After many years i have decided to made some improvements to my Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k Issue 2.

Below what has been done:

• Replaced the obsolete 7805 voltage regulator with a modern and performant one that heats up much less; the TRACO Power 2450 (DC / DC Converter)
• Replaced the ULA Ferranti with a fully compatible FPGA solution (vLA82 designed and created by Charlie Ingley). Again it does not heat anything.
• Replacement of all electrolytic capacitors.
• Rework of an old Composite MOD with a more performing one.
• Replaced the Membrane and the bioadhesive to fix the keyboard with hard keys.

Gallery:

NEW TAG: C64 BIG GAME PACK

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

Titles:

• Words8 +D
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde +DPGS
• Indigoo
• TOOP V1.00
• 8Bit-Slicks (Update 2020-01-05)
• TOOP +1D
• King’s Valley +4DGH
• Castle Nightmare +3
• Katabatia +4D
• Neoclyps +4DGHM
• The Towers of Hanoi +T
• Into Hinterland World
• Flax +D
• Alea Preview +
• Pac-Man 25th Anniversary Edition 64 +HG
• Into Hinterland World +
• Kkniffel V2.32
• Wolves Preview +
• Into Hinterland World +4
• Sly Spy Secret Agent +H
• Die Hard 2 +6
• Crackpots
• Crackpots V1.01 +1D
• Crackpots +1D
• Crackpots V1.01
• Unnamed Dungeon Crawler Preview
• Fire! +
• Fire! +1H
• Hero of the Golden Talisman USA +3DPF
• Artura USA +1D
• The Last V8 USA +3PD
• Speed King USA +1PD
• Energy Warrior USA +3D
• Donald’s Snow Fight +2
• Major Blink +1H
• Skywalker +G
• Kaiser +5DGF [english]
• Metall Glimmer Really Buggy Preview !!
• Major Blink +2DH
• Major Blink
• Kalaspuffs Expressen +6H [swedish]
• Freakout Preview
• Escape +5HT
• Bucket Wars 128 [C128]
• Return of the Lions Preview
• One on One Preview
• Alternate Reality – The City +11D
• The Queen’s Footsteps +D
• Plumber’s Smile Preview +
• Moonshadow 2 Preview V2
• The Queen’s Footsteps +D
• 105 +2D
• You Had One Job +
• Alien Syndrome +9HD [IDE64]
• Old Tower +2
• Old Tower +1D
• Old Tower +2D
• 10×10! +D
• Old Tower +3
• Old Tower +3D
• Hat Trick 2020
• 10×10! +HD
• Vega
• Drunken Chopsticks
• Angle Racer 64
• PSI-5 Trading Company +4D
• Vega +3
• Drunken Chopsticks +1HF
• MatchSCII
• Bucket Wars V1.1 +
• Bucket Wars 1.1 [C128]
• J.E.R.O. +
• Beatnik Bert +
• Old Tower +3D
• Catgame Preview
• Toxic (2020 Edition) +3D
• Toxic (2020 Edition)

Download: All Games in One Archive (5993)

source: csdb.dk

This is the official demo party results from BCC #14. See also the CSDB BCC #14 section for more informations and download.

C64 Demo:

• 1 – Stacked by Padua
• 2 – Kyfnkacxkn by Delysid
• 3 – Breakdance by Delysid
• 4 – The New Ninja Skateboarders of Death by The New Ninja Skateboarders of Death            

C64 Music:

• 1 – Az ég leesik by dalezy
• 1 – Quicky Wanky by Glafouk
• 3 – Firefly by Mythus
• 4 – Lamento Boliviano by Uctumi
• 5 – Den hyggelige komponist by Røly
• 6 – SYS4000AGAIN by Sonki

C64 Graphics:

• 1 – The Legend of the Secret Tomb by Luisa/Oni
• 2 – Zauberwald by Fabs
• 3 – Martial Fart Ninjas by Mythus
• 4 – Diskettenpolizei by Exocet
• 5 – It’s Kenda by TheRyk
• 6 – The Whale Huntress by Neuronik

C64 Game:

• 1 – Vega by Atwoods Studios
• 2 – Drunken Chopsticks by Atlantis    
• 3 – Angle Racer 64 by Tale-X    

C64 64k Demo:

• 1 – Gubbdata 2020 by Genesis Project
• 2 – The NiX Files by Mayday!
• 3 – Tetristro by Excess    
• 4 – Gr33ntro by Excess

Productions released outside compos:

• 10×10! +HD by Excess (Crack)
• 10×10! +HD by Excess (Crack)
• Drunken Chopsticks +1HF by Excess (Crack)
• PSI-5 Trading Company +4D by Avatar (Crack)
• Vega +3 by Excess (Crack)

Download: BCC #14 Full Party Stuff (670)

source: csdb.dk

DirMaster is a Windows-based GUI application designed to help Commodore enthusiasts explore and manage their disk image collections.

