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1. issue 46 November 2010 ree to download Commodore magazine edicate Commodore Computers as PDF Text SEQ HTML and D64 image w commodorefree com 4 T ji V EDD D F Graus TA EV Sy pe To as 2 e d w H i x z Se m e 35 a T P m Ec D Ld EJ pe t EEN Commodore Free Magazine en t P 9 4 en wen eem te e 0 cmm Bens NEWS PAGE 4 Coming New C64 release 1 000 KUNG FU MANIACS Amiga Monthly Page 16 for Reading Not Just Another D64 Viewer NJAD64V V1 1 HyperViper for the Commodore 64 almost ready NEWS PAGE 7 Joyport switcher The Richard Joseph Tribute IBY A VARIETY OF TOP ru HATA HEHU tem NEWS PAGE 8 PLEASE SELECT AH OPTION COMMODORE 64 TAPE MASTERING PROGRAM Kickstart ROM Replacement Phase I Bounty Assigned More videos from CommVEx v6 2010 NEWS PAGE 9 THE FULL VERSION OF HOSTILE BREED FOR THE AMIGA HAS BEEN PRE SERVED AND RELEASED BLITTERWOLF MONTHLY PAGES Chuck Norris 2010 5ALAD Low res Graphics NEWS PAGE 10 C64 TRUETYPE V1 0 STYLE OPTIONS NEWS PAGE 11 Commodore PET SYNTH IBATCH 1 0 BATCHPROCESSING FOR IMAGES NEWS PAGE 12 WINUAE 2 3 0 RELEASED The TPUG Library CD PAGE 13 INTERVIEW WITH Joan Mal PAGE 15 CREATOR OF 5alad low res Graphics COMMODORE FREE REVIEW OF PAGE 21 NOT JUST ANOTHER d64 viewer MCC 216
2. TO Plug pour joystick into port 2 Page 32 Commodore Free Magazine Back to the Past issue 7 April 2007 By Neil Reive As we continue our Back to the Past feature we go back to April 2007 and look at issue seven of Commodore Free What s this on the front cover anew Commodore machine Inside the magazine itself it is confirmed in Commodore are Back with an interview with Michael Kroder from the new Commodore Gaming company The new Commodore ma chines were very much aimed at the gamer with customizable specs going as high as Intel Core 2 quad core processor 2 66GHz 500Gb SATA hard drive 4Gb memory and 2x nVidia 8800 GTX 768MB video cards Just as fascinating was an interview with Wills Patten who had published GEOS Publication a 16 page journal devoted to the Commodore and Commodore GEOS mixed in with some good humour and documentation It was fascinating to read that Wills was 79 and so into Commodore hope I will still be so enthusiastic when I get to that age There was a good handful of programming tutorials in issue 7 First up was Programming Il By Dave Moorman with Loadstar followed by HEX FILES PART 2 by Jason Kelk and Mr LOAD STAR s Introduction to Programming the Commodore 64 Part 1 JAVA emulation of Commodore looked at JSIDPlay the JAVA C64 emulator To accompany the emulator overview Commo dore Free interviewed Joakim of Commodore Java Emulation Another fascinatin
3. LJ A9 1 Arcode Retro Gaming Bp DR 64 Forever CD Edition 2 Mb Flash Windows XP Vista Win 7 16 MB SDRAM S Video Out tia pee m Stereo Audio Out 3 5mm C64 Forever CD for PC 80004 C64 games Mini USB Power 2 Game Ports DB 9 E Micro SD Card Slot 110 240 Volt Original Competition Pro y et PEE 5 X and Y axis esaet Mini USB Charger robust micro switches S Video Plug in 3 fect length 128 Mbyte Micro SD card kran e incl SD Card Adapter G Dd S Video Cable We have Ps2 Mouse Ps2 Keyboard needed when you have to for example Press space to continue or F1 etc for infinite lives On the picture you can see the S Video round connection and the power button just below is the mini USB power connec tion Turning the device around H jf JJ NEA A NN N 7 X Ut KA Commodore Free Magazine We can see Joystick port on and 2 And a USB connection and the MICRO SD card slot this holds the cores and the programs you want to run Connection should be painless as the joysticks like on real ma chines only fit one way as do the keyboard and mouse connec tions green is the mouse and purple is the keyboard connections they are all marked The SD card is already configured and the games installed so its just a case of connection to a suitable monitor tv and power ing on the device and if needed selecting the input for the monitor The device will initialise t
4. 64 the plus 4 Casio cz 101 Roland CR5000 Yamaha CX5M more info at the credits and some of today s plugins using speech synths that was used by Kraftwerk at the time and rhythm and synth soft de veloped in the 80 s that was used in platforms like ZX spec trum MSX etc Joan Mal Programmed his own synths to be used from lap tops at that time Not happy with all of this work he pro grammed his own visuals released in a separate DVD to be played in live in real machines and synchronized with actual software Its been hard work that has taken about 1 and a half years to complete Low res graphics is a step away from the chiptune be tween Beverley hills cop Miami Vice Kraftwerk Super Mario OMD and of course today s electro and IDM CD include 13 tracks 3 archives ready to load in WAV for mat for the laptops NEC Pc 8201 Tandy model 100 Canon X 07 RELEASE DATE FEB 15 2010 http www inrecs com releases php id z42 Commodore Free Magazine NEWS C64 TRUETYPE V1 0 STYLE OPTIONS The first version of our effort at a complete and proper True Type font TTF representation of the legendary C64 character set The package provides five 5 TrueType formatted fonts addressing different needs Highlights accurate efficient technically valid multi functional and user friendly traditional monospace representation variable width but pixel accurate representation mapped
5. Commo dore Free doesn t have any financial commitments then I re view as see the products as fully as can Of course this is from a personal perspective if you feel differently about a re view write in and will share your comments what seems good to me may seem awful to someone else and visa versa Well thanks goodness I have run out of Editorial space lets start the magazine If you have any reviews comments suggestions or tutorials you would like included feel free to contact me you will find the address on the website Best regards Nigel Editor Commodore Free Commodore Free Magazine Coming New C64 release 1 000 KUNG FU MANIACS Alf Yngve Richard Bayliss and Jon Wells have been working on an entirely new game titled 1 000 KUNG FU MANIACS This side scrolling beat em up is also a parody game featuring loads of gags send ups and humorous twists A YouTube video of the game with more information and backstory can be found here http www voutube com watch v turnE figCO Next Issue Commodore Free have a review with Alf Yngve Amiga Monthly Page 16 for Reading SHORT RUN DOWN OF MONTHLY PAGE ISSUE SIXTEEN Interview with Insane Software 2 pages Article by Gebro chen AmigaOne X1000 Finding Nemo Article by Hypex Some advert pictures Top ten downloads OS4depot direct link here http www blitterwolf com monthly html Not Just Another D64 Viewer NJA
6. LHRS C 1iIB i DPEN P 6 PRINT H2 MY DATA LOSE 2 ARE YOU ORGANIZED D64 Disk Management for your Commodore Computer Never before has there been an Internet based disk management system and software download center for C ommodo re com puters Access upload and view disks right from your Commodore computer UPLOAD YOUR DISKS TO http www CommodoreServer com Commodore Free Magazine LOADSTAR COMPLEAT LOADSTAR was one of the very first disk magazines ever pub lished In 1982 Jim Mangham got the idea of a monthly maga zine on disk filled with programs graphics and text that people would run on their computer In 1984 the first issue of LOAD STAR a magazine for the Commodore 64 128 computer was launched and over the next 15 years and 199 issues a LOT of stuff was published on these disk magazines Now every bit of it has been converted to fit on one CD that you can run on your PC and there s still room on the CD for more old LOADSTAR things like music JPGs of the colour covers of the issues and much much more Here s some of what you ll get on the CD All 199 issues of LOADSTAR in d64 and d81 format All 42 issues of LOADSTAR 128 in d64 format TXT files of all of the text on the issues for fast searching on your PC All 21 issues of UpTime a rival disk magazine that LOADSTAR soundly defeated and bought LEGUNT AR um PpEI AT Ami fee BOTE mu RI Boer eminence dB ER meg 1H
7. Total count 294 Commodore 128 These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore 128 computer These library disks are prefixed with the letter Y e g y aa Total count 74 COMAL These are the TPUG library disks that run COMAL on the Commodore 64 Commodore 128 and PET series computers These library disks are prefixed with the letter K e g k aaa Total count 83 plus boot disks Note You must first boot up COMAL on these computers in order to use these disks Sev eral versions of the COMAL boot disks are contained in the root of the COMAL folder look for cboot or kboot CP M These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore 128 in CP M mode These library disks are prefixed with the letter Z e g z aa Total count 86 plus boot disks Note You must first boot up CP M on the Commodore 128 in order to use these disks Several versions of the CP M boot disks are contained in the root of the CP M folder look for cpmboot CRS These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore 64 amp Commodore 128 com puters These library disks are prefixed with the letters CRS with the sequence number e g CRSO1 Total count 70 These are disks made up from the archives of Canada Remote Systems a bulletin board system active in the 1980 s that was located in Mississauga Ontario Canada The CRS bulletin board offered programs and utilities for many 8 bit platforms and the disks in cluded here ar
8. a photography shop to sell my landscape photographs 8 bit computers are just another of my passions Q Can you tell our readers a little about your computing past and why you still use Commodore Machines started computing at the age of 10 with a Commodore 64 and a Casio VLtone then the guitar came at the age of 13 and re corded my first cassette demo Since then even if haven t been actively creating electronic music I have also played in rock bands have been attached to computers PCs mainly first was the horrible monochrome IBM at the school but keeping my commodore just because it was my first computer and is one of my favourite systems of all times Q can you tell our readers about your SD2IEC creation it looks amazing do you plan to sell this is was it just a personal item you created Well when you play in live you need something solid to load the graphics and stuff bought a couple one for the commo dore plus4 and the other for the commodore 64 but when I bought the vic20 I thought needed a portable SD2IEC to con nect to all systems including my 3 other c64 commodore fans will know that you must have at least 3 so decided to cre ate a SD2IEC device made from 100 recycled materials The box is covered with a photographic glossy paper printing but in fact is a screw box and I m not planning to sell anything I have enough work on at the moment Q Ok then what the heck is Salad low res Gra
