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

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

Version 1.1.0 – Changes:

• New File Loader functionality. Please see File Loader for full details.
• Further improvements to response times.
• Fixing one small issue with the German Virtual Keyboard.
• Adding the missing help function in ‘Avenger’ to a joystick button.

Download: TheC64 Mini Firmware v1.1.0 (1608)

source: thec64.com

A new version of the firmware for the Ultimate-64 / Ultimate 1541 II / Ultimate 1541 II+ by Gideon and some enhancements by Markus is released.

Changelog of Ultimate-64 / 1541 Ultimate 2+ by Gideon

• NEW: Audio Mixer
• 1541 Ultimate II+ only:
  • NEW: External Audio In
• 1541 Ultimate II and II+ only:
  • Can now be used in Ultimate 64
• Ultimate 64 only:
  • SpeedDOS Parallel Cable (needs e.g. DolpinDOS roms)
  • Interface type: Ultimate Menu picture overlay (HDMI-only)
  • USB keyboard support. Like earlier firmware, press scroll/lock to enter/exit the Ultimate menu.
  • Replacement of Charrom and BASIC.
• Display *.64 files as a directory via FTP:
  • Every chosen FTP username enables this feature (*.d64 are shown as directory AND as *.d64 files)
  • The username “d64″ deactivates the listing of *.d64 files (*.d64 are only shown as directory)
  • The username “d642″ disables this feature completely, (*.d64 are only shown as files)

.. and there are many improvements not present in the changelog.

Note for the Ultimate 64:

You will need a kernel, basic and character rom after the upgrade. These roms are not included in the update. These roms are distributed with vice-emu, but you can also find them on zimmermans.net.

For instance, you could use these roms: 901225-01.bin (char), 901226.bin (basic) and 901227-03.bin (kernal). Roms with the .rom extension should also work.

Changelog of Ultimate-64 / 1541 Ultimate 2 / 1541 Ultimate 2+ by Markus

Changes in this release (compared to 3.3):

• You can now flash more alternative kernals and floppy roms (1541 Ultimate II+: 2, Ultimate 64: 3).
• Kernals and floppy roms can be loaded without flashing
• Pressing the following keys while turning on the Ultimate 64 will change the video mode to
  • D => DVI
  • H => HDMI
  • R => RGB
  • C => Composite/S-Video
• Fix writing to kernal via TCP Port 64 on Ultimate 64
• Fix Fast Reset on “Original” Kernal on Ultimate 64

Download:

• Gideon Ultimate-64/1541 Ultimate 2+ Firmware (1067)
• Markus Ultimate-64/1541 Ultimate 2/2+ v1 Firmware (1131)
• OSRom (kernel,basic,character) and many more (1152)

source: ultimate64.com github.com/markusC64

Many thanks to my friend Ciro of TI-99 Italian User Club for this fantastic gift.

The CMK-49 (Computer Musical Keyboard) of SIEL is a 49-key musical keyboard which connected to the C64 allows to you use like a piano musical keyboard.

This means that the CMK-49 doesn’t produce any sounds, it only communicate using the software (driver) provided with the C64. The sound is played by the SID.

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Download: Siel CMK-49 Software (D64/TAP) & Manual (948)

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:

• Borrowed Time [scpu]
• Borrowed Time [easyflash]
• Borrowed Time [1581]
• Cheeky Twins 2 [easyflash]
• Jump Man Basic
• Warp +5DG
• Boray Gammon V2.23
• Rambo: First Blood Part II +
• Hellbound Preview 2 +2
• Basic Lightning V1.2
• Machine Lightning V1.2L
• Sphinx +3DG
• Bad Tiling
• Stick Breaker
• Law Of The West [easyflash]
• Bad Tiling +
• Rent-A-Cop Reloaded +5PD
• Rent-A-Cop Reloaded
• Phantom of the Blasteroids
• Phantom of the Blasteroids +F
• What Copies What
• Platoon +12DFHIR [easyflash]
• Last Ninja 2 +8D [easyflash]
• Top 20 Preview +5DT
• Harpo’s Castle +4HDT
• FPRPG Preview
• Magic Squares
• Magisches Quadrat
• Lights Off
• Lights On
• Split Second +2H [seuck]
• Operation Metalstorm +1H [seuck]
• Running out of RAM
• SEUCK Compo 2018 Prize Package
• The Mars Saga [cmd]
• Battletech [cmd]
• James Pond 2 [easyflash]
• Running Out of RAM +M
• Repton 3 +2DMP
• NumTrap
• Master Game +D
• Karateka 2-Player
• Rogue Burger One Preview 2 +4
• Grilled Until Dead +
• Pooyan +6DGMH
• The Labyrinth
• Superman – Man of Steel +1D [easyflash]
• Das Labyrinth
• Rogue Burger One +5
• Pirates of the Dark Waters V3
• Monster Hunt
• Monsterjagd
• Snakebird Preview
• Quest for Quintana Roo +6DGP
• Kangarudy 2 [cmd]
• Kangarudy 1 [cmd]
• Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show [easyflash]
• Paranoids
• Food Truck Preview
• Paranoids +2
• P-47 Thunderbolt [easyflash]
• Bburago Rally [easyflash]
• Willow [easyflash]
• Bad Tiling +2H
• Rambo: First Blood Part II V2 +

