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Fixed the SIO2SD Firmware Crash.

The SIO2SD is a device that allows you to load games/applications into any 8-bit Atari XL/XE computers via SIO interface from SD/MMC cards.

Autopsy:

Testing the SIO2SD interface for Atari

The SIO2SD  is a device that allows you to load games/applications into any 8-bit Atari XL/XE computers via SIO interface from SD/MMC cards.

Device abilities:

• Works with SD (not SDHC) and MMC(FAT12,FAT16 and FAT32 formats)
• Handles ATR (rw), XFD (ro) and COM/XEX (ro) file types.
• 16×2 LCD display allows to “walk” catalog tree and choose files to load.
• Handles SIO with turbo (allows to set speed index from 1 to 16, default is 6 (69kb/s), in versions 1.x speed index was always 10 (51kb/s))
• All densities with 128B and 256B sectors, including 16MB disks.
• Handles drives D1 to D8.
• Can be configured using ATARI (it’s possible to load configuration tool directly from MCU flash memory, so no SD card is needed)

SIO2SD in Action:

source: sio2sd.gucio.pl marcinprusisz.pl

The SIDstick is a pocket-sized chiptunes player. Chiptunes are songs written to be synthesized in real-time. A lot of chiptunes are ripped from classic videogames, and some are new works. The SIDstick plays the most common variety of chiptunes, music written for playback on a SID chip. Main features:

• Removable Storage supporting microSD cards, 1 card can hold 20,000 songs.
• 20+ hour battery life.
• Super Hi-Quality hardware-based playback at 31kHz sample rate, >16 bit resolution.
• Completely Open, hardware and software are available under the MIT license.
• Upgradable with connections on the board.

source: gadgetgangster.com wikipedia hvsc.c64.org

This shop offers selected open-source projects in kit form for the classical computers
Commodore C64 and VIC-20.

Like:

• C-64 EasyFlash.
• VIC-20 Final Expansion.

source: for8bits.com

The Shop of the website for8bits will open in early October and will be the exclusive seller of the EasyFlash and Final Expansion cartridges.

source: for8bits.com

from Homepage:

The parts for the first EasyFlash cartridges have been shipped by Nils from his shop for8bits.

EasyFlash is a cartridge for the C64 expansion port. In contrast to traditional cartridges, this one can be programmed directly from the C64.

source: easyflash homepage

from Homepage:

EasyFlash is a cartridge for the C64 expansion port. In contrast to traditional cartridges, this one can be programmed directly from the C64.

You can easily create various classic computer game cartridges, program collections or even a diagnostic cartridge to track down issues with your hardware with it.

All what you need to do this is a C64, an EasyFlash, the software available here and an image of the cartridge (*.crt). As these CRT files may be quite large, a large disk drive like the FD-2000 or an sd2iec may be useful.

EasyFlash is not a freezer cartridge like the Final Cartridge III or the Retro Replay. And it’s no replacement for a 1541 disk drive like the sd2iec.

source: easyflash homepage