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E’ stato rilasciato un nuovo aggiornamento del sistema operativo (OS) per la Everdrive MD Flash Cartridge (Megadrive/Genesis) di Krikzz. Le istruzioni per l’aggiornamento le potete trovare qui.

Changelog:

• SRAM auto backup bug was fixed.

Download: Everdrive MD - OS Update v35 (1998)

source: krikzz.com

E’ stato rilasciato del nuovo Software per Commodore 64 dai seguenti gruppi: On Risky Ice, Really Proud Lamers, Falcon soft e Nostalgia.

Download:

• Space Duel (Uptime) +D (967)
• Lunar +1D (973)
• Fifteen 3D +TD (979)
• Fifteen 3D (973)
• Leaderboard Golf + Tournament Courses (1015)
• World Class Leaderboard (967)
• Leaderboard Executive Edition (1005)
• Leaderboard Collection [EasyFlash] (978)
• All Games in One Archive (2213)

source: csdb.dk

E’ stato rilasciato il nuovo firmware per la SD2Snes Flash Cartridge (Super Nintendo/Famicom) di Ikari. Le istruzioni per l’aggiornamento le potete trovare here.

Changelog:

• Fix DMA initialization in the menu (could cause sprite corruption in some games)

Download: SD2Snes Firmware v0.1.4a (1121)

source: sd2snes.de

Semplice ma efficace GUI sotto ambiente Microsoft (richiede .NET Framework) per la tool a riga di comando RastaConverter di Jakub ‘Ilmenit’ Debski.

Download: RastaConverter Beta 4 + GUI (M$ Win) (1262)

source: atariage.com/forums

E’ stato rilasciato del nuovo Software per Commodore 64 dai seguenti gruppi: Laxity, Dinasours e The Hidden Farts.

Download:

• Little Sara Sister 1.5 +7HD [pal/ntsc] (955)
• Elav +4HD [pal/ntsc] (968)
• Smasheroids +1HD [pal/ntsc] (953)
• Dinasour Preview +Pic (933)
• Where\'s My Bones? HS (937)
• Quango HS (931)
• All Games in One Archive (2208)

source: csdb.dk

L’interfaccia ‘HxC Floppy Drive Emulator‘ è un sistema hardware e software creato da jfdn aka Jeff.

L’obiettivo di questo progetto è quello di sostituire l’unità floppy disk con un dispositivo elettronico che emula il floppy drive (lista dell’hardware supportato).

Esistono due interfaccie di emulazione:

• Una versione USB che permette di collegare l’interfaccia floppy disk drive del computer a un PC tramite un cavo USB.
• Una versione SDCARD che permette di emulare i floppy disk tramite le immagini memorizzate su una SDCARD.

Firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.7.1.2:

• Drive A <> Drive B constant polling issue corrected (Atari ST).
• Better SD Card error handling.

Firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.7.1.1:

• New embedded setting menu : To access this menu remove the SDCard and press the select button.
  • By this menu you can:
  • Change the floppy Interface mode.
  • Change the bitrate.
  • Change the track step mode.
  • Enable/disable the drive B.
  • Enable/disable the step sound.
  • Set the user interface sound volume.
  • Set the backlight timing.
  • Set the standby timing.
  • Check the software and bootloader version (integrity test included).
  • Clear/reset the settings and reset the Emulator.
  • Exit this menu…

• SD Card: Issue with some sd card corrected : Incompatibility with some SD chipset corrected.
• Write support: Timing for MFM / FM 250/300/500KBits/s write support readjusted. DataMark supported : 0xFB,0xF8 (deleted data mark), 0xFA,0xF9. HFE file format enhanced : Track 0 Side 0 & Track 0 Side 1 track write mode can be different from the others tracks.
• New track seek algorithm: Faster track seek/settle time -> Faster Loading time !
• Flip disk function: the disk image can now be flipped (reverse side 0<->side 1).
• Bad track number at power up corrected (E-mu Emulator I/II, SP1200, Linn/Forat 9000…)
• Experimental “Rev2″ HFE support : Correct some issue with some Amiga games/demos.
• Lots of internals code optimization…