9. a work in development or progress and further updates can be downloaded from the website free of charge have been informed that the Amiga emulation is coming ahead nicely and will boot a kick start file at the moment and will now load and play some games presume it will again use the Cloanto Amiga forever to copy files My unit soon developed a problem with the power button if you press gently it reboots and if you press hard it s supposed to power off the unit how ever this doesn t work now and the unit clicks back in to life The problem was raised with the developers and a fix was very quickly made by there sugges tions and my soldering this of course seems to be an isolated incident and always have bad luck with hardware Incidentally with a standard ps2 keyboard plugged in ctrl alt del re boots the machine into NTSC mode and CTRL ALT INS reboots into PAL mode this is very useful and an brilliant feature especially for demos and games Items included in the box Multiple Classic Com puter mcc Mini USB Power sup ply 110 240 V NOTE this is a 2 pin adaptor no 3pin converter included Video Cable User Manual A Micro SD Card with C 64 core C64 Forever CD with 100 games Competition Pro Joystick Micro SD to SD Card converter for use in a SD card read Technical Specification Reconfigurable hardware core including main CPU graphic engine sound engine and inter
10. but then how would it emulate other sound chips and of course upgrades and fixes are as easy as downloading a new core have been told it can emulate 2 SID chips but haven t tested this mainly because was to busy playing games Now let s try getting a better picture Using composite connectors isn t the best way to go most would say its Pants and am sure keen readers will be won dering why decided to convert from SVGA to composite so lets see OK my TV has a scart socket so maybe a converter that plugs into Scart with an SVideo input purchased a SVideo to scart converter and plugged the unit in this is where my problems really started MONO The colour was now MONO Ok this could be a tv problem and the Scart converter was a cheap box I tried another TV a TFT I Plugged the unit in and I powered on The Tv flashed up PAL SIGNAL then flickered and then flashed NTSC SIGNAL then flickered and popped then flashed SECAM SIGNAL then rolled and the flashed up NOSIGNAL Hmmm what s happening here went to a local 24 hours store and purchased another small scart to SVideo composite adaptor and tried this the device cost more and so theory would say it was better quality it even had a brand name on it and was manufactured in china so it must be ok right Sadly The effect was pretty much the same NOTE now I know this is a problem as far as am aware using these devices at the present time
11. does cause this problem have been told it may be fixable with some sort of menu to adjust the brightness and saturation of the colours output Currently though this is still a work in progress Ok maybe this is because it was a cheap tv well it wasn t the reason see the note above My tv in the lounge is old Analogue CRT but it was a good spec although it s a little old now some thing like 10 years old It s a 100hz Panasonic model lets try that plugging into the front S Video input of the TV s worked well and also got a good picture Although I found some haz ing on screen purchased a smaller S Video cable that was shielded and tried this the cable made a massive difference and the picture was clear and sharp more fiddling with the tv made the picture almost perfect much better than a real Com modore with a Commodore to scart connector loaded a demo Deus Ex Machina it loaded fine and ran all the way through although there seemed to be issues with the tv the screen flickered during the demo I have been told by the manufacturers this is fixable see note above decided load some of the games that came with the unit 1 or two failed to load I haven t looked at why this is one or two started to load and failed and was thrown back to BASIC Maybe as all these games are cracked versions it was this code making the unit fail didn t fully investigate as to why this was and with over 100 games to try couldn t be bot
12. review PAGE 24 MCC QUICK LOOKS PAGE 30 Back to the Past issue 7 April 2007 PAGE 33 Commodore Free Magazine EDITORIAL Hi GFX Fancy some Snazzy Commodore 8 bit graphics Synchronised to Midi instruments jumping around and flashing colours on screen Well this issue we have an interview with such a cre ator namely Joan Mal he is the creator of the Commodore Salad project This project is a Synchronised Commodore Com puters with 8 bit graphics with connected to midi instruments mcc This issue Commodore Free look at the mcc 216 Multi Machine Computer this is an emulator the hardware is all FPGA logic allowing the loading of cores these contain the virtual ma chines and currently the device is supporting the Commodore 64 but with constant development underway for the Amiga the system can already load and play most Amiga Demos and Atari 2600 as well as other 8 bit systems The review was con ducted by Commodore Free well ok it was ME Editor who it seems was the first U k Customer of the device we erm I agreed to hold back reviews until small teething problems had been ironed out in the system The device is a work in prog ress and is very actively developed As this issue goes to press well download the developers are already implementing some of my suggestions and observations would like to thank the team for there patience with me and the fact they very quickly answered some of my questions a
13. sec ond handicap was my programming skills only knew BASIC but wait why not start doing the visuals in low res and make my flag from this turned the problem into an advantage and started it 2 years ago Q what instruments are used Modern PCS for recording and sequencing and these systems C64 Cplus4 ZX Spectrum 128 Amstrad 6128plus Yamaha CX5M Casio Cz101 Roland CR 50000 Yamaha RX 17 Atari 800XL TI99 4a with speech synth modern VST voocoders and FX laptops programmed in BASIC to use as synths like NEC 8201A Tandy model 100 Canon X 07 Epson PX4 the WAV files are in the CD as extra tracks to load into real machines Hardware like Terminal Emulator MSSIAH FM sound expander for c64 Software like Alphadrum Funky drummer Microrythm composer SAM for c64 Speech for TI99 and Cplus4 Some programs can t remember for Amstrad plus and spectrum and Atari also some game sampling sounds Q How would you describe the sound you cre ate think it s electro with chip tune and IDM and strongly 80 sounds influenced But what inspired me was soundtracks from the 80 more than the sounds the memories itself Beverly Hills cop Mi ami Vice videogames music and artists like Jan Hammer Herbie Handcock Datassette OMD Go to 80 etc I m not exactly an 80 music fan but I like a lot some of the sounds specially the FM detune and vibrato sounds Q Can our readers see a demo of this or is there a DVD o
14. should go ahead and get some PCB s made for yet another joystick switcher option I know there is currently another new design being done but there s nothing wrong with options This design is more suited towards people like me who are the only person playing my C64 I don t need two joystick in puts for two player games but sure get sick of swapping the one joystick have over for every game play If you ever wanted to play a two player game just unplug it So have completed one in prototype stage and it works good might make it available as a DIY kit if there is enough interest for a DIY kit but certainly as a fully assembled amp test ed unit With a target price of 20 25 USD plus shipping it should work for C64 Vic20 and C128 I just need to confirm the joystick port spacing due to the way I ve decided to mount the joystick port connectors have taken a different approach to my design by using an At mel AVR Mega8 processor which in the scheme of things is total overkill but they only cost 3 ea probably cheaper in parts costs than a logic type design Operation is like so there is a push button on the PCB that toggles between switching the Joystick input to Port 1 or Port 2 on the C64 on the final design there will be two LED s next to the Ports to indicate which one is active So the cool part is this design will remember the switch state even when the power is off this saves you having to switch ports
15. the Windows Universal Amiga Emulator It s a pro gram that emulates the Amiga line of computers on a Windows based machine You can also download WinUAE from the website The WinUAE website is www winuae net WinUAE 1 6 1 installer and zip file FURTHER INFORMATION Pricing TPUG Library CD 20 00 Shipping Canada 2 00 USA 3 00 Rest of World 5 00 If paying by Paypal to chorny tamcotec com add 1 00 All prices in Canadian dollars Please refer to the TPUG website www tpug ca for additional details Commodore Free Magazine INTERVIEW WITH Joan Mal CREATOR OF 5alad low res graphics ME ine _ NM LI is Fancy some groovy beats synchronised with classic 8 bit visu als well you have come to the right place Commodore Graph ics are synchronised seamlessly with tunes pumped out of older hardware to form an audio visual experience Commo dore Free managed to find time to speak with the Creator of such projects as 5alad Q please introduce yourself to our readers Hello all My name is Joan Mal I live in a little town called Sant Mart d Empuries near to Girona in Catalonia Spain currently have 2 music projects running monoceros Salad and own the net label Imaginary Nonexistent Records have a restaurant where I m the chef that opens only seasonally Currently open for 6 months a year and this has left me with time to work on music and photography I m also going to open
16. 1983 forward S SuperPet Super PET software NOTE Some of the PET disks were produced in both 4040 and 8050 format Only the 4040 for mat disks are included on this CD All of the programs that were originally contained on the 8050 format disks were included on the 4040 formatted disks The sub folders are de scribed below PET B128 These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore B128 computer which falls in the PET family of computers These library disks are prefixed with the letter B e g b b1 total count 4 PET Education These are the TPUG library disks that run on Commodore PET computers These library disks are prefixed with the letter E e g e aa Total count 58 These are specifically education related disks and contain educational programs for the PET computers PET OLD These are the TPUG library disks that run on Commodore PET computers These disks were produced for the PET from years 1979 and 1982 These library disks are prefixed with the letter O e g o a1Total count 61 PET NEW These are the TPUG library disks that run on Commodore PET computers These disks were produced for the PET from years 1983 forward These library disks are prefixed with the letter P e g p a9 Total count 55 plus the four PET utilities disks A few of these disks were originally rebuilt and re sequenced from the O series disks Super PET These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore SuperPET comp
