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Commodore Free
Issue Number 5
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Commodore Free
Editor
I must admit I never know what to write in this
section. If you are like me you probably haven’t even
read any editor comments from any magazine,
instead wanting to rush in and look at the contents
page.
So here is some more text then no one will read,
seriously we have some more reviews and
interviews. The amazing commodore DTV hack from
Jason Winters, who seems to be a reader of the
magazine, great you must read this item if nothing
else, it goes to show the skill from some of these
hardware hackers.
Jasons machine says buy me and if you are in a
position to mass produce such an item then do so, I
would imagine quite a large market on such a device.
I have been proved wrong before on many
occasions.
Again I plee for anyone reading to write a page or
two about a Commodore related item, maybe its
about why you love Commodore or why you think it al
went wrong for the company.
Could it be that you left the “commodore Scene” and
returned later to find an explosion of products and
software had been released, with more hardware on
offer now than ever before, Commodore dead, you
must be joking mate its more alive than you think.
Maybe you just have a link to a website with some
Commodore related item fine sent that, and I will
write something for you, Are you a hardware or
software designer wishing to promote you wares, fine
let me know, as ever “Do something rather than
nothing”
Contents
Editor
Contents
Readers Comments
C.C.C.C News
News
News 2
News 3
Dot-net Basic
Hobbyist Programming
Dir Master
Ron Van Schaik
Dtv Hacking
Jason winters Interview
Tape transfer
Brian Bagnell Interview
Artillery Duel
Leif Bloomquist interview
How 2 Quik Menu
Dave Moorman Interview
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Best regards
Commodore Free
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Commodore Free
Readers Comments
Jason Winters
Hello,
Great magazine! I just stumble upon your site today,
I'm definitely bookmarking this page
Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club
From: Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club
Subject: Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club
Spring Expo 2007 May 5&6, 2007
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:37:13 -0500
Spring Expo 2007 Ft. Mitchell, KY Across the Ohio
River from Cincinnati, OH USA General Expo
Information C=4 is planning a super weekend for
your expo activities! The Expo will be held on
Saturday, May 5th; from 9:00 am until we decide to
call it quits on Sunday afternoon! We understand
some of you are early birds; some of you are night
owls.
We will let the demo folks tell us when they want to
present their demo! Over 30 hours of official
Commodore activity the entire weekend! With a room
the size of 2352 square feet, we are able to have
demos and shops in the same room, nobody will
miss a thing. Even though the C=4 Expo is in
Kentucky, it is just across the river from Cincinnati,
Ohio. The C=4 expo will be held at the Drawbridge
Inn located at 2477 Royal Drive in Ft. Mitchell,
Kentucky. The Greater Cincinnati Airport is a short
distance from the hotel. Airport shuttle service is
available courtesy of the hotel. Demonstrations and
Speakers Commitments from guests will be posted
when they are confirmed: Local tourist sites are also
nearby: http://www.drawbridgeinn.com/directions.asp
It is hoped that every Commodore Club can send a
representative to experience the fun that expos
create on a regular basis. The community welcomes
like-minded hobbyists, and it is your best opportunity
to meet folks you have yet to meet in person, or meet
again friends you have met in the past.
Spring Commodore Expo 2007 Reservation
Information We hope you decide to spend the entire
weekend with us and make it a great weekend
starting on Friday night with your Commodore friends
who decide to show up early. Hotel Information The
Drawbridge Inn is located off I-75 and I-71 in Ft
Mitchell Kentucky. The cost of the single rooms in the
main building is only $69 plus taxes. The hotel is
setting aside 10 rooms for our group until April 4th.
After that date, any remaining rooms in that block are
released for general sale. Reservations will continue
to be accepted for our group at the quoted group
rate, on a room available basis.
To make reservations for the C=4 Expo: Name of the
Event: Cincinnati Commodore EXPO Toll Free: (800)
354-9793 In Kentucky: (800) 352-9866 (859) 341-
2800 There is an International Airport located nearby,
with shuttle service provided by the hotel.
Expo Pricing Door Charge: $10.00/person or
$15.00/family Selling Tables: $15/ table or $35/ 3
tables (The hotel charges $10 in addition per table for
power usage) Tables are 6' in length. All sellers and
demonstrators need to set up before 9:00 on
Saturday morning, the doors (for these only) will
open at 7:00am.
Contact Roger Hoyer by phone, email, or in writing.
Email: thunderbird@iglou.com C=4 Expo c/o 31
Potowatomie Trail Milford, OH 45150
Commodore Free
More nice comments I like to receive positive
feedback, in fact any feedback is good.
Boris Kretzinger
Hi Nigel, just recently found your mag on the web,
very nice one with good articles I have to admit.
We do a monthly c64-pdf-mag in German language
since 05/2005, which is quite hard because our staff
is not that big ... well, guess you know the problem,
too :) So I'd like to suggest a cooperation: We do
Interviews with several guys on current projects or
news around the commie on a pretty regular basis.
