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Start page Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 | Michael Steil gave a presentation of reverse engineering of the MOS 6502 processor. Because there are no original schematics or a good descriptions of the 6502 the only way to get the information was to photograph the chip in very high resolution. From the pictures they made a schematic. The schematic was converted to a computer program that can emulate all transistors in the 6502. You can watch the whole 60 minutes presentation on Youtube. Happy New Year | We would like to wish all Commodore fans a Happy New Year. And for the real Commodore fans we have a little riddle. What are the Commodore devices on the picture that spell Happy 2011. We will tell the answer next week. Commodore USA | Commodore USA has new Commodore products. The C64 is a PC with a mini-ITX PC motherboard with Dual Core 525 Atom processor and a Nvidia Ion2 graphics processor. The outside is almost identical to the original C64. The Amiga series A1000, A2000 and A3000 are PC cases which can be used as a PC or as a Media centre. ZoomFloppy | ZoomFloppy is an USB device for connecting Commodore disk drives to your PC. The ZoomFloppy is an improvement based on XU1541 from Till Harbaum. Nate Lawson and Jim Brain teamed up to produce a professional product. This controller will support IEC drives, IEEE-488 drives and a user-port connection for parallel speeder drives. At this moment the building and testing stage is under-way. You can follow the progress on Jim's blog. KryoFlux | KryoFlux is a USB-based floppy controller. It can be used to read a floppy, at low-level, and store the data from the disk. The features are: Low level reading. Save as raw stream, or export a specific format. The following formats are supported: Acorn Electron, Apple, Amstrad CPC, Archimedes, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, MSX, IBM PC, PC-8801, Sam Coupe, Spectrum, E-MU Emulator II and many, many others. Parallel export support. Visit the Kryoflux web page for all the details. Commodore Free #46 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following: Editorial, News: 1000 Kung-Fu Maniacs!, Blitterwolf Monthly, NJAD64V, Joyport switcher, Nova Master A1000SA, Kickstart ROM Replacement, HyperViper C64, Richard Joseph Tribute,CommVEx 2010, Hostile Breed, C64 TrueType, Commodore PET Synth, IBatch 1.0, WinUAE 2.3.0, Chuck Norris, 5ALAD, TPUG CD, Interview with Joan Malé and reviews of MCC-216 and Not Just Another D64 Viewer. Commodore - a Company on the Edge | Brian Bagnall has released a new book called: Commodore - a Company on the Edge. This book is a major rework of his book On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore. In Brian's new book there are 15 additional interviews with: Brian Dougherty, John Feagans, Andy Finkel, Bill Gardei, Neil Harris, Manfred Kapp, Dale Luck, Bill Mensch, Dick Sanford, Bill Seiler, Kit Spencer, Yash Terakura and Michael Tomczyk. Commodore Bounty | Always wanted a piece of software or hardware for your Commodore but it does not exist yet? There is now a web page that has a bounty system for creating new software or hardware for the Commodore. A recent completed bounty is a rewritten frimware for SD2IEC that makes GEOS possible on your C64 with an SD card for storage. At the moment there are bounties for making a Kernal Cartridge, JiffyDOS for the Vic 20, CBM-Command documentation and a Taipan version for the Commodore 64. Commodore Free #45 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following: Viva Amiga, Catweasel AmigaOS 4, YAPE 10 Years, BASIC on Bails, Origyn Web Browser 3.30, The SEUCK Vault, ACID 64 Player Pro v3.04, ZoomFloppy, Commodore Programming, Interview with Sean (Commodore Computer Club USA), Retro Gaming News Letter, The Mensch Computer, USB-64 and DotBASIC. Commodore Free #44 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following: News: ACE Commander 128, Pocket 1541, A conversation with Chuck Peddle, Bil Herd and Jeri Ellsworth, Maziacs, 64HDD, Morph Game, CBM-Command, Blu