17. 53 1000 24 1 1 Type game Entity Cascade Games Title 19 Part One Boot Camp Year 1988 Genre sports System c 64 Port 2 joystick Floppy APPSM9PART 1M9BOOT 1 D64 APPS 19 Part One Boot Camp Cascade Games 1988 C64 19bootcamp d64 1 Preview APPS 19PART 1 PREVIEW BMP APPS 19 Part One Boot Camp Cascade Games 1988 C64 PREVIEW BMP Commodore Free Magazine We now end up with this Application ID 1 3 6 1 4 1 23153 1000 24 1 1 Type game Title 19 Part One Boot Camp Floppy APPS 19PART 1 19BOOT 1 D64 Of course further entries may be implemented at some future date but for now you just need to concentrate on these lines The following formats are supported Tape for Tap files Floppy for floppy disks did find some D64 and Tap files that wouldn t load and as yet don t have an answer as to why this is maybe on the TAP file it was the format of the file as there seems to exist a vari ety of formats all called TAP files The keyboard driver file at this present time is only for the US so other users may find some keys are in unusual places for us Brits this means things like and are reversed However this is currently being worked on and other keyboard drivers will be available to download free of charge they will be avail able on the website think they already have a German key board for download Also would like to point out the Commodore core is
18. 6 clockwise or anti clockwise to read the contents if the amount of files on the D64 image was over 36 items or something around there No sticky label support was developed this because the C64 dirview can vary a lot and the massive amount of work in volved to create something to fit all scenario was not priori tized Options Either C64 colours or Black White based on view settings No 2X scale format is supported only 1X output Please see the ExampleOutputs folder of what this software can export and how it looks in standard default mode Hope you will enjoy and use the NJAD64V for your collection and long live the Commodore 64 forever Commodore Free Magazine MCC 216 review BY Commodore Free Magazine WOW SEXY My unit arrived into the U K but was blocked by the customs it seems owed 30 in unpaid VAT duties import tax before it would be released With this oversight eventually resolved by putting my hand in my pocket again arranged for redelivery of my unit and waited with anticipation It seemed at the time of purchase and the start of the review was the first U k pur chaser of the device Having never seen a unit in the flesh so to speak it s some times difficult to imagine the size of the device from a photo graph well its even harder to describe it The device is about the size of your hand and if you make a fist then you have an idea of the units thickness Even with the colo
19. D64V V1 1 Hi Commodore Free Readers am all done with my recent 1 year update for the SOAMC Amiga recordings I m still enjoying your great magazine with great respect You may remember me from the SOASC interview www 6581 8580 com have updated my D64 viewer software today and thought it should be something for the readers to know about I think there are a good wealth of D64 viewers and exporters of PRG files and such out there already but never came across soft ware that focuses on printing text files and real graphics for inclusion into websites for instance including the neat fea ture of printing labels for those good ol floppy disks http www stone oakvalley studios com index software ph http www stone oakvalley studios com software screenshots njad64v png Not Just Another D64 Viewer NJAD64V V1 1 A tool that will display the contents of D64 disks as real Com modore 64 graphics using the original chars and colours with out having to use any emulator or a real C64 From that point you are able to graphically or textually export the information stored in the directory structure of the D64 disks Outputs are PNG TXT CSV and PDF purpose of label print ing Regards from Stein Eikesdal also known as www stone oakvalley studios com EF Fel fct Goethe Dd eren TERT ei T YT Tc 0s ELE Er NEST En aan sia Se et das Tk aj add Ley Cerca lar ar 47 nm mm Halas woa
20. ON JPGs of all of the colour covers of the issues when LOADSTAR was sold in stores PDFs of all 73 issues of The LOADSTAR Letter Jeff Jones ex cellent newsletter companion to LOADSTAR MP3s of selected Knees Calhoon songs d64 files of every LOADSTAR product published separately from the monthly issues the Complete Bible the Complete Programmer all five LOADSTAR Extras Barbara Schulak s puz zles etc All of Dave Marquis SID and MIDI music All of Walt Harned s artwork Walt is the most prolific artist ever for the Commodore computer and whatever else I could find from the historic LOADSTAR archives US Only 24 plus 3 S amp H Outside the US 24 plus 6 S amp H www ramblehouse com loadstarcompleat htm http Gall ag I HORBO EJI T amp e4s zat Fonn maa d om F r P non T m m FX E P Nike ee eee Ad ris L Wirm n Kaan dures nnl hel iewe daa al he e peat nun EEE Gredi tT nnn nnn nom mom mom mom mos non Side i Hios Hho and Hiat s Hihat MY GUUUAME DoD LUUK HI HLL Ur IHIo TELE E Press H for Help Commodorian of 2005 Side H 1 Commodore Free Magazine nme MCC QUICK LOOKS BY COMMODORE FREE Opening the box we remove our unit thought would give you a quick look at the connection of the MCC 216 First here is a look at the box from a variety of angles Multiple Classic Computer 1
21. Real charsets graphics snooped from http kofler dot at c64 Release History V1 1 27 Oct 2010 Just recompiled with latest PureBasic 4 51 and PurePDF library V2 19 just to be sure its compiled with the latest developments improvements Added a installation setup for the entire thing Also added a button for donation for hap py users Small counter fixes that was broken in V1 0 causing 1 3 disks not to be exported as PDF at all just blank page It should perform as intended now V1 0 29 Jan 2009 uhm I kinda forgot about did some up dates in summer 2008 and forgot about it again but now it s released First release on my homepage and on our C64 fo rums INPUT 1 Standard D64 Images sizes of 174848 bytes Options Either single files or add a whole dir of files into the queue no subdirs are processed Notes The tool will display ALL entries on the D64 image even deleted and scratched ones etc This is because the tool is supposed to be a archive tool and thus enabling to show de leted files that could be restored My oh my the treasures you ll find on your disks you thought were lost forever The files will be marked in the filetype area with to easier see them apart from the rest Then use the splendid D64Viewer by Forrest Mook http almighty c64 org and to try and rescue the files Bonus Sometimes text was hidden on the first segment of the direc tory structure My tool will also show this Max 89 byt
22. US WAVE and 5alad Q How many people are now are now involved in the band Commodore Free Magazine well believe it or not its still an entirely personal and therefore solo project Q How are the graphics created what is the process are they programmed directly in Commodore Basic My process is just to start without a previous idea Useless in troduction French kiss in Miami and some other with a previ ous idea of what will be like In Calella or Pomodoro 64 with a irony dose that works very good with 8 bit music work on the real machines recording the programs on the SD2IEC device Q Do you still take your music live and do you use the Com modore graphics as visuals Yes that was the main reason of this 5alad project to play in live bring my PC with ableton live a commodore 64 a com modore plus 4 that is an excellent machine for BASIC and colours and a Tandy model 100 a NEC 8201A the red Japa nese version and occasionally a TI994a with speech and Casio X 07 Q Have you had any Comments about the graphics Yes my programming skills are low but do love low res graphics and there doesn t seem to be a lot of stuff done in low res but as said I m sure that if people want to try synchro nizing this way and of course if you know about assembler lan guage we am sure we sill see amazing things in the future Q Do the graphics tell a story about the music or are they just whatever takes your fancy wh
23. UTCF PRG 4 FEATURES PRG 22 EDITORIAL PRG 9 MAIL BAG PRG 30 NOSTALGIA PRG 3 WALTHARNED PRG HERE is a CSV TXT file 8 A EON PRG 2 WIKIPEDIA PRG SizelD NamelD ID 10 AMIGIFT 2 1 PRG C Commodore Files Commodore 3 WINUAE PRG Stuff Commodore_FREE_Website magazine vol4 issue41 d64 3 GCC4 5 PRG O C FREE 41 2A 3 SAM460EX PRG 76 COMMODORE FREE PRG 4 TRACKER HERO PRG 4 ABOUT CF PRG 4 MANIACS NOISE PRG 4 FEATURES PRG 13 MUSIC STUDIO 2 0 PRG 22 EDITORIAL PRG 3 EVOLUTION PRG 9 MAIL BAG PRG 12 EQUINOXE PRG 30 NOSTALGIA PRG 34 IV LIAM PRG 3 WALT HARNED PRG 4 C128 TOWER PRG 8 A EON PRG 3 PET CPU PRG 2 WIKIPEDIA PRG 4 FLOPPIES PRG 10 AMIGIFT 2 1 PRG 4 ADV IN TIME PRG 3 WINUAE PRG 18 ADV TIME REVIEW PRG 3 GCC 4 5 PRG 4 GEOS BOOT PRG 3 SAM460EX PRG 10 KNIGHT GRAIL PRG 4 TRACKER HERO PRG 15 128 VDC LIBRARY PRG 4 MANIACS NOISE PRG 3 C lt SCENE 16 PRG 13 MUSIC STUDIO 2 0 PRG 6 C VG C16 4 PRG 3 EVOLUTION PRG 3 R3PLAY PRG 12 EQUINOXE PRG 9 CBM COMMAND PRG 34 IV LIAM PRG 20 COMVEX 6 PRG 4 C128 TOWER PRG 75 JIM BRAIN PRG 3 PET CPU PRG 7 M OUTER LIMITS PRG 4 FLOPPIES PRG 2 M PIPERS PRG 4 ADV IN TIME PRG 7 M ON REBOUND PRG 18 ADV TIME REVIEW PRG 6 M EGYPTIAN PRG 4 GEOS BOOT PRG 206 BLOCKS FREE 10 KNIGHT GRAIL PRG 15 128 VDC LIBRARY PRG 3 C lt SCENE 16 PRG Created by NJAD64V v1 1 27 Oct 2010 Stone Oakvalley Studios Commodore Free Magazine Other options are to change the text from UPPER to lower case and show the text as M
