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Issue 19 April 2008

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Editor

Contents

Another issue arrives

Quite exciting times as recently I received my DC2N

and ultimate 1541 interface, although as of this time I

haven’t used them! I am hoping to find some time to

test out these devices.

CONTENTS

Editorial and Contents

Page 2

NEWS

uIec news

Page 3

General news

Page 4

We continue with this issue the Beginners guide to

the Commodore 64, and move another step closer to

the goal of a competent user. Also in this issue I

managed to pin down Robert Bernardo and obtain an

interview, that is quite enlightening about

Commodore and the C1 and Dtv devices that were

review or write up of the recent Mossycon4

Behr Multicart for the VIC 20

PAL VERSION

Page 5

PROJECTS

Wild bunch project

Page 6-9

REVIEWS

DIRMASTER version 2

Page 10-13

MOSSYCON 4 Personal Review

Page 28-30

Rather disappointing is that No one entered the

PPOT competition to win 1 of 3 cd roms of the bands

music, so does that mean all readers don’t want

competitions or all have the Cd`s already I wonder if

the question of putting pen to paper is of putting for

some users so I will re run the competition at a later

date maybe with a 1 question you need to email and

answer to and if no one replies I can take it

competitions are not wanted in the magazine

INTERVIEWS

Interview with Robert Bernardo

Page 14

TUTORIALS

DMC Music Editor

Page 21-22

Commodore 64 Beginners guide 4

Page 23-27

Regards

Nigel

HOW CAN I HELP COMMODORE FREE

Ok the best way to help would be “write something

about Commodore” (yes for the observant I spelled

the company correctly this time) _grin seriously

though articles are always welcome,

WHAT ARTICLES DO YOU NEED

Well they vary contact me if you have an idea but I

am looking for

Tutorials – (beginners and Expert)

Experiences with Commodore

Why I love Commodore machines

Interviews – maybe you have access to a power user

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NEWS

* Transparent support for PRG/SEQ/USR file

extensions, with REL support planned.

uIEC and uIEC/CF are projects

Jim Brain

More options Apr 15, 12:26 am

o Transparent support for P00/S00/U00 files, with

R00 support planned.

o Supports read and write of D64 images.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm

From: Jim Brain

Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:26:16 GMT

o Block level disk access supported on D64 images

o Most CBM DOS commands

(Scratch,Initialize,Rename,etc.) supported.

For those who do now know, uIEC and uIEC/CF are

projects to allow a IEC-based CBM computer

(VIC/64/128/etc.) to utilize a IDE drive Formatted with

a FAT file system or a Compact Flash (CF) card with

such a file system.

o CBM general config commands (U0, U+, U-, UI,

U9, U:, UJ) supported.

o CBM block level commands (B-R, B-W, UA, U1,

U2, UB) supported when in D64 image.

uIEC development took some very interesting paths

this year (more details if there is interest), but I am

happy to report that the unit is working and I'm now

concentrating my efforts on making it CF-card

agnostic (testing various cards I have here), and

trying to increase compatibility. I have a deadline to

have units for sale in time for the CCCC expo in late

June.

o CMD-style partition ($=P) support

o CMD-style subdirectory (MD,CD,RD) support.

o CMD DOS Commands (G-P, G-<shift-P>) support.

* Long form CMD directories ($=T:*, $=T:*=L)

supported

o 1581-style/CMD-FD/HD-style wildcard matching

supported ($:JIM*RAIN)

o JiffyDOS fast loader equipped (PAL and NTSC

support). Can be enabled or disabled via DOS

command. & Firmware can be updated by copying

new firmware file to root dir of first drive, first partition

and resetting unit.

(* noted items are in my WIP codebase, & are

features in mainline codebase I need to enable in my

variant)

I want to publicly thank Unseen of sd2iec for creating

a very impressive codebase that made my feeble

original attempt pale in comparison. Although I will

regret not being the originator of the uIEC firmware, it

simply made no sense to duplicate all of the features

and require sd2iec to re-implement features already

in the uIEC project. I think Unseen also appreciates

another developer on his firmware project. My

additions have primarily been to the FAT LFN code,

the CMD HD commands, and multiple drive support.

In process is time-based directory pattern matching

(>00:00:00 and <00:00:00), support for programs that

determine drive type via M-R, and D71/D81 image

support.

I've taken advantage of the long list of features in

another project (sd2iec) to make uIEC even more

compatible and useful.

So, here is a combined list of features:

I'll refrain from listing the ideas in the enhancement

bucket, but there are quite a few. At this point, I am

prioritizing features that might make HW changes

necessary, for obvious reasons. Firmware-only

additions can be made after shipping.

o Supports IDE and CF cards (uIEC supports

IDE/IDE, IDE/CF, or CF/CF if you have an IDE->CF

adapter for the second card. uIEC/CF supports

single CF card)

o Supports drives of any size, though support for

>137GB drives needs more testing. :-)

I'm happy to answer questions in the thread.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.cbm/brows

e_thread/thread/9b8ea39e1f5dc75a?hl=en

o Supports FAT12/16/32 partitions of any legal size

* Supports partition-less cards/drives, or up to 4

primary partitions or 3 primary and 12 extended

partitions. (Email me if you have more than 12

extended partitions on a drive :-)

o Supports FAT Long filenames

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Vintage Technology Magazine

Commodore brand name in trouble

again

Is available to download now up to version 6 priced

at £0.99 back issues are available

Go to www.vintagetechnology.co.uk to download

latest issue (May '08).

