HermIRES it’s a cross-platform hires bitmap (Art Studio 1 format) editor for the Commodore 64.
The format has some restrictions, here are the rules:
- The maximal resolution of the picture is 320×200
- Only 16 fix C64 colours can be used (no gradient either)
- In a 8×8 pixel-block only 2 colours can used to be displayable by C64 (this is detected in HermIRES, but .hbm files can be saved with clashes too.)
- On a real C64 the PAL will blur the screen-content a bit, should check on CRT, or at least VICE emulator’s CRT simulation.
Download:
source: hermit.netne.net
Commodore Free Magazine Issue #66
Free to download Commodore magazine dedicated to Commodore Computers.
| In this issue you can find: |
Editorial
NEWS
New Products at amigakit.com
C16 Mega Games Collection
Paku Paku
C64 Introductory Audio Tape
MEM64 Released
Hollywood 5.2 Released
Amiga Puzzle Game: G.E.M.Z
iGame Front End for Windows |
Nerd Book
SID Wizard Creation Guides
AROS Vision 1.5.5 Uploaded
Could Elite Make A Comeback?
New Version of SysInfo Available
SteamDraw 2.1 Released
JiffyDOS & uIEC Cheat Sheet
ìThe Amiga Worksî Kickstarter
New Articles on Obligement
Revival Studios News
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AmigaOS 4 News: A Frog Game
V.A.M.P. Player 0.86 Available
FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA
RGCD News
Sketchblock Version 1.7 Relased
GadToolsBox 3 Open Sourced
Home Taping Is Killing Gaming
Computers For The Masses Not Just The Classes
Review: Mayhem
Review: Dream (Unexpanded VIC20)
Retro Derby (G & G)
Review: Alien Bash 2
Review: Space Lords |
Download:
source: commodorefree.com
Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)
The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.
Changelog:
- Bug fix to VIC. Removed faulty VIC ClockNextWakeUpClock runtime (not debugger) mode optimiser code that had caused the Technological Snow demo by Agony Design to fail since v1.0.6.3.
- EasyFlash v2 title screen glitch now fixed by correcting the “hard reset” code to set the sprite Y expansion flip-flops.
Download:
source: hoxs64.net
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 #20 (D64/D81 + Disk Cover) (798)
source: sceneworld.c64files.com
Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)
The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.
Changelog:
- Added the EasyFlash 1MB cartridge. A simplified emulation of the AMD Am29F040 EPROM permits writing and passes EasyProg v1.6.3 tests.
- Fixed freeze and soft reset to spread randomly through the frame to improve the chance of a successful freeze.
- New cartridge emulation with freeze function. Peter Schepers CRT format is supported. The following cartridge emulations are supported: Action Replay v[6 - 2], Final Cartridge III (v3 only), Retro Replay 64K RAM, Magic Desk, Ocean 1, Fun Play, Super Games, System 3, Dinamic, Zaxxon, Simons Basic, Normal Cartridge. The CRT reader uses the in file reported chip bank numbers and not the order they appear in the file.
- Fixed misreported raster position in the debugger when starting a new frame.
Download:
source: hoxs64.net
CBM prg Studio Version 2.5.3 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.
New features:
- New source conversion tool to convert Develop64 files to asm format.
- New tutorial explaining how to use projects to manage assembly source files.
Bugs fixed:
- Relative addressing with offset, e.g. BMI *+4.
- Some invalid relative offsets not detected.
- Excluding source files from a project.
- Removing source files from a project.
- Assigning a variable to another variable.
- Warnings if invalid BASIC jump (goto, gosub etc.) destinations are detected.
- Unknown labels not detected.
- Screen designer not retaining ‘reverse off’ after new line.
- Forward-referenced cheap labels not working.
- Duplicate cheap labels not detected.
- Some UI issues.
Download: CBM prg Studio v2.5.3 (795)
source: ajordison.co.uk
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.
Autopsy:
The motherboard is the same of Commodore VIC-1540 (Rev A/B PCB 1540007 (C) 1981 made in Japan) with a old HIGH Rom MOS “901229-03″ instead of “325303-01″.
The Commodore 1541 (aka CBM 1541, and originally called VIC-1541), made by Commodore International, was the best-known floppy disk drive for the Commodore 64 home computer. The 1541 was a single-sided 170 kilobyte drive for 5¼” disks. The 1541 followed the previous Commodore 1540 (meant for the VIC-20).
Here you can find the US version of the Commodore Single Drive Floppy Disk VIC-1541.
Testing the Floppy Drive:
Autopsy:
The Commodore Printer 4023 is a printer with a IEEE-488 Bus and may be daisy-chained with other IEEE-488 devices. This printer is fully compatibile with all computers Commodore PET/CBM.