Since most sceners live outside Germany, I have to
interview them in English, anyway, and could send
you this interviews, so they will be released in our
mag in German language, and in yours for the rest of
the world :) For that, we would be very happy if you
could send us one or two texts out of your coming or
older issues every two months or so (and I will
translate and publish them in our mag). Also, other
articles could be exchanged.That's pretty much it.
What do you think of this idea? Are you interested?
Some very old interviews are to be found on
www.cevi-aktuell.de.vubut
there are several newer
ones I could send to you, latest one with aleksi eeben
about his sid-project (emulation of sid-sound on vic-
20 and 6 voices on c64 ...) Kind regards,
Commodore Free
Boris Great to here from you yes I am interested
in articles and doing a trade, I replied personally
with some articles to Boris on this email
I also pointed out that Commodore free is edited
and run by just myself, its difficult to find
information for the magazine and every issue I
plea for links or potential magazine material, I
also would like to cover all Commodore
machines but my c64 is now my dominant
machine.
jeff
Hello, i read your latest magazine and thought maybe
you could help me. I want to buy an injet for my
commodore 64, but i rarely use geos. what is the
bestinkjet for me to buy to use with a parallel
interfaceand be able to print from normal commodore
programs in native mode without geos?
Commodore Free
Jeff the only thing I have used with a native
Commodore 64 and a standard printer is
something like
Super Graphix
these connect to the
expansion port of the Commodore and have
jumpers to set various things, one is to convert
PETSCII to ASCII (commodore text formatting to
standard text ) I have used the device from many
applications on the Commodore 64 and to a
variety of printers. The printers usually have to
support Epsom standard most do and have
tested such a device with Hewlett Packard 640c
850c Laserjet 5 and laserjet 5si all worked without
problems, even printing out disk listings.
Anyone else like to comment?
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Commodore Free
News
Star Commander
A new beta of Star Commander is out. For the
changelog see below. Probably the most interesting
improvement is that SC can now access cbm4win
under Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003. So there is no
more need for GiveIO and alike. Simply select
"OpenCBM" as cable type at the transfer options
dialog. OpenCBM needs to be installed for this of
course.
Since this is a beta release, there still might be bugs.
Please send bug reports to the Star Commander
Mailing List at sclist@yahoogroups.com.
As usual, the new beta is available at
http://sta.c64.org/scbeta.html.
Changes in SC 0.83.21 beta since SC 0.82:
Fix: During file rename, already existing target files
are now detected correctly under operating systems
other than real DOS, as well.
Fix: The number of sides is not detected for disks in
1570 drives anymore.
Fix: The progress indicator counted blocks incorrectly
while copying a file from a Commodore drive in
normal transfer mode.
New: Introducing support for accessing Commodore
drives via the OpenCBM driver (cbm4win 0.4.0 or
above) under Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003 - use the
"OpenCBM" value for the "Serial cable" option in the
"Transfer options" configuration screen.
http://sta.c64.org/scbeta.html.
- ECS Denise/AGA borderblank feature works
properly
- Dualcore/SMP random freezes properly fixed
and more minor fixes..
Bugs introduced in 1.3.3 fixed:
- AVIOutput out of sync fix
- CPU emulation condition code fix
- Fixed handle leak in bsdsocket and AHI
- Sound pitch shifting in VSync-mode and more..
- Catweasel MK4 mouse support
New features:
- Improved emulation of AGA sprites outside display
window
- uaeserial.device introduced. Multi-port serial device,
unit numbers
are directly mapped to PC serial ports (unit 0 =
COM0, 1 = COM1 etc..)
- Improved serial port detection, virtual devices also
supported
- Improved Catweasel MK3/4 support without
Windows driver installed
(requires TVicPort,
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/dev/port/index.shtm)
- Improved debugger features
- Sound system is not anymore reinitialized when
losing/gaining focus
- 1M (1024KB) ROM image support
- Sound volume configuration setting also sets AHI
audio volume
(previously was Paula audio only)
- Custom chipset interrupt timing improved
And more..
http://www.winuae.net/
Win UAE Amiga Emulator
WinUAE 1.3.4 (30.12.2006)
=========================
Bugs fixed:
- Improved bsdsocket emulation stability
- Winuaeclipboard crash fix
- Windows Vista compatibility problems fixed
- Filesystem flag handling on FAT volumes
- Page Down-key Input panel remapping works
properly
- Sound system improved
DiskImagery64 0.6 released 23:17
DiskImagery64 is a portable (Qt 4.2.x-based), open-
source D64 disk image editor for Mac, Linux and
Windows. It offers a nice GUI with drag-and-drop
support between disk images and the local file
system. Runs programs or mounts images directly in
your favorite emulator.
Release 0.6 added network support: Download
programs or share disk images as NetDrives with a
single click to a real C64 with RRNet and The Final
Replay ROM 0.6.Check it out:
http://www.lallafa.de/blog
BalSys v3.0
BalSys v3.0 - Valentino Zenari released a new
version of BalSys.
