A new version of the firmware for the Atari UnoCart 2600 Cartridge by DirtyHairy is released.
Changelog:
- Fix Survival Island and probably other supercharger games.
Download:
source: github.com/DirtyHairy/UnoCart-2600
Commodore 64c Red case with translucent keycaps
Follow me for the other keys replacements ;-D
Gallery:
A new version of the firmware for the Kung Fu Flash Cartridge by Kim Jørgensen is released.
Changelog:
- Improve disk emulation to support saving high scores in Lode Runner. Thanks DWStaley.
Download:
source: github.com/KimJorgensen/KungFuFlash
Thanks to my friend Lynx for this great Pixel Art work.
I have nothing else to say except that i miss the old days. :’(
Replaced the first C64 with the colored keycaps.
Follow me for the other keys replacements ;-D
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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):
- 920 new SIDs
- 45 fixed/better rips
- 9 repeats/bad rips eliminated
- 211 SID credit fixes
- 32 SID model/clock infos
- 3 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
- 1 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
- 21 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
- 5 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories
After this update, the collection should contain 57,576 SID files!
Download:
source: www.hvsc.c64.org
First of all, i thank my friend Gerben for giving me the monitor.
This is a Black and White monitor but for some reason a thin transparent film has been applied to the front of the cinescope to simulate the tonality of an amber cathode ray tube, furthermore the APF logo placed on the front of the monitor to the right of the power light is masked.
The TVM-10 APF Monitor is approximately 43 years old and was used with the Computer APF Imagination Machine I/II.
The Monitor had several functioning problems, below is the description of the work that has been done.
- Removing the colored film.
- Replacement of all electrolytic capacitors.
- Replacement of a ceramic capacitor.
- Horizontal synchronism calibration (H-HOLD) by delicately removing the wax that was melted inside the variable inductor.
- Installation of a 1uf polyester capacitor in parallel with the 1.5uf one present for width adjustment horizontal (H-WIDTH) of the image, unfortunately the ferrite core inserted into the variable inductor for manual adjustment is blocked, probably with glue, forcing is not a good idea.
- Check of the Diodes.
- Calibration using the trimmer placed on the front of the PCB of the monitor for the power supply voltage which must be 12v.
- Geometry adjustment.
- General cleaning.
Only one geometry problem remains; the image on the top left side of the CRT tends to bend slightly for about 1cm and the left side of the image is slighty rounded, problem surely attributable to some polyester capacitor or resistance that has lost the capacity/value of the time.
Needless to say i checked almost all the polyester capacitors and resistors in the horizontal section and didn’t find nothing scandalous.
The photo gallery contains all the photos i made during the repair, i take this opportunity to thank a user of the plcforum who gave me tips on how to proceed with the repair.
Gallery of the repair:
A new version of the firmware for the Kung Fu Flash Cartridge by Kim Jørgensen is released.
Changelog:
- Drive emulation: Allow files on the SD card to be opened as SEQ. Thanks Chagizzz.
Download:
source: github.com/KimJorgensen/KungFuFlash
A new version of the firmware for the Kung Fu Flash Cartridge by Kim Jørgensen is released.
Changelog:
- Simple text file reader. Thanks Sebby75, and Magician
- It is now possible to open small text files from the launcher.
The following controls can be used in the reader:
or Joy: Page up/down
or Fire left: Go to first page
or Fire: Exit text file reader
The reader supports text files up to ~64kB. Larger files will be truncated
- Support generic cartridge ROM/BIN files. Thanks Magician
- Display error message if there are problems communicating with the cartridge. Thanks Lamerhouse
Note that only generic C64/C128 cartridges are supported as ROM/BIN files. Other cartridge types must be loaded as a CRT file.
Download:
source: github.com/KimJorgensen/KungFuFlash
Hi everyone,
I wanted to try this nice SID Player by Edu Arana with a very nice design.
Edu Arana used Bakisha opensource code for the SID (only Psid) player, the code also has my own little implementation for the Vu-Meter with three LEDs (thanks Edu for the note printed on the PCB).
I know the Bakisha SID Player fairly well, below you will find several Links of my blog where there are some experiments and implementations i did years ago.
I’m not going to dwell too much on the loyalty of this SID Player, which as i said i know well, all in all it works but we are far away light years from perfection, at least as i understand it, in fact i started another project that you all probably know: The Return of the Hybrid SID Player which in addition to an ‘almost’ perfect CPU emulation including Illegal Opcodes and uses the “Original” or “Clone” SIDs for playing music tracks and other nice and useful features.
The ‘plus’ version of the Edu SID Player differs from the previous one for the implementation of the bluetooth module which however is not supplied.
As you can see from the photos and video i have installed the BlueTooth module and the Battery to make it totally portable, the battery recharge is via USB like a mobile phone.
UPDATE:
I wrote this update because some things i wrote bothered someone.