24. add them to process queue tor package suggest 7 zip as its free and available from here ar select a dir and add the whole dir www 7 zip org download html 7 zip also can unzip oth er formats most notable is RAR support Double clicking will open a folder so double clicking on drive C you will be prompted to extract the files somewhere onceex will open the Volume for viewing tracted click on NJAD64V v1 1 Setup exe and you will be guid Once you navigate to your D64 you can now DOULBE click on ed through the installation if the software hasn t run already the D64 and the files will be read and displayed on the left click on hand pain clicking once will display the file contents but won t Programs actually load the file for conversion and 55 Mot Just Another D 4 Viewer H IAD 4V v1 1 27 Oct 2010 Not Just Another D64 Viewer Single File browser Choose Dea files Double chick kg add D64 to queue LQieages Lo nals cd meee de to launch the software This is what you will be presented with iid Hot Just Another D64 Viewer HIADE4V v1 1 27 Oct 2010 Double chek on D64 Fles bo sdd Heem to process queues View J EA E Donation About caa pee eee a Li Aad Selected Or to Queue Choc DGA fies Double chick to add D64 ko queue we Local Disk 0 Current Debt files in process queue ap DVD R Dire Dj WAP Documents D
25. and for the Commodore 64 comp was also a founding member of USA United Sysop s Ass tion a group of like minded BBS operators Fast forward to present day and l m still plugging away on my original C64 and doing repairs for friends family and of course club members Final Thoughts The Commodore Computer Club and User Group meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology Qur attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds amp http www commodorecomputerclub com Commodore Plus 4 Commodore 16 Amiga 1000 Wic 20 Commodore Computer Club USA www CommodoreComputerClub com Commodore Free Magazine RSFSR com COMMODORE FREE REVIEW OF NOT JUST ANOTHER d64 viewer This is a Windows program HL Ee EU SEU Choose 064 Files Double click to add 064 to queue see Local Disk 701 s DVD RW Drive D my Documents First you need to download the setup files they are available from here http www stone oakvalley studios com index software ph on the website you will also find some other applications that Stone had created although they are not Commodore related Right Click on the Download and select save target as and save the file somewhere I suggest your desktop for Windows XP and above you have a zip extractor built into windows so you can select the saved file and select extract all the other older windows users will need to install a Zip extrac Double click on D64 Files to
26. demo had a goat cheese salad photo as cover lol and I m keeping this idea for another forthcoming work When Ex panding Records in UK liked my demo they told me that there was a very famous Salad pop band so decided to change the name to Monoceros that took from an astronomy book and to keep Salad like 5alad and focus the project to my forgotten passion for the 8 bit hardware around the years 2003 2004 So you can listen to some samples from 8 bits in my first 5alad re cords but wasn t chip tunes the sounds are mostly VST sounds and didn t own much actual hardware so started buying hardware 2 years ago basically for this project with the idea to look for a real retro sound Q how did this idea start then what was the vision started to think about it some years ago but for some reason it failed and was placed in the projects to do someday for Commodore Free Magazine many years until realized that with my Rockman MIDI octopus guitar players will know it can do that So started to do with this but a friend told me about highly liquid boards The thing is that don t do more monoceros live sets because don t have visuals to play with them and don t know anyone who could to do them for me live in a little place so felt bored with a laptop and the sensations of boring the classical what s that guy doing on the stage sending emails need ed something different very geeky and interesting The
27. e the ones specifically for Commodore systems These were originally to be included in the TPUG library after CRS became defunct GEOS These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore 64 computer in GEOS mode These library disks are prefixed with the letter G e g g a1 Total count 57 You must first boot up GEOS on the Commodore 64 in order to use these disks MS DOS These are the TPUG library disks that run on MS DOS based Commodore computers PC10 PC20 PC30 PC40 These library disks are prefixed with the letter M e g m aaa Total count 25 plus additional disks These have the individual PC files for each disk located in each of the folders NEW SUBMISSIONS These TPUG library disks run on the various Commodore computers These library disks are prefixed with the letter N e g n a1 Total count 67 These contain the disk images that were sent to TPUG but were never included in the li brary they are a mix of platforms some run on C64 some on PET and some are combi nations The TPUG Library CD The Commodore PET Series These are the TPUG library disks that run on Commodore PET computers 2001 4016 4032 8032 8096 Superpet etc This folder represents all the PET related disk images PET disks are separated into sub folders as follows B B128 Software that runs on the B128 E Education Educational software O Old PET 1979 PET disks from years 1979 to 1982 N New PET 1983 PET disks from years
28. each time you play the same game between power ups So if you had Port 2 selected next time you turn the C64 on Port 2 will au tomatically be selected The picture gives an indication on the final parts layout this is not a real PCB but it gives you some idea on what to expect Please let me know if you would be interested in me getting some of these produced for sale Below is a picture of the finished product A quick operational run down The grey push button toggles the inputs to switch like so Port 1 to Port 1 Port 2 to Port 2 Or Port 1 to Port 2 Port 2 to Port 1 It switches the digital signals from the joystick and the ana logue signals for the mouse or paddles The Green LED is turned on when the ports are being swapped It remembers the last swap state when turned off and will resume that mode when the C64 is next turned on Provides ESD protec tion for the C64 s CIA s as there is no direct connection from the C64 s ports to the joystick inputs Sorry but don t have a final price yet I ve got enough parts to make 20 to see how things go hope to have some ready for sale in a few weeks Things are just a bit hectic at work right now I haven t really got time to make a bunch of them up Thanks Ross sneren The Richard Joseph Tribute After 3 long years of waiting Onslaught Samar and Protovision present to you a carefully constructed musical tribute to one of the Commodore 64 s pioneerin
29. es cat egories for games of 1Kb 2Kb and 4Kb Accompanying the competition announcement was an Interview with Robert Guite From the Mini games website Ee iint d dug THATE BEGINS Ie FL LESS aon am Bri PEET Eef nn Dral rss ong i att TUE EE HADBELBA X MEI en F s P EAR TETIT TES CEET JPEN l z i ntt kiu rayi harm nt lim umo rme eme bin Bem rd Sete WLUEKH FERT gn u A Issue Number 7 April 2007 Free to Download Magazine for Commodore Users In This Issue Xu1541 Loadistar Guide ta Programming 1 DC music Gaming interview From 64k in 64 BIT Commodore gaming Advert TE gn EE ZEE Q Issue 46 November 2010 Editor Nigel Parker Spell Checking Peter Badrick Text amp HTML Conversion Paul Davis D64 Disk Image Al Jackson PDF Design Nigel Parker Website IN VV V QITIITIOUOIC CC JETI Email Address commodorefree commodorefree com Submissions Articles are always wanted for the magazine Contact us for details We can t pay you for your efforts but you are safe in the knowledge that you have passed on details that will interest other Commodore enthusiasts Notices All materials in this magazine are the property of Commodore Free unless otherwise stated All copyrights trademarks trade names internet domain names or other similar rights are acknowledged No part of this magazine may be reproduced without permission The appearance of an adve
30. es will be read whatever is there is shown OUTPUT 1 TXT CSV files The results can be saved as a text file where all the funny C64 chars are removed and only human readable chars is left Can be used to search your collections for a filename using your favourite text search tool later on or for importing into databases excel or websites Example Where first line represent Column Headers and the is used as separator as per CSV standards SizelD NamelD ID 175 LAST NINJA2 PRG Options Either as uppercase or lowercase based on the view settings OUTPUT 2 PNG images The results of the entire C64 directory view which goes be yond a real C64 screen shown as a authentic snapshot of what the directory structure looks like Can be used for web pages for instance or during own printouts projects Options Either as colours similar to a real C64 or just as white background with blacks chars based on view settings OUTPUT 3 PDF file The results of the disks included in the D64 queue can be placed on a A4 PDF format to allow printing of the real C64 directory view on just plain paper Now you can cut out the la bels and tape them to 5 25 diskcovers The routine will make sure to keep the image contents within limits of a 5 25 disk cover It will use the width of a 5 25 cover as height when scaling the D64 PNG images That means you need to place the label in landscape format and you need to rotate your dis kcover 909
31. f art If somebody it s also interested in doing visuals in high res this would be welcome they can contact me at inrecslabel gmail com but as said don t know when will be able and inspirited to do another Salad work Info SALAD Low res graphics Salad is the parallel project of Joan Mal more known as Monoceros using obsolete machines that has been devel oping at the same time as the eBay orchestra has been grow ing A project that in fact started in a tender age it started in early 82 83 with a Commodore 64 and a Casio vl tone Closing the circle or nearly some years after culminated with this work where some old computers and synths has been used like the Commodore 64 the plus 4 Casio cz 101 Roland CR5000 Yamaha CX5M more info at the credits and some today s plugins using speech synths that was used by Kraftwerk at the time and rhythm and synth soft developed in the 80 s that was used in platforms like ZX Spectrum MSX etc He also programmed his own synths to be used in laptops from that time Not happy with all of this work he programmed his own visuals released in a separate DVD to be played in live in real machines synchronized with actual soft A hard work that has need about 1 and a half year Low res graphics is a step away than chiptune between Beverley hills cop Miami Vice Kraftwerk Super Mario OMD and of course today s electro and IDM J PC CD 2 DVDs s Soltware and Video
