CBMl ~/0Щ@թբx FL S "1 ! ʽRwl L":*" ,P(2026),1 Ģ ǩ Jx  wЄȄLqU0>M0 OST RESISTIVE STUDENTS INTO PARTICIPATION. ERY FEW PEOPLE ARE INTIMIDATED BY THE 64 BECAUSE IT (QUITE DECEPTIVELY) ALMOST SEEMS LIKE A TOY. Y MAKING LEARNING FUN THE 64 HAS ALREADY WON HALF OF THE EDUCATIONAL BATTLE THE MOMENT IT IS TURNED ON. OLLECTORS' ITEMS FOR MANY INDIVIDUALS. NLIKE MOST COMPUTERS WHICH SEEM TO BECOME OUTDATED QUICKLY, THE OMMODORE COMPUTERS SEEM TO HAVE A SENSE OF TIMELESSNESS ABOUT THEM. HERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE NEWER MULTI- MEDIA COMPUTERS HAVE SOME MAJOR ADVANTAGICH CAN AUTOMATICALLY EMULATE & RUN 64 PROGRAMS AND EVEN ACCESS THE NTERNET. ATEWAY 2000 HAS ACQUIRED THE RIGHTS TO THE MIGA AND IS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING NEW MIGA COMPATIBLE HARDWARE AND OPERATING SYSTEMS. EVERAL NATIONAL DEALERS STILL SELL & SUPPWARE, HARDWARE, ACCESSORIES AND SUPPORT IS SO EASY TO LOCATE AND OBTAIN A NOTICEABLE RESURGENCE OF INTEREST IS OCCURRING. HE MAIN STAYING POWER OF THE OMMODORE AND MIGA COMPUTERS, HOWEVER, IS THAT THEY HAVE BECOME A PART OF THE LIFESTYLES OF SO MANY  ESPITE THE FACT THAT OMMODORE PROGRAMS WON'T NORMALLY RUN ON OTHER COMPUTERS THERE ARE SOME FAIRLY RECENT EMULATORS WHICH HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED WHICH ALLOW MANY OF THE OLDER OMMODORE PROGRAMS TO RUN ON SOME OF THE NEWER COMPUTERS. OWEVER, MANY PEOPLE ST ES OVER THE OLD 8-BIT OMMODORE COMPUTERS, BUT A LITTLE DIVERSITY CAN BE A GOOD THING. UST LIKE WATCHING AN OLD MOVIE, USING SOME OLDER COMPUTER PROGRAMS CAN HELP ONE APPRECIATE DIFFERENT THINGS AND GAIN DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. ANY CLASSIC OLD COMPUTER ORT OMMODORE AND MIGA HARDWARE & SOFTWARE THROUGH THE MAIL AND VIA THE NTERNET. HE INTERNET HAS GREATLY HELPED MAINTAIN AVAILABILITY, SUPPORT, AND INTEREST IN OLD COMPUTERS SUCH AS THE OMMODORE BY CREATING FORUMS AND AWARENESS OF AVAILABLE SUPPLIER INDIVIDUALS. ANY OMMODORE AND MIGA USER GROUPS STILL MEET REGULARLY AND PUBLISH MONTHLY NEWSLETTERS. EOPLE STILL ENJOY THEIR OLD GAMES, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, APPLICATIONS, AND THE CREATIVITY WHICH THESE MACHINES WERE SO WELL SUITED FOR.F ANYTHING CA ILL WANT TO USE ORIGINAL OMMODORE MACHINES AND SOFTWARE TO HAVE THE FULL FEEL AND COMPATIBILITY OF THE ORIGINAL EXPERIENCE. NTEREST IN THE OMMODORE COMPUTERS HAS RESULTED IN A LONGEVITY OF PRODUCT AVAILABILITY WHICH HAS EXCEEDED EVEN THE GREATEST EXP GAMES AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WERE NEVER MADE ON ANY PLATFORM OTHER THAN OMMODORE AND MIGA. N THE MIDST OF THE CRAZE AND PRESSURE TO CONSTANTLY UPGRADE AND FIGHT COMPATIBILITY PROBLEMS AND SYSTEM CRASHES WITH MANY OF THE NEWER ENTIUM SYSTEMS IT CAS, USERS GROUPS AND OTHER RESOURCES. HE NTERNET IS IDEAL FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO SHARE A COMMON INTEREST SUCH AS THIS. VEN THOUGH THE 64 IS NOT THE IDEAL COMPUTER FOR SURFING THE NTERNET IT CAN BE DONE. OWEVER, MOST OF THOSE LOOKING FOR OMMODORE SUPN NOW BE SAID ABOUT THE OMMODORE AND MIGA COMPUTER SYSTEMS IT IS THIS: "UMORS OF THE DEATHS OF THE OMMODORE AND MIGA COMPUTERS HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED."OOD THINGS--ESPECIALLY HOBBIES-- HAVE LONG LIVES. SPECIALLY IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO STECTATIONS. HERE IS STILL SOME DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTS & SOFTWARE FOR OMMODORE 8-BIT SYSTEMS. REATIVE ICRO ESIGNS IS STILL MANUFACTURING NEWER CHIPS AND ACCESSORIES FOR THE ORIGINAL OMMODORE SYSTEMS. HEY EVEN STILL PUBLISH A MAGAZINE CALLED OMN BE SOMEWHAT REFRESHING TO STEP BACK FOR A WHILE TO A MORE RELAXING TIME. ANY HOME SCHOOLERS FIND THE 64 TO STILL BE THE BEST SOLUTION FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN TO LEARN WITH. OR THE PRICE & SIMPLICITY IT IS STILL HARD TO BEAT. HE SIMPLE PROGRAMMABILIPORT AND AFFILIATION ON THE NTERNET ARE PROBABLY USING NEWER COMPUTERS OR DEVICES SUCH AS EB TO MAKE SURFING THE NTERNET A LITTLE EASIER. VERY SIZEABLE PERCENTAGE OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ACCESSING THE NTERNET WITH A NEWER COMPUTER UNDOUBTEDLY STIGILL LOVE THEM. HTTP://WWW.OLDSOFTWARE.COM/ HISTORY2.HTML v\6Jsi~dsݗJu\:Juܷu|usM{Ur)|W]rMs]M{U|uw)r\)|-v_ge~dv]7&J{=sutܗes9)s'>J|Y)s6J|es)u_)yu-~^%wy)r)JMODORE ORLD. HERE ARE ALSO A COUPLE OF OMMODORE ON-DISK MAGAZINES BEING PRODUCED SUCH AS OADTAR & OMMODORE AZETTE. HERE IS EVEN A COMPANY WHICH RECENTLY ANNOUNCED THE PRODUCTION OF A NEW DEVICE CALLED EB.IT WHICH IS AN INDOWS TYPE SYSTEM WHTY, AVAILABILITY OF SOFTWARE, & ABILITY TO BE INTEGRATED WITH EXISTING TELEVISIONS AND CURRICULUM MAKE IT A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE FOR HANDS-ON INSTRUCTORS & THOSE ON A BUDGET. HE FACT THAT THE 64 IS VIEWED AS BEING A "FUN" COMPUTER OFTEN LURES EVEN THE MLL OWN OLDER COMPUTERS WHICH THEY ACQUIRED IN PREVIOUS YEARS WHO LOST INTEREST IN THEM ONLY BECAUSE SUPPORT FOR THEIR OLD COMPUTER BECAME DIFFICULT TO ACQUIRE. LARGE NUMBER OF THESE OLD COMPUTERS HAVE THE OMMODORE OR MIGA NAME ON THEM. OW THAT SOFTE NUMBER OF AND ACINTOSH SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE PRODUCTS WHICH HAD TAKEN OVER THE BUSINESS WORLD DESPITE STILL NOT BEING PARTICULARLY WELL SUITED FOR HOME USE. UCH OF THE DOWNFALL OF OMMODORE STEMMED FROM POOR MARKETING, LACK OF DOMINANCE IN THE BU FOR SOFTWARE. MONG OTHER OMMODORE 8- BIT PRODUCTS WHICH NEVER CAUGHT ON WELL WERE THE OMMODORE 16, THE -128, THE 1001 DISK DRIVE, AND SEVERAL OTHERS. 500 ERHAPS THE BIGGEST HEARTBREAK OF ALL OF OMMODORE'S EFFORTS CENTERED AROUND THE 16- ABOUT 20 OR 30 PERCENT WERE 128 MODELS. ESS THAN 5 PERCENT OF THEM WERE THE -64 MACHINES. T IS PROBABLY SAFE TO SAY THAT THE OMMODORE 64 WAS THE BEST SELLING COMPUTER MODEL EVER MADE BY A SINGLE MANUFACTURER - IF JUDGED BY NUMBER OF UNITS SOLD. OMELY POPULAR. ECAUSE SUCH A MASSIVE QUANTITY OF ITEMS HAD BEEN DEVELOPED AND PRODUCED FOR THESE MACHINES A GREAT MANY LIQUIDATIONS AND SURPLUS INVENTORIES OF OMMODORE-RELATED PRODUCTS REMAINED AVAILABLE FOR MANY MONTHS FROM MANY DISTRIBUTORS. HOSE WHOSINESS SECTOR, COMPETITION FROM OTHER GAMING SYSTEMS, POOR SUPPORT, POOR MANAGEMENT, AND GROWING COMPETITION. OMMODORE TRIED TO EXPAND INTO THE COMPATIBLE MARKET IN THE LATE 1980'S WITH THE COMPATIBLE -10, -20, OLT, & EVEN A 286 NOTEBOOK COM BIT MIGA COMPUTER WHICH HAD INITIALLY BEEN DEVELOPED BY A SEPARATE COMPANY. OMMODORE ACQUIRED OR BOUGHT OUT THE MIGA TECHNOLOGY FROM ITS ORIGINAL DEVELOPERS AND BEGAN DEVELOPING AND MARKETING MIGA COMPUTERS DURING THE MID 1980'S. HE MIGA COMPUTERS  MODORE'S DEMISE WAS LARGELY A RESULT OF POOR MARKETING AND EXTERNAL MARKET FORCES - NOT LACK OF DEVELOPMENT. 4 F COURSE, NOT ALL OF OMMODORE'S PRODUCTS WERE BIG HITS. OMMODORE MADE SEVERAL PRODUCTS WHICH WERE FANTASTIC IDEAS (IN THEIR CHOSE TO KEEP SUPPORTING THE OMMODORE MACHINES WERE FREQUENTLY ABLE TO PICK UP BRAND NEW MERCHANDISE AT TREMENDOUS PRICES AND PASS THE SAVINGS ON TO THEIR CUSTOMERS. UCH OF THIS SURPLUS NEW MERCHANDISE IS STILL AVAILABLE TODAY THROUGH THE SURVIVING RE PUTER AND A FEW OTHER MACHINES WHICH HAD ONLY MEAGER SUCCESS. OMMODORE EVEN DEVELOPED AN INCREDIBLE INTERACTIVE STAND-ALONE UNIT (BASED ON THE MIGA TECHNOLOGY) CALLED THE WHICH (ALONG WITH HILIPS ) WERE THE PREDECESSORS TO MANY OF THE - B WERE BASED ON THE OTOROLA 68000 PROCESSOR AND WERE SOMEWHAT AKIN TO THE ACINTOSH. HE EXTREME POWER, USER-FRIENDLINESS, MULTI-TASKING ABILITIES, INCREDIBLE GRAPHICS AND (STEREO) SOUND, ALONG WITH BUILT-IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS WERE WAY AHEAD OF THE COMPETIT OWN RIGHT) BUT NEVER ACTUALLY CAUGHT ON BECAUSE OF POOR TIMING OR OTHER UNPREDICTABLE FACTORS. NE OF THESE WAS THE OMMODORE LUS 4 COMPUTER. HE OMMODORE LUS 4 HAD BEEN DEVELOPED ON THE HEELS OF OMMODORE'S GREAT INITIAL SUCCESS WITH THE 64. HE SELLERS. T IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR PAST OWNERS OF OMMODORE -64 OR 128 COMPUTERS TO BEGIN TO FEEL A NOSTALGIC ATTRACTION TOWARD USING THE OMMODORE 64 AGAIN. ANY OF THESE INDIVIDUALS FONDLY REMINISCE ABOUT THE INTENSE FUN THEY HAD IN PAST YEARS WHEN COMPASED INTERACTIVE GAME SYSTEMS WHICH FOLLOWED. N THE FINAL YEAR OR SO BEFORE CEASED OPERATIONS THEY HAD EVEN DEVELOPED THE FIRST 32 BIT GAME SYSTEM CALLED THE -32 WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN A BIG HIT IF OMMODORE HAD ENDURED A LITTLE LONGER. MAZINGLY, EION. ANY 64 AND 128 OWNERS IMMEDIATELY REALIZED THE POTENTIAL OF THE MIGA AND DECIDED TO ACQUIRE ONE. T APPEARED TO MANY-- FOR A WHILE-- THAT OMMODORE MAY ACTUALLY RETAIN A DOMINANT POSITION IN THE MARKET PLACE WITH THE MIGA BEING SUCH AN OBVIOUSLUS 4 WAS VERY NICE BECAUSE IT WAS SMALLER & HAD BUILT-IN SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS. ESPITE BEING A VERY BEAUTIFUL LITTLE COMPUTER WITH MANY EXCELLENT FEATURES IT NEVER REALLY BECAME POPULAR PROBABLY BECAUSE IT WASN'T VERY COMPATIBLE WITH THE LARGE BASE OFUTERS WERE SIMPLER AND IN MANY WAYS MORE FUN. ACK THEN THE PROGRAMS HAD TO RELY ON CONTENT, STRATEGY, AND PLOT BECAUSE MANY OF THE FLASHY SPECIAL EFFECTS OF THE NEWER SYSTEMS WERE NOT AVAILABLE. HESE OLDER