With the phrase “I’m not going to dwell … it works well but …” i just wanted to say that the emulation of the SID, let’s talk about EMULATION, is not perfect, i’m a purist of SID songs, so for me a SID music plays perfectly only and only using the original chip, however for the price this player is sold it is perfect and also very nice!
Anyway you are always welcome to break my balls, i will always answer you.
Gallery:
Video:
Link:
- Arananet RetroProducts:
- Bluetooth Module:
- Lithium Polymer battery 3.7v:
- Bakisha STM32 Sid Player:
- STM32F40x SID Player by Bakisha with LCD and ARMSID:
- STM32F407VET6 (168Mhz Arm MCUs) SID Player by Bakisha:
- STM32F401CCU6 (Arm Cortex MCUs) SID Player by Bakisha:
- The return of the Hybrid Sid Player:
Finally a useful object that works very well and i have tried many.
This mini vacuum cleaner (4hapa) that uses a BRUSHLESS motor (be careful when choosing which model to buy) besides the “vacuum cleaner” mode it also has the “blower” mode and i assure you that it BLOWS and quite a lot (two selectable speeds).
So finally i can finally say goodbye to compressed air spray!!!
The package includes over 4 spare filters (washable), various adapters, the USB battery charger (5v to 9v) and a bag.
The only negative note; Yes! it makes some noise! i’ll get a reason.
Video:
source: aliexpress.com
A new version of the firmware for the Ultimate-64 (U64/U64E) / U2 / U2+ / U2+L by Gideon is released.
This release has again some significant changes for the firmware upgrade. Please read the manual before installing 3.10i.
Background:
If you would take some time to check the commit history of the repository at GitHub, you may find over 500 commits since the last released version, 3.10a. This is a lotttt more than it usually takes to release a next firmware version. The version is still 3.10, so there are not many functional changes. Yet, files have been touched, updated, or just made compatible with the new Ultimate-II+L hardware. It was more difficult than expected to get the Lattice FPGA to work correctly and keep compatibility with the existing hardware platforms.
On top of the new introduction of the Ultimate-II+L, there is still a need to support the “good old” 1541 Ultimate-II (or simply: U2). There have always been issues with the Microblaze processor and the compiler from Xilinx. Every version of the Xilinx compiler had different bugs that caused the Microblaze based firmware to be broken in one way or another.
Since the U2+L runs well on the Risc-V, it was decided to upgrade the CPU inside of the U2 and ditch the Microblaze forever. Unfortunately, the CPU that was chosen to run inside of the U2+L did not fit in the same space as the Microblaze clone, so I decided to write my own Risc-V compatible CPU. This is the CPU that will be used from now on in the 1541 Ultimate-II.
General Fixes:
- [Important] Fixed ExFAT filesystems with 128kB clusters (Fixes failing D64 mounts from some ExFAT thumbdrives)
- [Facebook Discussion] EasyFlash save function now saves all chip chunks to support incomplete CRT files
- [Issue-271] GEORAM at boot (MarkusC64)
- [Issue-279] Support for 2 MHz operation for any cartridge, including EasyFlash
- [Issue-246] Fixed: Virtual Printer crashes when file cannot be created.
- [Issue-234] Deleting last item in directory makes selection invisible
- [Issue-236] Confirmation modal asking a question only gives ‘OK’ instead of ‘Yes/No’.
- [Issue-R17] Added mapping of ESC key to RUN/STOP.
- [Facebook Request] Added: Leave menu on mount (can be selected per drive)
- [Facebook Bug Report]: Fixed starting Kingsoft Business Basic cartridge
- [Facebook Bug Report]: Allow Maverick (and others?) to write wrong sector headers on MFM tracks.
- [Facebook Bug Report]: Unable to select GeoRAM. Is now a mode of the RAM Expansion Unit.
- [Facebook Bug Report]: Fixed color palette not loaded at boot (U64 only).
- [Facebook Bug Report]: Fixed USB sticks not recognized
- [Messenger Report]: Improvements to palette file read. Rejects faulty files. Fixes hang-up
- [Messenger Report]: Fixes ‘Create DNP’ when run from Telnet. Turned out to be a stack overflow.
- [Email Discussion]: Adds EEPROM segment to GMOD2 when it is missing in the CRT file
U64 core fixes:
- Multicolor graphics side border bug (core version V1.41 => V1.42)
Modem fixes:
- ACIA NMI pulse extension to extend over bad line. This allows the 6502 to see it always.
- Performance optimization ACIA / Modem
- Allow spaces after ATDT command.
- Minor fixes in the modem emulation layer from Scott Hutter (xlar54)
Cartridge Support:
- [Issue-314] Added support for Blackbox V9.
- Additional C128 cartridge variant that allows banking and offers some RAM (U2/U2+/U2+L only).
Additions:
- Firmware target added: Ultimate-II+L; the Lattice version!
- System Information page (F4) now shows elaborate version info.
- GEOS support functions from MarkusC64
Download:
source: ultimate64.com github.com facebook
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