Escom paid $14m for the Commodore name, then

they suffered problems and closed Tulip rescued the

name in 2004 they sold the brand name to Dutch

firm, Yeahronimo who tried to market the brand name

by selling M3 players and the Gravel, the company

suffered poor sales and looks like they are now in

financial problems This doesn’t affect Commodore

gaming who are a separate company altogether.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/commo

dore_lawsuits/print.html

#Amigaguide

This issue features:

Old-school computer learning

Will my vintage electronics collection still work in 100

years time?

Flight sims - flying with home computers

Defender - the thinking man's arcade shoot-em up

Commodore PET computers

Early modems in the US & UK

Tomy handheld electronic games

Vintage LED clocks

Learn about maths the vintage way

Vintage voice recorders

First 'personal' radios

Interview with Richard Hanson - Superior Software

founder

Repairing handheld games

HP calculator memories

The first edition of this English pdf magazine is now

available for download. In this edition the following:

disk.info, How to use floppies, Kick Off 2, Tilt,

Trashcan, Amiga Laptop and Sandnes BBS. You can

download the pdf after you register (for free).

http://amigaweb.net/index.php?function=amigaguide

FREE online sample Edition is available

http://www.vintagetechnology.co.uk/download.htm

3 ReadMeFirst - Editorial

4 Disk.info - News

7 Floppies...Floppies....Floppies

- Erlend writes about what we can use all

those floppies for...

8 Kick Off 2

- Did you know there is a very strong world

community gathered around the famous

Amiga soccer game Kick Off 2? Learn more

about Kick Off 2 WC, Cups and community

by reading this!

12 Tilt - game review

- Michal writes about Street Rod 2

13 Trashcan

14 Tilt - game review

- Michal writes about another Amiga game

15 Sandnes Amiga BBS

- Sandnes BBS is still running after 10

years, and still uses an Amiga 1200 as its

host computer. SysOp Firestone writes a

little computer history....

20 Amiga promotion products

Jeri Ellsworth at the NotaCon

/BlockParty FPGA Programming

This is Jeri Ellsworth at the NotaCon/BlockParty April

4th, 2008. She is talking about creating a demo in

FPGA.

http://blip.tv/file/821819

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Behr Multicart for the VIC 20

PAL VERSION

Galaxian/ Gorf/ Gridrunner

In the Chips

I am happy to announce that I now accept orders for

the PAL version of the Behr Bonz multicart.

The price is the same as the NTSC version: 30$

canadian. Shipping to Europe or Australia is 11$ for

up to 5 carts. Please visit www.8bitcentral.com

Jawbreaker II/ Jelly Monsters/ Jupiter Lander

Keyquest/ Krazy Antics/ KStar Patrol

(COMMODORE FREE) Ordered and waiting with

anticipation will do a review for the magazine

once I have my hands on the device

Lazer Zone/ Lode Runner/

Lunar Leeper

Maze/ Medieval Joust/

Menagerie/ Mine Madness/

Miner 2049'er/ Mobile Attack/

Money Wars/ Monster Maze/

Moon Patrol/ Mosquito

Infestation/ Motocross Racer/

Ms Pacman/ Mutant Herd

Omage Race/ Outworld

Pacman/ Paratrooper/

Pharaoh's Curse /Pinball

Spectacular/ Pipes/ Poker/

Polaris/ Pole Position/ Predator

/Princess and Frog/ Protector

Q-Bert/ Quackers

List of games

included in the PAL

version:

AE/ Aggressor/ Alien

Blitz/ Alphabet Zoo/

Amok!/ Arachnoid/

Artillery Duel/

Astroblitz/ Atlantis/

Attack of the mutant

Camels/ Avenger

Radar Rat Race/ Raid on Fort

Knox/ Rally-X/ Rat Hotel/

Renaissance/ River Rescue/

Road Race/ Robot Panic/

Robotron 2084

Scott Adams: Adventureland/

Scott Adams: Mission Impossible/

Scott Adams: Pirate's Cove/ Scott

Adams: The Count/ Scott Adams:

Voodoo Castle/ Sargon II Chess/

Satellite Patrol /Satellite and Meteorites/ Scorpion/

Sea Wolf/ Seafox/ Serpentine/ Shamus/ Sir Lancelot/

Skibbereen/ Skyblazer/ Space Ric-o-shay/ Spiders of

Mars/ Spike's Peak/ Spills and Fills/ Springer/ Star

Battle/ Star Post/ Star Trek: Strategic Operations

Simulator/ Sub Chase/ Submarine Commander/

Super Amok/ Super Slot/ Super Smash

Black Hole/ Buck

Rogers: Planet of

Zoom

Cave-In/ Centipede/ Choplifter/ Cloudburst/ Clowns

Joystick/ Clowns Paddles/ Computer War/ Congo

Bongo /Cosmic Cruncher/ Cosmic Jailbreak/ Creepy

Corridors/ Crossfire/ Cyclon

Deadly Duck/ Deadly Skies/ Defender/ Demon

Attack/ Dig Dug/ Donkey Kong /Dragonfire/ Droids

Terraguard/ The Sky is Falling/ Threshold/ Topper/

Turmoil/ Tutankham/ Type Attack/ Typo

Fourth Encounter/ Frogger

Video Vermin/ Videomania/ Visible Solar System

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