COMPUTERS OFTEN LEFT SOME THINGS TO THE USER'VEN AFTER OMMODORE'S DECLINE STARTED IN THE LATE 1980'S THE LOYAL OMMODORE AND MIGA HOBBYISTS & DEVOTED USERS REFUSED TO GIVE IT UP. STRONG UNDERCURRENT OF SUPPORT AROSE. VEN THOUGH MOST OF THE LARGER CHAIN STORES AND DISTRIBUTORS WERE FORCED TO GILY SUPERIOR COMPUTER TO ANY OF THE HOME COMPUTERS OF THE TIME. NFORTUNATELY, THE LACK OF A DIVERSE SOFTWARE BASE CAME BACK TO HAUNT THE MIGA AS PEOPLE CHOSE TO STAY WITH INFERIOR HARDWARE AND OPERATING SYSTEMS IN ORDER TO STAY COMPATIBLE WITH THE LARG SOFTWARE WHICH HAD ALREADY BEEN DEVELOPED FOR THE OMMODORE 64. ANY (BUT NOT ALL) SOFTWARE MANUFACTURERS SEEMED HESITANT TO WANT TO INVEST DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS FOR THIS COMPUTER WHEN THERE WERE SO MANY WHO ALREADY OWNED 64 COMPUTERS WHO WERE CLAMORINGS IMAGINATION - BY CREATING MENTAL IMAGES - INSTEAD OF DROWNING THE USER IN MULTIMEDIA SENSORY STIMULUS OVERLOAD AS IS OFTEN COMMON WITH NEWER COMPUTERS. HE OMMODORE COMPUTERS AND SOME OF THE OMMODORE-COMPATIBLE SOFTWARE AND ACCESSORIES HAVE BECOME CVE UP ON OMMODORE PRODUCTS A STRONG EFFORT TO RECIRCULATE AND REFURBISH OLD OMMODORE PRODUCTS HAS CONTINUED - EVEN TO THIS DAY. N FACT, IN SOME COUNTRIES, ESPECIALLY IN UROPE AND CANDINAVIA THE OMMODORE 64, 128, AND MIGA COMPUTERS ARE STILL IMMENSESIGN. HE FACT THAT THIS AMAZING COMPUTER HAD MORE MEMORY, A NICER KEYBOARD, AND WAS EASIER TO INTERFACE WITH PERIPHERALS THAN MOST COMPUTERS OF THAT ERA MADE IT SO IT WAS & STILL IS (IN MANY WAYS) AN IDEAL COMPUTER FOR EDUCATORS, HOBBYISTS, GAME PLAYERU 2 128 ROUND 1986 OR 1987 THE OMMODORE 128 WAS RELEASED AND BECAME QUITE POPULAR. HE 128 WAS BASICALLY A OMMODORE 128 COMPUTER WITH A BUILT-IN 1571 DISK DRIVE AND A DETACHABLE KEYBOARD. HE IDEA WAS TO CONSE BACK FOR MORE. HE FACT THAT THERE WAS FIERCE FREE ENTERPRISE COMPETITION-- AND THE FACT THAT THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY HAD NOT YET CONCEDED (OR CAPITULATED) TO THE DOMINANCE OF ICROSOFT AND -- LED TO UNPRECEDENTED CREATIVITY. NFORTUNATELY, HOWEVER, MAUALS WENT FOR YEARS WITH VERY LITTLE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR WORK REQUIRED. OWEVER, CERTAIN PROBLEMS WITH THE HARDWARE DID MANIFEST THEMSELVES PERIODICALLY AND SOMEWHAT PREDICTABLY. ANY OF THE REPAIRS REQUIRED FOR THESE COMPUTERS STEMMED FROM STATIC ELES, BEGINNING PROGRAMMERS AND MUSICIANS. OR THE MONEY IT WAS ALSO HARD TO BEAT AS AN AFFORDABLE HOME WORD PROCESSING SYSTEM. TS ONLY WEAKNESS WAS IN THE AREA OF LARGER BUSINESS APPLICATIONS BECAUSE OF ITS 40 COLUMN VIDEO DISPLAY, LIMITED DISK STORAGE AN RVE DESKTOP SPACE AND MAKE A NICER LOOKING COMPUTER TO COMPARE WITH THE PROFESSIONAL APPEARANCE OF THE COMPATIBLES. HIS COMPUTER HAD THE LATEST CHIP REVISIONS MADE FOR THE OMMODORE 128 AND 1571 DRIVES AND HAD MORE VIDEO MEMORY. HIS WAS PERHAPS THE NY PEOPLE BEGAN STARTING TO DEMAND UNIFORMITY AND STANDARDIZATION AT THE EXPENSE OF INNOVATION. OMMODORE HAD BEEN SO COMPETITIVE IN THE MARKETPLACE THAT , PPLE, AND TARI HAD BEEN FORCED TO LOWER THEIR PRICES AND IMPROVE THEIR FEATURES AND QUALITY. CTRICITY DISCHARGES BLOWING OUT THE 6526 CHIP-- USUALLY FROM TOUCHING THE JOYSTICK OR GAME PORT AFTER PICKING UP STATIC ELECTRICITY FROM WALKING ACROSS CARPET OR TOUCHING THE FRONT OF THE TELEVISION OR MONITOR. HIS WOULD RESULT IN SOME KEYBOARD OR J D SLOW DISK ACCESS. HE POWERFUL COMBINATION OF OMMODORE CHIPS ALLOWED SOME AMAZING CAPABILITIES. HE OMMODORE 64 UTILIZED THE OMMODORE 6510 MICROPROCESSOR CHIP WHICH WAS AN ADVANCED VERSION OF THE OMMODORE 6502 MICROPROCESSOR WHICH HAD BEEN USED IN BEST 8-BIT COMPUTER MADE BY ANY MANUFACTURER. HE FACT THAT THERE WERE NOT SO MANY CABLES AND WIRES RUNNING AROUND AND THAT IT DID NOT HOG AS MUCH DESKTOP SPACE (DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE MONITOR COULD SIT ON TOP OF IT) MADE IT VERY NICE TO USE. URING  HESE OTHER MANUFACTURERS WERE SUCCESSFUL IN DOING SO-- TO THE POINT WHERE MANY PEOPLE STARTED BEING ATTRACTED AWAY FROM OMMODORE TOWARD OTHER BRANDS. OWEVER, IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR OMMODORE BEING SUCH A HUGE FACTOR IN PUTTING DOWNWARD PRICE PRESSUREOYSTICK CONTROL MALFUNCTIONS. OWER SUPPLIES WOULD OCCASIONALLY FAIL OR DEVELOP DECEPTIVE HEAT-RELATED PROBLEMS SOMETIMES BLOWING OUT RAM CHIPS IN THE PROCESS OR CAUSING STRANGE LOOKING COLORED BLOCKS OR CHARACTERS TO APPEAR ON THE SCREEN.  THE IC 20, PPLE 2, AND TARI MODELS. HE 64 HAD REVOLUTIONARY SOUND VIA THE 6581 OUND NTERFACE EVICE () CHIP AND WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST HOME COMPUTER TO BE ABLE TO EMULATE THE HUMAN VOICE WITHOUT ADDITIONAL HARDWARE. HIS CHIP PROVIDED FOR 4THE 1980'S SEVERAL LARGE OMMODORE AND MIGA TRADE SHOWS AND USER CONVENTIONS WERE HELD THROUGHOUT THE NITED TATES AND IN SOME FOREIGN COUNTRIES-- ESPECIALLY ANADA. OMMODORE ALSO USUALLY HAD LARGE DISPLAYS AT AND OTHER CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHO AND CREATING SUCH INNOVATIVE HOME CONSUMER PRODUCTS THE EVOLUTION OF AFFORDABLE QUALITY HOME COMPUTERS WOULD HAVE OCCURRED MUCH MORE SLOWLY. LARGE NUMBER OF OMMODORE GAMING ENTHUSIASTS WERE ALSO DRAWN AWAY IN THE MID TO LATE 80'S AS INTENDO AND EG 2 J{Wr]yג%ϒU|evUW]w-s䧩|)u=򒞧evݗyגJ|-v]5us\M|M{)|WvJ}ܷ5v]^Jr7|5ur'{UUtܗeu䧹sYu]Ju]i)r\us=v_7ewUUv^U򗤮v_9)u^5W_'={׺Jv])u]>Jvu\ΒWJv)J DIFFERENT VOICES AND MANY SOPHISTICATED SOUND FORMS. HE -64 HAD SUPERIOR 16 COLOR GRAPHICS WITH SPRITE CAPABILITIES DUE TO ITS 6567 IDEO NTERFACE () HIP. HE OTHER SUPPORT CHIPS IN THE OMMODORE 64 WERE EQUALLY IMPRESSIVE FOR THAT TIME PERIOD. WS. HOUSANDS OF USERS, RETAILERS, AND DEVELOPERS USUALLY CONVERGED ON THESE GATHERINGS. HIS WAS QUITE A SPECTACLE TO SEE. HE EXCITING AND INNOVATIVE NEW PRODUCTS WHICH WERE UNVEILED AT THESE SHOWS KEPT OMMODORE USERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS COMINGA BEGAN TO MARKET THEIR 8-BIT GAME SYSTEMS WHICH WERE SOMEWHAT SIMPLER AND EASIER TO USE (BUT IN MANY WAYS LESS VERSATILE) GAMING SYSTEMS. HE OMMODORE COMPUTERS HAD PERMEATED THE .. AND FOREIGN MARKETS VERY SUBS- TANTIALLY BY 1985. Y THE LATE 1980'S SOMEWHERE NEAR 10 MILLION OMMODORE 64 COMPATIBLE MACHINES HAD BEEN PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED WHEN SALES BEGAN TO RAPIDLY DECLINE. ROBABLY 70 OR 80 PERCENT OF THE OMMODORE 64 COMPATIBLE MACHINES MANUFACTURED WERE OMMODORE 64S AND 64C MODELS AND ONLYT THE SAME TIME THE EARLY HOME COMPUTERS WERE NON-COLOR AND NON-GRAPHIC MACHINES WITH SOUND THAT AMOUNTED TO LITTLE MORE THAN BEEPING. HE OMMODORE HOME COMPUTERS WERE FAIRLY RELIABLE CONSIDERING THEIR LOW PRICE TAG AND SOPHISTICATION. ANY INDIVID TO INDOWS. ND START YOUR EMULATOR AND LOAD THE GAME.TAP FILE. N THE PHOTO'S ABOVE YOU CAN SEE THE EMULATOR IN ACTION. HE VERY COOL WALLPAPER IS FROM NGO UHNKE AKA RUMBEL. HTTP://PINGUS.SEUL.ORG/GRUMBEL/ HE PROGRAM INALAP FROM UBCHRIST HTTP:AND MORE SOPHISTICATED AND CREATIVE. LSO, DURING THIS SAME TIME PERIOD A GREAT NUMBER OF PUBLIC DOMAIN PROGRAMS BEGAN TO EMERGE. HERE WERE MANY PROGRAMMERS WHO HAD WRITTEN AND NOT COPYRIGHTED THEIR PROGRAMS FOR VARIOUS REASONS WHOSE PROGRAMS BEGAN TO  .TAP [] HE PROGRAM WILL CHECK IF THE INTERFACE IS CONNECTED AND ASK TO . F YOU PRESS PLAY ON TAPE THE PROGRAM WILL RECORD THE DATA FROM THE ATASSETTE TO A .TAP FILE NAMED GAME IN THE SAME DIRECTORY AS .. ITH VERY BIG TA(WHICH USUALLY PAID OFF) WAS THAT CUSTOMERS WOULD SEE THE COMPUTER SELLING AT AN INCREDIBLY LOW PRICE OF NEAR $100 AND COME TO BUY THE COMPUTER AND END UP BUYING THE 1541 DISK DRIVE, A OMMODORE PRINTER, OMMODORE MODEM, A 1702 OMMODORE MONITOR AND A BU THE - PART OF THE HARDDISK. FTER THIS YOU HAVE TO GET HOLD OF A LITTLE PROGRAM CALLED . AND PUT THIS IN THE SAME DIRECTORY AS AND . F YOU DON'T HAVE . TRY OOGLE. HUT DOWN YOUR AND CONNECT THE 64 INTERFACE AND A  BE FREELY DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT ANY REGISTRATION FEE BEING REQUIRED. HIS GREATLY ADDED TO THE AVAILABILITY OF AFFORDABLE SOFTWARE. NOTHER INTERESTING PHENOMENON-- OMMODORE SER'S ROUPS-- BEGAN TO UNFOLD DURING THIS TIME. HIS PHENOMENA WAS A RESULT OFYTHING INSTALLED - 6.2 ON THE FIRST HARDDISK (:). FTER DOING THIS THE WILL BOOT TO -. ON'T PANIC ABOUT THE INDOWS 2000 PART. UT IN THE INSTALLATION OF INDOWS 2000 AND PREFORM A REPAIR OF THE SYSTEM. HEN YOU NOW BOOT THE IT WIL NCH OF EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE, GAMES, SUPPLIES AND ACCESSORIES TO GO ALONG WITH IT. Y THE TIME THE CUSTOMER WALKED OUT THE DOOR THE PURCHASE USUALLY RESULTED IN SIGNIFICANT PROFIT TO THE RETAILER. ANY AFTER-MARKET AND 3RD PARTY MANUFACTURERS SUBSEQUENTLKE A LOOK AT THE WEBSITE OF ARKUS RENNER. HERE IS A LINK TO ORDER A COMPLETE INTERFACE. HE . HE SOFTWARE THAT IS USED FOR THE TRANSFER IS WRITTEN FOR - SO YOU WON'T NEED A STATE OF THE ART TO DO THIS. HAD AN SPARE ENTIUM 600 Z, A.. CAN USE THE PROGRAM. OR THE USERS OF THE 264 SERIES OF OMMODORE COMPUTERS THERE IS A SPECIAL INTERFACE AVAILABLE. OURCE AKEN WITH PERMISSION FROM HTTP://COMMODOREGG.HOBBY.NL/OMMODORE ANDLEIDIN GEN/AGINA/-APERANSFER-.HTM ...END.