Download:

• HxC Floppy Emulator Firmware v1.7.1.2 (1130)
• HxC Floppy Emulator Manager (1013)

source: hxc2001.free.fr

Re.Bit e’ la prima rivista italiana on-line di retrogaming totalmente Gratuita. La rivista (previa registrazione) e’ consultabile a questo indirizzo rebitmagazine.it.

in questo numero:

• Mega review di Winter Games e Epyx Mega Games.
• Approfondimenti sul cuore dello Zx81 e Zx Spectrum della Sinclair con la U.L.A. Ferranti.
• Confronto fra le storiche Fairchild Channel F e la Studio II della RCA.
• Sesta lezione di retroprogrammazione assembly per il Commodore 64.
• Approfondimenti del primo home computer a 16 bit, il TI-99/4A di Ermanno Betori.

source: rebitmagazine.it

RastaConverter di Jakub ‘Ilmenit’ Debski è una tool a linea di comando per M$ Windows/Linux per convertire e ottimizzare immagini per i Computer Atari 8 bit.

Download:

• RastaConverter Beta 4 (1080)
• RastaConverter Beta 4 (Linux) (948)
• XEX Collections by Jakub \'Ilmenit\' Debski (931)

source: github.com/ilmenit/RastaConverter atariage.com/forums atariage.com/forums

Questi sono i risultati ufficiali (solo i primi 3 posti) del demo party Arok 2012 che si e’ concluso il giorno 8/7/2012. Per maggiori informazioni visita la pagina ufficiale dell’Arok Party.

C64 Graphics:

• 1 – Stay for a while… by Chorus, Resource, Singular.
• 3 – And somebody looked in the window by Avatar.
• 5 – Spy by Mr. Booa.

C64 Music:

• 2 – Smile in the Crowd by Resource.
• 3 – Asvanyviz by Padua.
• 4 – Dream to Love by Hokuto Force.

C64 Demo:

• 1 – Pimp My Commodore by Chorus, Resource, Singular.

C64 Outside Party:

• 4 Emelet Preview (Game Preview)
• SID-Wizard 1.0 RC (Tool)

Download: Arok 2012 full Party stuff (905)

source: noname.c64.org/csdb arok.intro.hu

E’ stato rilasciato un nuovo aggiornamento del sistema operativo (OS) per la Everdrive MD Flash Cartridge (Megadrive/Genesis) di Krikzz. Le istruzioni per l’aggiornamento le potete trovare qui.

Changelog:

• Fixed underscan problem for old TV-sets.

Download: Everdrive MD - OS Update v34 (830)

source: krikzz.com

E’ stato rilasciato il nuovo firmware per la SD2Snes Flash Cartridge (Super Nintendo/Famicom) di Ikari. Le istruzioni per l’aggiornamento le potete trovare here.

Changelog:

• SPC Player (contributed by necronomfive/blargg)
• System Information screen now shows CPU/PPU revision (contributed by necronomfive)
• Satellaview: basic data transmission packet support (makes some more games boot, thanks to LuigiBlood for assistance and sample data packets)
• Number of supported files increased to 50000 per card / 16380 per directory.
• Slight speedup of menu text rendering.
• Reduce load time of menu.
• Adjust Cx4 timing to be more faithful (Mega Man now defeats the boss in attract mode in Mega Man X2)
• adapt ROM mirroring size to file size if header information is invalid (fixes Super Noah’s Ark 3D, possibly others)
• MSU1 interface changes suggested by byuu:
  • Data offset 0 and audio track 0 are automatically requested on reset. This causes the busy flags to become 0 shortly after reset/startup.
  • $2000 bit 3 is now “audio error”, becomes valid after “audio busy” -> 0 set when an error occurred while preparing playback of the requested audio track write LED stays on when SRAM content changes constantly.
• Fixes:
• fix empty save files on FAT16 / incorrect free cluster count on FAT32.
• correct directory sorting (force parent directory at top of list)
• fix text corruption when entering a directory with a scrollable name.
• fix files/dirs count in system information.
• make ‘sd2snes’ directory hiding case-insensitive.
• improve DAC I²S timing.
• fix occasional palette corruption in menu.
• fix SD clock glitch on ROM loading (occasional glitches/crashes)
• fix memory write timing on ROM loading (occasional glitches/crashes)
• fix SPI timing (ROMs not loading; System Information not working)
• properly synchronize SNES control signals (occasional glitches/crashes)
• fix floating IRQ output (occasional glitches/slowdowns)

