Tag: 1541 Ultimate

Ultimate 64 is an FPGA-based Commodore 64 implementation that also includes the Ultimate-II+ built-in and has support for real SID chips (two of them!). For the joy of any C64 enthusiast (at least the ones that can understand and accept the FPGA solutions!), Gideon Zweiitzer has published some pictures of the assembly line that is building the first one hundred…

If you, like me, have a pile of Commodore disk drives that don’t work, this video might be useful. Published by Jan Beta channel on YouTube, the video shows the steps to fix a 1541 disk unit. The drive didn’t spin up if you turned it on and didn’t react at all to commands from the computer. LEDs were working. Spindle…

  It was published today on CSDb a new SD2IEC storage device for the Commodore 64, the MSD2IEC. As explained by the C64 Club Berlin, the device is a standard SD2IEC but with an interesting addition: a 8Kb EEPROM that adds commands to the machine’s built-in BASIC allowing the user to browse the SD Card contents without an application! From the user…

Do you have a 1541 Ultimate or a SD2IEC, uIEC/SD, etc? Want to extract your GameBase 64 collection to an SD card, with an optimized folder structure and file names, quick and easy? GameBase 64 Reorganizer SD is what you need. IntroductionGB 64 Reorganizer began as a little utility to extract a Gamebase game archive collection into a folder structure…