//WWW.CODER.PWP.BLUEYONDER.CO.UK/ SOFTWARE CAN BE USED TO SCAN THE IMPORTED .TAP FILE. T WILL IDENTIFY THE SPEEDLOADER AND CAN EXPORT THE PROGRAM TO A .PRG FILE. LSO IT CAN BE USED TO REPAIR A .TAP FILE. F YOU WANT TO WRITE A .TAP FILE BACK TO A TAPEY BEGAN TO CREATE AND MARKET OMMODORE- COMPATIBLE SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, BOOKS, AND ACCESSORIES IN AN EFFORT TO GET IN ON THE BLOSSOMING INDUSTRY. ANY OMMODORE MAGAZINES ALSO BECAME ESTABLISHED-- SOME OF WHICH EVEN INCLUDED MONTHLY DISKS WITH MANY FREE PPE'S SUCH AS COMPILATIONS YOU NEED TO INCREASE THE BUFFERSIZE. N THE PHOTO ABOVE YOU CAN SEE THE PROGRAM IN ACTION. HE BORDER OF THE SCREEN WILL SHOW LOTS OF COLORS WHILE RECORDING THE DATA. FTER ALL THE DATA IS RECORDED TO THE HARDDISK REBOOT THE Y MANY AS THE IDEAL HOBBY COMPUTER AND MANY OF THOSE WHO HAD LOWER BUDGETS HAD BEEN ATTRACTED TO THE OMMODORE BECAUSE OF ITS PRICE. REQUENTLY THESE INDIVIDUALS (WHO OFTEN HAD MORE TIME THAN MONEY) DEVELOPED AN INCREDIBLE LOYALTY TOWARD THE OMMODORE COATTASSETTE TO THE INTERFACE. OOT THE TO - AND GO TO THE DIRECTORY WITH . TART THE PROGRAM .. HE PROGRAM WILL LIST ALL POSSIBILITIES. F YOU USE THE 64 INTERFACE CONNECTED TO THE 1 PORT THE COMMAND IS VERY SIMPLE: MTAP.EXE GAMEROGRAMS ON THEM. ANY OF OUR PRESENT SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE GIANTS GOT THEIR HUMBLE START DURING THIS PERIOD. ICROSOFT'S ULTIPLAN BECAME A VERY POPULAR SPREADSHEET FOR OMMODORE. THER COMPANIES SUCH AS LECTRONIC RTS, CCOLADE, CTIVISION, INEMAWARE,L ASK WHICH OPERATING SYSTEM TO START (OUBLE BOOT). ON'T FORGET TO FORMAT YOUR HARDDISK(S) WITH . F YOU USE YOU CAN'T USE -. O TO THE WEBSITE OF ARKUS RENNER AND DOWNLOAD (EAD TAPE'S) AND (RITE TAPE'S) UNZIP THE PROGRAMS ONMPUTERS. T WAS AMAZING THAT MANY OF THESE OMMODORE USERS OFTEN SHOWED MORE COMMITMENT TO THE OMMODORE 64 THAN OMMODORE USINESS ACHINES DID. LARGE FACTOR IN THE SUCCESS OF THE OMMODORE 64 WAS ITS AMAZINGLY VERSATILE, FUTURISTIC & USER-FRIENDLY D COUPLE OF 2 , A - AND THIS IS PERFECT FOR THE JOB. INSTALLED INDOWS 2000 ON THE SECOND HARDISK (:). O YOU HAVE ACCESS TO AN EMULATOR LIKE OS 64, ZIP, INTERNET AND MUCH MORE. UT INDOWS 2000 CAN'T DO -. FTER INSTALLING EVER OSMI, ATTERIES NCLUDED, UBLOGIC, PYX, CCESS, NFOCOM, ASTERTRONIC, ETC. SOON BECAME HOUSEHOLD WORDS. OMMODORE SERVICE AND REPAIR CENTERS BECAME QUITE COMMON. RAINING CENTERS TAUGHT COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS & PROGRAMMING USING OMMODORE COMPUTERS. YOU CAN USE THE PROGRAM. OR THE USERS OF THE 264 SERIES OF OMMODORE COMPUTERS THERE IS A SPECIAL INTERFACE AVAILABLE. OURCE AKEN WITH PERMISSION FROM HTTP://COMMODOREGG.HOBBY.NL/OMMODORE ANDLEIDIN GEN/AGINA/-APERANSFER-.HTM ...END.PENING TIMES 12 MIDDAY TO 1AM ATURDAY PENING TIMES 12 MIDDAY TO 1AM UNDAY 12 MIDDAY ANDHELDS ONLY ICKET BOOKING HTTP://WWW.RETROVISION.ORG.UK/ ...END... B AND A LARGE PROJECTOR SCREEN. 11TH -13TH AY 2007 ORT AHON T. LEMENTS XFORD RIDAY  OF WORK INTO THIS AND HOPE IT BECOMES A FAVORITE AMONGST EVERYONE. OTS OF FILES AND MESSAGE BASES!! PREAD THE WORD! HANKS! TELNET://INNERCIRCLEBBS.COM --- ETRO ISION ETRO ISION 2007 NTERNATIONAL AMASOFT OLLY ETRO VISION IS A EVENT UAPE RANSFER NTRODUCTION LMOST ALL OF THE OMMODORE 8 BIT COMPUTERS HAVE A ATASSETTE CONNECTION. HE ONLY EXCEPTIONS CAN THINK OF ARE THE 64 AMES YSTEM AND IT'S SUCCESSOR THE 64 . HE ATASSETTE WAS A CHEAP ALTERNATIVE TO THE DISKDRIVE AN \ HTTP://HOMETOWN.AOL.COM/COTTONWOODBBS --- 64 APPY EW EAR FROM THE 64 STAFF. OPEFULLY WE WILL RELEASE 64 4 LATER THIS YEAR! HANKS FOR THE PATIENCE TO ALL WHO ASKED AS ABOUT THE 64 AVAILABILITY AND DID NOT GET ANSWER YET. --- HE  TAPES INTO YOUR MODERN . OU NEED TO BUILD (OR BUY) A INTERFACE THAT CONNECTS AN ORIGINAL ATASSETTE TO YOUR . PECIFICATIONS HIS ARE THE SPECIFICATIONS PERSONALLY USE TO TRANSFER MY TAPE'S. NY WILL DO THAT CAN RUN - AND HAS PARALLEL POODNESS. :-) 'LL BE WORKING IN THE COMING WEEKS AT TRANSFERRING MUCH OF MY SOFTWARE COLLECTION TO THESE DIRECTORIES, AS WELL AS CONTRIBUTIONS FROM FORMER OMMODORE YSPS THAT ARE ON THEIR WAY TO ME. 'LL ALSO BE ADDING SOME ONLINE GAMES, AND BASICALISCLAIMER: VERY THING YOU WILL DO IS ON YOUR OWN RISK. HAVE MADE A GREAT EFFORT TO GET THE INFO ON THIS PAGE RIGHT BUT THERE COULD BE A MISTAKE ON THIS PAGE THAT AM NOT AWARE OF. F YOU FIND AN ERROR PLEASE LET ME KNOW HE INTERFACE IRST YOU WILL RELEASING THE FINAL VERSIONS OF FOR THE 64 AND 128, AS WELL AS THE SOURCE CODE FOR EACH, TO THE UBLIC OMAIN ON ICK MITH'S BEHALF, FOR ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED IN THESE PROGRAMS. ORE TO COME ON THIS... O IT'S HAPPENED, AND OTTONWOOD IS  POWER THE ATASSETTE. HERE ARE A FEW WAYS TO CONNECT A POWER SUPPLY, CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING. T CAN BE DONE BY A EXTERNAL POWER ADAPTER AND A VOLTAGE REGULATOR AS IS SHOWN IN THE TOP LEFT CORNER OF THE SCHEMATIC. HE EXTERNAL POWERSUPPLY CAN BE A WAY DID IT IS TO MAKE A CONNECTION TO THE POWERSUPPLY DIRECTLY. DID THIS BECAUSE MY DIDN'T HAVE A GAMEPORT. OU CAN SEE THE CONNECTION BELLOW. FTER SOLDERING THE WIRE BE SURE TO ISOLATE THE CONNECTION WITH ISOLATION TAPE. N A THE RED WIRG IN A CABLE CONNECTED A CONNECTOR THAT PLUGS INTO THE DISKDRIVE (TOP). ROM A PIECE OF MADE A ATASSETTE CONNECTOR. MADE CUTS WITH A JUNIOR SAW IN THE COPPER LAYER. ND MADE THE NOTCH IN THE . SE A WITH ONLY COPPER ON THE TOP S FOR MEMBERS OF AND SELECTED GUESTS FROM OTHER FORUMS. O ENERAL UBLIC HE EVENT IS PUB BASED AND WILL USE 3 AREAS AIMING TO RUN 20 MACHINES AT LEAST 1 CAB AND A LARGE PROJECTOR SCREEN. 11TH -13TH AY 2007 ORT AHON T. LEMENTS XFORD RIDAY D WAS SOLD BY THE MILLIONS. OST (BUDGET) GAMES FOR THE 64 WERE SOLD ON TAPE. O YOU HAVE A GREAT COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL TAPES OR MADE PROGRAMS YOURSELF ON TAPE AND WANT TO USE THEM ON AN EMULATOR. 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HIS WAS THE FINAL VERSION WRITTEN BY REG FOUNTZ, OLOR 64'S ORIGINAL AUTHOR. 'VE GOT A VERY BASIC SETUP RIGHT NOW, BUT HAVE *FULL* HARD DRIVE SUPPORT, AND ALL 240 ARE NOW ONLINE, WITH 26 DIRECTORIES OF OMMODORE GO NYTHING FROM ABOUT 9 VOLTS TO ABOUT 24 VOLTS OR . HE REGULATOR WILL MAKE A PERFECT 5 VOLTAGE. NOTHER WAY OF GETTING THE 5 IS BY CONNECTING THE INTERFACE TO THE GAMEPORT OF THE THIS IS SHOWN AT THE TOP RIGHT CORNER OF THE SCHEMATIC. HE E IS THE 5 VOLT , BUT TO BE SURE TEST THE VOLTAGE. SE A RUBBER GROMMIT WHERE THE WIRE LEAVES THE HOUSING TO PREVENT DAMAGE TO THE WIRE. N THE PHOTO BELLOW YOU CAN SEE MY FIRST VERSION OF THE 64 INTERFACE. NSTEAD OF A CONNECTOR WERE YOU CAN PLUIDE. FTER THAT SOLDERED ALL THE WIRES TO THE CONNECTORS. UT SOME INSOLATION TAPE ON THE FOR THE ATASSETTE WERE THE WIRES ARE SOLDERED. ON'T FORGET THE CONNECTION IN THE 25 CONNECTOR BETWEEN 2 AND 15. F YOU CAN'T MAKE THE INTERFACE YOURSELF TA ACCESS (USES DEFAULT AUDIO MODE AUTOMATICALLY) (OWER AND ARP) SUPPORT MIGA 4 SUPPORT 3 TAG EDITOR (ARTIST, TITLE, ALBUM, ETC.) AND 3V2 LAYLISTS AND EPEAT MODE OLUME, PANNING AND CROSSFADING DITABLE PLAYLISTS AND SHUFFLE MODE WITH SK CY PROBLEMS AT ALL. OMPATIBLE MIGA USES THE WIDESPREAD UDIO YSTEM AT DEVICE ACCESS LEVEL. OU CAN USE IT WITH ANY COMPATIBLE SOUNDCARD AS WELL AS WITH THE ORIGINAL MIGA AUDIO CHIPSET. URRENT EATURES (V2.18) AYER-2, AYER-3,  ODEMS TAKE LONGER TO CONNECT THAN A MODEM ON A OMMODORE COMPUTER. ECAUSE OF THIS, THE MAY NOT APPEAR TO BE DOING ANYTHING WHEN YOU CONNECT WITH YPERERMINAL. NCE YOU'VE CONNECTED, JUST PRESS ENTER, AND THE SHOULD "SEE" YOU. F YOU GET GARBLED 68060-50. OWER AND ARP OMPATIBLE N ADDITION TO THE 68K DECODER MIGA COMES WITH TWO NATIVE DECODING ENGINES ONE FOR OWER AND ONE FOR ARP. OTH ENGINES FEATURE HIGH QUALITY REALTIME DECODING OF AYER2 AND AYER3 STREAMS, GRAPHIC EQUA BEST EXPERIENCE, CALL FROM A OMMODORE COMPUTER WITH A OLOR RAPHICS TERMINAL PROGRAM. O DOWNLOAD 5.5 (MY PERSONAL FAVORITE), OR THE BEST OMMODORE GRAPHIC EXPERIENCE ON A , CALL USING 64ERM BY REG FOUNTZ. O DOWNLOAD 64ERM, : HISE, TOO! OO DULL? ELL, THE SAME EXECUTABLE CAN BE MADE LOOK AND BEHAVE LIKE IN JUST BY TICKING A CHECKBOX IN THE CONFIGURATION WINDOW. T CAN LOAD ALL THE IN SKINS AND CAN DISPLAY A REALTIME SPECTRUM ANALYZER. 680X0 EALTIME ECODING MIGA C BAUD) 1 LACK OTARY-IAL ESK HONE 1 LL MERICAN BY ICK MITH HECK IT OUT NOW AT (951)242-3593. ALL AND EXPERIENCE THE WORLD'S LAST REMAINING OMMODORE 64 DIAL-UP ! -NDREW(AKA ALZABAAR - YSP) HTTP://HOMETOWN.AOL.COM/COTTONWOODBBS/ NFOBY OMISLAV ZELAC AND CAN DO REALTIME DECODING ON 50 Z PROCESSORS AND UP. MIGA IS A COMPLETELY FREE AND NON-COMMERCIAL PROJECT. RAUNHOFER AND MULTIMEDIA GRANT A FREE LICENSE TO USE THEIR AYER-3 AUDIO COMPRESSION TECHNOLOGY FOR TIALLY ANNOUNCE QUITE HAPPILY THAT HAVE MY =64C FROM THE IT WAS CONNECTED TO. VERYTHING IS NOW 100% ORIGINAL! 'VE UPDATED THE PHOTO OF MY SETUP ON THE OTTONWOOD WEBSITE AT HTTP://HOMETOWN.AOL.COM/COTTONWOODBBS ERE'S WHAT THE IT... 