commodore_free_issue_8.pdf

Issue Number 8

May 2007

Commodore Free Magazine

EDITOR

CONTENTS

Many of you will now be in denial at the loss of Total Amiga

magazine. I had been a subscriber for a while and what

impressed me was the layout of the magazine. Although still

a fanzine, it could easily be claimed this was a professional

magazine.

Editor and Contents

Page 2

Protovision news

Page 3 – 4

Other news

Page 5 – 6

C64 Audio

Page 7

Basic Bible

Page 8 – 9

Hex files part III

Page 10 – 11

Also in this issue, some information about Back in time live

the Sid music event, although sadly I will be unable to attend

the event, I am hoping that a DVD will be released again, so

I may be able to soak up some of the atmosphere.

Into to programming Part II

Page 12 – 14

Interview Jeff Ledger

Page 15 – 16

Commodore Scene VGA update

Page 17 – 19

Happy Birthday system 3

Page 20

Commodore BBS list

Page 21 – 22

I am always looking for articles, although sadly very few

come through from readers, I would like to promote projects

and user groups especially. I would like to also hear about

companies promoting Commodore by having hardware and

software for sale, with a small history about when they

started and what items are for sale, if you own such a

company why not get in touch and I can promote you in the

magazine, with a link to the website and a few pages of text

about your services.

Bits and Pieces II

Page 23

Activision on the Commodore 64

Page 24

Commodore 64 book so far

Page 25

Interview Johan

Page 26

Interview Lasse Oorni

Page 27

Commodore 64 mark 2 ½ dream

Page 30 – 31

TND Programmers tool disk V1

Page 32 -35

Adverts

Page 36 - END

Attached to the end of the magazine is the Commodore

gaming advert, although I don’t receive any funding from

Commodore gaming I felt it was important to promote what

they are doing. I have a feeling if everything goes well and

sales are good Commodore gaming may have something

special for us retro users.

Dave Moorman continues his “teach yourself basic” tutorials

and we have another instalment of Assembler from Jason.

Because Commodore Scenes VGA project went quiet I have

an update in this issue, and some information about the

project, as usual with these projects the idea seems easy to

achieve but real life families and Collage take over and the

projects slow to a halt.

Richard Bayliss has put together a utility disk for

programmers, and I am happy to promote this by having the

disk image available to download on my website. I am

hoping to expand this section of the website with disks like a

writers disk full of utilities to convert text into and from

different formats, spellcheckers etc, again real life is against

me so if you have a set of utilities why not use the quik menu

system and compile them into a library for other readers to

use

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NEWS From Protovision

Lemon 64 Forum:

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22167

retrohackers.org Forum:

THE FINAL REPLAY V0.8 ROM IS OUT

TFR 0.8 for the Retro Replay cartridge is out. V0.7 had a

few bugfixes and a few new features. V0.8 includes a

bug fix of one of those new

http://retrohackers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=242

Petscii Forums:

http://jledger.proboards19.com/index.cgi?board=c64ngd

&action=display&thread=1168405604

features.

Changelog V0.7:

- Fixed: Fast format available again.

- Fixed: Removed a possible crash in the DOS

command.

- Fixed: Monitor can now save RAM below $A000-

$BFFF ROM.

- Added: New BASIC command SETIP to change IP

address.

- Added: New DOS"D:(header),(id)" command to change

disk header.

- Added: INFO command now shows network addresses

and number of

rasterlines.

Forum-64:

http://www.forum64.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=14247

SINGULAR BROWSER - WEB BROWSER FOR RR-

NET AND TFE

Soci/Singular put quite some work in his nice web

browser: the SINGULAR BROWSER. In a matter of

days, he released v0.2, v0.3 and now v0.4 of it. Singular

browser supports RR-Net and TFE (The Final Ethernet).

You

may adjust your IP settings using the included tool

IPconfig.

Changelog V0.8:

- Fixed: SETIP now also has effect on CodeNet and not

only NetDrive.

Instructions for IPconfig:

1. Load IPconfig and type LIST.

2. Adjust your IP settings.

3. Type RUN to save the IPconfig-default file.

Get it from The Final Replay home page:

http://www.oxyron.de/html/freplay.html

Some hints:

1. Notice: An already existing IPconfig-default file must

be deleted before running IPconfig.

2. If the programm displays "Press record & play on

tape" after running it, replace "Peek(186)" in line 10 by

the device number you are using, e. g. 8, and try

again.Clicking links as well as entering further URLs is

not yet supported in the current version of the browser.

In our hardware section you can find a neat little batch

file to make sending files from PC to C64 with The Final

Replay more easy.

