Saimo (Simone Bevilacqua) has updated his game Quod Init Exit, which is Latin for “whatever gets in, gets out”.

In the game you are a little pig, and you need to eat all the food you can find. The game has excellent HIRES graphics and is fun to play.

Changelog:

• Fixed the flicker of some pixels, which was visible only on real machines and accurate emulators.
• Added level part to score shown in in-game screen (courtesy of Endurion’s feedback Wink)
• Compressed the program for faster loading.
• Made various other minor changes.

source: noname.c64.org

The CodeNet Client it can be used to transfer PRG files directly into the memory of the C64 and also allows some other actions like filling memory and ofcourse starting a program with RUN or a jump to a defined memory address.

The CodeNet protocol is a very simple protocol to send data and executables to a C64 computer via ethernet. A CodeNet server is normally listening on UDP port 6462.

Changelog:

v0.3 (6.11.10):

• Added: Better network error handling.

source: oxyron.de

This is the unofficial official demo party results from X-2010 (Top 3 Entries only). See also the CSDB X2010 section for more informations. C64 Demo Competition:

• 1. Another Beginning by Offence, Prosonix
• 2. We Are New by Fairlight
• 3. Mekanix by Booze Design & Instinct

C64 Graphics Competition:

• 1. 25 Years of Yie Ar Kung-Fu by Veto
• 2. Must Ache the Moustache / Duce
• 3. DYN by Bimber

C64 Music Competition:

• 1. Bored Teenagers, Expensive Shoes / Randall
• 2. Evolver by Jeff
• 3. X “Jazz” / Booker

Download X-2010 Party stuff: X-2010 (973) (13 Mb) *updated*

source: noname.c64.org

Contiki is a small, open source, highly portable, multitasking computer operating system developed for use on a number of memory-constrained networked systems ranging from 8-bit computers to embedded systems on microcontrollers, including sensor network motes.

The name Contiki comes from Thor Heyerdahl’s famous Kon-Tiki raft.

The Contiki 2.x contains only very little assembler coding and even less target-specific assembler coding. This allowed for easy porting to targets beside the C64 namely the C128 and Apple II. Porting to other cc65 targets wasn’t done due to missing Ethernet hardware.

Contiki 2.4 is the first 2.x release to contain the following programs:

• Dhcp client.
• Web server.
• Web browser.
• Wget.
• Smtp client.
• IRC client.
• Twitter client.

Beside lots of other improvement especially the following issues were fixed:

• Malfunctioning DNS lookup.
• Missing PETSCII conversion for the smtp credentials.
• Incorrect fixing of all disk I/O to drive 8.

source: lemon64.com wikipedia cbm8bit.com

Snake Oil Software presents Snake on a Plane for Commodore 64. It’s inspired by a fake game cover for an Atari 2600 game based on the film Snakes on a Plane.

source: noname.c64.org

iAN CooG Site has been update with a new version of the Generic C64 prg Unpacker v2.23 (Source included).

History:

v2.23 – 2010.06.12 – 2010.07.30

• Found a Time cruncher hack expecting registers set by JSR $FD15 ($31/$30/$ff), now it’s handled correctly in pass 1.
• In verbose mode, now also number of iterations and total cycles taken by the simulated CPU are printed, just to see which is the slowest&fastest unpacker.
• Raised max iterations to support VERY intensive unpackers like ALZ64, worst testcase I found needs 27097007 (0x019D77AF) iterations to finish unpacking. This cruncher isn’t really meant for crunching programs ranging from $0801 to $ff00 due to its slowness, but still has to be supported even when abused =) New max value is set to 0×02000000, should be more than enough for anything that actually reaches end of unpacking, and won’t cause too much delay with programs that can’t be really unpacked or with endless loops.

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C64-Archiv descriptions:

• Scans and stores your C64 – (games) – collection with only a few clicks.
• Easily manages your C64-programs by creating your own categories and selections.
• Starts the C64-programs in different emulators.
• Delivers instructions for the emulators VICE, CCS64, HOXS64 and EMU64.
• Works with tools e.g. 64Copy, D64Lister or DirMaster.
• Stores the C64-programs from files with the extensions .D64, .D71, .P00, .PRG, .T64 and .CRT.
• Stores files by name with the extensions: .TAP, .VSF (VICE-snapshot-file) and .C64 (CCS64-session-file).
• Stores text and information files with the extensions: .TXT, .NFO and .DIZ
• Stores PDF files.
• Searches archiv files with the extensions: .ZIP, .7Z and .CAB
• GameBase frontend with the possibility to download games.
• GameBase view with up to 30 columns.
• Supports multi-language (currently: Englisch, French, Italian and German)

Version v3.2 – What’s new?

• NEW: PDF-files can be stored.
• NEW: Search window in the Gamebase list.
• NEW: Italian translation (Thanks to xAD/nIGHTFALL)
• NEW: The creation of profiles for tools was simplified.
• FIXED: Improved display of the filesizeBUG fixed: Search window not closed at exit.
• BUG fixed: Error with long filenames.

source: Mikes Pages

The developer, IlTimido released a new C64 frontend for Windows called C64 Memories. This frontend focusses on manageability of the big TOSEC  collections.