'VE TOYED AROUND IN THE PAST WITH SWITCHING TO OLOR 64 SOFTWARE ON MY . UT, 'VE HELD OFF IN HOPES THAT THE "UPDATED VERSION" OF LL MERICAN WOULD HAVE SUPPORT FOR MY HARD DRIVE. FTER MUCH WAITING, 'VE FINALLY RECEIVED THAT UPDATE. IN SUPPORT RAPHIC EQUALIZER HOUTCAST/CECAST INTERNET RADIO SUPPORT LANNED FEATURES DECODE-TO-FILE --- OTTONWOOD 'VE RECENTLY AQUIRERD A -200 HARD DRIVE (THANKS, L!), AS WELL AS A COUPLE 1581'S (THANKS, ARCO!), AND WITH THIS, 'VE, AND PLAYBACK IT AND - HARDWARE ACCELERATOR SUPPORT ISUALISATION PLUGIN SYSTEM ADOOLS BASED FONT SENSITIVE USER INTERFACE LTERNATIVELY IN COMPATIBLE USER INTERFACE ORKBENCH APPLICATION (ROP ICONS ON WINDOW) DEVICE-LEVEL  CHARACHTERS, THE MAY HAVE DETECTED YOU AS CONNECTING AT THE WRONG BAUD SPEED. N THIS CASE, JUST DISCONNECT AND TRY CALLING AGAIN. HE DEFAULT SETTINGS IN YPERERMINAL SHOULD WORK FINE. DREWBRASIL@YAHOO.COM.BR. --- OTTONWOOD ELL... DID ILIZER SETTINGS AND FULL VISUALISATION. N A 604E-200 YOU CAN PLAY TWO 128KBPS AYER3 STREAMS WITH EQUALIZER SWITCHED ON AND CROSSFADE BETWEEN THE TWO WITHOUT TAKING MUCH LOAD! HE REALTIME ANALYZERS WILL CONTINUE TO RUN SMOOTHLY WITHOUT ANY LATEN TERMINAL RUNS IN USING A STANDARD AYES OMPATIBLE MODEM. HIS WILL NOT RUN IN INDOWS, NOR WILL IT WORK WITH A "INODEM". OR THE LEAST DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE, YOU CAN CONNECT IN MODE USING YPERERMINAL IN INDOWS. LEASE NOTE THAT "MODERN" MAN DO REALTIME DECODING EVEN ON SLOWER 680X0 PROCESSORS USING TEPHANE AVENARD'S HIGHLY OPTIMIZED MPEGA.LIBRARY. N A 68040-40 YOU CAN PLAY AYER3 AT HALF THE SAMPLING RATE AND WITH REDUCED QUALITY. ULL QUALITY AND SAMPLING RATE CAN BE ARCHIEVED WITH ARMATION FROM THE +1 (951)242-3593 OCATED IN ORENO ALLEY, ALIFORNIA, . PERATING 24 HOURS A DAY, AT 300/1200/2400 BAUD. UNNING ON A OMMODORE 64 WITH LL MERICAN OSSIBLY THE ONLY REMAINING OMMODORE DIAL-UP IN THE WORLD! OR THEHIS KIND OF SOFTWARE. ADOOLS RULES! HE PLAYER COMES WITH A FULLY FONTSENSITIVE, STYLE GUIDE CONFORMOUS MIGA ADOOLS USER INTERFACE AND FEATURES MULTITHREADED NON-BLOCKING WINDOWS FOR MAIN INTERFACE, STREAM INFORMATION AND PLAYLIST. IN LOOKS NICS NOW RUNNING ON: 1 OMMODORE 64C OMPUTER 1 OMMODORE 1084 ONITOR 2 OMMODORE 1541 ISK RIVES 1 OMMODORE 1541C ISK RIVE 1 -2 XCELLERATOR+ ISK RIVE 2 OMMODORE 1581 ISK RIVES 1 -200 ARD RIVE (245 ) 1 ULTIECH ULTIODEM224 (2400OWEVER, MUCH TO MY DISMAY, DISCOVERED THAT IT HAS FULL SUPPORT FOR T. ERNAL AND ATA HIEF HARD DRIVES, BUT SUPPORT WHATSOEVER FOR HARD DRIVES. ELL, THAT DISCOVERY SPELLED THE END OF MY ASSOCIATION WITH LL MERICAN . WILL STILL BE  VASTLY IMPROVED THE SETUP FOR MY . NTIL GET THE UPDATE FOR FROM ITS AUTHOR, 'M ONLY ABLE TO HAVE ONE 16 PARTITION OF THE 245 HARD DRIVE ON THE , BUT EVEN SO, THIS IS A IMPROVEMENT OVER WHAT WAS RUNNING. ND NOW, CAN OFFIC EINN.COM/DIRECTION S.ASP T IS HOPED THAT EVERY OMMODORE LUB CAN SEND A REPRESENTATIVE TO EXPERIENCE THE FUN THAT EXPOS CREATE ON A REGULAR BASIS. HE COMMUNITY WELCOMES LIKE-MINDED HOBBYISTS, AND IT IS YOUR BEST OPPORTUNITY TO MEET FOLKS YOU HAVE YET CABLE" OPTION IN THE "RANSFER OPTIONS" CONFIGURATION SCREEN. HTTP://STA.C64.ORG/SCBETA.HTML. ISKMAGERY64 0.6 RELEASED 23:17 ISKMAGERY64 IS A PORTABLE (T 4.2.X-BASED), OPENSOURCE 64 DISK IMAGE EDITOR FOR AC, INUX AND INDOWS. T OFFERS A NICE  : URING FILE RENAME, ALREADY EXISTING TARGET FILES ARE NOW DETECTED CORRECTLY UNDER OPERATING SYSTEMS OTHER THAN REAL , AS WELL. IX: HE NUMBER OF SIDES IS NOT DETECTED FOR DISKS IN 1570 DRIVES ANYMORE. IX: HE PROGRESS INDICATOR COUNTED BLOCKS INC REAL 64 WITH ET AND HE INAL EPLAY 0.6.HECK IT OUT: HTTP://WWW.LALLAFA.DE/BLOG --- ALYS V3.0 ALYS V3.0 - ALENTINO ENARI RELEASED A NEW VERSION OF ALYS. ALYS IS A LANGUAGE, AND DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM PACKAGE DESIGNED FOR = LUS/4 (OR NG IMPROVEMENT IS THAT CAN NOW ACCESS CBM4WIN UNDER INDOWS 4/2000//2003. O THERE IS NO MORE NEED FOR IVE AND ALIKE. IMPLY SELECT "PEN" AS CABLE TYPE AT THE TRANSFER OPTIONS DIALOG. PEN NEEDS TO BE INSTALLED FOR THIS OF COURSE. INCE / XECUTER HTTP://WWW.CBM264.COM/SVS/SVSINDEX.HTM L --- IN MIGA MULATOR IN 1.3.4 (30.12.2006) UGS FIXED: - MPROVED BSDSOCKET EMULATION STABILITY - INUAECLIPBOARD CRASH FIX - INDOWS ISTA COMPATIBILITY PROBLEMS FIXED - ILESYSTEM FLAG HALING ABLES: $15/ TABLE OR $35/ 3 TABLES (HE HOTEL CHARGES $10 IN ADDITION PER TABLE FOR POWER USAGE) ABLES ARE 6' IN LENGTH. LL SELLERS AND DEMONSTRATORS NEED TO SET UP BEFORE 9:00 ON ATURDAY MORNING, THE DOORS (FOR THESE ONLY) WILL OPEN AT 7:00AM. UTPUT OUT OF SYNC FIX - EMULATION CONDITION CODE FIX - IXED HANDLE LEAK IN BSDSOCKET AND - OUND PITCH SHIFTING IN YNC-MODE AND MORE.. - ATWEASEL 4 MOUSE SUPPORT EW FEATURES: - MPROVED EMULATION OF SPRITES OUTSIDE DISPLAY WINDOW - IL 4TH. FTER THAT DATE, ANY REMAINING ROOMS IN THAT BLOCK ARE RELEASED FOR GENERAL SALE. ESERVATIONS WILL CONTINUE TO BE ACCEPTED FOR OUR GROUP AT THE QUOTED GROUP RATE, ON A ROOM AVAILABLE BASIS. O MAKE RESERVATIONS FOR THE =4 XPO: AME OF THE VE DRIVER INSTALLED (REQUIRES ICORT, HTTP://WWW.ENTECHTAIWAN.COM/DEV/PORT/I NDEX.SHTM) - MPROVED DEBUGGER FEATURES - OUND SYSTEM IS NOT ANYMORE REINITIALIZED WHEN LOSING/GAINING FOCUS - 1 (1024) IMAGE SUPPORT - OUND VOLUME CONFIGURATION SETTIN TO MEET IN PERSON, OR MEET AGAIN FRIENDS YOU HAVE MET IN THE PAST. PRING OMMODORE XPO 2007 ESERVATION NFORMATION E HOPE YOU DECIDE TO SPEND THE ENTIRE WEEKEND WITH US AND MAKE IT A GREAT WEEKEND STARTING ON RIDAY NIGHT WITH YOUR OMMODORE FRIENDS WITH DRAG-AND-DROP SUPPORT BETWEEN DISK IMAGES AND THE LOCAL FILE SYSTEM. UNS PROGRAMS OR MOUNTS IMAGES DIRECTLY IN YOUR FAVORITE EMULATOR. ELEASE 0.6 ADDED NETWORK SUPPORT: OWNLOAD PROGRAMS OR SHARE DISK IMAGES AS ETRIVES WITH A SINGLE CLICK TO AORRECTLY WHILE COPYING A FILE FROM A OMMODORE DRIVE IN NORMAL TRANSFER MODE. EW: NTRODUCING SUPPORT FOR ACCESSING OMMODORE DRIVES VIA THE PEN DRIVER (CBM4WIN 0.4.0 OR ABOVE) UNDER INDOWS 4/2000//2003 - USE THE "PEN" VALUE FOR THE "ERIALEXPANDED = 16). ASED ON THE ... (USINESS SSEMBLER ANGUAGE), AN EXISTING STANDARD FOR BUSINESS MACHINES, THE ENVIRONMENT HAS BEEN IMPROVED WITH MANY HIGH-LEVEL NEW COMMANDS AND FEATURES. HE PACKAGE IS A COMPLETE ALL-IN-ONE TOOL: DITOR / EBUGGER THIS IS A BETA RELEASE, THERE STILL MIGHT BE BUGS. LEASE SEND BUG REPORTS TO THE TAR OMMANDER AILING IST AT SCLIST@YAHOOGROUPS.COM. S USUAL, THE NEW BETA IS AVAILABLE AT HTTP://STA.C64.ORG/SCBETA.HTML. HANGES IN 0.83.21 BETA SINCE 0.82: IXNDLING ON VOLUMES - AGE OWN-KEY NPUT PANEL REMAPPING WORKS PROPERLY - OUND SYSTEM IMPROVED - ENISE/ BORDERBLANK FEATURE WORKS PROPERLY - UALCORE/ RANDOM FREEZES PROPERLY FIXED AND MORE MINOR FIXES.. UGS INTRODUCED IN 1.3.3 FIXED: -  ONTACT OGER OYER BY PHONE, EMAIL, OR IN WRITING. MAIL: THUNDERBIRD@IGLOU.COM =4 XPO C/O 31 OTOWATOMIE RAIL ILFORD, 45150 --- EWS TAR OMMANDER NEW BETA OF TAR OMMANDER IS OUT. OR THE CHANGELOG SEE BELOW. ROBABLY THE MOST INTERESTI UAESERIAL.DEVICE INTRODUCED. ULTI-PORT SERIAL DEVICE, UNIT NUMBERS ARE DIRECTLY MAPPED TO SERIAL PORTS (UNIT 0 = 0, 1 = 1 ETC..) - MPROVED SERIAL PORT DETECTION, VIRTUAL DEVICES ALSO SUPPORTED - MPROVED ATWEASEL 3/4 SUPPORT WITHOUT INDOWSNT: INCINNATI OMMODORE OLL REE: (800) 354-9793 N ENTUCKY: (800) 352-9866 (859) 341- 2800 HERE IS AN NTERNATIONAL IRPORT LOCATED NEARBY, WITH SHUTTLE SERVICE PROVIDED BY THE HOTEL. XPO RICING OOR HARGE: $10.00/PERSON OR $15.00/FAMILY ELG ALSO SETS AUDIO VOLUME (PREVIOUSLY WAS AULA AUDIO ONLY) - USTOM CHIPSET INTERRUPT TIMING IMPROVED ND MORE.. HTTP://WWW.WINUAE.NET/ --- MIGA A POWERFUL REALTIME AUDIO PLAYER FOR MIGA COMPUTERS. T IS BASED ON THE AMP DECODING ENGINE  WHO DECIDE TO SHOW UP EARLY. OTEL NFORMATION HE RAWBRIDGE NN IS LOCATED OFF -75 AND -71 IN T ITCHELL ENTUCKY. HE COST OF THE SINGLE ROOMS IN THE MAIN BUILDING IS ONLY $69 PLUS TAXES. HE HOTEL IS SETTING ASIDE 10 ROOMS FOR OUR GROUP UNTIL PR PUT "+" IN THE DESCRIPTION AREA. AVE OORMAN --- : -64 BY AVE OORMAN OR SOME, THE -64 IS A BADGE OF INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EVERY NEW COMMERCIAL CONSUMER COMPUTER MARKET. OR OTHERS, IT IS A MARVELOUS EXCURSION BAG A SONNET OR HAIKU. HE LIMITATIONS DEMAND GREATER SKILL AND THOUGHT. ND THE RESULTS ARE, AT THE VERY LEAST, LOADED WITH THE JOY OF UNEQUIVOCAL SUCCESS! ...END... UTATIONAL, YET IS BLESSED WITH A TIDY FINITUDE. ROGRAMMING ON THE -64 IS LIKE WRITIN ANOTHER. EVERAL COMMANDS CAN SHARE DATA. ND LOCAL DATA IS EASY TO USE -- EVEN IN RELOCATABLE CODE, THANKS TO THE + SYSTEM. + WILL PREMIERE ON 248 (PROBABLY AVAILABLE THE FIRST WEEK IN ARCH), WITH A "BEGINNER'S LIBRARY" OF COMMANDS. N SU S ILL ATES CALLED IT, THE JOY OF UNEQUIVOCAL SUCCESS. OR NOTHING ONE CAN DO ALONE FEELS AS GOOD AS GRINDING THROUGH DOZENS OF REALLY PISSY LOGIC PROBLEMS UNTIL THE CODE WORKS EXACTLY AS DESIRED. ND WHEN THAT HAPPENS, THE PROGRAMMER KNOWS REAL ! EM TO YOUR + CODE WITH ., WHICH COLLECTS THE NEEDED PROGRAM OBJECTS, SAVES THE FILE TO YOUR WORK DISK, THEN LOADS AND RUNS YOUR PROGRAM.ND, AT ANY TIME, YOU CAN LIST ALL THE COMMANDS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN YOUR + PROGRAM. VERY COMMAND IS "SELFDT TOLD IT TO -- AS OPPOSED TO WHAT WANTED IT TO DO -- HAVE NO ONE TO BLAME BUT MYSELF. ND IT IS THIS ESSENTIAL ESPONSIBILITY THAT IS SO NEEDED IN THE WORLD TODAY. UR PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEACH THE MECHANICS OF KEYBOARDING, WORD-PROCESSING, SPREAD-SHEBLISHED A GREAT NUMBER OF SUCH TOOLBOXES AND OTHER MODULES, AND ALL THAT IS NEEDED IS SOME UNDERSTANDING OF MEMORY MANAGEMENT AND A