Related links:

Forum-64:

http://www.forum64.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=15662

Protovision hardware section:

http://www.protovision-

online.de/hardw/hardwstart.htm#retro

Get it from CSDb:

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=47920

Related links:

retrohackers.org Forum:

http://retrohackers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=240

Forum-64:

http://www.forum64.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=15548

BOMB MANIA WITH SNES PADS

Zhayl created a patch to make the game Bomb Mania

work with SNES Pads.It can be downloaded from here:

http://dawork.synchronus.de/filez/bombmania-

snespatch.zip

VICE 1.21 WITH MMC64 EMULATION

Related links:

Forum-64:

http://www.forum64.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=15368

The latest version of VICE (v1.21) has been released

earlier this month. Visit the VICE homepage at

http://www.viceteam.org for downloads. At

http://www.viceteam.org/plain/NEWS you can find

information on what's new in this release. An interesting

new feature is MMC64 emulation. The dump of an

MMC64

BIOS is required for that. You can find such a dump at

retrohackers.org Forum. Notice you will also need the

image of a MMC/SD card to emulate MMC64 in VICE.

To create an image of your MMC/SD Card, you can use

e. g. WinImage or dd.exe.

ARTILLERY DUEL NETWORK 0.005 RELEASED

Version 0.005 of Artillery Duel Network for RR-Net or

ETH64 has been uploaded.

Changelog:

- Now uses client/server terminology

- Awesome explosion graphics from WizardNJ

- Fixed a race condition when exchanging health packets

(Leif hopes)

Related links:

retrohackers.org Forum:

http://retrohackers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1449

WinImage: http://www.winimage.com

dd.exe: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

Please keep in mind that MMC64 emulation is in an early

stage of development, so there are still bugs.

http://home.ica.net/~leifb/commodore/duel

Enjoy!

Related links:

www.commodorefree.com

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NETMON V0.3 FOR RR-NET

Tanks 3000 + 4 Player Interface

Newcomer

Ice Guys

hannenz has released v0.3 of NetMon, a tool to control

and monitor your C64 remotely via RR-Net. It uses UDP

over IP and new features in v0.3 includes custom IP-

addresses. NetMon is perfectly suited for cross

developing as it gives you full access to the entire C64

RAM, including REU, and devices on the serial bus.

Clients for both Windows and Linux are available.

Party website: http://www.bequem-von-zuhause.de

Thanks for the nice party, mates!

CBMIMAGER V0.2.4 RELEASED

Related links:

NetMon home page: http://freenet-

homepage.de/hannenz/netmon.html

Lemon64 Forum:

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22669

Forum-64:

http://www.forum64.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=12982

retrohackers.org Forum:

http://retrohackers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=179

A new version of CBMImager, a D64 and DFI image

editor for Windows, has been released by Uncle Tom

and Doc Bacardi of The Dreams.

CBMImager V0.2.4 changelog:

- added overwrite prompt to extract file operations

- added check for illegal characters in filenames in

extract file

function

- added context-menu entries to change the properties of

a file

(file-type, scratch-protection, closed-flag)

- added capability to import and export P00-files (Pxx,

Uxx, Sxx, Rxx)

- Added the ability to check for modified images, so a

user can be

asked to save the current image if he opens/creates a

new image or exits

the program.

- fixed a bug in the filesearcher where no checks were

made if an image

loads correctly

- fixed an issue where the user was left alone if an image

can't be

loaded successfully (now, an error-message is

presented to the user)

YOGIBEAR INTERVIEWED BY LOTEK64

Lotek64 invited Yogibear/Protovision, composer of the

Advanced Space Battle soundtrack, for a chat.

Download issue 20 of the magazine from the Lotek64

home page at http://www.lotek64.com and enjoy the

detailed interview.

Related links:

Forum-64:

http://www.forum64.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=15107

STEREOINSID NEWS

StereoINsid V2 by Thunder.Bird is an internal board to

plug into the SID socket to obtain stereo music and

sounds with extra software. It also gives old games and

demos a slight stereo effect .Required: a 2nd SID

(available as StereoINsid V2s pack) and a little soldering

knowledge. Compatible with all C64/C64-

II/SX64/C64G... and C128D(CR) but not with the

C64DTV.

Project page:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_i

d=7602&release_id=12219

Download:

http://prdownload.berlios.de/rrtools/CBMImager0.2.4.zip

Features:

- can be assembled with two different SIDs, which also

offers better stereo ability

- jumpers for filters and voltages for SID 6581/8580

- filters out the VIC noise / is able to do digi with new SID

- optional stereo input (connect your radio/CD/cassette

RCA level) for filtering use

- stereo headphones jack for using direct headphones or

HiFi

- 2nd SID at $D420, $D500, $DE00, $DF00 or other

adress around $Dxxx

- small layout for direct connection to where the original

SID was

- easy to install with micro clips (no soldering required,

though it is recommended)

- sounds like stereo with standard games/demos/SIDs

Extra: 2-sided 5.25" floppy disc full with stereo and 2nd

SID software

DISKIMAGERY64 0.7 FOR MAC, LINUX & WINDOWS

DiskImagery64 by lallafa 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. RR-Net support is

available and allows to transfer programs and disk

images directly to your real C64.

Main Feature in 0.7: Added full WarpCopy support.

Warp/slow read/write disk images directly from/to real

disks. Send DOS Commands, format or

verify disks.

Grab it here: http://www.lallafa.de/blog

Related links:

Lemon64:

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22432

Forum-64:

http://www.forum64.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=14844

StereoINsid V2(s) is about to go into production in late

spring. For more information and to pre-order, write to

contact@protovision-online.de.

