk magazine for the Commodore 64 computer. This edition is written in collaboration with the joint forces of Triad and Oxyron.

We hope you enjoy this issue as much as you did the previous ones!

Download: Attitude Diskmagazine #12 (917)

source: noname.c64.org attitude.c64.org

Categories: Magazine, News & Rumors, Today

C64 Game: Yucatan & The Great War – 1914 by Genesis Project

July 28th, 2011 No comments

Two new cracked and trained games from your favorite group Genesis Project, Yucatan & The Great War – 1914 for Commodore 64.

Download: Yucatan +5 (1259)

Download: The Great War - 1914 (1382)

source: noname.c64.org

Some new Games and Utility for Commodore VIC-20

July 24th, 2011 No comments

Some new Games & Utility for Commodore VIC-20.

  • MINIGRAFIK batch processing suite. Collection of example and utility programs using MINIGRAFIK.
  • Vic Wolf. Texture mapped raycaster.
  • The Keep. First person dungeon crawler.

Download: MINIGRAFIK batch processing suite (1385)

Download: Vic Wolf (1428)

Download: The Keep (1463)

source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)

Swinkels Mega SwinSID prototype on video

July 24th, 2011 No comments

The Mega SwinSID is a new C64 SID replacement by Swinkels based on 32bit STM32 ARM Cortex M3 MCU and 512KB sample memory.

It runs at 80MHz and it uses integrated 12bit DACs for stereo output.

source: swinkels.tvtom.pl

Categories: Hardware, News & Rumors, Today

C64 Game: Jihad & Super-Ski by Onslaught

July 24th, 2011 No comments

Two new cracked and trained games from your favorite group Onslaught, Jihad – Raid Over Baghdad & Super-Ski The Downhill Simulator for Commodore 64.

Download: Super-Ski The Downhill Simulator (1267)

Download: Jihad - Raid Over Baghdad (1300)

source: noname.c64.org

C64 Game: Space Taxi & Jumpman +2HD for EasyFlash cartridge

July 24th, 2011 No comments

John64 has released a trained version of Space Taxi & Jumpman (Commodore 64) for the Easyflash cartridge.

Download: Space Taxi & Jumpman (crt) (1843)

Download: Space Taxi & Jumpman (d64) (1720)

source: noname.c64.org

1541 Ultimate II: Unofficial firmware v2.3 (tlr)

July 23rd, 2011 No comments

This is a custom firmware build for the 1541 Ultimate II by Daniel Kahlin (tlr).

This version of the firmware addresses a few things that needed improvements.

Full History:

  • Rebased to the 2.3 release. (svn r88)
  • Rebased to the 2.2 release. (svn r71)
  • Added GPL 3.0 license as stated by Gideon in the 1541 Ultimate-II (Fixes Bug 110 “License file (GPL) missing in source repository.”)
  • Fixed filename length in print out during DMA loading.
  • Added “Real Run” for files inside .d64 files which mounts, loads and runs using the BASIC prompt.
  • Added “Run Tape” for .tap files which mounts tap and does LOAD/RUN using the BASIC prompt.
  • Added “Run Disk” for .d64 and .g64 files which mounts, loads and runs “*” using the BASIC prompt.
  • Added detection of cyclic links in .d64 directories and files. (Fixes Bug 94 “Hang when entering diskimage.”)
  • Added sanity check of sector links in .d64 directories and files.
  • Search until end of directory, even when hitting files with t=0. (Fixes Bug 98 “No dir listing with DEL file linked to T0, S0.”)
  • Based on the 2.1 release. (svn r65)
  • RUN/LOAD/mount has been reworked to hopefully be more clean. (Fixes Bug 109 “CLR/HOME ctrl code sometimes visible on running file from browser.”)
  • Made DMA loading simulate the look of normal loading.
  • Corrected mixup of disk id. (Fixes Bug 79 “id1 & id2 mixed in disk_image.cc (Skate or Die disk/sector id bug)”)
  • Cherry-picked fix for SDCard rename from trunk. (svn r66) (Fixes Bug 105 “Renaming SDCard via U-Menu corrupts root directory.”)
  • Submenues can now be exited using CRSR-left in addition to R/S. (Implements Wish 77 “Exit submenu using CRSR-left in file browser.”)

Download: 1541 Ultimate II Unofficial firmware v2.3 (tlr) (1289)

source: 1541ultimate.net

Categories: Firmware, News & Rumors, Today