DirMaster supports common (and uncommon) emulator disk image formats (such as .d64, .d81, .d2m, etc), almost every native Commodore archival format (such as .arc, .sda, .lnx, etc), and many native graphic formats (such as koala, doodle, amica, etc).

DirMaster was designed to give users a perfect blend of familiar appearance (e.g. natural looking disk image contents using the PETSCII character set) and modern GUI functionality (e.g. drag and drop, opening multiple disk images at once). The first version of DirMaster was released in 2006

Issues reported by users that were resolved in v3.1.4:

• On a d81, we cannot navigate into a subdirectory created inside a subdirectory [0193] (scott.hutter)
• A large (32 blocks) GEOS VLIR file that cannot be copied between disks [0188] (user provided test file, thank you! birt_j)
• When exiting DirMaster, saving all modified disk images by clicking “Yes to all” fails silently [0183] (stephan-andres)
• Exported .cvt files don’t conform with .cvt format’s magic string [0184] (wweicht)
• Certain small GEOS files are not exportable or copy-able between disks [0187] (user provided test files, thank you! wweicht)

Thanks to all who made an effort to submit bug reports. If you sent a bug report and don’t see it addressed here, don’t worry, it’s in the queue.

Other issues resolved in v3.1.4:

• High CPU usage when BAM view is open [0198]
• Editing a GEOS date stamp in File Properties has no effect [0192]
• File Property modified indicator (bold text) isn’t reset when selecting a new file [0195]
• File Properties GEOS description field ‘help text’ is not updated when selecting a different file [0197]
• Application crash when no file is selected and certain GEOS properties are changed in File Properties dialog [0194]
• GEOS file properties date reports a day and month 1 step larger than actual GEOS [0191]
• cvt files use the global fill byte setting to pad records, but shouldn’t [0189]
• GEOS description field in file properties dialog sometimes displays garbage [0190]

Download: DirMaster v3.1.4 (536)

source: style64.org/dirmaster

This is the official demo party results from Fjälldata 2020. See also the Fjälldata 2020 section for more informations and download.

C64 Demo:

• 1. Remains by Booze Design
• 2. Limbo Living by Fossil
• 3. In a Hurry by Padua
• 4. The Night It Snowed by Genesis Project
• 5. Vi drar till by Dinasours
• 6. Canada Demo by KMS
• 7. No Wolf by Dinasours

C64 Music:

• 1. Wasted All These Years by Dane
• 2. Gin and Electronic by Fegolhuzz
• 3. 35 Years by Polynomy
• 4. Nexus by Mythus
• 5. Block’n'Ball by Apollyon
• 6. Nothing Left by Pepsi
• 7. Umpa Bumpa by Skyffel

C64 Graphics:

• 1. Free Your Mind by Facet
• 2. Frostsmoker by Razorback
• 3. The Great Lake Monster by Raphis
• 4. Fire Stalk with Me by Apollyon
• 5. The Thief (he eats peas) by Twoflower
• 6. Mythus the Warrior by Mythus
• 7. Catch a Trout by Lobo
• 8. Hangover Dream by Fabs
• 9. Jämtskogen by Lft
• 10. I’ve Done Fucked Up, Terrible Things but I’ve Met Amazing People by Rail Slave
• 11. Exercise in Futility by Frost
• 12. Splat by Creep
• 13. You Shall Not Pass by Steffan
• 14. Fjell Gibson by Skyffel
• 15. Jamtlannskt vemod by Frost    
• 16. Fjälldata 2030 by Stein Pedersen
• 17. DragonDiscLady by Slaxx
• 18. FjellCo by Skyffel

Mixed Music:

• 1. Into the Unknown by Lft
• 2. The Reincarnation by Triad    
• 3. Ukulele Girl by Triad
• 4. Babyshark by Fairlight
• 5. Popk by Dinasours

Download: Fjalldata 2020 Full Party Stuff (707)

source: csdb.dk

A new firmware update for the ARM2SiD has been released by Nobomi.

News features and fixes in FW 3.7:

• Compared to version 3.6, only marginal changes, added reading of OSC3 and ENV3 registers to the third SID emulation.
• Simplified user interface for the update application.
• Compared to version 3.5, a quick response in stereo mode was added (when using a second socket), the dual-mono mode is activated without timeout when both socket is addressed in the same time.
• Also upper addresses mapping is fixed in the update (sometimes misaligned address detection in the update application).
• Corrected bug in bootloader. If user tried an update with SFX only mode configured, the ARM2SID stuck in the bootloader and was not possible to update it on a user side. Factory update was needed. New updater disables the SFX mode, as well as patches the bootloader to prevent problems in a future.

Download:

• ARM2SiD v3.7 (606)

source: dzi.n.cz/8bit/arm2sid

Atari 2600 JR (version without RF Modulator Box) PAL Composite Video Mod for my friend Charlie.