Download: SD2Snes Firmware v0.1.4 (1095)

source: sd2snes.de

E’ stata rilasciata una nuova versione del programma CBM prg Studio. Ci sono un sacco di nuove funzionalità e fix in questa versione e sono sempre gradite le segnalazioni di bug o suggerimenti/commenti.

CBM prg Studio e’ un kit di sviluppo che gira in ambiente Windows e vi permette di programmare in Commodore Basic e Linguaggio Macchina(LM), il programma potrà poi essere compilato in un file eseguibile “.PRG” per Commodore 64 o VIC-20.

La suite è anche completa di un ottimo sprite editor che permette di definire fino a 128 pattern, nonché di un funzionale char editor, che permette di avere una gestione completa e sotto controllo della procedura per la ridefinizione del charset interno al C64 e al Vic20.

Infine il CBM prg Studio, offre una completo e facile controllo della complessa gestione della tastiera del C64 e Vic20 ed in particolare dei caratteri PETSCII che contraddistinguevano le macchine sotto il marchio Commodore e che rappresentavano una chiave fondamentale per la programmazione in ambiente Basic, alla stregua di un vero e proprio macro linguaggio.

CBM prg Studio sostituisce le ormai obsolete Tools: C64PrgGen e VIC20PrgGen.

New Features in v2.4.0:

• Screen designer and character editor extended to use the C16 and Plus/4′s larger colour palette.
• Build can now be cancelled.
• Some speed improvements.
• Improved invalid label detection.
• Relaxed restriction on mono-spaced only fonts (use with care!)
• Auto-completion added (labels, variables and macros) for assembly programs.
• Column selection in code editor.

Major bugs fixed:

• Assembly code reformatting tool.
• Loading char/screen/sprite files from the project explorer when the file has been moved/deleted.
• Start page crash for missing/moved projects/files.
• Screen Code Builder:cbm+numerics only works with mouse on virtual keyboard.
• Project open/save crash if project explorer window closed.
• Project tick in view menu occasionally missing.
• Occasional crash when opening sprite file in new project.
• PI symbol/keyword incorrect.
• Detect macro definition with no macro name. Previously would just report ‘preprocessor error’
• Selected memory in viewer should fill in start end address in save.
• End address of selected memory in viewer was sometimes wrong.
• Removed start address from basic programs generated to memory.
• Certain instructions not being optimised (zero page) properly.
• Tidied up the label dump after a build. Long labels were being bunched up.

Download: CBM prg Studio v2.4.0 (855)

source: ajordison.co.uk

E’ stato rilasciato del nuovo Software per Commodore 64 dai seguenti gruppi: Laxity, Crypt, Nostalgia e Genesis Project.

Download:

• 4 Emelet Preview (962)
• Earth Defence +3 (897)
• Sea Ranger +3H (918)
• Battle of Midway &D (1007)
• Infiltrator Collection [Easyflash] pal/ntsc (902)
• Bionik Granny Returns +6HF 101% [pal/ntsc] (1000)
• All Games in One Archive (2203)

source: csdb.dk

Javatari e’ un’emulatore di Atari 2600 scritto in Java che non richiede librerie esterne per poter funzionare.

Features:

• Unique Client-Server multiplayer mode. Runs great in low-latency networks such as LANs.
• Cheat and turn off Collisions. Finally discover the ending of River Raid!
• Complete Save State/Load State functions.
• Scanlines and TV screen emulation modes.
• Real Atari console user interface.

Changelog;

• Multiplayer mode controls in UI.
• Start Client/Server sessions directly in Settings window.
• Applet multiplayer mode support.

Download: Javatari JAR v2.01 (Needs Java 6) (972)

source: javatari.org