C64 Memories features:

• Full support for Tosec naming convention: displayed data about games are taken directly from the filename.
• Supports nearly all C64 images: .D64 .T64 .TAP .PRG .P00 .D71 .D80 .D81 .D82 .G64 .G41 .X64
• Comes with a C64 emulator: C64 Memories uses a slighlty modified version of Vice2.2 emulator.
• Directories display: the list of the content of a .D64 or .T64 file is displayed in automatic by C64 Memories.
• Favorites folder: you can add your favorite games in the favorites folder (and every disk/tape of a sequence is added in automatic).
• Search filters: you can filter results for the first letters, substrings and you can show only the first disk/tape of a sequence.
• Snapshots galleries: your can take screenshots from inside the games and the pictures will be displayed in automatic in C64 Memories.
• Notes: you can add custom notes for every single game.
• Ratings: you can rate every single game.
• Search providers: you can easily find additional informations (review, screenshots, remake, music) over the Internet for every single game just by pressing a button!

source: c64scene.com c64memories

New 8 Bit Software – Scavenger, Penultimate Fantasy and DungeonExplorer for Commodore 64.

source: noname.c64.org

TRSI released a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is a conversion of the Vectrex classic Spike.

source: noname.c64.org

Some new Games & Utility for Commodore VIC-20.

• AntiISDA Warrior. The game concept for AntiISDA Warrior was first developed on the Oric Atmos. The similarity to the game Space Invaders is not only coincidental, but here only the shots are movable, and not the enemies or the initial place for fire.
• Berzerk MMX. A clone of the classic Stern arcade hit, Berzerk. Written in ca65 assembler.
• CBM FileBrowser. A file browser for sd2iec firmware based drives (uIEC/SD2IEC/MMC2IEC) and standard CBM drives too.

source: Denial (The Commodore VIC-20 forum) hirudov.com

from the Readme file:

Introduction: Because I wasn’t satisfied with all the available D64 lister programs in several aspects I decided to make my own one. The D64Lister is of course Freeware.

The D64Lister is featured with the following abilities and properties, which are described more precise later on:

• Windows based (Win9x, WinNT, Win2000, WinXP, WinVista, Windows7)
• Multifile support.
• Extended Recursive OpenDialog with Directory selection.
• D64 Images as parameter.
• Images can be drag&dropped.
• 40 Tracks Support (SpeedDOS, DolphinDOS, PrologicDOS)
• 99% PETSCII -> ASCII conversion.
• 99% Original C64/1541 behaviour.
• ASCII Textfile generation.
• RichTextFormat file generation.
• Appending of new Textfiles to existing ones.
• Upper/Lower -> Upper/Graphics Char switching.
• Emulated C64Screen.
• C64Screen is zoom – and scrollable.
• Comfortable OptionsDialog with *.ini File.
• GEOS File support.
• Auto Upper/Lower Char switching for GEOS Files.
• GEOS File Details.
• GeoWrite Textviewer with styles, fontsizes, formats and photoscraps.
• GEOS Font Shower.
• GeoPaint Viewer.
• PhotoScrap Viewer.
• PhotoAlbum Viewer.
• GeoPaint pictures and PhotoScraps are saveable.
• Fonts zoom – and saveable (as bitmap)
• Zoomable display of GEOS icons.
• Export function for supported GEOS Filetypes
• Show BAM (with diskerrors like StarCommander)
• Show BAM entry -> filename, filename -> BAM entries.
• BlockViewer in hex or char.
• FileViewer with BASIC Command Detokenize, C64 program export and Hex View.

source: hardworks.de

This program is basically a utility created to edit your D64 files.  Hopefully when it is done it will have all of the features you’d expect from a c64 based disk editor, as well as additional features that make it easier to manage your D64 files.

Here some features:

• Read D64 files, display the directory, move files around the directory, rename files.
• Export files from the D64 into PRG files.
• Import files into the D64 with autodetection for P00 files.
• View/Edit the BAM.
• View the block chain of files on the D64.
• Create new blank D64 files, clean existing D64′s.
• View and modify blocks on the disk in hex.
• Automatic check for crosslinked files on the D64.
• View the directory using the native c64 font.
• SEQ File Viewer using the c64 font with PETASCII->ASCII conversion option.
• Drag and Drop functionality. Drag D64′s onto the main screen to load them, drag other files to import them.
• Preliminary support for importing T64′s.
• A filename builder to enable easy use of the C64 Characterset in filenames.

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64COPY is an all-purpose DOS and C64 emulator file manager, modelled after Norton Commander, and runs fine under the Windows XP/2000 DOS VDM, or in real DOS.

64COPY will run in a Windows Vista 32-bit VDM, but Vista 64-bit has no VDM support at all. It specializes in converting and manipulating emulator files between various formats. 64COPY does not do any communication to the 1541/71/81 floppy drives to read disks. If that is what you need, download Star Commander for that task.

Some of what 64COPY does includes:

• File conversion between D64 (all types, including the F64 variant), D71, D81, D80, D82, DNP, D2M, T64, G64, ZipCode (all types), PC64 (Pxx, Sxx, Uxx, Rxx), LNX, DOS binaries, ARC, CRT, SDA, X64, LBR, ARK, SPY and CPK files.
• A very powerful 6502 Disassembler.
• TEXT, HEX and D64 HEX editors.
• FILE viewer.
• BASIC unlister.
• D64, D71, D81, D80 & D82 directory customizer.
• Check disks and T64, ZipCode, G64, F64 and CRT files for errors.
• A whole lot more!

source: 64Copy homepage

EasyProg is a program for the C64. It is used to write (“burn”) cartridge image files (*.crt) onto an EasyFlash.

Changes:

• Support files split and compressed with EasySplit.
• Support for xbank format.
• Sort directory entries case-insensitive.
• Allow 255 entries in directory dialog.

source: easyflash homepage