32. f the whole thing YES There is a digital free download at www thearchive org but following my netlabel philosophy it is possible to buy the DVD and con tribute to the cause my music and the other art ists music on the label is free and for sale at same time you can buy at iTunes beatport junodown load There are also some handmade printed and num bered DVDr and CDr editions The DVD has 9 tracks and some extra content and a very nice design and the CD has 13 tracks and 3 bonus track which are the programs in WAV format to load to the laptops mentioned above All videos are on our YouTube channel you can www commodorefree com look for Salad and you will get them www inrecs com releases php id 42 Www inrecs com releases php id 43 http http Another way is to visit my blog here and find all my download able music http monocerosblog wordpress com downloads Q the Salad low res Graphics is your only Commodore music related project then Yes before this my other works was more IDM with some sounds of Commodore basically taken from emulators as said wanted a real retro sound on this one Q Do you have a list of music project have you released have my discography here http monocerosblog wordpress com discography 2 Q Can you list the names of music projects you worked on un der other names Yes released in rock bands in 90 and electronic music as Lu mi re EXE Monoceros DARK SIN
33. faces ntegrated SDR Memory 16 MBytes ntegrated non volatile memory 2MByte for different classic computer Support of external keyboard and mouse PS 2 S Video output Stereo Audio Output Micro SD card interface for external programs Calling technical Technical questions have been answered very quickly via email and full explanations have been given was also sent just at the end of this review one of the first VGA models to test things worked fine except some monitors could not accept the pal signal they would work ok if booted to NTSC but not the pal mode have been informed if you have an PC VGA monitor which supports 50Hz and 60Hz input it works fine Old CRT monitors are unaffected the signal sent is 5Ohz but some of the TFT monitors tried resulted in a NO SIGNAL or UNSUPPORTED signal when booting into a PAL version for the Core Again this is being worked on and am assured can be fixed so you need to check you TFT can sync down to 50HZ Reviewer Commodore Free GIGGLING COMMODORE INTERNET INTERNET ONLY Connect to Internet Services from a stock Commodore computer e INTERNET RS 232 USER PORT DEVICE Same as above but includes a standard COMMUNICATES OVER ETHERNET RS 232C port to connect to other INSTEAD OF TELEPHONE LINE RS 232 equipment EASY TO PROGRAM FIND OUT MORE AT Simply open an RS 232 file and then send data htt ww w CommodoreServer com For example 2 SD C
34. g interview this time with Luigi designer of such tools and utilities as DC2N a Commodore Datasette emu lator with which one can load C64 C16 VIC20 TAP files from a SD Card to the real machines duplicate tapes and even pro duce TAP files from tapes Tap clean front end Tap Moni a remake of the old tape justage tool aka head tester C64 basic 6510 Dasm 2 BMP2koala Tapwav xu1541 looked at the xu1541 the modern way to connect CBM IEC bus devices to todays USB equipped PCs and it is meant to replace the printer port solutions based on the so called original x1541 cable In Telarium forgotten software warehouse John Ingram looked back at the underrated adventure games from Telari um With game such as Shadowkeep Below the Root Dragon world Perry Mason and the Manderin Murder Fahrenheit 451 Amazon Nine Princes in Amber and Rendezvous with Ra ma John considers Telarium as the greatest adventure pub lisher this side of Infocom Even amongst adventure gamers Telarium is barely known added John This is a crime of huge proportions and needs to be rectified The next interview is with Christian Vogelgsang Creator of Diskimagery64 a disk editor for D64 D71 and D81 image files for use with emulators This allows the copying of files from a host to a Commodore disk image and vice versa The Mini Games Competition 2007 kicked off in April of that year The competition which still runs to this day featur
35. g musicians who sadly passed away back in 2007 The collection contains over 20 SID remakes from a wide se lection of active musicians covering some of the memorable C64 and other platform game music Richard Joseph com posed during his career This production was released at X 2010 demo party on the 3rd October Available for download at CSDb http noname c64 org csdb release id 94536 Commodore Free Magazine NEWS COMMODORE 64 TAPE MASTERING PROGRAM About the program Nova Master A1000SA is a tool which allows you to master your C64 games utilities or other applications with the classic Novaload loader Currently Nova Master will only convert your programs to the A1000SA version which does not support loading pictures Hence the A1000SA in the title Other versions might get implemented in the future My aim when writing Nova Master was that the user can mas ter his program as easily and effortlessly as possible A lot of things will be done automatically for you when you master your programs with Nova Master Also included with Nova Master is Read Num 64 which has been mastered with the program have also included the file name and loader TAPs READ1 TAP amp READ2 TAP and the PRG READNUM PRG in case you d like to try mastering them as a kind of tutorial to mastering tapes with Nova Master csdb getinternalfile php 92460 Nova http noname c64 or Master zip noname c64 or htt
36. hen boot up into the GAME menu Here you can use the Joystick or keyboard to scroll down the list of games clicking FIRE will start the game C64 Classic Computer Copyright Arcade Retro Gaming Once the game has been started you see the drive configura tion PAL D Copyright Arcade Retro Gaming This shows the various parts of the system initialising and loading Then the game will start Moving back to the game screen clicking the joystick left will move into the Demo screen www commodorefree com C64 Classic Computer es 29 Copyright Arcade Retro Gaming This configuration is in the ini file as described on the system review here again is and Example note the TYPE will affect the DEMO or GAME screen creating something else in this Like Type other will place the D64 into another menu called other Application ID 1 3 6 1 4 1 23153 1000 24 1 1 Type game Entity Cascade Games Title 19 Part One Boot Camp Year 1988 Genre sports System c 64 Port 2 joystick Floppy APPSM9PART 1M9BOOT 1 D64 APPS 19 Part One Boot Camp Cascade Games 1988 Here is the VGA version of the device in the less than sexy black colour Page 31 Commodore Free Magazine www commodorefree com Attached some pictures of various monitors running with the system plugged in Finally a picture of the supplied joystick and that 2 pin power adaptor with Separately purchased converter
37. hered to look at the rea son hmm maybe they wear all NTSC versions don t know tried some other TV s with direct SVideo input and these worked fine if you own a new tv you should have a SVideo in put and of course this IS the way to use the unit using this with the unit shouldn t cause any problems and is a straight plug and play setup BACK TO BASIC Strange the unit has no option to actually select BASIC So had to create a program that when loaded reset the ma chine to basic this seems odd to be omitted from the joys of keying in stuff you know find a basic listing spend 3 days typ ing it all out then spend 6 weeks trying to get the thing to run Hmmm is thata 2oran 5 or ans or an e in the listing of the magazine Well saved my reset program on a real C64 and then tried to work out how to load it you cant just dump D64 s onto the SD card and expect them to appear in the games or Demo list PRG files are NOT sup ported at this time So made a D64 file and copied the PRG into it Now how do add this to the menu list Well first a little information then the instructions On the SD card disk are 2 main directories they are APPS Under the apps folder is of course where you store your appli cation D64 files and Tapes they are neatly arranged into sub folders and this was done with the C64 FOREVER software exporting the games to the SD Card If haven t mentioned this the games and demos a
38. ile designing them In some of them they have a message Others just to make vi suals to play in live Concretely pomodoro 64 is my five cents to the creationist theories since they say you can t prove they are wrong decided to make my own and real one in others due to my job as restaurant owner on the coast try to criti cize the people that visit us only looking for the topics but al ways trying to be more funny than anything else in others you will see melancholy of childhood Q What obstacles did you encounter trying to convert Midi data into something the Commodore machines can interpret had to add some extra for next loops because if the signal sent is too long when say too long it s very short in the piano roll at ableton it pushes the joystick twice and passed the visu als to quickly guess there is a way to deactivate the joystick buffer maybe like you do with the keyboard haven t found it Another problem was the day before a gig the plus4 decid ed to change the letters R joydown for a letter A well can t remember exactly but something like that and had to change all programs and all the GET aS functions that were waiting for the R signal I m sure it s a silly problem but those problems they always come hours before a gig In fact I ve had more trouble with modern gear soundcards computers than any of my 8 bit systems Q Do you have any other projects planned and will they in volve re
39. l n Und Meade Hinh HyperViper for the Commodore 64 almost ready A new game is coming soon after 22 years HYPERVIPER is coming to the C64 128 re coded in 6502 assembly by Jamie Howard The C64 version will feature improved graphics and sound over the MSX original fully licensed cover version of AM180 by Grandaddy for main theme extra life bonus feature See a demo here htt outube com watch v qo91kc9NxzO Available soon from Psytronik Software http www psytronik net Multiple Classic Computer B Es rs i i F reti Lu bai m Te i n t s L 8 i th i a i 2 ml fh AMIGA 3 The ultimate Connect to IV and Play Retro Gaming Device ATARI 2600 Online Order www arcaderetrogaming com More Information wwWw mcc home com Commodore C64 Back to the Future Connect to TV and Play 2 MByte FLASH 16 MByte SDRAM S Video out Stereo Audio out PS 2 keyboard and mouse Micro SD card more than 100 C64 games Fo rever Online Order www arcaderetrogaming com More Information www mcc home com Commodore Free Magazine NEWS Joyport switcher Thought l d start a new thread on my Joy port switcher now that have the final PCB done This was the original thread http www lemon64 com forum viewtopic php t 35124 text is copied Below I m just gathering interest to see if
