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Start page Mediator PCI 1200 TX | With the Mediator it is possible to expand a Amiga with: Graphic, Sound, Network, USB and other PCI cards. Hardware needed is a Amiga 1200 in tower case with a 4MB RAM expansion card. Features: 6 PCI slots. 66/33MHz PCI clock. 32-bit PCI datapatch. 4GB PCI memory space. SDRAM/SGRAM of PCI gfx card as a DMA buffer. Interrupt controller. AT and ATX connectors. Power Management Interface. Look at the Elbox web page for more details. HardSID 4U | The HardSID 4U is the most powerful SID synthesizer since the legendary C64! A few of the features are: Two CPUs and main memory. USB connection. VSTi interface. Superior sound quality. Supports 6581, 8580 and 6582. Updateable firmware over USB. Cycle-accurate playback of your favorite SID tunes. Take a look at the web page for more information. Amiga hardware projects | Matthias Münch build two new hardware projects. The first is a Amiga 1000 Kickstart adapter that will give the Amiga 1000 the kickstart at startup without loading it from a disk. The other project is a adapter for the Amiga 3000. This adapter makes it possible to use 72-pin SIMM RAM memory in a Amiga 3000 Desktop. New C-One core (0.24) | Peter Wendrich has released a new core for the C-One. Some of the improvements are: Partial support for the cartridge port on the C-One. (This needs a small modification of the PCB.) Rewritten large parts of the VIC-II code. Now it properly supports delayed-dma tricks. Sprite-stretching is correct. 9th sprite is displayed on correct position in the Krestage 3 demo. Timing between $D020 and screen pixels is cycle correct. Fixed bug in keyboard matrix and merged Mark McDougall's keyboard extensions. Lots of small fixes to the CPU. Amiga 1000 project. | George Braun started a project to build a improved Amiga 1000. He made a complete new PCB that will even fit inside the original case. The Amiga 1000 has been improved with the following items: 68030 processor on 50 Mhz, 68882/50, 8 Mb Fast, 2 MB Chip, 1 Mb Flash, IDE controller, Flicker-Fixer, Clock and a Zorro-II slot. DC2N | Luigi Di Fraia is coming to the next meeting of the Dutch Commodore User Group to demonstrate his DC2N. The DC2N can be used as a datasette replacement, connected to the tape port of a Commodore computer. The DC2N can play files that are stored on the SD card. Or record files on the SD card. The SD card can be used to swap data between an Commodore emulator on a PC and the real thing. 1541 Ultimate | The 1541 Ultimate goes into production. The 1541 Ultimate developed by Gideon Zweijtzer has the following features: 512kB SRAM, 4MB Flash Rom, 32MB SDRAM, SD card, AR and FC3 cartridge emulation, fully compatible 1541 and 16 MB REU emulation. The price is Euro 99 for the standard version and Euro 119 for the 1541 Ultimate plus version. MMC Replay | The successful MMC64 and the Retro Replay are now combined into one cartridge. And all improvements of the last six years are implemented in MMC Replay. A few of the features are: 512KB Ram, 512KB Flash Rom, Clockport for RR-Net, SD/MMC card Interface, Freezer. The new product will be available in the new year. MiniMig | Cube Systems is going to sell fully assembled MiniMigs motherboards. The MiniMig features an FPGA re-implementation of the A500 chipset with a real 68000 processor on-board and was developed by Dennis van Weeren. dtv2ser | dtv2ser is a small hardware device that bridges TLR's dtvtrans protocol used to communicate with a DTV via a RS232 interface to your Mac or PC. By using a serial-to-USB adapter the dtv2ser provides dtvtrans access for all modern PCs. The new dtv2ser+usb board directly integrates the USB adapter and realizes the full dtv2ser functionality on a USB-stick-like device. DC2N | DC2N is a digital replacement for the C2N and can be used with a SD card on a VIC20, C16, Plus/4, C64 and C128. Luigi developed a hardware real-time implementation of the FAT-16 filesystem driver. Support for fragmentation handling in write operations will be added at a later time. You can follow the development on his web page. MiniMig | Peter Czidlina has made his own version of the MiniMig. Based on the work of Dennis van Weeren he improved the PCB. The PCB is now 170 x 170 mm what is compatible with Mini-ITX so it will fit in a standard computer case. Power supply is now between 8 to 40 Volts DC. There are S-Video and Composite video outputs.The VGA and audio outputs are buffered. DTV modding | Joco has done a very nice DTV modding. He transformed a original C64c case into a DTV mod. Data storage is based on the MMC2IEC project. Also the original keyboard is used with the DTV. Take a look at Joco's web page for more details. Commodore Peripheral Documents | This web page is dedicated to documents for the peripherals connected to the Commodore 64. There are more than 50 documents available from the 1084 schematics to adding a fan to your Commodore devices. This web page is a part of Project 64. Cartridges for the C64/C128. | Fotios is developing cartridges for the C64/C128. At the moment there is a Eprom cartridge for 8 x 8 kbyte, a RS-232 interface for the userport and a MIDI system. Other systems in development are a cartridge expander and a Stereo SID cartridge. New C64 cartridge. | Only a few details are know about this new cartridge. The cartridge will be presented at the ECCC expo. Memory 512 kB Flash ROM and 128 kB RAM, CS8900A Ethernet Controller and a MicroSD slot. DTV Flash Tool | TLR has released a updated version of his DTV flash tool. There are cosmetic changes, bug fixes. And also the full source code is included. New Firmware for the 1541-III | Jan Derogee has released a new firmware version for the 1541-III. With this update Jan worked on the stability of the 1541-III. If you want to know where the 1541-III is used for take a look at his promo video of the 1541-III. DC2N | The development of the DC2N is going strong. Luigi has now fully working PCBs. The DC2N is a digital replacement for the Datassette (C2N). The storage is done on a SD - card. With the proto type there are 250+ dumps made with excellent results. Micro-KIM | The micro-KIM is a clone of the KIM-1 created by MOS technologies in 1975 as a development board for the 6502 CPU. The micro-KIM uses many of the same components as the KIM-1 to give it that authentic vintage feel. A total of 5K RAM is onboard with an expansion header for future expansion of memory or add-on boards. Co-Processor for the C64 | Michael Sachse from cbmhardware.de has started on designing a co-processor for the C64. It will be a expansion port based device. The processor will be a Atmel Mega32 (16 Mips). Two extra 64kB memory banks will be added for the fast serial port and user memory for the co-processor. If you want to contribute to this project you can contact the web master. IEC-ATA v2 | The IEC-ATA-Interface V2 is a harddisk controller that connects a PC-harddisk (up to 128 GB) to a Commodore 64, VIC20, C128, DTV and other IEC Commodore computers. The interface is a DIY kit that comes with all components and PCB. It's fully compatible with the standard disk commands and all IDE64 fixed programs. DC2N | Luigi is working on his DC2N and has now a working prototype ready. You can get all the info (schematics PCB layouts, firmware) on this project on Luigi's homepage. DC2N stands for Digital C2N and it's basically intended to be a compact replacement to the tape unit used with Commodore home computers (C64, C16, VIC 20) MMC64 | Oliver Achten has mad a bunch of new releases for the MMC64. It now supports FAT32 formatted MMC/SD cards. New software: MMC64 BIOS V1.10, MMC64 MP3 plugin V0.70, MMC64 Picture plugins V1.3, MMC64 AVF plugin V0.3, AVF Testvideo. AVF is the new standard for videos on C64 with MMC64. It's 25fps, 152x80pixels, 96kbps MP3 (with MP3@C64). MMC2IEC | Lars Pontoppidan announced the MMC2IEC device. This simulates a 1541 drive and enables loading and saving programs to MMC or SD flash media. FAT16 and FAT32 is supported, and directory navigation is possible with LOADxxx,8 commands. The hardware is based on Atmel AVR, and is simple to make. New C64 core for C-one | Peter Wendrich released a new version of the C64 PAL/NTSC port for the C-one. Changes in version 0.18 are: Changed reset moment of an internal sprite flag. Now sprites can be displayed in right side border. CIA has flag_n input (cassette, rs232 and SRQ line). Peter also added files to port this core to other FPGA platforms. xu1541 | The xu1541 is the modern way to connect CBM IEC bus devices to todays USB equipped PCs and it is meant to replace the printer port solutions based on the so-called original x1541 cable. The xu1541 interface allows you e.g. to attach a VC1541 disk drive to your desktop PC. This allows for easy transfer of disk images from and to the old units and helps you preserve your ancient data. The Picodore 64 | Jason Winters made a laptop version of the Commodore C64. The specifications are: Hummer DTV. Size: 16,5 cm x 15 cm x 4cm (closed). Power: 7.5v adapter or rechargeable batteries. Screen: 5 LCD. Keyboard: 69-key QWERTY. Sound: Amplified 1.5 0.4W internal speaker. Connections: power, userport/joystick, serial disk drive, audio/video output, headphone jack, external PS/2 keyboard, SD card slot. Look at the web site for more details. DC2N | Luigi Di Fraia is developing a Digital replacement for the C2N (DC2N). This device will act as a real Datassette but instead of a Cassette there will be a SD memory card in the device. With this device you can copy any program from a real C2N to the SD card without a PC. You can also read write to the memory card using a real Commodore computer with a C2N port. Of course you can fill your SD card with TAP files using a modern PC. Luigi has build a working proto type. If you want to help with the project or want more info please contact Luigi. His e-mail address is on his web site. Build your own 1581 | Always wanted a 1581 but could not find one? The web shop C=64 reloaded sells a 1581 that is missing the drive. But you can install a PC 3,5 disk drive mechanism. After installing the drive you will have a complete 1581. Minimig | Dennis van Weeren has made his first production ready Minimig. It's called the Minimig rev 1.0. And... it works!!!! The specs are: Processor: 20Mhz MC68SEC000, RAM: 2Mbyte 70ns SRAM, FPGA: 400Kgate Spartan-3, Boot/system controller: PIC18LF252, Mass storage: MMC flash card, Power: +5VDC, I/O: dual PS/2 port (mouse/keyboard), dual 9-pin joystick port, VGA port, RS-232 port. Clone-A | Jens Schönfeld and Oliver Achten have been working on a new project the last 12 months. They recreated the custom Amiga chips inside a FPGA. This means that you can replace broken chips with these FPGA's. But it could be possible to place the FPGA's on a PCI card. Then you could use the custom chips in any PPC system. Proto types were tested in a real Amiga 500 without problems.
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