Some new Games & Tools for VIC-20
- VIC Nuclear Power Plant simulator (Conversion from Commodore PET of a classic Nuclear Power Plant simulator. Play it in the glory of 40 columns!)
- How Many 700 (Enhanced version of How Many)
- Un (original card game, the object is to be the first player to rid yourself of all the cards in your hand before your opponents do so)
- Moon Patrol (BASIC port of Moon Patrol arcade)
- Ouranos! (Weather War – Conversion from Commodore PET of the classic Weather War game. Play it in the glory of 40 columns!)
- VIC-SSS (Software Sprite Stack – A programmer’s API to quickly develop arcade-style video games. Software sprites are rendered using a custom character matrix of sizes ranging from 8×8 to 16×16. Flicker-free video using double-buffering with the option of tear-free video for both NTSC and PAL machines)
- Quikman 8K (Improved arcade version of 2008 release making use of the new VIC Software Sprite Stack video effects and more features making it closely resemble a popular 1980 coin-op arcade game)
source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum)
MultiColor is an image manipulation tool for Commodore 8-bit computers’ graphics formats. It is an old-school painting program for graphicians but not an image converter. Currently VIC-II multicolor bitmap is the only supported image format.
Features:
- Written in C++, so it’s quite fast and no special runtime is required.
- Can be compiled for many platforms, because it uses wxWidgets.
- Can load Koala and Amica, file type is detected independently from file name.
- Behaviour when hitting the color-per-cell-limit can be selected.
- Undo/redo.
- Tools with realtime preview (e.g. Line)
- Basic TV emulation.
- Zoom, with grid at higher zoom factors.
source: multicolor.berlios.de
This program converts images to a new c64 graphic format known as MUCSU Hires (MUltiColor Sprite Underlay Hires). It is merely a hiresolution bitmap image with an X expanded multicolor sprite underlay. The Hires underlay variant of this mode has been created before (known as extended hires).
After reading a few forum posts mentioning that the multicolor version of this mode was unrealistic and would provide too many restrictions, I decided to produce this converter to prove that this is not the case as well as wanting to use this particular format for my own production.
source: noname.c64.org
Autopsy:
Description:
- Country: Usa
- Most Common: Usa/Europe
- Rarity: Unrare
- Year: ????
from Wikipedia:
The Commodore 1530 (C2N) Datasette (a portmanteau of data and cassette), was Commodore’s dedicated computer tape recorder.
It provided access to an inexpensive storage medium for Commodore’s 8-bit home/personal computers, notably the PET, VIC-20, and C64. A physically similar model Commodore 1531 was made for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 series computers.
source: Wikipedia
Mirage has released a new version of this cool painting program can support C64 graphics mode with file export in (.PRG) format.
This version needs windows 2000 or higher and dotnet 2.0, which you can download from microsoft.
source: noname.c64.org
Here’s yet another entry for the 1K games category. This time round it is Container for the Commodore C64.
Game Description:
Collect the containers before your energy runs out.
source: minigamecomp.org.uk
Gallery / Autopsy:
Stuff Donated:
- 1 x Amiga 500 with 512k expansion and Kickstart Switch.
- 1 x Joystick Quickshot II Plus.
- 2 x Joystick Slik Stik from Suncom.
- 1 x New Genlock from Logica
- 2 x Amiga 500 Mouse.
- 2 x Amiga 500 Powersupply.
- 2 x 1084S Amiga 500 Cables.
- 1 x Scart Amiga 500 Cable.
- 1 x RF Cable.
- 2 x Amiga 520 Modulator.
- 1 x Amiga Eye Video Digitizer.
- 2 x Bulk Joystick.
- Amiga Workbench Disk (Original).
Thanks to Piero.
from Wikipedia:
The Amiga 500, also known as the A500, was the first “low-end” Commodore Amiga 16/32-bit multimedia home/personal computer. It was announced at the winter Consumer Electronics Show in January 1987, at the same time as the high-end Amiga 2000, and competed directly against the Atari 520ST. The A500 was released in mid 1987 at the price of 595.95 USD without monitor.
source: Wikipedia
Autopsy:
Description:
- Country: USA
- Most Common: USA/Europe
- Rarity: Very rare
- Year: 1983
- Price: $995
Fix/Enhancement:
- Added a Fan.
