A new donation from Rossano Rossano Toccaceli.

Donated items:

• Philips MSX-2 8235
• Commodore Floppy Drive 1541 (without case)
• Amiga Keyboard.

Thanks Rossano.

Jean-François DEL NERO (who’s behind the HxC SD Floppy Emulator) recently has released a version of the HxC emulator firmware that is compatible with the STM32 chip used in the Gotek floppy emulators.

This means that the great functionality of the HxC SD emulator is now available on cheaper and more widely available hardware.

The bootloader to convert the Gotek floppy drive in HxC compatible must be purchased on the website HXC 2001 by sending an email to Jean-François DEL NERO. The price of the bootloader is one-off 10 Euro per Gotek that you want to update. Future updates of the software are free and can be made from a USB stick

The HXC Usb (Gotek) firmware supports:

Release notes Firmware USB HxCFloppyEmulator v3.0.6.2a

• Normal mode : Endless init loop corrected.

Release notes Firmware USB HxCFloppyEmulator v3.0.6.1a

• Amiga : Disk change detection corrected : Desert Strike, Dizzy Crystal and probably others games disk change detection are now working properly.
• Direct access mode : Correct interface mode set when activated from an PC HD image.

Download: USB Stick STM32 (Gotek) HxC Firmware v3.0.6.2a (1276)

source: hxc2001.com

Scene World is a C64 magazine on disk dedicated to various activities of both C64 scenes.

“Both” means, that we are supplying information and texts of both scenes; NTSC and PAL.

Download: Scene World #25 (D64/D81) (1427)

source: sceneworld.org

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Jean-François DEL NERO (who’s behind the HxC SD Floppy Emulator) recently has released a version of the HxC emulator firmware that is compatible with the STM32 chip used in the Gotek floppy emulators.

This means that the great functionality of the HxC SD emulator is now available on cheaper and more widely available hardware.

The bootloader to convert the Gotek floppy drive in HxC compatible must be purchased on the website HXC 2001 by sending an email to Jean-François DEL NERO. The price of the bootloader is one-off 10 Euro per Gotek that you want to update. Future updates of the software are free and can be made from a USB stick

The HXC Usb (Gotek) firmware supports:

Release notes Firmware USB HxCFloppyEmulator v3.0.6.0a

• Low level write layer redesigned : Some write issues solved.
• 2 digits display detection issue corrected.
• HFE : Index timing changed/corrected.
• Select button added at the JA jumper position.
  • This additionnal button and the I2C LCD screen allow you to freely select a file image without the indexed mode or any selector software.
• Indexed mode : “Previous”/”Minus” button repeat rate reduced.

Download: USB Stick STM32 (Gotek) HxC Firmware v3.0.6.0a (1194)

source: hxc2001.com

CBM prg Studio Version 3.4.0 is released. There are a lot of new features in this version. I’d really appreciate it if you report any bugs you find or have any suggestions/comments.

CBM prg Studio allows you to type a BASIC or Machine Code program in using a nice Windows environment and convert it to a ‘.prg’ file which you can run on an emulator, or even a real C64 / VIC20 or PET if you’re feeling brave and have the right kit.

CBM prg Studio is the result of merging C64PrgGen and VIC20PrgGen. Adding new features and fixing bugs in two apps which were 95% similar was a bit of a nightmare so merging them made sense.

It was also a good opportunity for a face lift and to add some new features, such as:

• Programs are project based, meaning all related source files, sprite files etc. are kept in one place and multiple source files can be linked more easily.
• Tabbed MDI.
• Syntax highlighting.

What CBM prg Studio isn’t is a front-end for tok64, cbmcnvrt, bastext or any other tokeniser / detokeniser / assembler. It’s all been written completely from scratch.

Improvements:

• Assembler:
  • Dump file.
  • Visual Data Generator tool.
  • Directives for creating tabular data.

• General:
  • Mixing BASIC and machine language in same project.
  • More control over IDE colours.

Bugs Fixed:

• Assembler:
  • Wrong start address when saving from the memory window.
  • TEXT and PTEXT generating wrong character values.
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  • Binary import as assembler was using the wrong start address.
  • Incbin problems with large files.

Download: CBM prg Studio v3.4.0 (1192)

source: ajordison.co.uk

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

Titles:

• Cataball +4F
• Cataball +3F
• Bignose in USA +24D
• Zorro +5D
• Turrican USA +3D [ntsc]
• S.F.S. – Special Forces Soldier +2D [seuck]
• Goliath-Prommer V1.0+
• Space Trip VE +3H
• MegaTron
• Caren 2 [[[h0t preview]]]
• Tiger Claw +29DM
• Mah
• Turrican +14HD [easyflash]
• Mah +2M
• Go-Moku +J
• Bubble Dizzy +25D
• Soldier of Fortune 101% +9DGIHF
• Quak Attak +HG
• Edge of Time [seuck]
• Flimbo’s Quest [easyflash]
• Turrican [easyflash]
• Fairy Well +31D
• Motocross +19D
• Simon +
• Spaced Out Preview
• Quick Draw McGraw +7D
• Big Mac +H
• Welcome to… Hell! +3
• Moonraker +2
• iLogicAll Preview
• Behemoth Preview
• Kevin in the Woods Beta
• Zeit der Stille [german]
• Die drei Musketiere [german]
• Awakening
• Das Camp [german]
• Caren and the Tangled Tentacles (compo version 1.0)
• Daffy Duck +3DS

Download: All Games in One Archive (3715)

source: csdb.dk

I have received two Computer Apricot F1e without accessories and aesthetically destroyed so i have decided to recover all that was possible.