WILLINGNESS TO READ AND EXPERIMENT. HE FINAL FRONTIER IS MACHINE LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING - - WRITING IN ! HE SIMPLICITYUINCINNATI OMMODORE OMPUTER LUB ROM: INCINNATI OMMODORE OMPUTER LUB UBJECT: INCINNATI OMMODORE OMPUTER LUB PRING XPO 2007 AY 5&6, 2007 ATE: UN, 28 AN 2007 10:37:13 -0500 PRING XPO 2007 T. ITCHELL, CROSS THE HIO IVER FROM SUCH A LIMITATION CAN BE OVERCOME BY ADVANCING TO A XTENSION (LIKE OT LUS), OR LEARNING SOME SIMPLE S, S, AND ES. 2.0 DOES NOT TRAP THE PROGRAMMER -- IT TAPS THE PROGRAMMER'S UNDERSTANDING OF THE INCREDIBLE RESOURCES AVAILA; SOME OF YOU ARE NIGHT OWLS. E WILL LET THE DEMO FOLKS TELL US WHEN THEY WANT TO PRESENT THEIR DEMO! VER 30 HOURS OF OFFICIAL OMMODORE ACTIVITY THE ENTIRE WEEKEND! ITH A ROOM THE SIZE OF 2352 SQUARE FEET, WE ARE ABLE TO HAVE DEMOS AND SHOPS IN THE CK TO A SIMPLER TIME OF COMPUTING. OR ME, THE -64 IS MY DOMAIN, WHERE CAN CREATE ANYTHING CAN IMAGINE. AM A HOBBYIST PROGRAMMER AND HAVE BEEN SINCE ULY 3, 1979. ENJOY TELLING BITS AND BYTES EXACTLY WHAT TO DO. ND THERE IS NO BETTER PLACE TO  IRPORT IS A SHORT DISTANCE FROM THE HOTEL. IRPORT SHUTTLE SERVICE IS AVAILABLE COURTESY OF THE HOTEL. EMONSTRATIONS AND PEAKERS OMMITMENTS FROM GUESTS WILL BE POSTED WHEN THEY ARE CONFIRMED: OCAL TOURIST SITES ARE ALSO NEARBY: HTTP://WWW.DRAWBRIDGBSEQUENT ISSUES, OTHER PROGRAM OBJECTS AND UTILITIES WILL BE PUBLISHED TO GIVE THE FULL POWER OF THE -64 TO PROGRAMMERS. HOSE INTERESTED CAN GET A 81 DOWNLOAD OF THE CURRENT LIBRARY AND SYSTEM FROM JUST $8 (). AYAL TO REVDAVE6@AOL.COM, AND ND WHILE THIS IS TRUE FOR PROGRAMMING ON ANY COMPUTER, THE -64 IS THE PERFECT PLACE FOR THE DEVOTED HOBBYIST. T IS BIG ENOUGH TO DO (OR AT LEAST MODEL) ANYTHING COMPUTATIONAL, YET IS BLESSED WITH A TIDY FINITUDE. ROGRAMMING ON THE -64 IS LIKE WRITINOCUMENTED" WITH SYNTAX INFORMATION THAT'S JUST A AWAY. INCE + USES PROGRAM OBJECTS, THE LIST OF COMMANDS IN OUR LIBRARY (NOW AT 90) IS LIMITED ONLY BY THE IMAGINATION OF CODERS. ACH COMMAND BUT BE FULLY RELOCATABLE, BUT ONE OBJECT CAN "CALL" ETING, AND OTHER "USEFUL" TASKS. ND AS PREPARATION FOR WORK OUT IN THE REAL WORLD, THIS IS QUITE RIGHT AND PROPER. UT THERE IS A CREATIVE MAGIC IN PROGRAMMING THAT SEEMS TO BE MISSING IN OUR KIDS' ENVIRONMENT -- A LACK OF IMAGINATIVE EXPLORATION AND, A OF THE INSTRUCTIONS FORCES VERY CAREFUL LOGIC. UT WITH , HAVE BSOLUTE OWER OVER MY COMPUTER. O ONE STANDS BETWEEN ME AND THE MACHINE! UT, MY EXPERIENCE IS THAT BSOLUTE OWER COMES WITH BSOLUTE ESPONSIBILITY. HEN THE MACHINE DOES EXACTLY WHA INCINNATI, ENERAL XPO NFORMATION =4 IS PLANNING A SUPER WEEKEND FOR YOUR EXPO ACTIVITIES! HE XPO WILL BE HELD ON ATURDAY, AY 5TH; FROM 9:00 AM UNTIL WE DECIDE TO CALL IT QUITS ON UNDAY AFTERNOON! E UNDERSTAND SOME OF YOU ARE EARLY BIRDSBLE IN THE STOCK MACHINE. HEN, ONE CAN ADVANCE INTO THE WORLD OF "MODULES," 4-7 CHUNKS OF THAT PUT BOXES ON THE SCREEN, DO MENUS, PLAY MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS, DISPLAY AND DRAW BITMAP GRAPHICS, AND EVEN PERFORM SPLIT-SCREEN EFFECTS. HAS PU SAME ROOM, NOBODY WILL MISS A THING. VEN THOUGH THE =4 XPO IS IN ENTUCKY, IT IS JUST ACROSS THE RIVER FROM INCINNATI, HIO. HE =4 EXPO WILL BE HELD AT THE RAWBRIDGE NN LOCATED AT 2477 OYAL RIVE IN T. ITCHELL, ENTUCKY. HE REATER INCINNATIDO IT THAN ON A -64. IRST OF ALL, 2.0 IS AN EASY LANGUAGE TO GRASP. NYONE WITH A MIND FOR LOGIC CAN MAKE GREAT THINGS HAPPEN IN . RUE, 2.0 LACKS SOME COMMANDS THAT WOULD MORE FULLY EXPLOIT THE POTENTIAL OF THE -64. UT THEN AGAIN, SAY THAT THE GREATEST PIECE OF CODE EVER PUBLISHED ON WAS/IS R.OUSE, BY EE OVAK. T CAME OUT IN 1997, AND MADE THE -64 TOTALLY POINT-ANDCLICK. LUS, IT HAS A MARVELOUS TOOLBOX OF USEFUL COMMANDS SUCH AS RINT T AND CROLLING ENU. >. H ASSAGE IMAGES, THEN TRANSFER THEM TO THE -64 WITH OOT. ALSO DO VIDEO EDITING AND AND BURNING ON MY ENTIUM 400 HZ MACHINE. ND OF COURSE, NEWSLETTERS AND DATABASES. >. HAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE PROGRAM/GAME FROM OADSTAR'S LONG HISTORY? . E U OT LUS (+) IS A NEW SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM THAT MAKES MOUSE CONTROLLED PROGRAMMING ON THE -64 A SNAP -- EVEN FOR THOSE WHO ONLY KNOW 2.0. VER 90 COMMANDS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OT IBRARY -- F ERN HOME COMPUTER IS WAY TOO BIG AND COMPLEX FOR MOST USERS, AND YET MUST BE SO IN ORDER TO DO WHAT MOST USERS WANT DONE. ACK IN 1997, WAS ASSIGNED TO A CHURCH THAT HAD A 486 , AND HAD TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME WORKING ON IT - - NEWSLETTERS AND SUCH. ONS, AND DIALOG BOXES TO MAKE YOUR -64 ACT LIKE A BRAND NEW COMPUTER. OST NHANCEMENTS REQUIRE LOADING AND RUNNING A SYSTEM PROGRAM WHICH RECONFIGURES THE MACHINE. NLY THEN CAN YOU LOAD YOUR OWN PROGRAM AND USE THE EXTENDED COMMANDS. + LOADS LE). ND 'S OMPLEATROGRAMMER HAS 2-1581S FULL OF STUFF -- FROM BASIC TO COURSES ON . EARNING HOW TO USE IS THE HEART OF ALL PROGRAMMING. >.O YOU BELIEVE MODERN SYSTEMS ARE TOO COMPLEX? . IGHT IN NE! REALIZE THEY MUST HA{DO WHAT WANT. ND IF WORSE COMES TO WORST, CAN ALWAYS PRESS , AND THE MACHINE HAPPILY SAYS . ...END... ACE FOR ME TO SIT DOWN AND MAKE THEM REAL IS THE -64. ERE AM GOD (LITTLE "G") OF 65536 BYTES -- WHO NEVER TALK BACK AND USUALLY F SOMEONE WANTED TO START PROGRAMMING WHERE WOULD THEY START . ITH A -64! ND A BOOK ON 2.0. HE COMMAND LIST IN THE USER'S GUIDE WOULD BE A START. WOULD STRONGLY SUGGEST SITTING DOWN WITH THE BOOK AND WRITING OUT A PROGRAM WITH PEN AND IS NOT THE MACHINE. T IS THE PLATFORM -- THE MEMORY MAP AND AND , THE AND . HAVE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT ALL THIS, AND STILL HAVE MILES TO GO BEFORE HAVE FULLY EXPLORED THIS AMAZING COMPUTER. >. ILL YOU STILL BE A REGULAR OMMODORE JECT LINKED TO YOUR + CODE AS YOU DEVELOP YOUR PROJECT. F YOU WANT BITMAP GRAPHICS OR LAYER MUSIC, MEMORY IS AUTOMATICALLY SET ASIDE. T SUCH ARE NOT NECESSARY FOR YOUR WORK, THE MEMORY IS OPEN FOR OTHER USES. HE POWERFUL ACK COMMAND TURNS A TE AT'S YOUR FAVOURITE BIT OF OMMODORE EQUIPMENT? .HE UPER KICKS THE -64 INTO HIGH GEAR. F AURICE ANDALL EVER GETS MINE FIXED, WILL BE READY TO GO BACK TO MY OLD "BROWN BETTY." >. O YOU PREFER USING AN EMULATOR OR THE REAL THING? . USE CENTLY, HAVE BECOME ADDICTED TO HAMROCK -- A SOLITAIRE BY AURICE ONES. LOCKHEAD'S EVENGE, BY ATE AND ON LAMINKO, KEEPS ME UP ALL NIGHT. EA TO EA IS STILL A FAVORITE, AS TRY TO GET 6 TRAINS IN AND OUT OF HICAGO WITHOUT A FATAL CRASH. WOULD ROM RINT T TO ULTI-ELECT CROLLING ENUS TO WORRY-FREE BITMAP GRAPHICS AND LAYER MUSIC. HE MOUSE, AND ALL THE INFORMATION THE MOUSE CAN GENERATE, IS BUILT-IN. ND O-OOPS MAKES USING THE MOUSE EXTREMELY EASY. DD PULL-DOWN MENUS, ROLLOVER BUTT  ALSO GOT ON THE INTERNET ON THE . N FACT, FOR A YEAR OR SO, BARELY USED MY -64. O, EVEN WITH THE UPER, NEVER GOT INTO OR HEELS OR INGS. BECAME, INSTEAD, A "CROSS-PLATFORMER." FOR WORK. -64 FOR FUN.ODAY, USE HOTOELUXE TO M AND RUNS ON A DEFAULT -64. ND WHEN THE PROGRAM IS FINISHED, A SIMPLE COMMAND RETURNS ALL POINTERS TO 2.0. OREOVER, + INCLUDES ONLY THE COMMANDS YOU NEED FOR YOUR PROJECT. IKE "BIG-TIME" LANGUAGES, EACH COMMAND IS A STAND-ALONE PROGRAMMING OB VE SUCH COMPLEXITY BECAUSE OF THEIR SIZE. HEY NEED THE SIZE IN ORDER TO HANDLE HUGE AMOUNTS OF DATA (LIKE WAVE FILES, PHOTOS OR MOVIES). ND WHILE THE INTERNET IS GREAT, IT WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT ADVERTISING -- WHICH NEEDS PHOTOS, ETC. O THE MODCOMMAND. HE PROJECT-CREATING PROGRAM, ., PUTS EVERYTHING YOU WILL NEED ON YOUR WORK DISK USING THE NAME OF YOUR PROJECT -- THEN LOADS AND RUNS THE THE "TEMPLATE" PROGRAM. DD COMMANDS IN THE SAME WAY YOU "INCLUDE" FILES IN OR ++, LINKING TH  PAPER, THEN CHECKING IT BY HAND. HE SECRET TO PROGRAMMING IS LEARNING TO THINK EXACTLY LIKE THE MACHINE. UR - INCLUDES A GOOD BEGINNERS TUTORIAL AND BIBLE (WHICH WOULD LIKE TO PUBLISH IN OMMODOREREE, IF YOU WOULD BE AGREEAB USER ONCE OADSTAR FINISHES? . CERTAINLY WILL! NTIL MY MIND FAILS, WILL CERTAINLY GET IDEAS FOR PROJECTS. ND THE PLACE FOR ME TO SIT DOWN AND MAKE THEM REAL IS THE -64. ERE AM GOD (LITTLE "G") OF 65536 BYTES -- WHO NEVER TALK BACK AND USUALLY XT FILE, BLOADED UNDER , INTO A VIRTUAL ARRAY. ND . ALLOWS STRING DATA TO BE TUCKED UNDER OR EVEN / AND QUICKLY INDEXED FOR USE IN YOUR PROGRAM. PRITES ARE FULLY "OBJECTIFIED," WITH FULL CONTROL AND REPORTING FROM ONE MULTI-FUNCTION +  1.07 -- WHICH WORKS WELL ON MY 400 HZ VERY WELL. LIKE HAVING THE WHOLE HARDDISK AT MY DISPOSAL. ND, CAN FLIP BETWEEN 64OPY (WHERE MOVE FILES TO AND FROM DISK IMAGES), HOTO ELUXE, OOT, INIP, AND . 