Model 4023 Printer Specifications:
- Printing Method: Serisal Impact Dot Matrix.
- Print Rate: 45 LMP with 80 columns printed. 78 LPM with 40 columns printed. 124 LMP with 20 columns printed.
- Print direction: Bi-directional.
- Column Capacity: 80
- Character Font: 8 x 8
- Line Spacing: Programmable.
- Character Size: 0.094″ high, 0.08″ wide
- Copies: 3, including original.
- Ribbon Type: Cartridge.
- Ribbon Life: 1.2 x 10(6) characters.
- Ribbon Cartridge: Commodore P/N 613160550
- Paper Width: 10″ computer folded paper.
- Forms: 7.5 + (0.5 x 2 sprocket margins) Pin-to-pin distance .5″ longitudinally, 9.5″ laterally, 5/32″ diameter.
Commodore Printer 4023 self test:
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia homepage:
The Timex Sinclair 1000 (TS1000) was the first computer produced by Timex Sinclair, a joint-venture between Timex Corporation and Sinclair Research. It was launched in July 1982.
The TS1000 was a slightly-modified Sinclair ZX81 with an NTSC RF modulator instead of a UK PAL (Units sold in Portugal have a PAL RF modulator) device and the onboard RAM doubled to 2K. The TS1000′s casing had slightly more internal shielding but remained the same as Sinclair’s, including the membrane keyboard. It had black-and-white graphics and no sound. It was followed by an improved version, the Timex Sinclair 1500.
Like the Sinclair ZX81, the TS1000 used a form of BASIC as its primary interface and programming language. To make the membrane keyboard less cumbersome for program entry, the TS1000 used a shortcut system of one-letter “keywords” for most commands (e.g. pressing “P” while the cursor was in “keyword mode” would generate the keyword “PRINT”). Some keywords required a short sequence of keystrokes (e.g. SHIFT-ENTER S would generate the keyword “LPRINT”). The TS1000 clued the user in on what to expect by changing the cursor to reflect the current input mode.
The TS1000 sold for $99.95 in the US when it debuted, making it the cheapest home computer to date at the time of its launch (its advertising angle was “the first computer under $100″.) This pricing initiated a price war with Commodore International, who quickly reduced the price of its VIC-20 to match and later announced a trade-in program offering $100 for any competing computer toward the purchase of a Commodore 64. Since the TS1000 was selling for $49 by this time, many customers bought them for the sole purpose of trading it in to Commodore.
source: wikipedia
The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) is a freeware hobby project which organises Commodore 64 music (also known as SID music) into an archive for both musicians and fans alike.
The work on the collection is done completely in the Team and contributors’ spare time and is proudly one of the largest and most accurate computer music collections known.
This update features (all approximates):
- 906 new SIDs
- 185 fixed/better rips
- 2 repeats/bad rips eliminated
- 971 SID credit fixes
- 111 SID model/clock infos
- 13 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
- 14 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
- 33 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
- 14 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories
Download:
source: www.hvsc.c64.org
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Dinasours, Iceout, The Mojon Twins, Underground Domain Inc, Really Proud Lamers, Excess, Nostalgia, Antarctica and Laxity.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia homepage:
The Einstein was released in the United Kingdom in the summer of 1984, and 5,000 were exported back to Taipei later that year. A Tatung monitor (monochrome or colour) and dot matrix printer were also available as options, plus external disc drives and an 80 column display card. It was also capable of emulating the Spectrum 48k with the “Speculator” addon.
More expensive than most of its rivals, and lacking an obvious niche market other than technically-advanced home programmers, the Einstein was commercially unsuccessful. A later, revised version, called the Tatung Einstein 256 suffered a similar fate.
The machine was physically large, with an option for one or two built-in three-inch floppy disk drives manufactured by Hitachi. At the time, most home computers used ordinary tape recorders for storage. Another unusual feature of the Einstein was that on start-up the computer entered a simple machine code monitor, called MOS (Machine Operating System). A variety of software could then be loaded from disk, including a CP/M-compatible operating system called Xtal DOS (pronounced ‘Crystal DOS’, created by Crystal Computers in Torquay), and a BASIC interpreter (Xtal BASIC). Thanks to the reliability of the machine, and ample memory, the machine proved useful by many software houses to use for programming, and then porting the code to the machines they were made for, Spectrum 48k, Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64, this later stopped when the PC and Atari ST would emerge as the development systems of choice.
source: wikipedia
Some new games (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups: Onslaught, TRIAD, Antarctica and Laxity.
Download:
source: csdb.dk
HermIRES it’s a cross-platform hires bitmap (Art Studio 1 format) editor for the Commodore 64.
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