BalSys is a language, and development system
package designed for C= Plus/4 (or expanded C=
16). Based on the B.A.L. (Business Assembler
Language), an existing standard for business
machines, the environment has been improved with
many high-level new commands and features. The
package is a complete all-in-one tool: Editor /
Debugger / Executer
http://www.cbm264.com/svs/svsindex.html
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Commodore Free
AmigaAMP
a powerful realtime MPEG audio player for Amiga
computers. It is based on the amp decoding engine
by Tomislav Uzelac and can do realtime decoding on
50 MHz processors and up. AmigaAMP is a
completely free and non-commercial project.
Fraunhofer IIS and THOMSON multimedia grant a
free license to use their MPEG Layer-3 audio
compression technology for this kind of software.
GadTools rules!
The player comes with a fully fontsensitive, style
guide conformous Amiga GadTools user interface
and features multithreaded non-blocking windows for
main interface, stream information and playlist.
WinAMP looks nice, too!
Too dull? Well, the same executable can be made
look and behave like WinAMP just by ticking a
checkbox in the configuration window. It can load all
the WinAMP skins and can display a realtime
spectrum analyzer.
680x0 Realtime Decoding
AmigaAMP can do realtime decoding even on slower
680x0 processors using Stephane Tavenard's highly
optimized mpega.library. On a 68040-40 you can
play Layer3 at half the sampling rate and with
reduced quality. Full quality and sampling rate can be
archieved with a 68060-50.
PowerUP and WarpUP Compatible
In addition to the 68k decoder AmigaAMP comes
with two PPC native decoding engines one for
PowerUP and one for WarpUP. Both engines feature
high quality realtime decoding of Layer2 and Layer3
streams, graphic equalizer settings and full
visualisation.
On a PPC604e-200 you can play two 128kbps
Layer3 streams with equalizer switched on and
crossfade between the two without taking much CPU
load! The realtime analyzers will continue to run
smoothly without any latency problems at all.
AHI Compatible
AmigaAMP uses the widespread AHI Audio System
at device access level. You can use it with any AHI
compatible soundcard as well as with the original
Amiga audio chipset.
Current Features (v2.18)
MPEG Layer-2, Layer-3, AIFF, and WAV playback
MPEGit and MAS-PLAYER hardware accelerator
support Visualisation plugin system
GadTools based font sensitive user interface
Alternatively WinAMP compatible user interface
Workbench application (Drop icons on window)
AHI device-level access (uses default audio mode
automatically)
PPC (PowerUP and WarpUP) support
AmigaOS 4 support
ID3 tag editor (artist, title, album, etc.) and ID3v2
Playlists and Repeat mode
Volume, panning and crossfading
Editable playlists and shuffle mode with skin support
Graphic equalizer
Shoutcast/Icecast internet radio support
Planned features MPEG decode-to-file
Cottonwood BBS
I've recently aquirerd a CMD HD-200 hard drive
(thanks, Al!), as well as a couple 1581's (thanks,
Marco!), and with this, I've vastly improved the setup
for my BBS. Until I get the update for AA BBS
from its author, I'm only able to have one 16 MB
partition of the 245 MB hard drive on the BBS, but
even so, this is a VAST improvement over what I was
running. And now, I can officially announce quite
happily that I have DIVORCED my C=64c from the
PC it was connected to. Everything is now 100%
original!
I've updated the photo of my setup on the
Cottonwood BBS website at
http://hometown.aol.com/cottonwoodbbs
Here's what the BBS is now running on:
1 Commodore 64c Computer
1 Commodore 1084S Monitor
2 Commodore 1541 Disk Drives
1 Commodore 1541c Disk Drive
1 FSD-2 Excellerator+ Disk Drive
2 Commodore 1581 Disk Drives
1 CMD HD-200 Hard Drive (245 MB)
1 MultiTech MultiModem224 (2400 baud)
1 Black Rotary-Dial Desk Phone
1 All American BBS by Nick Smith
Check it out now at (951)242-3593. Call and
experience the world's last remaining Commodore 64
dial-up BBS!
-Andrew(aka Balzabaar - SysOp)
http://hometown.aol.com/cottonwoodbbs/
Information from the WEBSITE
+1 (951)242-3593
Located in Moreno Valley, California, USA.
Operating 24 hours a day, at 300/1200/2400 baud.
Running on a Commodore 64 with All American BBS
Possibly the only remaining Commodore dial-up BBS
in the world!
For the best experience, call from a Commodore
computer with a Color Graphics terminal program. To
download CCGMS 5.5 (my personal favorite),
For the best Commodore graphic experience on a
PC, call using C64Term by Greg Pfountz. To
download C64Term,
NOTE: This terminal runs in DOS using a standard
Hayes Compatible modem. This will not run in
Windows, nor will it work with a "WinModem".
For the least desirable experience, you can connect
in ASCII mode using HyperTerminal in Windows.
Please note that "modern" modems take longer to
connect than a modem on a Commodore computer.
Because of this, the BBS may not appear to be doing
anything when you connect with HyperTerminal.
Once you've connected, just press enter, and the
BBS should "see" you. If you get garbled
charachters, the BBS may have detected you as
connecting at the wrong baud speed. In this case,
just disconnect and try calling again. The default
settings in HyperTerminal should work fine.
drewbrasil@yahoo.com.br.
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