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LSR 64 V0.31 INFORMATION
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LSR 64 is a system that makes it
possible to control a laser with your
Commodore C64. The hardware is from
ViTi and the software was developed
by Hermit. The laser system reached
the number one place in the Wild Demo
Competition at the Arok Party (2014).

Information from the YouTube website

Laser show with commodore 64 (c64).
Released this project at an 8-bit
computer demoscene meeting at Arok
Party in Ajkarendek, Hungary, on 19
July 2014. Its final version.
Credits: idea, hw (laser dac), system
code, show code by Viti, additional
code, song system, great song (called
'Flash It Back') by Hermit of Samar
Productions, SIDrip Alliance,
Singular Crew.

A YouTube video is available here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBgLMASS2JQ

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SD-CARD TAPE ADAPTER
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Tony is working on a new device to
play TAP files on your Commodore 64
you can choose from a special menu
the desired TAP the devices should
cost about 30 USD.

HERE IS SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT
THE DEVICE

* Small, it uses a right angle 6pin
edge connector, so around half of the
PCB is inside c64 case.

* no buttons to press, you invoke a
playlist-down-load by:
shift+run/stop.....
run/stop....shift+run/stop. The
device detects that motor-signal goes
on/off/on. (The device always pulls
SENSEn low)

* The playlist is all the TAP files
available on the SD card, it's
downloaded as a BASIC Program, so you
type LIST to see it.

1 sys 856 " Monty
2 sys 856 " game2

You select the tape to "insert" by
typing RUN 2 (for example.) The
assembler routine (in cassette
buffer) then check current-basic-line
at 0x39 and turns the Sense pin
around as output and send 16bit value
that the TAP adapter picks up as the
selection you want, then a regular
LOAD command is started.

* SAVE command will work.

* Cassette pass-trough.

* Record TAP file to SD card from the
pass-through connection

Read more on the lemon forum

www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t
=52962

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HI65 ANNOUNCED
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Hi65 is a "high-level" Commodore 65
BASIC 10 emulator. The emulator can
run programs written for the machine
in BASIC.

WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 5:

* Incorporated Ingo Berg's MuParser
routines into Hi65. They form an open
source evaluator of mathematical
expressions, that enables Hi65 to
evaluate and calculate expressions
(e.g. for variable assigns) with an
even higher complexity than what a
physical Commodore 65 could do.
However, they are disabled by default
in Hi65 for speed reasons (the native
Hi65 expression evaluator is limited
to expressions with at most one
operator, but is over 275 times
faster to evaluate them). The
MuParser routines can be toggled on
or off with the Hi65cfg utility, from
the Hi65 Edit and Launch Tool, or
directly from Hi65 with a
pseudocommand (see below).

* Implemented a BASIC 10
pseudocommand to enable, disable or
verify the status of MuParser within
Hi65. The syntax is: MUPARSER 0 to
disable it, MUPARSER 1 to enable it,
and just MUPARSER to display a
message telling you whether it's
currently on or off. It works either
from the command line or from within
a BASIC 10 program.

* Added 36 new error messages that do
not appear in the physical Commodore
65, that are triggered whenever
MuParser fails to evaluate an
expression for some reason. This does
not affect compatibility and makes
debugging programs easier because
they are more specific than a generic
"SYNTAX ERROR" could ever be.

The Commodore 65 is an unreleased
computer from Commodore featuring
256-color graphics, a 3.54 MHz
processor and a maximum of 8 MB of
RAM.

devilmaster.altervista.org/hi65.html

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DS1307 RTC
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Timo Voutilainen has developed a Real
Time Clock (RTC) module for the
Commodore C64. The RTC holds the
Current time and date available to a
computer, there is also a program to
set the time and date, and there is a
driver available for GEOS.

sites.google.com/site/dividedbit/home
/c64-projects/ds1307-rtc

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RETRO ASYLUM PODCAST 106
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Top ten comic book games

In this latest episode Paul Monaghan
and Phil Hockaday from the team don
their capes and spandex to discuss
what they feel are the best games
based on comic books.

As well as this Paul has a chat with
Adam from Retro Collect who is
hosting the second Video Games Market
in Leeds on 7th Feb, more details can
be found at events.retrocollect.com/

Check out our Official Retro Asylum
YouTube channel for more retro
discussion

www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW
3mdbuCsB7Ag

retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/

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PROJECT 64 RELOADED
*************************************

Project 64 will collect all the
documentation for the Commodore C64
and keep it alive. The project has
moved to GitHub where users can add
documents and alterations, the more
people that participate in Project 64
the better.

github.com/Project-64/reloaded

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C64 HEWLETT-PACKARD CALCULATOR
EMULATORS
*************************************

Norber Kehrer has four calculator
emulators for the Commodore 64 and
Atari 800XL. The Calculator emulator
models cover the Hewlett Packard -35,
HP-45, HP-55 and HP-80 from the 70s.

members.aon.at/nkehrer/

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ULTIMATE 1541-II MINI BLOG
*************************************

Wiebo de Wit has created a retro
blog, but the latest posts are all
about the ultimate 1541 II hardware
adaptor for the Commodore 64, with a
look at what machines the device
supports, How to use various
functions on the device and more

devdef.blogspot.nl/

And while on the subject of the 1541
there has been a firmware update. The
Changes in this version are: Ability
to write a .tap file to a real tape.
Support for the new Flash chip
(revision D). Improvements to the
configuration screen (USB module).

www.1541ultimate.net/content/index.ph
p?option=com_content&view=featured&It
emid=127

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MEMWA PROJECT
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A hardware re creation of the
commodore 64 using a real SID chip
and with a small LCD touch panel
screen attached, this is from the
website

DESCRIPTION

* Hardware components
* MCU: STM32F407 (overclocked 67Mhz
giving 235Mhz)
* Display controller: SSD1963
* Memory: H27UBG8T2BTRBC
* Display: 7" TFT 4-WRT

More information and an amazing video
can we found here:

www.staringlizard.com/index.php/proje
cts/3-memwa#hardware

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BOULDERDASH
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If you are tired of playing the
original version of Boulder Dash, but
love the game genre then help is
definitely at hand for you. There are
people who have created new versions
of Boulder Dash. One such person is
Firefox, who has just released his
latest version, and it's available
from here:

firefox.ch/ff56boulder.d64

And read more on the lemon forum
here:

www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t
=53846

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GEOS AND LASER PRINTING
*************************************

Text pulled and truncated from
various emails, but I thought you may
find reading them interested,
especially if you want to print to
laser printer from GEOS, Also a
number of readers w

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