Manager, TargetD64, MiniGame Compo 2010, Interview with Payton Byrd, Will You Still Need Me When I am 64 and much more. C64 TrueType Fonts | Style has released a Commodore C64 TrueType font package. This package provides five TrueType formatted fonts as well as Embedded OpenType (.eot) and Web Open Font Format (.woff) versions ready for use in your own website. The fonts contains all the C64 characters and additional characters to complete the ASCII set (left and right brace, caret, grave accent, backslash and tilde). Commodore Free #43 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following: News: Amiga forever, SIDin, WINUAE, Silo64, BASIC Point, UFE, The unofficial CMD homepage, Commodore Scene VGA update, Interviews with Trevor Dickingson and Gregory Alekel. 200 Commodore Sightings | The Commodore Info Page has reached the milestone of 200 Commodore sightings. And number 200 is a special one. In a episode of the Channel 4 computer-show, 4 Computer Buff's, you can see Jack Tramiel. He talks about the new range of computers from Atari. Other examples of sightings are: Airwolf, Buck Rogers, Derrick, Futurama, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum PI, Miami Vice, Police Academy 3, Red Dwarf, Sesame Street, Star Trek, The IT crowd and Wayne's World. Pocket 1541 | The Pocket 1541 is a emulator for the 1541 disk drive. Pocket 1541 uses a SD card to store your data, supported formats are: D64, M2I, PRG, D71, D81 and P00. The firmware is based on the open source SD2IEC firmware. The device has four buttons and a LCD screen that can be used to navigate to the required files on the SD card. Visit the web page for more information. (The page is in Italian which you can translate with the help of Google-Translate.) Commodore Free #42 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following: News, MorphOS 2.5, Spectacular Copy, C64SD, DIY Action Replay card, BaseEdit, Timberwolf,New Commodore Club, CCEE, Descent Freespace, Arcade Retro Gaming, X-MOTO 0.5.3, Loadstar #250, Frtis for MorphOS, MorphOS SDK, SD2IEC Firmware, A-EON and Varisys, The new adventures of Alfredo, Commander, Micromark UK, Interview with Björg Stojalowski and Ross Myer. N.A.S.E. V1 | Steve Barker released a sprite editor for Windows. The name of the program is N.A.S.E. what means: Not Another Sprite Editor! The program can be used to edit sprites including: Undo, Redo, Flip XY, Copy, Paste, Animation etc. You can download the program from the Commodore Scene DataBase. CBM Command | Payton Byrd released a new version of CBM Command. New features are: Support for the VIC 20 computer, requires 32K RAM. Support for Commodore Plus 4 computer. New color picker for the configuration program. 1581 Disk Image (D81) support. The program is still in Beta but you can download the program from Payton's Codeplex web page. HeadAlign 1.1 | Enthusi of Onslaught released a special program for datassette users. With this program you can adjust your datassette head to the right position to load a tape. This program can be used together with the Cassadapt device. DC2N v3 | Luigi Di Fraia is working on version 3 of his DC2N. The DC2N is a digital replacement for the C2N datassette. With the DC2N you can read cassettes and transfer the data to a memory-card. It is also possible to save data from a memory-card to a datassette. The DC2N is a stand alone system, what means you can do the transfers without a computer. The newest version has USB support and uses a graphical screen to show the signal that is recorded. You can watch various videos of the DC2N on youtube. Commodore Free #41 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following: News, Readers comments, Sixth Annual Commodore Vegas Expo (COMMVEX), A floppy end, CBM-Command, Adventures In Time released, A-EON / AmigaKit, Maniacs Of Noise, Commodore 128 tower project, We need Amiga.org on Wikipedia, AMIGIFT 2.1, WinUAE, GCC 4.5.0 AmigaOS 68K, Scene World Issue 16 released, Music Studio V2. 