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Silver Dream made a web page about rebuilding the DolphinDos hardware. DolphinDos was a very popular hardware turbo system for the Commodore 1541 disk drive. You can find all necessary information to build your own DolphinDos system, including schematics, PCB layouts, firmware and manuals. Website: http://e4aws.silverdr.com/hard_projects/dolphindos2/DolphinDos 3: http://e4aws.silverdr.com/hard_projects/dolphindos3/Source: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

jasmC6502 is an open-source Commodore 64 (6502) assembler package for Android OS. With jasmC6502 you can assemble source code to prg files and add to a d64 image that can be opened with your preferred C64 emulator. Website: https://play.google.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

TxtToSeq is a program that can be used to translates between Commodore SEQ files and PC text files. The special Commodore characters can be used with a markup syntax. A few examples of the syntax are: {CLEAR} – Clear the screen, {UP} – Move cursor up one line and {97} – PETSCII character 97 (decimal). Website: http://txttoseq.codeplex.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Till Harbaum’s “MiST” is a FPGA-motherboard which is to emulate different home computers or arcade automats with the help of different “cores”. Originally MiST has been only an Atari ST-clone and therefore – similar to Minimig – was called “MiniST”. Since then the project is developed as “MiST” (aMIga/ST). MiST has a more powerful FPGA which can also emulate a…

André Fachat gave a presentation (German language) about the VICE emulator at the Humboldt-University in Berlin Germany. André is the Author of the PET and CBM-II emulation part of the Commodore Emulator VICE. André talks about the basics of emulation, emulation precision and the modular and multiplatform design of VICE. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ6shiQ-MFQSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Dan Wood made a review of the Commodore 1551/1541 disk drives. In this 20 minute video you can see the differences between the serial 1541 and the parallel 1551 disk drive. Dan also speak about OpenCBM and the XM1541 cable. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVChSJ37kv4Source: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 12 new, 96 updated and 2 removed. Website: http://www.tosecdev.orgSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Robert Broglia released c64.emu for Android. C64.emu is an advanced Commodore 64 emulator based on VICE 2.4.3. Features: Cart/Tape/Disk auto-start. Save states. FastSID and ReSID. NTSC and PAL support. Generic Bluetooth/USB gamepad and keyboard support and more. Remark: No ROMs/disk images are included. Website: https://play.google.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

In the latest pdf/html release of Retrogaming Times Monthly are the following articles: More 64! – RGCD 16K Cartridge Competition 2012, CoCoLicious! – The CoCo’s 3rd Time Is A Charm (2), The Fire And The Glory…And The Unfortunate Truth About What Happened With The Transformers, MAME Reviews – Gridlee Revisited, Apple II Incider – Super Bowl Sunday (4th & Inches…

The software for the KryoFlux system has had an update. KryoFlux is a USB-based floppy controller. The system can be used to read a diskette, at low-level, and store the data from this diskette. New in this version: Write support for G64 files. The success of writing a G64 file to diskette depends on your disk drive. Not all 5,25”…