- ASSY fix from Commodore.
- I/O Fastloader fix.
- Userport GND fix.
- Jiffy Kernel (C64/1541).
from Wikipedia:
The Commodore SX-64, also known as the Executive 64, or VIP-64 in Europe, was a portable, briefcase/suitcase-size “luggable” version of the popular Commodore 64 home computer and holds the distinction of being the first full-color portable computer.
The SX-64 featured a built-in five-inch composite monitor and a built-in 1541 floppy drive. It weighed 23 lb (10.5 kg). The machine was carried by its sturdy handle, which doubled as an adjustable stand. It was announced in January 1983 and released a year later, at $995.
source: Wikipedia Oldcomputers
Autopsy:
Description:
- Country: USA
- Most Common: USA/Europe
- Rarity: Unrare
- Year: 1991-92
from Wikipedia:
The Amiga 1200, or A1200, was Commodore International’s third-generation Amiga computer, aimed at the home market. It was launched in October 21, 1992, at a base price of £399 in the United Kingdom and $599 in the United States. Initially, only 30,000 A1200s were available at the UK launch.[1]
Like its predecessor, the Amiga 500, the A1200 is an all-in-one design incorporating the CPU, keyboard, and disk drives (including, unlike the A500, the option of an internal hard disk drive) in one physical unit. The machine was designed to be able to house a 2.5inch HDD internally, but it was possible to mount a 3.5inch HDD inside the 1200 if a little brute force was used.
source: Wikipedia
Find your way through the dungeon levels and bring the Amulet back to the surface. Watch out for fierce guardian Demons and other creatures living in the dungeons.
Use the cursor keys to move. Move towards a monster to attack it. Any items are picked up when you walk on them.
Based on Whack by Aleksi Eeben
download: here
The PLA chip (906114-01) used in the Commodore C64 is a generic 82S100 gate array with custom programming. Its logic functions were dumped and reverse engineered by the community and are available from a variety of sources. They’re reused for this particular PLA replacement in the FPGA Arcade 28 pin DIL CPLD board.
Two approaches exist to build such a PLA replacement:
1. Implementation based on a truth table with 216 entries, each entry consiting of 8 bits and programmed into an EPROM chip.
2. Reverse engineered logic equations programmed into a PLD.
Both approaches result in the same logic functionality when implemented in a CPLD. Since equations are more common for CPLDs, I chose this implementation style for the final design. However, there’s a variant for the truth table available which has been verified in simulation but not in real C64 hardware. Following are descriptions for both of them.
We have run simulations proving that the equations perfectly match the truth table, so both compiled outputs are effectively identical in the C64 implementation discussed here.
source: fpgaarcade.com
Forth, the Language.
Forth is a different language. It’s aged and a little weird.
What’s cool about it? It’s a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. At the same time, it easily scales to become a very high-level and domain-specific language, much like Lisp. Compared to C64 Basic, Forth is more attractive in almost every way.
It is a lot more fast, memory effective and powerful. Compared to C, specifically cc65, the story is a little different. It’s hard to make a fair comparison. Theoretically Forth code can be very memory efficient, and it’s possible to make Forth code that is leaner than C code. But it is also true that cc65 code is generally much faster than Forth code.
download: noname.c64.org
wikipedia: forth
Art of Commodore Part1
Description from Left to Right:
- Commodore 64 II Generation Two (New Keyboard style/Mainboard with 8580)
- Commodore 64 II Generation One (Old Keyboard style/Mainboard with 6581)
- Commodore Plus 4
- Commodore 116
- Commodore 128
- ZX Spectrum 48k
- ZX 81 + 16k
* there are two lame computers in this photo! ;-D
Autopsy:
I have also a tape drive Datasette (black), tape drive adapter, manual, and joystick adapter.
Description:
- Country: USA
- Most Common: Europe
- Rarity: Rare
- Year: 1984
The low end members of the 264 series are the Commodore 16 and the Commodore 116. Of all the machines showcased at the C.E.S., the C116 was the only model to make it to store shelves as originally designed; though it was only in Europe, and in very small numbers.
The Commodore 116 was originally slated to be the only machine in this series, and was designed by engineers at Commodore-US.
source: Zimmers.net
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