0, AmigaOS 4.1 For SAM460EX, Walt Harned has passed away, C+VG C16/+4 Special, R3PLAY, GEOS booted from GEOS.D64, Evolution (8-Bit Girl), Commodore PET 65816 CPU card, Commodore 128 VDC library, Interview with Jim Brain and the review Of Knight 'N' Grail. Commodore Free #40 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following: News, Readers comments, Commodore 128 Website, GEOLINK V1.0, X-Pander 3, Protovision update, VIC20 Final Expansion, Hamtext cart, Willis Patten passed away, Last Oregon CBM dealer sale, A-EON Website live, BASIC Programming challenge, BASIC Programming challenge C16, Interview with Mind in a box, Interview with Anders Persson. Pac-Man - 30 years | The famous video game Pac-Man will celebrate it's 30th birthday on May 22, 2010. The game was designed by Tõru Iwatani, programmed by Shigeo Funaki and the music / sound was done by Toshio Kai. In the game you must eat all dots but be aware of the monsters Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. There are 255 levels and you can score a maximum of 3,333,360 points. There is a level 256 but a bug in the software makes it impossible to play this level. Take a look at the Pac-Man wikipedia page for more details. C and A Fan #06 | C and A Fan is a Polish .pdf magazine including a diskette. In edition 6 the following: Interview with the developer of the Black Box cartridge. An article about vectors. Mimic Systems Spartan. FPS games. C64SD V2.0 | Manosoft has made a mass storage device for the Commodore C64 and VIC-20. His design is based on the SD2IEC project. But the C64SD has a couple of advantages: No external power supply is needed, No IEC cable is needed, JiffyDOS support, Disk change button and more. Visit the Manosoft web page fore more details. Commodore brochures | The Commodore Info Page has added a new section to the collection of Commodore items. This new section has scans of original brochures of Commodore computers, disk drives, datasettes, printers, software and more. At the moment there are 30 high resolution brochures available, a few examples are: Commodore LCD, Commodore SFS 484, Amiga 2286, Amiga 2024, KCS Power Cartridge, KoalaPad, Llamasoft games, etc. New Datassette hardware | Vimfuego is building a new device for the users of datassettes on Commodore computers. This device makes it possible to record the sound of a datassette to a PC. It is also possible to use the sound of the PC to load data to your Commodore computer. The device can be used on PET, VIC-20, C64/128, c16 and the Plus/4. You can read about the progress on the Lemon64 forum. Commodore Free #39 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News, Commodore USA, D64Lister, CCS64, Basic game comp., Amiga Zorro Ram, Digital talk, Tape cleaner, Competition pro, Plus 4 Spreadsheet, Return Issue 2, Vic 20 twitter, SD2IEC update, PET ALIVE and Commodore Nostalgia: John Fielden, Peter Badrick, Chris Syntichakis, Shaun Bebbington, Charles J. Gutman. 64TASS v1.46 | C64tass is a multi pass compiler with 65816 support, CPU64, DTV, illegal opcode's, optimizations, and a lot of features. The syntax is the same as the well known Turbo Assembler on C64. C64tass can be used on a Linux, Windows or Mac OSX computer. Pixels / Humanoid Kill | Patrick Jean made a nice video about the video game taking over the world. In the video you can see classics like Space Invaders, Pacman, Tretris, Break-out, Donkey Kong and Frogger. But also look for logos on buildings etc. USB-Joystickadapter | Roland Hager from the retro-donald.de web page has developed a USB Joystick-adapter. This adapter makes it possible to use your favourite joystick on your PC. You can buy the adapter as a kit. On the web page you can find a very detailed description of how to build the adapter yourself. Commodore Free #38 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News, PLA replacement, Interview with Gunther Schmidl, Minigrafix and Minipiant (VIC-20) and a interview with Michael Kircher. Format II | Tlr (VICE Team) released a program for formatting 5,25'' diskettes. The program can format a diskette in 20 seconds with full verify and calculated gaps between the sectors. The source of the program is included.
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