T64 PLUGIN FOR MMC64 - SMALL UPDATE

DrCreep released a new version of his T64 Plugin for

MMC64, v0.07.The code was re-written from scratch.

The new version features autostart and increased

compatibility. Only really huge files will cause problems,

as well as files located below $0801.Get T64 plugin from

CSDb: http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=41993

HARDWARE SECTION UPDATED

Our hardware section got updated with various software

and hints concerning hardware distributed by us: 4

Player Interface, Retro Replay, MMC64 and RR-Net.

More updates to come, stay tuned!

Please use the given forum links to leave feedback to

those bringing us these nice productions. Thank you!

Visit Protovision online

http://www.protovision-online.de

PROTOVISION SPONSORED SOME PRIZES FOR

THE OXYRON PARTY

The 15 Years Oxyron Party took place from 23rd to 25th

February 2007 in Flensburg, Germany. To support the

party and its competitions, Protovision sponsored some

nice games:

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Other NEWS

Posted: 07.04.2007 - 10:58 Post

subject: Amiga Future is taking over

Total Amiga

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The German magazine Amiga Future is taking over

the famous English magazine Total Amiga from issue

27.

Cottonwood BBS is now accessable via Telnet!

Operating on All American BBS

128 v12.1b!

The telnet address is cottonwood.servebbs.com (port

23).

A few tips:

When calling for the first time as a new user, call with an

ASCII terminal (Hyperterminal or equivalent from a

Windows computer, or ASCII mode from a terminal

program on a Commodore computer). This is because

AA BBS switches to ASCII mode during the application

process.

In a very close cooperation with Robert Williams, and

the Total Amiga Team, we have realized a concept to

guarantee the future of an English magazine for a

very long time.

Of course this will only be possible if there are

enough subscriptions all over the time. However

existing Total Amiga subscribers will receive any

magazines left on their subscription.

If you call in with CGTERM,

all the charachters will be reversed at that point. Once

you've set up your account, you can call with a

Commodore graphics terminal program on all

subsequent calls.

Number 26 of the Total Amiga is the last issue to be

published by SEAL in the UK.

Also, during the application, you're asked for your phone

number, which is in U.S./Canada phone number format

(###-###-####). This is used as a sort of backup ID# in

AA BBS. I don't care what number you use, but it needs

to be a number that you'll be able to remember in the

event that you forget your assigned ID#. And finally, if

you'd like to be informed when your account has been

validated, send me a feedback message on the BBS

with your e-mail address and I'll notify you that way.

In the near future there will be an English release of

the German Amiga Future, which will take the place

for the Total Amiga.

The first new issue of the Amiga Future to be

published in German and English is the number 67

for july/august 2007 (release date 5th of July).

Otherwise, all accounts are normally validated within 24

hours (everyone gets the same

full access upon validation), so you can just call back

and enjoy your access.

For this all the German articles will be translated into

English, so the content of both editions will be the

same.

Our intention is now to get in contact with some more

translators with English as their native language!

One final note... It seems that it's also necessary to tap

return (or enter) upon connection, otherwise the BBS will

sometimes detect the

incorrect baud rate and begin transmitting at 1200 baud

when it should be

transmitting at 2400. This causes a bunch of garbage to

come across instead

of the initial welcome message. If this does happen,

however, don't worry.

Just disconnect, wait a minute or so, and call back.

Then, when you

connect, just tap return (or enter) once or twice, and you

should see the

"2400 baud user detected" message.

Interested users, they don't have to work for free,

should call our editors office as soon as possible!

Both issues of the forthcoming new Amiga Future will

be released at the same time.

In other words there are no changes for our German

readers in the future, but almost all things will change

for the current readers of the current Total Amiga.

On time release every two months is one of the

important things for the Amiga Future editors. Every

issue can be ordered directly from us or from several

Amiga dealers worldwide. (Interested dealers please

call us too!)

Any questions? Feel free to e-mail me at

wiskow@verizon.net!

-Andrew (aka Balzabaar)

Every magazine can be ordered as single issue or as

subscription, you can choose it with or without a

Cover CD-ROM.

Total Amiga magazine Closes down

I am or rather I was a regular reader of this magazine

(Total Amiga magazine,) although not a very active

Amiga user due to my Commodore 64 and 128

taking over, I have to admit, to I was quite shocked

when I received an email from the editor about the

magazines closure. The magazine was very well

edited and laid out using where possible 100%

Amiga machines For anyone who hasn’t read or seen

the information I have attached the news from the

website. For me anyway its very sad news. Well

done for producing an excellent magazine.

Because the Total Amiga did not have such a feature

in the past, all current subscribers will receive their

magazines without an Cover CD-ROM. Subscribers

interested in upgrading their subscription to include

the CD can call our office before issue 67 is released

Of course upgrading to the Amiga Future with CD-

ROM is always possible for additional 3.- Euro every

time.

Each Issue Amiga Future magazine currently

contains 52 pages, cover pages in colour, the rest

b/w. This won't change for the future as it is an

important part of our concept. So it is even possible

to release new issues even without any advertisers in

a single issue!

so here you go

- Commodore free -

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