40. nd concerns The de vice may not look cool but it works impressively well NEWS We continue Commodore Free with a look at the latest news from around the world where would we be without all those ground breaking developments would like to thank people who pointed me to stories for inclusion in Commodore Free If you have any news items then please feel free to contact me I am especially interested if you are the developer of any sort of hardware or software device for Commodore computers of course other platforms may be covered if feel the news item is worthy for our Commodore Readers ADVERTS Te ge Le x md os on C e ecCOMmMmod have been contacted by a number of people asking about ad vertising in Commodore Free if your group club would like to advertise Please again feel free to contact me don t charge for advertising of course any free samples would help me en sure the pages are listed for longer ahem yes well we wont go into that REVIEWS My comments and reviews are sometimes harsh and have re ceived many comments about them thanks review products as see them as honestly and fairly as can and no amount of bribes will sway me If a product is good will say so also like to point out any problems have had with devices know some commercial magazines seem obliged to give good re views because the product is advertised without advertising revenue the magazine would have to close Because
41. no matter how high turn it up The drum sounds are also cra zy weird You can also set the vibrato so high it sounds more like a laser gun or alien tele phone All this from the finest in 1 bit sound on the Commodore PET hope you have as much fun playing it as do Thanks Chiron IBATCH 1 0 BATCHPROCESSING FOR IMAGES iBatch 1 0 Image Batcher allows users to easily convert rename renumber resize rotate a bunch of pictures at once The pictures to be processed can be collected in a Batchlist In order to organize your batchlist iBatch provides a Viewer and Batchlist browser tool A fast workflow is guaranteed even on slow systems This is accomplished by using pre processed thumbnails preview im ages for the Viewer or Batchlist browser tool All thumbnails will be kept in sync with their corresponding source directory Before you start the Viewer tool iBatch will therefore check for existent thumbnails and add missing thumbnails from the given sourcedir The whole program can be perfectly used for organizing resizing digicam pics Furthermore it becomes handy when you have to convert whole image directories at once Old ARexx Version iBatch4b ger lha iBatch4b eng lha iBatch eng lha ord iBatch_ger lha becomes obsolete iBatch 1 0 was rewritten from scratch here are the main advantages changes integrated thumbnail viewer batchlist browser no external thumbnail viewer needed a
42. ny more redesigned GUI very fast and easy to use integrated GUI for preferences itis not an ARexx Script any more c lmageConverter is not required any more itis not an AWNPipe base GUI any more A Stormwizard GUI was chosen instead considered to be more robust progress bar same executable runs on OS 3 up to OS 4 x support for locale library Preferences File runs on small screen resolutions as well Requirements 24Bit pic datatypes zlib library jpeg library wizard library lots of RAM at least for digicam pics and OS3 x or OS4 x Runs perfectly on my SAMAAO Lots of RAM recommended For more information and a download head to www geobiz de ibatch html iBatch will also appear on Ami net soon Commodore Free Magazine NEWS WINUAE 2 3 0 RELEASED New features CDTV and CD32 subchannel hardware emulation CD G au dio CDs supported CDTV statefile support FLAC compressed CD audio tracks supported cue flac or cuetiso flac Automatic centre max fullscreen and tv like fullscreen op tions added uaescsi device SCSI emulation including full CD audio sup port Pause uaescsi device CD audio when emulation is paused or GUI is open Support for configuration file delayed CD image insert for example CD32 games F17 Challenge and Last Ninja crash if booted before CD32 boot screen appears Right and bottom border if outside of display area i
43. o you can separate things into menu screens the name will appear on the left and right of the screen pressing the joystick to the right or left moves screens so by default you have on the SD card GAMES and DEMOS you start in games but pressing the joystick to the right moves you to the demo menu FLOPPY or TAPE Floppy APPS 19PART 1 19BOOT 1 D64 APPS 19 Part One Boot Camp Cascade Games 1988 C64 19bootcamp d64 1 This Floppy APPS 19PART 1 19BOOT 1 D64 is the only part that is used NOTE it uses DOS short filenames so you need to either use 8 character file and folder names or truncate the names so the file name 19bootcamp d64 is truncated to 19BOOT 1 D64 very confusing in this modern age here is how this antiquated format works VGA VERSION Take the file name 19bootcamp d64 and put the characters up to the 6th on so we have 19boot then add a tilde then add a 1 and the extension D64 So we end up with 19BOOT 1 D64 if you had 2 files lets say 19bootcamp d64 and 19bootcampcommander d64 you would end up with 19BOOT 1 D64 and 19BOOT 2 D64 Awful know found it better to rename them to the 8 3 for mat manually so used the format 19bootcamp d64 became boot d64 It seems the rest of the entry is ignored at this moment Some plans are to implement the PRIVEW line to show a bitmap image before the game loads of course this would be nice not to mention very COOL Application ID 1 3 6 1 4 1 231
44. oard led handling improved 2 2 bugs fixed Triple double single buffer option was not saved to configu ration file Autovsync didn t work Rawinput GUI F12 key ignored window focus Gameports panel joystick mouse type mouse joystick analog joystick was ignored when configu ration file was loaded Other bugs fixed Direct3D 2x shader filter bad image quality CDTV CD timecode Built in CD player time counter CD32 CD end of play notification only worked if play was last sent CD command Fightin Spirit CD32 CD audio status reporting when attempting to play da ta tracks Mission Impossible 2025 CD32 pad 2 button mode fixes F17 Challenge Quik The Thunder Rabbit ATR Audio length detection error if MP3 audio tracks had check summed frames Built in image mounter CD audio timecode offset fixed Z3 RTG RAM leak when restarting Direct3D scanlines can be finally enabled on the fly Configuration file cdimage0 at startup didn t work Dynamic hardfiles didn t work reliably with DirectSCSI filesys tems Dynamic hardfile data corruption if physical file size grew over 4G Some demos had blank display broke in 2 0 Denise up dates Transparent clipboard support crash fixes Initial ROM scan didn t detect Amiga Forever ROM keys cor rectly Joystick axis bogus autofire in some situations when remap ping joysticks Rawinput was not enabled if only one physical o
45. ono rather than Commodore coloured Another useful tool to add tool the always expanding user s toolkit COPY OF THE TEXT FILE WITH THE APPLICATION Long Software Name Not Just Another D64 Viewer Short Software Name NJAD64V Introduction A tool that will display the contents of D64 disks as real C64 graphics using the original chars and colours without having to use any emulator or a real C64 From that point you are able to graphically or textually export the information stored in the directory structure of the D64 disks Outputs are PNG TXT CSV and PDF purpose of label printing Programming and Concept Idea Stone Oakvalley Studios www stone oakvalley studios com post stone oakvalley studios com Requirements Microsoft Windows any 32 64bit version will do guess Some D64 files too you know Reason why it exists There were similar tools D64Lister around but since my way is my way just had to do it my way What it will NOT do Extract files no editing possibilities of the data found or do any damage edits to the D64 image itself Start Date Idea Conceived 24 Jul 2007 Source Code Length Approx 1974 lines Approx 56Kb Known Bugs Limitations If the D64 is not really a D64 file but something else expect unpredicted results May have bugs that haven t thought of that might appear Report Bugs Feedback etc http www dirtcellar net phpBB3 ToDo None actually Other information
46. ouble click on Ds fies bo add them bo process quium er select a chr and add the whole dir Export Options for all files in quee Current Db files in process queue Hidden best in 064 Directory Block EEEN TEEN No we can have some fun E t Options For all Files in NCMO RN Export Options for all files in queue ECH THT fe SngeRegde THT fle AME pnm Multiple PNG Images based an current view settings Single CSV TxT File Single Regular TXT File Of course clicking the DONATE button will help further devel Ad PDF file based on current view setup excluding 2X scale opments from the creator but that s a different story 44 PDF File based on current view setup excluding 2 scale Ok lets open a d64 We have options to Export the file listing as PNG files Click on the window top right to open a D64 image you should Asa TXT file see all your drives and mapped folders listed so drill down to Or a TXT file with Comma separated values fin the file you want Commodore Free Magazine REEF FERED Below are examples of each 6 C VG C16 4 PRG 3 R3PLAY PRG Her isa PNG 9 CBM COMMAND PRG 20 COMVEX 6 PRG 75 JIM BRAIN PRG 7 M OUTER LIMITS PRG 2 M PIPERS PRG 7 M ON REBOUND PRG 6 M EGYPTIAN PRG 206 BLOCKS FREE 11 USEFULL for Excel or other spreadsheet Here is a plain text File C Commodore Files Commodore Stuff Commodore_FREE_Website magazine vol4 issue41 d64 O C lt FREE 41 2A 76 COMMODORE FREE PRG 4 ABO
47. p csdb release id 94751 amp show notes Kickstart ROM Replacement Phase I Bounty Assigned The Kickstart ROM Replacement Phase I bounty has been assigned to Jason McMullan The bounty aims at enabling AROS to build for m68k Amiga system This part does not in clude binary compatibility with existing m68k Amiga applica tions The deadline for this work is 31st December 2010 Jason has been working behind the scenes for some time and now he has started adding compatibility changes directly to AROS source code tree For the time being he built the kernel and now is working on getting OCS driver implemented The bounty details and donate page can be found here http www power2people org projects profile 5 Description 1 Bring The m68k compile of AROS back out of unmaintained 2 Must initially work from whatever means is possible so long as the build is going again and the codebase is brought up to date with the changes in the x86 native hosted flavours i e you could use some command in AmigaOS to bootstrap aros or similar 3 Initially binary compatibility isn t needed with AmigaOS not until at least you can get the thing working again 4 Must compile the main components of AROS read AROS main cvs branch and optionally allow other components to compile 5 Proof of bounty More videos from CommVEx v6 2010 From Robert Bernardo To commodorefree Subject More videos from CommVEx v6 2010