Gallery of the work done:

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source: blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk

NEW TAG: C64 BIG GAME PACK

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

Titles:

• 105 Preview +2D
• Soccer – Cup Finale
• Alice – Escape from Wonderland Preview
• Dungeons of Doom +6HD
• Freeze64 +1D
• Break & Enter Preview
• Bored Gold Tune
• Chiller 2 Preview +3
• Street Fighter +3DFGI [us version]
• Brain Death +2PF
• Two on Two +D [IDE64 Release]
• Amazon Tales
• King’s Valley +
• Amazon Tales +5D
• Santas Funky Factory +1D
• Kaiser +5DG [german]
• Unhallowed +D
• Grime 6502 +D
• Cosmic Force Preview +
• XCB Invaders +
• Moonsweeper +4DG
• Silverwolf – Part One +D
• Neptune Lander Preview
• The Dogboy – Part One +D
• The Life of a Lone Electron +DS
• Manic Miner 64DX
• Stargate
• CubeSim64 &DF
• Magnetoball +1D
• Deer Creek
• Merry Christmas Shift
• Jetdroid +2D
• UFO Cownapper Preview +2
• Hunter’s Moon +1PDF
• Fold’em Preview
• Operation: Sabotage
• LVDVS +D
• Atom Splitting +1D
• Mindfield 20
• 105 Preview 2 +2D
• The Dogboy +DPS
• Bombcatch +1HD
• Spoil
• Spoil +3
• Elite 128 2.0
• Frank Bruno’s Boxing +4DF
• Color Clash Preview
• 404 game perview
• Silverwolf +DS
• Math Challenge 128 [Commodore 128]
• Jai Alai (Disk Version 2020) [spanish]
• Goldrake +2 V18.0.0 Remake [seuck]
• Words8 (Proper release: OK)

Download: All Games in One Archive (5082)

source: csdb.dk

The C64 Mini & Max. There are those who like it and those who don’t.

There are those who like and those who do not like said Totò in the movie “Totò in color“, personally they make me throw up both. I have nothing more to say about these two terrible objects that try to EMULATE the Commodore 64 and the VIC-20 and should remember the 80s.

Why did i buy them ? i bought them because i like to collect beautiful things and ugly things, useless things and even more useless things.

So there is no a real “why”, i can only say that i haven’t even tried them, they are still packaged and will remain packed forever.

Defect:

• Background noise (AC) and doesn’t reproduce sound from the cassette.

Repair:

• Replacement of two electrolytic capacitors of 22uf and 100uf  (see photo)
• General cleaning.

Gallery of the repair:

Firmware upgrades for THEC64 provide new features and/or correct any technical issues.

We always recommend that you use the latest version of the firmware.

Version 1.3.2 – Changes:

• Increases the length of displayed USB filenames in Media Access and the File loader.
• Fixes an issue where filename flags are not detected if the USB filename contains multiple dots/periods/full stops.
• Fixes an issue with the saved states location where multiple spaces are found in the USB filename.
• Fixes the saved states location used on a USB stick to be unique per filename. Note that this may change the saved states location from previous firmware versions if the filename contains multiple dots/periods/full stops.

Previous changes included in version 1.3.2:

• v1.3.1 – Fixes an issue when using Left Shift key and top-left arrow key for opening/closing THEC64 Menu from BASIC.
• v1.3.1 – Fixes an issue regarding the current computer model setting and different model requirements specified in a cjm file.

Download:

• TheC64 Firmware v1.3.2 (942)

source: retrogames.biz

A new version of the firmware for the AVGCART (SD multicart for 8bit Atari) by tmp is released.

Changelog (v0018):

• Run AUTORUN.(CAR|XEX|AVF) on power-on if present in /_AVGCART/ directory.
• Added type 44 (OSS 8 KB cartridge)
• Added type 53 (Low bank 8 KB cartridge)
• Added types 54, 55, 56 (SIC!)
• Fix bank reenabling for some OSS carts.
• Fix cursor position after running file from search results.
• ESC exits search results instead of disabling cart.
• Cart initialization speedup to remove the need to manually reset the machine upon power-on on certain configurations (e.g. QMEG OS)

Download:

• AVGCART [0018] (653)

source: atariage.com

This is a little update of Super Mario Bros for the Commodore 64 from Zeropaige.

Changelog:

• Fixed sprites on wrong pages in manual.
• Removed debug border color change.

Download: Super Mario Bros 64 v1.2 (7455)

This is a little update of Super Mario Bros for the Commodore 64 from Zeropaige.

Changelog:

• Fixed detection of Schnedler Systems Turbo Master CPU.
• Fixed player-brick bounce issue.
• Joystick/keyboard routine made even more robust.
• Various small visual fixes.
• Gameloop runs slightly faster.

Download: Super Mario Bros 64 v1.1 (1217)