'M SPOILED, GUESS.OR ME, IT TER, AND OFTDISK, NC., DECIDED TO BRANCH IN THAT DIRECTION. HE NAME IS FROM THE COMMAND TO START THE DISK - "*",8,1. N 1984, ENDER UCKER, A GUITARIST FOR A BAR BAND IN EW EXICO, CAME TO HREVEPORT TO BECOME THE NEW MANAGING EDITOR E FAST ACCESS TO THE HARDDRIVE AND A COUPLE OF GREAT UTILITIES: 64OPY AND 1581OPY. >. ELL OUR READER A LITTLE ABOUT THE OADSTAR HISTORY AND HOW YOU CAME TO BE WORKING ON THE MAGAZINE . ACK IN 1982, A COUPLE IN HREVEPORT, , DECIDED TO PU INALLY, WILL PROBABLY MOVE IN A COUPLE OF YEARS. ETHODIST PASTORS MOVE AROUND A LOT. T WOULD BE BEST TO WIND UP THIS SECTION OF MY LIFE BEFORE WE ARE SENT TO AST HANCE, OLORADO. >. OU HAVE STARTED A ECRET OCIETY OF COMMODORECODERS CAN YOU E CRIBERS. T THE END OF 2000, ENDER WAS READY TO END THE MAGAZINE AT ISSUE 199 AND MOVE ON TO OTHER THINGS, SO OFFERED TO CONTINUE AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. E JUST SHIPPED #247, AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH ISSUE 256. >. HAT OMMODORE EQUIPTMENT D  AN END. HE FIRST IS THAT OUR SUBSCRIPTION BASE HAS DWINDLED. HIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SEMI-COMMERCIAL VENTURE, MOSTLY A SOURCE OF "MAD MONEY." UTTING TOGETHER AN ISSUE TAKES A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME -- AND WANING SUBSCRIPTIONS NO LONGER COVERED THE TIME OADING GAME ON MY SISTER'S AND HAD TO TRY TO DO SOMETHING LIKE IT ON THE -64. NE OF THE GREATEST THRILLS OF MY LIFE WAS GETTING THAT GAME -- EA TO EA -- PUBLISHED ON #107. WROTE QUITE A NUMBER OF OTHER PROGRAMS FOR DURING THE  COUPLE OF YEARS, SAILED PAST THAT MILESTONE AND BECAME THE LONGEST RUNNING DISK MAGAZINE IN HISTORY.S SAID, AFTER GETTING EA TO EA PUBLISHED, BECAME A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR. URING ROUGH TIMES, IMAGINED MOVING TO HREVEPORT AND SITTING B SERVE THREE SMALL CHURCHES, PREACHING TWICE EVERY UNDAY MORNING. AM THEOLOGICALLY "PROGRESSIVE," YET REVEL IN THE POWER OF THE PIRIT THAT CHANGES LIVES. >. OR ANYONE WHO DOESNT KNOW WHAT IS YOUR COMMITMENT TO OMMODORE . Y FIRST OMMODORE COMP AS BACK IN 1988-89 -- WAS THAT UNLIKE THE NUMEROUS PAPER MAGS, RESPECTED THE READER'S INTELLIGENCE. ANY OF THE PAPER PUBLICATIONS WERE KIND OF STUCK AT "HERE'S HOW YOU GET STARTED." HAD TUTORIALS ON USING CUSTOM FONTS, GETTING BITMAPS O JUST PROGRAMMING ON THE UNENHANCED -64, BUT BOTH IN AND . BOUT A YEAR AGO, GOT EXTREMELY BUSY WITH MY PASTORATE AND LOST TOUCH WITH THE . AM GLAD OBIN ARBRON AND EFF EDGER HAVE CONTINUED THE DISCUSSIONS. HOPE TO GET BACK TO IT OF . ENDERBROUGHT A UNIQUE "OFF-KILTER" ATTITUDE AND A QUEST FOR SOMETHING HE CALLED (BUT NEVER QUITE DEFINED AS) UALITY. WO THINGS ABOUT IMPRESSED ME FROM THE FIRST ISSUE EVERY READ: IRST, THE MAGAZINE -- BOTH IN TEXT AN T TOGETHER A DISK SOFTWARE MAGAZINE FOR THE PPLE CALLED OFTDISK. IM AND UDI ANGHAM BEGAN THEIR ENTERPRISE ON THEIR DINING ROOM TABLE, BUT SOON GREW TO OFFICE SPACE IN DOWNTOWN HREVEPORT. N 1984, THE -64 WAS FAST BECOMING THE LEADING HOME COMPU XPLAIN THIS . ACK AT THE XPO -- WAS IT 2004? -- GOT TALKING WITH O IMMERMAN AND OTHERS, SHARING SECRETS AND IDEAS ABOUT CODING. WANTED SUCH DISCUSSIONS TO CONTINUE, SO CAME UP WITH THE IDEA OF THE ECRET OCIETY. HE IDEA WAS TO STICK T O YOU OWN . HAVE SEVERAL -64S AND 1541S AROUND THE HOUSE AND CHURCH. UT MY MAIN SET-UP IS A -64 , A 1541 , AND TWO 2000 DRIVES. AM ASHAMED TO ADMIT THAT THESE ARE NOT EVEN IFFYED. DO MOST OF MY WORK ON 1.07, SINCE IT GIVES M  SPENT. HE SECOND REASON IS THAT OUR SUPPLY OF NEW PROGRAMS HAS DRIED UP. E STILL GET A FEW -- ICKY EROCHER, ANE OSKAP ONES, OHN APUTA, ENNIS ILDRETH, NDREW OBERTS, AND A FEW OTHERS HAVE SENT MATERIAL. UT IT IS HARDER TO FIND NEW SOFTWARE. NEXT SEVERAL YEARS, ALONG WITH SOME ARTICLES. N 1999, DISCOVERED EMULATION, AND SUGGESTED TO DITOR ENDER UCKER THAT WE MAKE A FOR PEOPLE. E SAID "O FOR IT," AND DID. URING 2000, PUBLISHED E TO A GROWING NUMBER OF SUBS Y ENDER AND EFF ONES ALL DAY LONG WHACKING OUT CODE. KIND OF GOT MY WISH, EXCEPT NO ENDER OR EFF. >. HY IS LOADSTAR TO FINISH . WO FACTORS (MAYBE THREE) CAUSED US (MY WIFE IS THE BOOKKEEPER AND "STUFF IT LADY") TO DECIDE TO BRING TO UTER WAS A -128, BOUGHT IN 1986 WHEN NEEDED A REAL COMPUTER FOR MY WORK. HANKS TO A FLAKEY POWER SWITCH AND A MARVELOUS BOOK (HE OMPLETE OMMODORE NNER PACE NTHOLOGY BY ARL .. ILDON), "GRADUATED" TO THE -64 IN 1988. N 1992, SAW A RAILR TO WORK, AND COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS. T ALSO HAD UTILITIES AND TOOLBOXES THAT OPENNED WHOLE NEW POSSIBILITIES TO PROGRAMMERS. T SOME POINT, OFTDISK, NC., DECIDED TO DISCONTINUE THE ORIGINAL PPLE OFTDISK PUBLICATION -- AT AROUNDISSUE 163. N A SOON. >.OADSTAR TO ME SEEMED ALL ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE QUALITY TECHNICAL INFORMATION WAS THIS THE GOAL . HOPE WE ARE! LIKE TO OFFER A RANGE OF INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT -- GAMES, PUZZLES, MULTI-MEDIA, PLUS TOOLS, UTILITIES, AND INFORMATION. >. D PROGRAMS -- WAS A CONTINUOUS ENVIRONMENT. NE OF THE UALITIES OF A PROGRAM WAS THAT EXITING IT TOOK THE USER BACK TO THE MAIN MENU. THOUGHT IT MUST BE LIKE BEING ON INK, BUT WAS WRONG. WAS BETTER! HE OTHER THING -- AND THIS W UNTERVIEW WITH EIF LOOMQUIST Y OMMODORE REE LEASE CAN YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF Y NAME'S EIF LOOMQUIST. LIVE IN ORONTO, ANADA WITH MY WIFE AND13-MONTH OLD SON. >LEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR JOB AND HOBBIES WORK AS A CONTRACTOR TO NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE, DO SOME TESTS. S YOUR IDEA POSSIBLE? 3. ESIGN YOUR PROGRAM'S ARCHITECTURE AND REQUIREMENTS. OW EXACTLY SHOULD IT WORK, WHAT PARTS ARE NEEDED, AND HOW SHOULD THEY FIT TOGETHER? OW WILL THE SCREEN LOOK? 4. ET THE BASIC GAMEPL GAME HOW FAR IS THE GAME TO COMPLETION HE RTILLERY UEL GAME IS ABOUT 75% DONE. JUST NEED TO ADD SOME MORE GRAPHICS (I.E. EXPLOSIONS) AND MAKE THE GAME MORE FUN BY ADDINGWIND AND RANDOM PLAYING FIELDS. HEN DO LOTS OF TESTING. > O YOU THINK ORE'ION BUT RECEIVED NO REPLY ...END... LD GREATLY VALUE YOUR INPUT AS TO FUTURE VERSIONS OF THIS TOOL - LET US KNOW WHAT YOU WANT! HTTP://WWW.STYLE64.ORG/INDEX.PHP?CID=R ELE.DIRMASTER RIED TO EMAIL THE WEBSITE IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO PRINT THIS INFORMAT NG OUR READER SHOULD WATCH OUT FOR IF ATTEMPTING THE PROCESS HIMSELF. ES, MAKE SURE THE TAPE YOU'RE USING TO COVER THE "OMMODORE 64" LOGO WHEN PAINTING ISN'T TOO STICKY. > THEME HERE AND THE INTERNET IS THIS YOU REAL LOVE FOR THE OMMODORE MACHIN ECT SECTOR AND EDITING, THE EXTRA TRACKS ARE NOT CURRENTLY SUPPORTED WHEN COPYING/WRITING FILES. REDITS AND ONTACT IRASTER WAS CODED BY HE IZ/TYLE WITH TESTING BY THE ENTIRE TYLE CREW. LEASE FIND CONTACT INFORMATION ON THE BOUT PANEL INSID HAT USE TO PROGRAM WITH, A 20 FOR PLAYING GAMES, AND A 8296 THAT MY WIFE USES TO TRACK WHAT'S IN OUR FREEZER. > YOUR MAIN WEBPAGE HTTP://HOME.ICA.NET/LEIFB/COMMODORE/ HAS SOME VERY USEFUL INFORMATION ON COMMODORE MACHINES WHAT IS THE WEBSITES  IN THE TOOLBAR IMMEDIATELY BELOW THE MAIN MENU. HILE SELECTING A FILE ON A DISK IMAGE, PRESS THE 'J' KEY OR SELECT THE "UMP TO ECTOR" ITEM IN THE RIGHT CLICK CONTEXT MENU TO IMMEDIATELY OPEN THE SECTOR EDITOR AND JUMP TO THE FIRST SECTOR OF THE SELEC ROVIDE A SENSIBLE (OR AFFORDABLE) UPGRADE PATH FROM THE 64/128. > HY DO PEOPLE STILL USE OMMODRE MACHINES AND WHY SUCH A LARGE LOVE FOR THE OMMODORE 64 OSTALGIA, AND THE FACT THAT YOU CAN TINKER WITH THEM IN WAYS THAT YOU CAN'T WITH A . LUS THEOMMENT ON THAT ;-) 'M NOT A GRAPHICS DESIGNER SO THE GRAPHICS WERE LEFT SIMPLE. LIKE HOW THEY TURNED OUT, BUT THEY'RE NOT AS SLICK AS SOME OF THE NEWER 64 GAMES. EGARDS, EIF ...END... ICS SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH THEM OU'RE THE FIRST ONE TO C THE ANADIAN PACE GENCY, DEVELOPINGSOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS FOR THE HOENIX ARS ANDER PROJECT, AMONG OTHERTHINGS. Y HOBBIES ARE COMPOSING MUSIC, CANOEING AND CAMPING. ALSO PLAYWITH OLD COMPUTERS SOMETIMES TOO ;-) >OW DID YOU START USING OMMODORE CO AY WORKING, AND TRY IT OUT. F NECESSARY, GO BACK TO STEP 3 AND REFINE YOUR DESIGN. 5. DD GRAPHICS AND DOCUMENTATION, ETC. 6. O LOTS OF TESTING. > OU PLAY DOWN THE GAME BECAUSE OF THE RAPICS SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH THEM OU'RE THE FIRST ONE TO C  OMMODORE GAMES WILL EMERGE USING MULTIPLAYER INTERNET ACCESS HOPE SO! >AN YOU TAKE OUR READER THOUGH GAME DEVELOPMENT HAT'S A HUUUUGE TOPIC, BUT BASICALLY YOU FOLLOW THESE STEPS: 1. OME UP WITH THE CONCEPT. 