Markus Gritsch has developed a simple USB joystick adapter. With this adapter you can use a digital joystick with your favorite emulator. Markus used a PIC micro controller and a few components on a experimental circuit board. He tested his adapter with the VICE emulator on his laptop and the famous Competition Pro joystick. The schematic and the firmware are…
CheeseCutter is a Music Tracker program developed by Abbadon of Fairlight. The JCH Tracker was used as an inspiration and it uses the reSID engine by Dag Lem. A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improvements to the Playback tracking system Scroll Lock can toggle playback tracking on/off It is now possible to switch between ReSID-FP filter…
Orion70 made a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. The game “The Last VIC” is an conversion from the Commodore C16 game “Earth Defender”, made by R. Adling. The game uses the hi-res 160×192 graphics from Mike’s Minigrafik extension. In the game you need to defend your home planet. You must destroy all the bombs with your canon. The game…
The web page C64 Intros has added another 200 intros bringing the total to 8600 intros. A few examples of updated or new groups are: Cyborg Power System+GCG Crew Crime Danish Game Smashers Special Weapons and Tactics + Lazer The Dark Lords Drive Electronic Cracking Association Teesside Cracking Service The Deadly Friends The Technocrats West Coast Crackers Why? Source: http://intros.c64.org
Turbo Chameleon 64 is an extremely user-friendly cartridge that can be used without opening the computer. It is just plugged to the expansion port of the C64. The Turbo Chameleon 64 cartridge can also be operated as a stand-alone unit (since it’s basically an FPGA computer like the C-One or the Minimig in a C64 cartridge case), replacing the computer,…
This update consists of 200 new intros and 3 fixed ones, not counting a bunch of fixed group entries. There are a total of 127 new groups, but mostly with only 1-2 intros each, as there is not much left to rip anyway from famous groups =) Please visit: http://intros.c64.org
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface (64 colours) which replaces the Workbench for starting WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe) and requires few resources. According to the developer the program works on all Amigas from OCS to AGA as well as from 68000 to 68060 processor and requires less than 1 KB virtual memory. Alpha version 0.1 can now be downloaded. Download the…
Michael Gibs already released version 1.3.1 of his program that makes it very easy to start a WHDLoad or harddisk installed game or demo. With Tiny Launcher you can navigate through your games and demos with the help of the joystick and start your game or demo. You can use Tiny Launcher on pretty much any Amiga. Download Tiny Launcher…
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Saturday, October 15, the Netherlands Commodore Show will have a club day at the usual meeting spot, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, the Netherlands, from 10:00 to 16:00. This club meeting will entirely be dedicated to the Commodore 64. We expect to have the C64 in various shapes and forms, and there will also be nice peripherals. Furthermore, Commodore 64 demos will…