48. phics Salad low res graphics was born when I felt that it was the time to look back in an attempt to go forward The time that you start to use your childhood memories to make something new and totally different of what you has been doing that s assum ing we are talking about the art concept of it Q So you can synchronise Commodore graphics on screen from midi information sent via synthesisers so the graphics literally dance in time with the music is that right think this is an interesting idea have done it but I think that people with the knowledge of assembler language can really do great things to make visuals for electronic music also with the joystick sincro system you can use this with other 8 bit sys tems like Atari or MSX I hope other people do this used a highly liquid board to send MIDI signals from Ableton Live and the box switches the joysticks signals it has 8 outputs so you can control 2 joysticks at same time and combinations from up down left right with up right up left etc My next project is to do a drum machine controlled by midi in ableton on an Amstrad plus 6128 and a commodore Vic 20 The only shame is that don t know how to program in assembler language but think it will work anyways Q What is the bands name Salad was my electronica solo project that born in 2000 before this was creating house music as Lumi re and tech no Because own a restaurant and I m the chef the first
49. r logical keyboard was detected RTG mouse cursor problem in D3D mode with enabled filter RTG 8 bit fullscreen mode colour error in some situations Miscellaneous custom chipset and disk emulation tweaks RTS and RTD odd address check was missing fixes also mys terious JIT crashes Epson printer emulation multiple page printing fixes plugin directory detection problems Rar archive crash 1 5G Z3 Fast RAM works again 64 bit host OS only and more You can download it here http www winuae net files WinUAE2300 zi This CD contains thousands of disk images with over 10 000 programs that have benefit ted TPUG members for years Many of these programs are previously released freeware or shareware programs and many were exclusive to the user community represented by the Toronto PET Users Group The Toronto PET Users Group is a non profit organization that exists to promote and sup port users of Commodore equipment The club was founded in 1979 and over the years compiled a large library of programs for virtually all of the computers that Commodore manufactured The advent of disk imaging technology has now allowed TPUG to preserve the disk images of the entire library This is the most complete and comprehensive compi lation of the library that has ever been put together and is the culmination of a two year project to collect research organize and image the TPUG library We tried as much as pos
50. re preloaded on the Micro SD card and it would be inserted ready to go you also get a MicroSD to SD converter with the pack Commodore Free Magazine SYSTEM Under system we find C64 and 2 files one called INI and an other called Under C64 folder are some other subfolders FLOPPY holding a BIN file for the floppy emulation FONTS holds the fonts file GAMES MENU If you edit the file please use Notepad or a plain text editor not WORD or WORDPAD these add rouge characters to the text and will make you life a nightmare Remember the File names need to be in old dos format 8 characters long Below is the first game entry from the INI file the only things supported are Application ID 1 3 6 1 4 1 23153 1000 24 1 1 Type game Entity Cascade Games Title 19 Part One Boot Camp Year 1988 Genre sports System c 64 Port 2 joystick Floppy APPSM9PART 1M9BOOT 1 D64 APPS 19 Part One Boot Camp Cascade Games 1988 C64 19bootcamp d64 1 Preview APPS 19PART 1 PREVIEW BMP APPS 19 Part One Boot Camp Cascade Games 1988 C64 PREVIEW BMP Application This is the entry start so each game needs one ID this has to be unique the lower the number the higher up the list it would appear usually this would be incremented by 1 1 3 6 1 4 1 23153 1000 24 1 1 then 1 3 6 1 4 1 23153 1000 24 1 2 etc not sure what the whole line does but increase by 1 for each new entry TYPE This is used s
51. rom printable ASCII CP 1252 and relevant Unicode pages to C64 glyphs superset of C64 User Mono includes all 304 unique C64 glyphs mapped from character ROM indices PUA base U EExx C64 Elite Mono monospaced outlines direct simple mappings from character ROM indices PUA base U EExx and PETSCII upper graphics lower upper re verse upper graphics and reverse lower upper modes PUA base U EOxx The Commodore Computer Club U k www commodorecomputerclub co uk The Uk Commodore club for all Commodore machines Friendly forum http commodorecomputerclub co uk forums And Regular Meetings around the U k The Commodore Computer Club U k www commodorecomputerclub co uk The Uk Commodore club for all Commodore machines Friendly forum http commodorecomputerclub co uk forums And Regular Meetings around the U k s SCOMmMOHdEL eGscommputbternsciuob Commodore Free Magazine _ NEWS Commodore PET SYNTH PetSynth the first GPL playable synthesizer for the Commo dore PET computer has been released PetSynth is a program that turns your PET 4032 into a musical instrument with the finest in 1 bit quality sound PetSynth performs its magic on a stock PET 4032 computer for more information on PetSynth and to download the pro gram go to http petsynth or For more information on PetSynth s developer go to http www chironbramberger com PetSynth Hello and welcome Thi
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53. s www pegi info GAS A cLoanTO C64 IP ia ES c64 Forever 2010 Plus Edition cLOanTO Commodore Free Magazine 16 C L6 Plus 4 and even the C64 Direc amp to TW C64DTV de signed by Jeri Ellsworth If it s Commodor amp relat amp d we discuss t at qur meetings he goal is to have monthly meetings and discuss cool hat are still happening in the scene as well as shake deas or concepts and to inspire each other for new Ones empership Information hich can be in the form of money cash checks or PayPal ardware software books or magazines f you re interested in making a donation to help support the lub please contact us Commodore 64 Commodore PET Commodore 128 c er e gladly accept donations to the Commodore Computer Club OO wwiiiicommodorefree com Commodore Computer Club USA Vancouver WA Portland OR Commodore Users Group About The Founder For a little background about myself l ve been involved w th the Commodore 64 computer for over 27 years now basi ally since was a little kid received my first Commodore 64 back on Christmas morning December 1983 from my grand parents Prior to getting my own C64 computer had been using Apple lle s in Elementary school I really enjoyed using Logo back then In the early 1980 s was a Sysop and ran various BBS s anc a lot of programming on
54. s blanked instead of filling with current border colour Full Portable USB key mode portable command line pa rameter and relative path support Borderless minimal normal windowed mode option Updates CD CD image handling rewrite ccd img sub and mds mdf v1 image files supported Subchannel support CDTV CD32 CD G Audio tracks fully supported SCSI emulation CD images and non SPTI mode full uaescsi device CD audio support most common CD SCSI com mands emulated SCSI emulation enabled by default Near instant compressed mp3 flac CD audio and zipped CD image startup time More reliable CD CD image and CD image real drive on the fly change support CD32 CDTV more accurate CD audio and animation stream ing Rawinput keyboard handling improved Cycle exact audio and disk DMA sequencer Paula DMA re quest line timing fully emulated previously DMA accesses were immediate all other timing was already exact Direct3D bezel overlays and old overlays separated bezel overlays are in overlays directory old overlays should be re named as masks Direct3D bezel automatic display area detection and aspect ratio correction Disk images inside archives are automatically extracted to Disk Swapper and floppy drive paths when dragged and dropped 68000 and 68020 cycle exact CPU timing updates 68040 MMU emulation compatibility improved Linux and NetBSD confirmed working Keyb
55. s is the official project page for PetSynth the only pro gram for rocking the Commodore PET that the cool kids use Update I ve added an audio file in FLAC format that you can download and record to a tape file and use on a real PET See the guide for details I ve been sitting on this for a year and decided that it was finally time to unleash this puppy upon the world It features a two octave keyboard layout select able note length many selectable octaves selectable pulse width vibrato distortion and noise or drum mode depend ing on how you use it All this without adding or hacking the Commodore PET in any way Plus it s compiling from C so it s FAST with very low latency This computer does not use a SID 6581 music chip at all This program was designed tested and refined on a real life fully working stock Commodore PET 4032 computer and the sound is heard coming out of the built in piezoelectric speaker on the PET 4032 It does not involve hacking the computer in any way or adding any extra sound cards It does not involve taking sound from the tape port It also does not implement a DAC to create sounds It s also GNU GPL v2 open source software so if you like it you can go hack it yourself Or pay someone to make it the way you want it Like me There s nothing that sounds quite like it It s got a huge sound and no noise Really when plug it into my mixer there s no noise at all can hardly find any