Download: All Games in One Archive (7050)

source: csdb.dk

The RetroStone is the latest device from developer Pierre-Louis Boyer at 8BCraft, and follows on from the successfully launched Raspiboy via a Kickstarter campaign last year.

The small RetroStone system is powered by a H3 processor which consists of 4 cores at 1.2GHz supported by 1GB of DDR RAM. Retrostone is compatible with Retrorangepi the Retropie distribution specially created for H3 boards. As you may already know Retropie is an awesome emulation station software.

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Video:

source: kickstarter.com 8bcraft.com

Many thanks to my friend Ciro of TI-99 Italian User Club for this fantastic gift.

The EXL 100 was done by people who worked at Texas Instruments. It uses a lot of technologies of the TI CC40 (like the basic and the CPU for exemple).

ll the hardware is based on Texas Instruments chips. The TMS 7020 is the CPU, the TMS 7041 manages all I/O, the speech synthesizer (TMS 5220) and the infrared receiver. The keyboard and the joysticks are linked by infrared to the CPU.

Several peripherals were developped for this computer : a dot matrix printer (EXL 80) and a modem (ExelModem). This computer didn’t have a great market success. It was above all used in schools.

Gallery:

source: old-computers.com

This is the official demo party results from Araok 2018. See also the CSDB AROK 2018 section for more informations.

C64 Music:

• 1 – Stompbox by Vincenzo
• 2 – Absolution #13 by NecroPolo
• 3 – Tigana by Boz
• 4 – Kiddy by Pudva

Mixed Graphics:

• 1 – Dragonbird by Hokuto Force, Lethargy
• 2 – Searching for Green-Truth by Chorus, Resource, Singular
• 4 – Safe and Sound by EXclusive ON
• 5 – Ape Rocks In Space by Hokuto Force
• 6 – Blue Eyes by Atlantis
• 8 – Bird Goddess by Viza
• 9 – Lost Empire by Nigaz
• 10 – Cheers by Replay

Mixed Demo:

• 3 – Go Gray by Profik
• 5 – 4th Fundamental State by Hokuto Force
• 6 – Petscii Guns by Viza

Download: Arok 2018 Full Party Stuff (1008)

source: arok.intro.hu/2018

Thanks to my friends Charlie and Gerben for this fantastic gift which adds another piece to my Atari Collection that now begins to become respectable.

A couple of weeks ago had written a post on a socialSocks that i was looking for a button for my 800XL that i had repaired.

Today the missing key came to me as a gift :D

The lot that includes the missing key is the following:

• 1 x Atari 800XL (Boxed)
• 1 x Atari 1050 Dual Densisty Disk Drive (Italian box totally different from my box)
• 1 x Atari XC11 (Boxed)
• 1 x Atari 800XL Loose

I thank so much Alessandro Polito. Thanks my friend.

This is the official demo party results from Datastorm 2018. See also the CSDB DATASTORM 2018 section for more informations.

C64 Demo:

• 1 – Fopcycle by Fairlight, Offence, Prosonix
• 2 – @ by Atlantis
• 3 – Oldskool Heroes by Nah-Kolor

C64 Music:

• 1 – Semestertechno by Qdor/Stinsen
• 2 – Disco-Data by Magnar Harestad
• 3 – Newsoft II by Zabutom
• 4 – Stratos by X-jammer
• 5 – 120 Seconds of Untz by V0yager/Magic

C64 Graphics:

• 1 – DS Compofiller 60% by Jok
• 2 – FompoCiller by grip
• 3 – Best Friends by Kaktus/Mahoney

Productions released outside compos:

• Phantom of the Blasteroids by Genesis Project (Game)

Download: Datastorm 2018 Full Party Stuff (1033)

source: datastorm.party

Vampire GOLD2.10 Core Released for V600 v2 (.1) & V500 v2(+) and new Saga Driver v1.4.