2. F YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT'S UNTERVIEW WITH OADSTARS AVE OORMAN Y OMMODORE REE ICTURE USED WITH PERMISSION FROM HTTP://WWW.DICKESTEL.COM/EXPO2005.HTM PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY OBERT ERNARDO >. LEASE INTODUCE YOURSELF TO OUR EADER . Y NAME IS AVE OORMAN. AM 57 YEARS ES JUST LOVE THE CONCEPT OF HAVING A 64 HOOKED TO THE NTERNET. T'S SO SILLY, AND CHALLENGING AT THE SAME TIME. > OUR PRESENTATION FROM "ORLD OF OMMODORE 2006" GOES SOME DETAIL INTO THE WORKINGS OF THE GAME AND HOW / PROTOCOL WORKS WITH THE E THE APP, OR LEAVE US FEEDBACK E WOULD GREATLY VALUE YOUR INPUT AS TO FUTURE VERSIONS OF THIS TOOL - LET US KNOW WHAT YOU WANT! HTTP://WWW.STYLE64.ORG/INDEX.PHP?CID=R ELE.DIRMASTER RIED TO EMAIL THE WEBSITE IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO PRINT THIS INFORMAT PRIMARY IDEA UST TO SHOWCASE VARIOUS HOBBY PROJECTS 'VE DONE, HOPEFULLY OTHERS CAN LEARN FROM THEM TOO. > LIKE THE "HE LUE OMMODORE 64" AND THE WEBSITES DETAILED INFORMATION ON HOW TO SPRAY YOUR OWN, DID YOU EXPERIENCE AND REAL PROLEMS, ANY THI TED FILE. XTENSIONS MENU... XTENDED TRACK DISK IMAGES CAN BE LOADED AND SAVED WHEN THE "ISK->XTENSIONS->XTENDED RACKS" FEATURE IS ENABLED. ITH EXTENDED TRACKS, A 64 IMAGE WITH TRACKS 36 TO 40 CAN BE MANIPULATED AND SAVED. OWEVER, OTHER THAN DIR RE ARE A LOT OF FUN GAMES FOR THE 64, MOST OF WHICH HAVE STOOD UP TO THE TEST OF TIME. >HAT MACHINES DO YOU OWN CURRENTLY AND OUT OF THOSE MACHINES WHICH DO YOU USE HAVE A MODERN LAPTOP THAT USE FOR WORK AND MOST THINGS. HAVE A 64 WITH 64 T OLD, AND HAVE BEEN A HOBBYIST PROGRAMMER SINCE 1979. AM MARRIED, HAVE ONE GROWN SON, AND LIVE IN SOUTHEASTERN OLORADO. >. ELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT YOU DO FOR A LIVING . Y REAL VOCATION IS AN ORDAINED CLERGY WITH THE NITED ETHODIST HURCH. MPUTERS HEN WAS 13 YEARS OLD, MY PARENTS ENCOURAGED ME TO THE JOIN THE COMPUTER CLUB AT THE LOCAL LIBRARY. E HAD A -80, OCO3 AND 20 IN THE CLUB. HE 20 WAS MY FAVORITE THOUGH! >HAT IS THE WORST THING IN YOUR OPINION OMMODORE DID IDN'T P SPECIFIC CODE VALUE. IRASTER WILL SUPPORT READING OF EITHER VERSION. O WRITE DISK IMAGES IN THE FORMER MODE, TURN ON THE "ISK->XTENSIONS->RITE RROR UMBERS" FEATURE. O WRITE DISK IMAGES IN THE LATTER MODE, TURN THAT FEATURE OFF. HE EDITOR CEPTION TO THIS IS WHEN THE ECTOR RRORS OPTION IS TURNED ON. HEN, RIGHT CLICKING BRINGS UP A CONTEXT MENU THAT ALLOWS YOU TO TOGGLE AN INDIVIDUAL SECTOR AS WELL AS ALLOW YOU TO SET A DISK ERROR (ONE OF 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29) ON THE SELECTED ASES. HILE THE EPARATOR OOL IS OPEN, YOU MAY DRAG ENTRIES FROM IT ONTO DISK IMAGES TO PLACE SEPARATORS IN THE DIRECTORY. OU MAY ALSO EDIT ENTRIES ON THE EPARATOR OOL BY RIGHT CLICKING THE MOUSE OVER ANY ENTRY. OU CAN MOVE ENTRIES UP AND DOWN TO RE IONS->ECTOR RRORS"), WILL BE DISPLAYED AS AN OVERLAYED NUMBER CORRESPONDING TO THE ERROR CODE (E.G. 23 FOR CHECKSUM ERROR). HE EDITOR WILL LOOK SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FOR EACH DIFFERENT IMAGE TYPE, VARYING BY BOTH THE NUMBER OF TRACKS (REPRESENTED  CHARACTERS: WHILE EDITING, CLICK A CHARACTER IN THE TOOL AND THIS HAS THE SAME EFFECT AS IF YOU TYPED IT USING THE KEYBOARD. HE OOL MAY ALSO BE TOGGLED ON/OFF BY USING THE "HOW/IDE OOL" ICON IN THE TOOLBAR IMMEDIATELY BELOW THE MAIN ME  EDITOR PER DISK IMAGE, AND YOU MAY HAVE MULTIPLE EDITORS OPEN AT THE SAME TIME. O AVOID CONFUSION, CHECK THE TITLE BAR OF THE EDITOR WINDOW - IT WILL REFLECT THE SAME FILENAME AS THE DISK IMAGE IT CORRESPONDS WITH. URTHERMORE, THE EDITOR RL-EFT'/'AGE OWN' INCREMENT AND DECREMENT THE SECTOR; 'TRL-OWN' AND 'TRL-P' INCREMENT AND DECREMENT THE TRACK; 'AGE P' AND 'AGE OWN' WILL MOVE TO THE PREVIOUS OR NEXT SECTOR; FINALLY, 'LT-EFT' AND 'LT-IGHT' WILL SWAP THE CURSOR BETWEEN THE THE UNDO FUNCTION (OR INVOKE IT USING THE "DIT->NDO" MENU ITEM). INCE UNDO TRACKS CHANGES ON A PER IMAGE BASIS, BE AWARE THAN INVOKING UNDO IMMEDIATELY AFTER A FILE MOVE, FOR EXAMPLE, WILL ONLY ROLL BACK THE CHANGE TO THE CURRENT DISK IMAGE. O FULLY  VALUE OR THE BYTE. DITING CAN BE DONE ON EITHER THE LEFT HAND SIDE HEX REPRESENTATION (WHICH ACCEPTS VALID HEX INPUT) OR ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE REPRESENTATION, WHICH ALLOWS ANY VALUE. OTE: CHANGES ARE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY - THERE IS NO " ALSO BE TOGGLED ON/OFF BY USING THE "HOW/IDE EPARATOR OOL" ICON IN THE TOOLBAR IMMEDIATELY BELOW THE MAIN MENU. UNCTIONALITY: ISCELLANEOUS FILES CAN BE VIEWED BY SELECTING A FILE AND PRESSING THE 'V' KEY, BY SELECTING THE "ILE->IEW ILE" MAY ALSO BE INVOKED BY USING THE "DIT " ICON IN THE TOOLBAR IMMEDIATELY BELOW THE MAIN MENU. UNCTIONALITY: ECTOR DITOR O INVOKE THE SECTOR EDITOR, SIMPLY CLICK A ENTRY (A GREEN OR RED DISK CORRESPONDING WITH A GIVEN TRACK/ROW AND SECTOR/COLU SECTOR. OTE: ISK IMAGES WITH SECTOR ERROR INFORMATION CAN HAVE TWO POSSIBLE FORMATS: ONE IN WHICH ERROR IS REPRESENTED AS A BYTE WHOSE VALUE CORRESPONDS TO THE ACTUAL ERROR NUMBER (E.G. 23) AND ONE IN WHICH THE ERROR IS REPRESENTED BY SOME OTHER FORMAT ORDER THE LIST; YOU CAN EDIT INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES IN PLACE, YOU CAN DELETE ENTRIES, AND YOU CAN ADD NEW ENTRIES. LL CHANGES YOU MAKE WILL BE SAVED FOR THE NEXT TIME YOU USE IRASTER. HE RIGHT-CLICK MENU OVER THE EPARATOR OOL... HE EPARATOR OOL MAY  AS ROWS) AND SECTORS (REPRESENTED BY TRACKS). THERWISE ALL EDITOR OPERATIONS WORK IDENTICALLY ACROSS IMAGE TYPES. N THE EDITOR, RIGHT CLICKING WILL ORDINARILY TOGGLE THE STATUS OF THE SECTOR IN THE BETWEEN ALLOCATED AND UNALLOCATED. HE EX NU. UNCTIONALITY: EPARATOR OOL HE EPARATOR OOL, INVOKED USING "IEW->HOW EPARATOR OOL", PROVIDES A COLLECTION OF COMMON DIRECTORY FILE NAMES WHICH PROVIDE THE TYPICAL 'SEPARATOR' STYLE DIRECTORY ENTRIES THAT BECAME SO UBIQUITOUS AMONG SCENE RELE  DISPLAYS THE ACTUAL DISK IMAGE NAME AND ID AT THE TOP OF THE WINDOW. HE EDITOR DISPLAYS A TRACK/SECTOR MAP WHERE GREEN REPRESENTS UNALLOCATED SECTORS AND RED REPRESENTS ALLOCATED SECTORS. ECTOR ERRORS, IF THIS OPTION IS ENABLED (SEE "ISK->XTENS  CURRENT HEX AND BYTE. OOL... UNCTIONALITY: OOL HE OOL, INVOKED USING "IEW->HOW OOL", DISPLAYS AN ENTIRE SET OF CHARACTERS. SE THE TOOL WHEN EDITING A FILENAME, DISK NAME, DISK ID, OR SECTOR TO INSERT/OVER-STRIKE REVERSE THE MOVE OPERATION, YOU WOULD INVOKE UNDO ONCE EACH ON BOTH THE SOURCE AND DESTINATION IMAGES. DITOR FROM A .D64... UNCTIONALITY: DITOR HE IRASTER EDITOR CAN BE INVOKED USING THE "IEW-> DITOR" MENU ITEM. OU MAY OPEN ONE SAVE" OPTION IN THE SECTOR EDITOR. OWEVER YOU MAY USE THE UNDO FUNCTION TO ROLLBACK MULTIPLE CONSECUTIVE CHANGES. RESS THE 'J' KEY (OR 'LT-OWN') TO FOLLOW THE CURRENT SECTOR'S 'NEXT TRACK/SECTOR' LINK, IF IT IS VALID; 'TRL- IGHT'/'AGE P' AND 'T  MENU ITEM, OR BY INVOKING THE SAME ITEM FROM THE RIGHT CLICK CONTEXT MENU. N MOST WINDOWS INCLUDING DISK IMAGES, FILES, AND THE SECTOR EDITOR, THE CHARACTER SET CASE CAN BE TOGGLED USING "IEW->OGGLE ASE" OR BY CLICKING THE "OGGLE ASE" ICON MN). SECTOR EDITOR OPENS UP, WHICH LIKE THE EDITOR WILL REFLECT THE DISK IMAGE FILE NAME IN IT'S TITLE BAR. HE OPERATION OF THE SECTOR EDITOR IS FAIRLYSTRAIGHTFORWARDD... USE THE CURSOR KEYS TO NAVIGATE AND SELECT INDIVIDUAL BYTES; THEN CHANGE THE HICS SYMBOLS, ALTHOUGH MOST UNPRINTABLE CONTROL CODES (SUCH AS COLOR CODES) WONT ACTUALLY ALTER THE DISPLAYED THE DIRECTORY (I.E. ACTUAL COLORS AND CURSOR MOVEMENTS). SE OF THE CURSOR KEYS (UP/DOWN) ALLOWS SELECTION OF DIFFERENT FILES IN THE DIRECTORY L DISK IS UPDATED AS IF THE FILE HAD BEEN DELETED: DIRECTORY ENTRY IS REMOVED, IS UPDATED, BUT FILE DATA REMAINS INTACT. O EXPORT A FILE FROM A DISK IMAGE TO THE HOST FILE SYSTEM, USE THE "ILE->XPORT" MENU ITEM. HEN EXPORTING A FILE, THE EXPOR NGLY. INALLY, DOUBLE CLICKING A DISK IMAGE IN YOUR FILE MANAGER SHOULD OPEN THAT IMAGE IN A NEW INSTANCE OF IRASTER. S SOON AS YOU MAKE ANY CHANGE TO A DISK IMAGE, THE IMAGE WINDOW TITLE BAR WILL UPDATE WITH AN ASTERISK TO INDICATE AN EDITED BUT UNS TIONALITY: ILE COPY/MOVE/IMPORT/EXPORT ITH IRASTER, COPYING AND MOVING FILES BETWEEN DISK IMAGES IS AS EASY AS DRAGGING AND DROPPING THE FILE BETWEEN ANY TWO OPENED IMAGES. OU MAY COPY/MOVE FILES BETWEEN DIFFERENT IMAGE TYPES, LIKE FROM A 64 TO A SK FUNCTION ONLY OPEN A NEW DISK IMAGE INSIDE IRASTER ITSELF - AT THIS POINT THE IMAGE HAS NOT BEEN SAVED TO DISK. UNCTIONALITY: PEN/AVE O OPEN EXISTING DISK IMAGES, USE THE "ISK->PEN" MENU ITEM. LTERNATIVELY, DRAG AND DROP DISK IMAGES FROM YOU ILL RESET THE TO REFLECT THE DELETED FILE ENTRY, BUT IT LEAVES THE ACTUAL SECTOR DATA INTACT! O WIPE ALL FREE BLOCKS ON THE DISK, USE THE "ISK->ILL REE ECTORS" ITEM. ISK RELATED DATA INCLUDING DISK NAME AND DISK ID CAN ALSO BE EDITED BY USING T  A IRASTER SHORTCUT ON YOUR DESKTOP OR IN YOUR YOUR "..\ROGRAM ILES\TYLE\IRASTER" DIRECTORY. N UPDATED, IMPROVED FONT FILE IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE INSTALLATION AND PLACED IN YOUR SYSTEM FONTS FOLDER. ILE ASSOCIATIONS WILL BE MADE AUTOMAGICAL ALTERED OR AUTO-SIZED (IRASTER WILL TRACE THE FILE LINKS AND SET THE FILESIZE TO THE ACTUAL SIZE, IF DIFFERENT). ILE POSITIONS CAN ALSO BE ALTERED BY USING THE MOUSE TO DRAG AND DROP FILE ENTRIES ABOVE OR BELOW OTHER FILES. OR KEYBOARD FANS, FILES C GNED (USING THE 'L' AND 'R' KEYS), CENTERED ('C'), AND EXPANDED ('X', WHICH PADS THE CURRENT FILENAME WITH SPACES OUT TO 16 CHARACTERS). HILE IN EDIT MODE, 'BACKSPACE' AND 'DELETE' KEYS ALSO OPERATE AS YOU WOULD EXPECT. SIDE FROM FILENAME EDITING, THE ATED INTO A STANDARD FORMAT. MPORTING A FILE, ODDLY ENOUGH, CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE "ILE->MPORT" MENU ITEM. HEN IMPORTING A TEXT FILE, CHECK THE "ONVERT TO " CHECKBOX TO PERFORM AN TO TRANSLATION. INALLY, FILES ISTING. HE RIGHT-CLICK MENU OVER THE DIRECTORY DISPLAY... OST OPERATIONS REGARDING MANIPULATION OF SINGLE FILES CAN BE FOUND UNDER THE MAIN "ILE" MENU. O EDIT A FILENAME, SELECT "ILE->ENAME" OR SIMPLY PRESS 'E' TO ENTER EDIT MODE FOR THE CURRENTLY TED COPY RETAINS THE TWO-BYTE LOAD ADDRESS. HEN EXPORTING A FILE, THE EXPORTED COPY WILL BE WRITTEN USING A CHARACTER SET UNLESS THE "ONVERT TO " CHECKBOX IN THE FILE SAVE DIALOG IS CHECKED, IN WHICH CASE, OBVIOUSLY, THE FILE IS TRANSL AVED IMAGE. OU CAN SAVE THE