56. sible to only image disks that showed no surface blemishes and stuck to the master disks as much as possible There was simply no way to test all the pro grams that are on this library CD to ensure that they work properly However if you no tice any programs that do not run properly or suspect a program may be corrupted please contact TPUG and we will try to find a working copy for future releases of this CD In putting together this library CD compilation it became apparent that several disks were missing from the TPUG library A search for these disks on the internet and with current and previous members of TPUG and others was only partially successful It would be ap preciated if anyone reading this who is in possession of any missing disks and willing to donate copies to TPUG would contact TPUG at info tpug ca A listing of the missing disks appears in text form on the CD THE DISK LIBRARY OF THE TORONTO PET USERS GROUP Amiga These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Amiga 500 600 1000 1200 2000 2500 3000 amp 4000 series of computers The Amiga library disks are prefixed with the letter A e g A C1 The Amiga Vision library disks are prefixed with the letters AV e g AV AAA Total count 168 127 library 30 Am icus 11 FAUG Commodore 64 These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore 64 computer or the Commo dore 128 in C64 mode These library disks are prefixed with the letter C e g c aa
57. t Joe Walker and programmer Rob Stevens A manual has been created for the game so please report any errors or suggest addenda pe e ATS rur P w df I vanen sees 8 asnus veen sanon as EE Ee eee ee E Ha pr 3 r Eh Ww rm BEELEN MM popes BLITTERWOLF MONTHLY PAGES www blitterwolf com another Amiga PDF issue SHORT RUN DOWN OF MONTHLY PAGE ISSUE FIFTEEN Interview with DiscreetFX Article by Gebrochen Getting to Grips with Hollywood Article by MickNish Some advert pictures Top ten downloads OS4depot Download the pages from Here http www blitterwolf com monthly html Chuck Norris 2010 Commodore free Don t know much about this bet this is a Interesting anima tion demo and available from here http noname c64 org csdb getinternalfile php 91993 chu ck norris prg It uses ASCII art to show a person walking past the sun the thing that struck me was how fluid the animation is see what you think SALAD Low res graphics Salad is the parallel project created by Joan Mal more known as Monoceros using obsolete hardware that has been developing at the same time as the eBay orchestra has been growing A project that started in a tender age of be tween 1982 83 with a Commodore 64 and a Casio vl tone Closing the circle or nearly some years after culminated with this work where some old computers and synths that have been used like the Commodore
58. to ASCII with additional Unicode page amp CP 1252 mappings where relevant C64 Elite Mono provides simple mappings directly to char acter ROM indices and the four PETSCII modes eot Embedded OpenType and woff Web Open Font For mat files ready to use on your own website See http style64 org c64 truetype to download to get more information including mapping tables and our rationale for producing a new TrueType package or to report bugs suggestions Package contents C64 User variable width outlines suitable for modern text layout in your favourite word processor and desktop publisher or for embedded display on a website minimal set of mappings from printable ASCII to C64 glyphs includes extra ASCII glyphs in C64 style to complete ASCII mapping U 005c U 005e U 0060 U 007b U 007d U 007e C64 User Mono monospaced outlines suitable for retro coding in your favou rite programmer s editor or embedded display on a website minimal set of mappings from printable ASCII to C64 glyphs includes extra ASCII glyphs as above C64 Pro variable width outlines expansive set of mappings from printable ASCII CP 1252 and relevant Unicode pages to C64 glyphs superset of C64 User includes all 304 unique C64 glyphs in monospace form mapped from character ROM indices PUA base U EExx to allow mixing variable and fixed width glyphs C64 Pro Mono monospaced outlines expansive set of mappings f
59. tro equipment will like to make more 5alad music but I m very busy with Monoceros the label and my forthcoming photography shop There is my project to make instruments responding to midi signals with other 8 bit systems but even if have 6 months free still it is not enough time Q Jeff minter release psycadelia for the plus4 and Commo dore 64 have you thought about using this as a graphical front end for your music have seen this only in The fifth Batalyx game tried it but have not synchronized anything to it and think it s a great programme This kind of stuff is what would like to do in a fu ture but don t have knowledge to do it didn t know there was also a version for plus 4 Q do you have any comments you would like to add Well would like to thanks all people that enjoyed my work it took me one and half year to do it would specially like to those people that bought my music money is inverted in the label to release new artists music and gear Also thanks to the people that helped me in www Zonadepruebas com and Retromadrid Festival to give me the opportunity to play the Salad live for first time Q can our readers contribute somehow to this creative pro cess If somebody is interested we have our shop at www inrecs com shop php or just buying a track at iTunes will help a lot not only to me but to our label community would like to say it helps us to continue working for the love o
60. ur graphics on the top you can t say this is a sexy looking unit The device is basically a rectangular black box with rounded sides and some ports on mine was a standard black unit with a colour sticker and a logo on it However looking sexy isn t everything so lets see what s included in the box The ports on the device include Micro SD card reader USB power point 2 joystick ports Serial port Ps2 mouse and Ps2 Keyboard port SVideo port Note The mcc supports composite video out with an external S video to composite converter You can use any passive con vert or converter cable from your local Electrical supplier Also in production is a VGA version this obviously lacks the SVideo output though The power adaptor was a USB 2 pin device so You need to purchase an adaptor at a local electrical suppliers so you can use it with the U k 3 pin plugs darn standards again sup pose the cost was an issue here so an adaptor was left out is the UK the only 3 pin plug country although the wall wart is a self switching 110 240v version Once the unit was connected up by adding my own keyboard and mouse any PS2 Versions will do although they do sell a PS2 keyboard with Commodore i C64 Classic Computer rt One Boot Cam finite E otd of Doh Copyright Arcade Retro Gaming 64 keys on and the Commodore ASCII text on the bottoms like a real machine and of course you need to add a TV I plugged mine in
61. uter These library disks are prefixed with the letter S e g s s1Total count 34 PLUSA These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore Plus 4 computer These disks had no prefix designation in the TPUG library These disks were once considered missing from the library but were recently located A rare find Total count 4 TPUG Folders in the root directory prefixed with TPUG contain various extras related to the To ronto PET Users Group The folders are divided as follows TPUG Photos A selection of various TPUG related photos TPUGScans Scans ofthe paper catalogues of the disk library The TORPET and some of the TPUG Newsletters TPUG Xtras Various extras and goodies VIC 20 These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore VIC 20 computer These li brary disks are prefixed with the letter V e g v aa Total count 63 Most of these disks were converted from the original master tapes years ago XTRAS This folder contains various utilities that enhance the TPUG library CD The main ones are described below VICE This is the folder containing the VICE emulator a program that emulates the Commodore 64 Commodore 128 Commodore PET Plus4 and CBM II computers on a Windows based machine This was developed several years ago by the VICE team You can also download VICE from the website The VICE team website is www viceteam org WinVICE 2 1 zip file WINUAE This is the folder containing WinUAE
62. with an SVideo to composite adaptor had purchased this item separately powered on and played a few games the main title page looked ok however the basic Commodore screen and loading games seemed dark and fuzzy with some ghosting well this was a composite connection The devices output on the main or game select screen seemed ok colours looked and a lot better than the DTV units I have although we don t want to talk about that problem here SOUNDS GOOD The sound was very accurate and surprised me the SID filters seemed to be emulated unlike the DTV units The SID chip em ulation is the 8580 chip so you may find that digital speech and sampled sounds replay quietly I wonder if they could emulate both versions of the SID chip in different cores have asked this to the technical support website The sound is obviously DIGITAL and so is a harsh clean and clinical sound obviously it wont be analogue like a real machines SID chip And of course the sound output isn t not noisy like a real Commodore ma chines SID chip know some readers will welcome this as have seen projects to clean up the SID output but the SID s randomness and noise that makes the SID unique isn t it Anyway wonder how many casual users will actually notice this The bottom line here is that the sound is very good apart from the unit using a real SID chip suppose it will never be as Commodore Free Magazine good as a real Commodore machine
63. wrote CommodoreServer com V 1541 Comet64 Internet Modem by Greg Alekel http blip tv file 4038591 Portland Commodore User Group PDXCUG by Greg Alekel gt http blip tv file 4042778 Enhanced Music Player for the iPad by Keith Henrickson gt http blip tv file 4042847 Commodore Programming Resources by Larry Anderson gt http blip tv file 4042913 gt Disabling the NMI by Steve Davison gt http blip tv file 4042940 gt the 1541 Ultimate v2 by Josh Shiflet gt http blip tv file 4083741 gt The latest on Amiga Computers by Lars Nelson gt http blip tv file 4084042 Another couple of CommVEx v6 videos have been released They are Commodore 64 VIC 20 and Ham Radio by Roger Van Pelt http blip tv file 4219138 Amiga Forever and C64 Forever by Michael Battilana http blip tv file 4219211 Now being released in MPEG 4 Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http videocam net au fcu Commodore Free Magazine NEWS THE FULL VERSION OF HOSTILE BREED FOR THE AMIGA HAS BEEN PRESERVED AND RELEASED The full version of long lost Palace Software game Hostile Breed has been located and released by Amiga Games That Weren t http agtw abime net games view hostilebreed Hostile Breed was widely reviewed in the various Amiga mag azines but disappeared when Palace went under aGTW features the full three disk game in ADF and IPF format as well as interviews with artis

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