Vampire GOLD2.10 Changelog:

• Added 4 different IDE speeds (V500)
• Fixed SBCD instruction
• Fixed ChipRAM detection
• Improved CIA timings (V600)

SAGA Driver v1.4 Changelog:

• Updated VControl to 1.6
• Updated VampireSN for Vampire V4
• Updated SDNet to 1.92
• Updated V2ExpEth to 1.92

Download: Vampire Core & Saga Driver (1572)

source: apollo-accelerators.com

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:

• Rogue Ninja V1.1 +3H
• The Walking Death [party version]
• Alone and Dangerous Preview +1J
• MLsnake Preview
• Rogue Ninja V1.1 +5HD
• Thomas the Tank Engine’s Fun With Words +D
• Rick Dangerous Duology +5DH [easyflash]
• Mini Putt +D
• Push It Preview +3
• Push It Preview + Demo
• Craptastic Game Preview
• Missile Blasta – Remastered V2
• Missile Blasta – Remastered V2 +3
• Algol [seuck]
• Sydney Hunter and the Sacred Tribe +8D [easyflash]
• Tacky +2HD
• Dodge +1HD
• Spikes +1HD
• Vector Runner +1HD
• Lode Runner’s Rescue +3DG
• Dreamworld [seuck]
• Yogi Bear +4DGH
• Dangerous Sports Deadly Sports +FD
• Radeloos +10DT
• Computersville +7FD
• Grand Prix Circuit +D [easyflash]
• CETI 21 [seuck]
• Shinobi +5DGI
• Panzer Patty’s Pink Tank Adventure [seuck]
• Trolley Follies +
• Crank Crank Revolution – Gubbdata Edition
• Foodball [1988]
• Battle in the Woods [seuck]
• Wave Hero
• 4kventure
• Orbs
• Conga 4096 +1D
• Conga 4096
• Dustin’
• Rabid Robots 4K
• Chef Quest
• Dustin’ +
• Freaky Fish
• WTF +
• Parking Assist Chicken
• Snake-a-Space +2HD
• Snake-a-Space +1D
• Number 2 V ABC
• Snake-a-Space
• Trump Tower
• Memory-Safe
• Toxic
• G7000 Racer!
• Toxic +1HD
• Kalle Kloakk 4k
• Mach Tank
• Orbs +
• Wave Hero +
• Elevator Eric +2
• Kalle Kloakk 4k +
• Rabid Robots 4K +1HD
• Conga 4096 +
• G7000 Racer! +1H
• Chef Quest +2D
• Dustin’ +
• Mach Tank +
• Trump Tower +
• Mind the Mines +
• Kalle Kloakk 4k +
• Freaky Fish +2D
• Memory-Safe +2
• Shinobiden Zero Preview 2 +1D
• Foodball +3
• Endless World +
• Mind the Mines +3
• Elevator Eric +4
• Space Poker +2H
• Sheeps! +3D
• Parking Assist Chicken +D
• Ronin
• Holiday Games
• Holiday Games [easyflash]
• Boom + [easyflash]
• Thinker 2018
• 2018 ‘Craptastic’ 4kb Compilation
• McDonald Land [easyflash]
• Retrograde [easyflash]
• Number 2 V ABC +3D
• Labyrinth +4D
• Hot Rod [easyflash]
• Ghostbusters 2 [easyflash]
• Speedball Duology +4DF [easyflash]
• Spy vs Spy Trilogy [easyflash]
• 4kventure &DSM
• Ultima II: Black
• Snake-a-Space +2MHD
• Mach Tank +4HD
• WTF +4D
• Dustin’ +1H
• Spy vs Spy Trilogy [easyflash] v2
• Wave Hero +1HD
• 4kventure &DSM
• Trump Tower +1HD
• Kalle Kloakk 4k +2D

Download: All Games in One Archive (7429)

source: csdb.dk

A lot of retro things received as gift from my friends. Many thanks to Andrea & Ciro.

Description of the retro things received:

• General Electric TXP-8100 Printer for Atari XL/XE (SIO BUS) & Commodore VIC-20/64. (IEC BUS)
• Mega-Sound from Cheetah for Sinclair ZX Spectrum. (Boxed)
• Tenkolek ZX Spectrum Cassette Interface. (Boxed)
• 20 x New 3-inch floppy disk drive for Amstrad Home Computer.
• RocGen Plus from Roctec Electronics Amiga Genlock. (Boxed)
• Videon 4.1 Gold from Newtronic Video Digitizer for Amiga. (Boxed)
• Commodore 64 with an uncommon internal configuration.
• Commodore Floppy Disk Drive 1541 with an uncommon front label with the white case.
• Analog Joystick for VIC-20 with instruction how to write the software for use it.
• Unknown Power Supply 24v 1.8A.
• Sinclair Spectrum +2 Power Supply.
• BrunWord word-processor MK2 Cartridge for Amstrad CPC.
• Hardtek Serial to Parallel Converter for Sinclair ZX Spectrum with Interface 1. (Boxed)
• Memotech Memopak 32k for Sinclair ZX-81. (Boxed)
• Memotech Memopak 16k for Sinclair ZX-81. (Boxed)
• MSX Micro FDD Interface
• Unknown 64 Modem
• Dk’Tronics Mouse Interface for Amstrad CPC.
• Rubber Keyboard replacement for Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
• Rubber Keyboard replacement for Sinclair ZX-81.
• Portugal Tape Software for Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
• Radio Shack TRS-80 Software.
• Amstrad CPC Italian Instruction Manual.
• TRS-80 Color Instruction Manual.
• Atari brochure.
• Atari ST Manual.
• Commodore VC-1541 Instruction Manual.
• 2 x Texas Instruments TI-99/4a USA motherboards for spare parts.
• HitBIT HB-11 MSX Home Computer Japan with the external case completely broken. (spare parts)
• Yellow bag from Buffetti to be used for the Commodore 64.

Gallery:

This is the official demo party results from Gubbdata 2018. See also the CSDB GUBBDATA 2018 section for more informations.

C64 Demo:

• 01 – Soft Machine by Triad
• 02 – Delirious 11 by Genesis Project
• 03 – Call The Hidden by Atlantis, Genesis Project
• 04 – Old Skool Appreciation by Magnar Harestad, Pad
• 05 – Protoplasm by Resource
• 06 – Gubbabars by Software of Sweden
• 07 – Party Enemals by Dinasours
• 08 – Lektion1 by Zeta
• 09 – Squid-oh by The Increasing Popularity Crew    
• 10 – The Matrix by Hokuto Force
• 11 – Paddle Mania by The Increasing Popularity Crew
• 12 – Multiplied Fist by Speedfisters
• 13 – CMD60Phoar by Hardcore Mofokkahz
• 14 – Freddy by Esl0w
• 15 – Hey Ya by Esl0w

C64 Music:

• 01 – Days of Creation by Flex
• 02 – Mini by Fegolhuzz
• 03 – No Datafax Given by Mr.Death
• 04 – SloMoFo by X-jammer
• 05 – Hachi Bitto Whirlwind by Lft
• 06 – Melody Clara Färdiga Gå by Magnar Harestad    
• 07 – Mintaka by Mibri
• 08 – Pair of Lies by Uctumi
• 09 – Cat fell on Keyboard by Spider Jerusalem
• 10 – English Rose by DAM
• 11 – Ripleys Story by ZZAP69
• 12 – Run Like Hell by Vaz
• 13 – Karatebäver by Båtsman

C64 Graphics:

• 01 – Nailed it by Razorback
• 02 – Nogard by The Sarge
• 03 – Unconditional Lover by ptoing/iLKke
• 04 – Remote by Dr. TerrorZ
• 05 – Blue Slide
• 06 – Herr Nalle och Havet by grip
• 07 – Postcard from hoth by Oxidy
• 08 – Fairy Tale by Kobi    
• 09 – We have to go by Raphis
• 10 – nk____41 by Deev
• 11 – Framtid by Esl0w
• 12 – Kommunisten by Esl0w
• 13 – Nudisten leif by Skyffel

Mixed Graphics:

• 01 – Datagubbe by Genesis Project
• 02 – Rawr! by Lft
• 03 – Mech War 3D by The Solution    
• 04 – Walk of Shame by Triad

Productions released outside compos:

• Conga 4096 + by Triad (Crack)
• Crank Crank Revolution – Gubbdata Edition (Game)
• Dancing Keith by Triad (Crack intro)
• Foodball [1988] by Hack n’ Trade/Warrant (Game)
• G7000 Racer! +H by Triad (Crack)
• Goodlife by Triad (Misc.)
• Gubbc0re by Hardcore Mofokkahz (One-File Demo)
• Mors(e)ning (Morse coder/decoder) by Hack n’ Trade (Tool)
• Orbs + by Triad (Crack)
• Propaganda List #2 2018 by Propaganda Magazine Staff/Atlantis/Genesis Project (Diskmag)
• Technolo-G by Triad (Music)
• Wave Hero + by Triad (Crack)

Download: Gubbdata 2018 Full Party stuff (1059)

source: gubbdata.se

The Penultimate+ Cartridge is a menu driven RAM/ROM cartridge for your Commodore VIC20 PAL or NTSC.

The Memory Expansion is selectable from 3-35k and include 70+ ROMS including tfw8b exclusive games titles.

Many thanks for this gift to Dave Curran of Tynemouth Software and tfw8b (The Future Was 8Bit)

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Click here to buy the PenUltimate+ Cartridge.