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Start page C64 USB joystick adapter | Frank Buß started a project to connect a digital joystick to a PC using the USB interface. On his web page you can follow the step by step progress of building the interface. The interface uses Freescale microcontroller that will simulate a USB keyboard and translates the joystick signals to keyboard signals. The firmware and schematic of the interface can be downloaded from the web page. It will cost about 20 Euro to build the interface. SID 6581 on a Papilio FPGA board | On this YouTube video you can see a Papilio FPGA board with a SID 6581 VHDL core (no filters) acting as a networked SID device. The program ACID 64 is used to send the SID data to a network device. Then a program from Markus Gritsch sends this network data to the FPGA via the serial port. The FPGA has a RS232 UART for receiving and sending the data, a 16KB FIFO buffer for storing the data and a emulated SID chip for playing the audio. DC2N 4 | Luigi Di Fraia made a video about a new proto-type of his DC2N. The DC2N is a device that reads data from a Datassette and sends it to a PC. The latest, and final version, the DC2N 4 is controlled from the PC or Mac and will not have a local display anymore. The controls, reading of the data and a firmware update is done via the (mini) USB connection. TAWS v0.17 | TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript-Simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 3.x for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favorite web browser. Changes in this version: AmigaGuide Interpreter improved. New color definitions. More short keys and many more small changes and improvements. Realms of Quest II - VIC20 | Ghislain released an enhanced version of Realms of Quest II. It is now 20 years ago that the original Realms of Quest I computer role-playing game was released. This anniversary version has new graphics and a mini game. Instructions on how to play the game can be accessed from the main game menu. C64 Studio 1.5 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Fixed bugs in parsing !byte with binary values and with the file info storage. Added charset/sprite functions as buttons. Warnings for unused labels. Compiler speed improvements. Lotek64 #37 | A new edition of the Lotek64 magazine is available. In this German language pdf magazine the following articles: News, Jim Slim (C64), Interviews with Oliver Uschmann and Joscha Sauer, The Mario Kart formula, Commodore CDTV, Codemasters CD game pack (C64), Graz $05, Wien 2011, Music corner, The Tetris Kitchen and Kirby. Bit Fox - Plus/4 | Roepipi made a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. The game is written in BASIC but it is not slow. Can you beat this coloring game? It will take about 10 minutes to play the game. Roepipi also made a technical description of his BASIC game. D64 Lister v1.7.1 | Lars made a new version of his D64 Lister program available. D64 Lister is a Windows (W95-W7) program for manipulating or viewing D64 images. New in this version: C64Screen for BlockViewer, FileViewer, FileImport and TOK64. MouseWheel support. More diagnostic to the TokenTable. Changes to the BlockViewer, FileViewer, FileImport and TOK64 handling. Visit the web page of Lars for all the details. C64 Mags Update #9 | The Ultimate C64 Scene Mag Archive is a collection of magazines from the C64 scene underground. In this update: 78 Disk magazines, 58 Paper magazines, 5 Disk covers, 5 Bonus files, 20 Bug fixes and 2 Vote sheets. You can download the update or the complete archive from the web page. Ultimate v2.3 firmware | There is now new firmware available for the Ultimate II. Changes in this version: The REU emulation and SX-64 cartridge slot timing have been improved. And many more small changes and improvements. The (pre-)order form has been reopened with adjusted mail rates and different mail options. ACE128 screenshots | You can now look at recent screenshots from the ACE128 system. ACE128 is a project to make a new operating system for the Commodore C128. Some of the features will be: Input devices like mouse, joystick, light pen etc. Network support. Resizable and movable windows. Multilingual User Interface. SuperCPU optimization. File sharing between programs. Clipboard and many more. SUX 6400 | The Sound Ultimate Expander 6400 audio digitizer and its accompanying Digimaster 64 software were released on July 24, 2011 at the Commodore Vegas Expo v7. With this cartridge you can digitize audio into your Commodore C64. The cartridge is available and will cost $25 including a cartridge case. Return #8 | Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A like Atari to Z like the ZX Spectrum. In this edition: Jim Slim - C64, Cray_5 - Sinclair, 20 years Sonic the Hedgehog, Turrican, Crownland and Tennis for Two - Atari, Gamescom 2011. The Keep - VIC20 | The Keep is a new First Person game for the Commodore Vic 20. Make your way to floor 256 before your lamp expires! Choose from a fixed series of maps, or random maps. The game can be played on a un-expanded VIC-20 with the keyboard or the joystick. C64 Endings | The web page C64 Endings has added 6 new game endings last month. The latest additions are: Bill & Ted's excellent adventure (Capstone), Hammerfist (Activision), KGB Agent (Pirate Software), Lunar Blitz (T.M.R./Cosine), Mermaid Madness (Electric Dreams/Firebird) and Operation Fireball (Alternative Software). Kick Assembler v3.18 | The last couple of months there been updates for Kick Assembler. Changes are: Big letters allowed in hexadecimal numbers. Added .dword directive. Corrected a couple of small program errors. Manual corrections. Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for writing 6510 machine code and a high level script language. With the assembler functionalities you can write your assembler programs, and with the script language you can write programs that generate data to use in the assembler programs. SEUCK Vault | The Seuck vault has 39 new entries. A few examples are: Horace Takes A Trip, Raid 3 - Total Fire, Intense - Reborn Again, Billy the Dragon, China Raiders, Retaliator, Utopium, Computer Conflict, Middle East Madness, Slap 'n Tickle, 109, Boche, Headgames, Smash Telly and Space Heat. All the games can be downloaded from the web page. Brisbane C64 Night 2011 | Brisbane C64 Night is a meeting of C64 fans in Australia on the 27th of August 2011. Bring your C64 or another 8-bit Commodore computer with you and have a great evening. Entrance is 5 AUD for covering the costs. For more information you can read the messages on the Lemon64 forum. Attitude #12 | In this English diskette magazine the following: 25 Years of TRAID. The Scene with the news and the charts. Report of Datastorm 2011. Backing-up T250 tape, Traid and me, Arttitude, Ixion returns. Opinions. Tutorial for booting up XV1541 and a interview with Mahoney. Sounds of the Amiga #3 | The group TRIAD made a new music collection. This time they converted well known Amiga music to the C64. The music collection was made by: iopop, Itch, dalezy, ne7, Spot and Taper. Mega SwinSID | You can see a demonstration of a prototype of the Mega SwinSID on YouTube. This time the original SID is replaced by a STM32 ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller. The microcontroller works at 80 MHz and it uses the integrated 12 bit DACs for stereo output. Currently it is in early stage of development and only basic SID emulation is working. Vic20 - Game Compilation Part 1 | Vicman has made a compilation of games. He shows in his video games for the Commodore VIC-20. This time you can see the games that start with numbers. A few examples are: 3 Deep Space, 3D Labyrinth (Llamasoft), 3D Maze (Galactic Software), 3D Tic Tac Toe, 4 op een Rij and more. WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Mysterious Worlds (Playstone Design), S (Skarla), When We Ride On Our Enemies (Skarla) and Shaft 7 (Bomb). Updated: Turrican 3 (Factor 5 / Rainbow Arts), Leavin Teramis (Thalion), Alien Breed 3D (Team 17), Dennis (Ocean) and Puzznic (Ocean). Commodore C64 controlling a pallet warehouse | The Commodore C64 can be used to control all kinds of hardware. In this demonstration you can see that the C64 is used to control a pallet warehouse. A program written in BASIC is used to move the pallets from one place in the warehouse to another place. The movement is controlled with 3 stepper motors that can make the mechanical arm move in the X, Y and Z directions. The commands for the motors are given via 5 outputs at the user-port of the C64. Let's Compare | Let's compare is a series of videos about classic computer games. In the videos from the Gaming History Source channel you can see all the classics games but on different computers or consoles. A few examples of the games are Pole Position, Congo Bongo, Crystal Castles, R-Type, Donkey Kong, Zaxxon, Burger Time, Bubble Bobble and many more. The computers used for the games are the Commodore VIC-20, C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad, Gameboy, original arcade machines and many more. Commodore 128 - 4k Game Coding Compo | The web page Commodore128.org is organizing a competition. In this competition you need to write a program for the Commodore C128 in 40 or 80 column mode. The rules are: Original programs not larger than 4096 bytes (4kb). Programs must work on a real C128 and VICE. The start of the competition is October 29th 2011 and will end at April 1st 2012. The prizes are from 25 $AU to 100 $AU. RunInUAE | A new version of RunInUAE (r5) is available. RunInUAE is a system that makes it possible to run old Amiga games or programs on Amiga OS4. And RunInUAE comes with an easy installer. Changes in this version: If not available a WB3.1 will be created. Improved emulation performance. Added a Help menu item. Added Mason's icons for RunInUAE's folder, plus UAE's folder and program. A comprehensive online manual (English) for RunInUAE is available. Digital Talk #92 | In this German language d64 magazine the following articles: Computer Szene with Commodore Treffen Graz, HomeCon, Spectacular Odysee and Emu64. Talkies und Diskussionen. Games corner with Darlek Attack, Jim Slim and D.A.D. Out of C64 and the Musikbox. Digimancy | People are making music with the Commodore C64 since the year 1982. And most people use the SID chip to produce the music. But Jordan Bartee does it a little bit different. He uses various synthesizers and digital equipment to turn the digital signals of the C64 into music. Jordan welcomes you to the micro-galactic frontier. Chang's Adventure - C64 | Chang's Adventure is a new game for the Commodore C64. The game is made by The Mad Scientist (Hokuto Force). In the game you need to find the treasures, fight the enemies and find a boat to escape the island. HybridSID - Network SID Device | Markus Gritsch wrote an alternative firmware for his HybridSID device. It can now act as a Network SID Device and can be used as the sound output device for ACID 64 and GoatTracker. When the HybridSID works together with ACID 64 you will have support for the RSID format and the music is played cycle exact. The HybridSID is a open source project, the schematics and firmware are available to build your own device.
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