Vicious has made an expansion card for the Apple I with a Commodore 64 SID chip. The card also has a CIA chip (timers/joystick) and a ROM with firmware for the Vicious SID Player. The card can use the 6581 and 8580 SID. The Vicious Sid Player is able play many of the tunes created for Commodore 64 environment, but…
GLINK232 is an UART cartridge for the Commodore 64/128 developed by GG Labs. The standard communication of the Commodore 64/128 is limited to 2400 Baud. The SwiftLink232 and turbo232 cartridges could reach higher communication speeds but these cartridges are no longer in production. The GLINK232 Can reach communication speeds up to 38400 Baud. Website: http://gglabs.us
Shane (zap) from cbm8bit.com has updated the The SuperCPU Home web page. On this web page you can find information on the 20 MHz accelerator for the Commodore C64 / C128. The SuperCPU was developed by the company Creative Micro Designs, Inc (CMD) in 1996. The SuperCPU has a W65C816S CPU @ 20 MHz, and can support up to 16…
GI-Joe made a cartridge that can test the RAM inside the C64. This cartridge can test the RAM chips without the use of the Kernal ROM, Basic ROM, CIA1/2 and the SID. For the cartridge he uses an old game cartridge. You must replace the game ROM with an EPROM with the firmware for the RAM tester. Website: http://www.forum64.de
Beta 4: (RC1) – New relative path mode worked badly under Windows XP, possibly up to Windows 7 without SP1. – “Toggle between mouse grabbed and un-grabbed” input event has not done anything at all for ages (if ever). – “Switch between audio interpolation methods” input event probably has never done anything at all, probably totally useless (custom events works…
– Do not show “hpos = 256!?” error dialog if something writes very bad values to programmed display mode registers. – “Magic mouse” now stays disabled unless there is at least one open Intuition Screen. – If relative path mode, support also relative paths that point outside of winuae root directory. – BPLCON2 KILLEHB bit still required AGA instead of…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Labyrinth (Commodore Disc) +, Love Is in the Air, FRODIGI, Star Lifter HS, Denga +2, Fantasy 2, Steinberg Pro-16 Plus, Version 2.4, Wild West Seymour +2DPG +PIC +SOL +MAP, Cockman 3, Commando, Cooking Witch, Commando Arcade, Mayday! Intro, The Darkness Original Soundtrack, Darkipede +2, Darkipede +, Darkness +6DS, Darkness +6, Amazon 100%…
In the Polish webshop of RetroAmi you can preorder a PCMCIA-card with 4 MB Fast-RAM for the Amiga 600 and 1200. It is equipped with SRAM ICs with 55 ns access time. This is supposed to boost a standard Amiga – according to SysInfo – to 1,67 MIPS (screenshot). The card will be delivered at the end of August and costs about…







