Category: Hardware
The 128RM is a new Commodore 128 board that will fit inside the Commodore 64C housing. Very little is known about the board, with only a few prototype pictures shown on the German forum, Forum64. The creator (TheDuckSun) explains there are some modifications like: SD2IEC, VIC/VDC output switcher, Control Port switcher, 8bit colour ram, as well as 6-36VDC input voltage,…
Peter Reichenbach has been hard at work designing and building a remastered motherboard for the much neglected Commodore 128! AJ and Joerg talk to him about the hurdles and triumphs of this project, and why it’s awesome. Also, Peter troubleshoots AJ’s C128 Listen to it at: https://scene.world/c128rm
MsMadLemon has recently uploaded part 4 of her C64Ultimate II+ Multi-Part Video Series. In this new video Maddi explores backup and restoration of real floppy disks and cassette games using the 1541 Ultimate II+ Cartridge by Gideon’s Logic Architectures. Games featured in this video are The Bear Essentials and the classic Arkanoid! [vsw id=”33yiIUptpnE” source=”youtube” width=”525″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]YouTube: MsMadLemon
Last weekend we finished the PCB layout and sent it out for manufacturing. The PCB is 83x58mm and fits into a standard Commodore cartridge case. All the ICs are through holes except the DRAM chips. If everything goes well I will receive the boards sometimes next week, just in time for a final blog entry. PLD Code As mentioned in…
According to the user willwinter on sub-Reddit /r/apple2, the maker of the CFFA3000 board for the Apple II sent out an email letting people know that they have added more units to the batch #5 and also they will allow previous buyers to acquire more than the previous 2 units limit. If you don’t know what is a CFFA3000 (where have you…
OPL4 Shockwave 2 is the successor of Technobytes original MSX sound cartridge (OPL4 Shockwave as you could imagine), bringing several improvements: Smaller footprint fitting in a smaller cartridge case; P2 stereo output; The OPL4 sound is mixed with the internal MSX sound, which allows you to listen OPL4 sound through the MSX sound output; Twice as much RAM – 2MB…
Fans of the Commodore Amiga might be excited to learn that there appears to be a new project in the works, aiming to bring back the classic Commodore computer in a new, convenient package. The project has been conceived as a new endeavour by a small group of employees based at Emubee, a Norwegian company specialising in retro emulation consoles and…
After the very bad news about the case production, Henrique Olifiers has published new updates providing some light from within the darkness. First of all, he tells us that they have found two suppliers that already worked with SMS in the past and with good results. The two suppliers have already accessed the files and both are promising cost and delivery…
RC 2017/10 was my first retrochallenge. I reverse engineered the Berkely Softworks georam for Commodore 64/128 computers, published the design files and built a clone. For RC2018/04 I’d like to pick up where I left off and design a 4MB version of the ram expansion. The Berkeley Softworks geroam is a 512K memory expansion for the Commodore 64/128 originally designed…
Last week I shared an interesting post about Amiga YouTuber MsMadLemon. Following up from that post, today I am happy to announce that part three of the “C64 Ultimate II+ Series” is up and available for everyone to enjoy. In the video Maddi explores the 1541 Ultimate II+ Cartridge by Gideon’s Logic Architectures, and the FPGA SID, as well as…
