Category: Commodore News
– One more IDE emulation fix, bogus extra write interrupt removed (I think this was accidentally introduced in some recent update). For some reason all tested drivers seemed to ignore it but it also could have caused data corruption in worst case. – Added support for very large resolutions (NV Surround/AMD Eyefinity), max is now 8192×8192 (from 3072×2048) (I now…
[youtube W_cnrS_UcXo nolink] Spud from http://blackjet.co.uk has finished writing his new Amiga game ‘The Incredible Adventures of Moebius Goatlizard’ which is a port of the popular ZX Spectrum title from last year, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, and based on his SAM Coupé port of The Lost Tapes of Albion (The Lost Disks of SAM). You can download it in ADF…
Steve Gray started a new project. He uses an 80 column (monochrome) CBM/PET to display a 40 column screen with colour. A normal 80 column CBM/PET uses two RAM banks for the text. Steve now uses one RAM bank for the text (40 columns) and the other RAM bank for the colour information. You can read all the details on…
An update to FS-UAE 2.2 has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.2.2: With video_sync = auto, allow some slack when deciding to enable full sync or not (accept host refresh rate 49 instead of just 50, ..). New option: assume_refresh_rate (int) to manually specify host refresh rate when refresh rate detection fails. This option in combination with video_sync = auto…
Brian Bagnall has finished a new book with the title Commodore: The Amiga Years. The book will be available from July 01, 2013. In the book Brian talks about the Commodore Amiga, a computer that was five years ahead of its competition. Besides the Amiga, other products such as the C128, Geos, game consoles, and the C65 are also examined…
On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Alpha Flight – Dari, The Silents – Bionic Commando, The Star Frontiers – Tetris, The Star Frontiers – Uridium, Alpha Flight – NorthSea Inferno, Cleveland Cracking…
[youtube XqmDuLxtYAk nolink] Dan Wood made a video about SD card readers for the C64. In his 12 minute video he explains how to use an SD card reader for the Commodore 64. He demonstrates loading C64 games, demos and applications from SD cards. Transfer software from PC to Commodore 64 via SD cards and a SD2IEC reader. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/techguruuk?feature=watchSource:…
Mfilos has written an article over the overclocking of an Amiga 600. He used a ACA630 with an alternative oscillator of 75 MHz in his A600. During his test of 3 hours the Amiga was running stable. To keep the ACA630 cool he used an extra fan on the heat sink. You can read all details on his blog. Website:…
After several years of development, we are proud to announce the availability of a new, major update of WinFellow. There are a lot of changes and enhancements in version 0.5.1; for a full list, please refer to the new user guide or the ChangeLog. Below is a summary of the changes. Conversion of most of the former assembler code to…
A new article/hardware review has been released, the Video/S-Video to VGA converter. A Composite, S-Video and VGA to VGA converter found on eBay.