IMAGE USING EITHER THE "ISK- >AVE" OR "ISK->AVE S" MENU ITEMS. UNCTIONALITY: IRECTORY DITING IRECTORY EDITING OPERATES AS A MODE, ALLOWING YOU TO TYPE IN A FULL RANGE OF CHARACTERS INCLUDING SPECIAL GRAP 81. HEN A FILE IS COPIED, THE FILE IS WRITTEN TO THE DESTINATION DISK USING A STANDARD SECTOR INTERLEAVE AND THE DESTINATION IS UPDATED ACCORDINGLY. HEN A FILE IS MOVED, AFTER THE COPY IS WRITTEN TO THE DESTINATION AS DESCRIBED EARLIER, THE SOURCE R FILE MANAGER ONTO THE IRASTER WINDOW. OU CAN DRAG AND DROP MULTIPLE IMAGES OF ANY TYPE (64, 71, 81) TO OPEN THEM ALL AT ONCE. OU SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE LITERALLY SEVERAL HUNDRED DISK IMAGES OPENED AT ONCE, ALTHOUGH MEMORY USAGE WILL RISE ACCORDI HE "DIT->ENAME ISK" AND "DIT->DIT ISK " MENU ITEMS RESPECTIVELY. LEASE NOTE THAT ALMOST ALL FUNCTIONS RELATED TO FILE AND DISK EDITING, AS WELL AS EXPORTING FILES, CAN ALSO BE ACCESSED BY CLICKING THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON OVER A FILE ENTRY. UNC LY, MAPPING ALL .D64, .D71, .D81, AND .SEQ FILES TO IRASTER. AKING A NEW DISK... UNCTIONALITY: EW ISKS O CREATE NEW BLANK DISKS (EITHER 64, 71, OR 81) USE THE SUB MENU: "ISK->EW". EYBOARD EQUIVALENTS ARE 6, 7, AND 8 RESPECTIVELY. HE NEW DI AN ALSO BE MOVED BY HOLDING THE SHIFT KEY DOWN ON THE FILE YOU WISH TO SELECT, AND THEN USING THE CURSOR UP/DOWN KEYS TO MOVE THAT FILE. N ENTIRE FILE ENTRY CAN BE DELETED BY USING THE "ILE- >EMOVE" MENU ITEM OR BY HITTING 'DELETE'. OTE: IRASTER W  FILE TYPE MAY BE ALTERED USING THE SUB MENU "ILE->ILE YPE"; VALID TYPES BEING (ALSO SET WITH THE 'P' KEY), ('S'), ('U'), ('R'), ('D') AND . INALLY, FILES CAN BE LOCKED (THE '<' KEY) AND SPLATTED ('*') AND THE FILE SIZE CAN BE CAN BE DRAGGED FROM YOUR FILE MANAGER AND DROPPED ONTO AN OPEN DISK IMAGE IN IRASTER. HIS ACCOMPLISHES THE SAME OUTCOME AS IMPORTING. UNCTIONALITY: NDO IRASTER KEEPS TRACK OF MULTIPLE UNDO POINTS FOR EACH OPEN DISK IMAGE. SE '+Z' TO INVOKE  SELECTED FILE. N THE EDIT MODE, CURSOR KEYS (LEFT/RIGHT) ALLOW SELECTION OF INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERS. HE 'INSERT' KEY TOGGLES CHARACTER OVER-STRIKE OR INSERT MODES, AND THE CURSOR UPDATES TO REFLECT THE CURRENT MODE. HE FILENAME CAN BE LEFT OR RIGHT ALId \ \ r`0`6cx 8l268` rP; ptV\U\COLLECTION IN A WINDOWED ENVIRONMENT? F COURSE, IRASTER IS NOT THE FIRST INDOWS-BASED TOOL FOR DISK IMAGE MANIPULATION. UT WE FEEL IT STANDS AMONG THE VERY BEST, PUSHING THE CAPABILITIES AGAIN INTO THE FUTURE WITH FEATURES LIKE: FULL 64,  \SE}!, OYSTq, }+URS\EYSr;}CHOOS}}3 FI}zvyy7v:, UNr}rYvZ. }1$OI}7}c}XIT\*\PR}<>rU\RAFICS ALORE F /t}PGt\}\} W}SB />}2a }`yt}}}% c}A}}I} .}}'}S}PL}CONLY}Rr }Cr}CUR G POPULARITY\dtFOMMODORE 64,rY EXP\4EDyBUSvS TO\CLUDE 'EI}4. }2\kNOW, }` StLONGEST RUNN\} MAGAZIN}5HI\RY, WrOVER 236\>ή>N.NN>nNNn.Ύ~n~~NNN^N.~nNΎ\:n^nN.ޞn~>^nN\R~>~.Nn^^n>>>>>^\/~N.^ξ..N\~~MATS (E.G. 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F 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.O HERE IS  L FROM SOME OF THESE HARDWARE HACKERS. ASONS MACHINE SAYS BUY ME AND IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO MASS PRODUCE SUCH AN ITEM THEN DO SO, WOULD IMAGINE QUITE A LARGE MARKET ON SUCH A DEVICE. HAVE BEEN PROVED WRONG BEFORE ON MANY OCCASIONS. GAIN PL N OF PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE HAD BEEN RELEASED, WITH MORE HARDWARE ON OFFER NOW THAN EVER BEFORE, OMMODORE DEAD, YOU MUST BE JOKING MATE ITS MORE ALIVE THAN YOU THINK. AYBE YOU JUST HAVE A LINK TO A WEBSITE WITH SOME OMMODORE RELATED ITEM FINE SENT THATEDGE OF MENU) 5 CENTER MENU 0 BACKGROUND 0 BORDER 1 TEXT 2 MENU HIGHLIGHT 1 FRAME 1 READER TEXT COLOR 02 COORDINATE 20 COORDINATE XX NOT USED 09 ENU OP 00 READER BACKGROUND +++++++++++++++++ CENTER MENU RIGHT MENU # MENU (COLUMN OF LEFT UEADERS OMMENTS ASON INTERS ELLO, REAT MAGAZINE! JUST STUMBLE UPON YOUR SITE TODAY, 'M DEFINITELY BOOKMARKING THIS PAGE OMMODORE REE ORE NICE COMMENTS LIKE TO RECEIVE POSITIVE FEEDBACK, IN FACT ANY FEEDBACK IS GOOD. ORIS RETZINGER I O :) O 'D LIKE TO SUGGEST A COOPERATION: E DO NTERVIEWS WITH SEVERAL GUYS ON CURRENT PROJECTS OR NEWS AROUND THE COMMIE ON A PRETTY REGULAR BASIS. INCE MOST SCENERS LIVE OUTSIDE ERMANY, HAVE TO INTERVIEW THEM IN NGLISH, ANYWAY, AND COULD SEND YOILL TRANSLATE AND PUBLISH THEM IN OUR MAG). LSO, OTHER ARTICLES COULD BE EXCHANGED.HAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT. HAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS IDEA? RE YOU INTERESTED? OME VERY OLD INTERVIEWS ARE TO BE FOUND ON WWW.CEVI-AKTUELL.DE.VUBUT THERE ARE SEVERAL NEWER OD PERSONALLY WITH SOME ARTICLES TO ORIS ON THIS EMAIL ALSO POINTED OUT THAT OMMODORE FREE IS EDITED AND RUN BY JUST MYSELF, ITS DIFFICULT TO FIND INFORMATION FOR THE MAGAZINE AND EVERY ISSUE PLEA FOR LINKS OR POTENTIAL MAGAZINE MATERIAL, ALSO WOU TO BUY TO USE WITH A PARALLEL INTERFACEAND BE ABLE TO PRINT FROM NORMAL COMMODORE PROGRAMS IN NATIVE MODE WITHOUT GEOS? OMMODORE REE EFF THE ONLY THING HAVE USED WITH A NATIVE OMMODORE 64 AND A STANDARD PRINTER IS SOMETHING LIKE UPER RAPHIX THESE CONNECT TO THE EXPANSION PORT OF THE OMMODORE AND HAVE JUMPERS TO SET VARIOUS THINGS, ONE IS TO CONVERT TO (COMMODORE TEXT FORMATTING TO STANDARD TEXT ) HAVE USED THE DEVICE FROM MANY APPLICATIONS ON THE OMMODORE 64 AND TO A VARIETY OSOME MORE TEXT THEN NO ONE WILL READ, SERIOUSLY WE HAVE SOME MORE REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS. HE AMAZING COMMODORE HACK FROM ASON INTERS, WHO SEEMS TO BE A READER OF THE MAGAZINE, GREAT YOU MUST READ THIS ITEM IF NOTHING ELSE, IT GOES TO SHOW THE SKILEE FOR ANYONE READING TO WRITE A PAGE OR TWO ABOUT A OMMODORE RELATED ITEM, MAYBE ITS ABOUT WHY YOU LOVE OMMODORE OR WHY YOU THINK IT AL WENT WRONG FOR THE COMPANY. OULD IT BE THAT YOU LEFT THE "COMMODORE CENE" AND RETURNED LATER TO FIND AN EXPLOSIO, AND WILL WRITE SOMETHING FOR YOU, RE YOU A HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE DESIGNER WISHING TO PROMOTE YOU WARES, FINE LET ME KNOW, AS EVER "O SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING" EST REGARDS OMMODORE REE ...END... H SOME OMMODORE RELATED ITEM FINE SENT THAT F PRINTERS. HE PRINTERS USUALLY HAVE TO SUPPORT PSOM STANDARD MOST DO AND HAVE TESTED SUCH A DEVICE WITH EWLETT ACKARD 640C 850C ASERJET 5 AND LASERJET 5SI ALL WORKED WITHOUT PROBLEMS, EVEN PRINTING OUT DISK LISTINGS. NYONE ELSE LIKE TO COMMENT? .IGEL, JUST RECENTLY FOUND YOUR MAG ON THE WEB, VERY NICE ONE WITH GOOD ARTICLES HAVE TO ADMIT. E DO A MONTHLY C64-PDF-MAG IN ERMAN LANGUAGE SINCE 05/2005, WHICH IS QUITE HARD BECAUSE OUR STAFF IS NOT THAT BIG ... WELL, GUESS YOU KNOW THE PROBLEM, TOU THIS INTERVIEWS, SO THEY WILL BE RELEASED IN OUR MAG IN ERMAN LANGUAGE, AND IN YOURS FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD :) OR 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 WNES 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 ...) IND REGARDS, OMMODORE REE ORIS REAT TO HERE FROM YOU YES AM INTERESTED IN ARTICLES AND DOING A TRADE, REPLIE LD LIKE TO COVER ALL OMMODORE MACHINES BUT MY C64 IS NOW MY DOMINANT MACHINE. JEFF ELLO, I READ YOUR LATEST MAGAZINE AND THOUGHT MAYBE YOU COULD HELP ME. WANT TO BUY AN INJET FOR MY COMMODORE 64, BUT I RARELY USE GEOS. 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T'S BELIEVED TO BE THE VERY FIRST NTERNET-ENABLED GAME FOR THE GOOD OLD 64!  ASSIC. ROM THERE, A MORE SOPHISTICATED PLATFORMER/SCROLLER SHOOT-EM-UP MIGHT BE FUN. VENTUALLY, WE COULD EVEN IMPLEMENT A SERVER-BASED , POSSIBLY MODELED LOOSELY ON THE LTIMA SERIES OF GAMES. INKS: ISCUSS THE GAME'S DEVELOPMENT ON THE 64 ET ORE 64? NTRODUCTION NE OF THE OFFBEAT THINGS 'M INTERESTED IN IS THE POSSIBILITY OF CONNECTING A OMMODORE 64 TO AN THERNET NETWORK, AND ULTIMATELY TO THE NTERNET. HY? ELL, BECAUSE IT'S THERE AS A FUN EMBEDDED- SYSTEMS TYPE PROJECT. HERE'S LOTS  2006. T ONLY LOOKS AT "TRUE" THERNET SOLUTIONS OTHER APPROACHES SUCH AS DIALUP, GATEWAYS, THE ANTRONIX 10/100/1100 AND THE ALM THERNET RADLE ARE COVERED IN THE GIVEN LINKS. ARDWARE VAILABLE NOW: HERE ARE CURRENTLY TWO COMMERCIALLY AVAILA 'T NECESSARILY USABLE ON THE OTHER. HE -ET. EQUIRES ONE OF: ETRO EPLAY, 64, 64 4 (IN DEVELOPMENT) OR UPER NAPSHOT 6 (IN DEVELOPMENT) BECAUSE IT PLUGS INTO THE MIGA-STYLE CLOCK PORT ON THOSE CARTRIDGES. AS BECOME THE DEFACTO STANDARD, AADAPTORS FOR USING IT IN DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS (STANDALONE, CLOCK PORT, 64 BUS). PDATED VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL CARTRIDGE PROTOTYPE. EXT VERSION MAY BE -ET COMPATIBLE. VAILABILITY UNKNOWN. ET64 BY ILL ARBAUM ABANDONED? OMPATIBLE WIOF THE HARDWARE LISTED ABOVE. SES THE U STACK. ERY COOL! URUERM "ELNET" TERMINAL CLIENT FOR CALLING OMMODOREORIENTED ELNET ES. OT A FULL TELNET CLIENT (OESN'T SUPPORT THE PROTOCOL), BUT THAT IS IN THE WORKS. SES THE U STACK BUT ONIN . OT TIED TO ANY PARTICULAR HARDWARE. NETLIB64 VERY LIGHTWEIGHT ALL- LIBRARY. RITTEN IN ASSEMBLER. UPPORTS -ET AND 64. IP65 RITTEN IN CA65 ASSEMBLER. UPPORTS -ET ONLY. UPPORT HE MULATOR CAN ALSO EMULATE THETH THE -ET EMULATION. N THE REAL HARDWARE, YOU DO NOT "SEE" THE THERNET-LAYER PACKETS THAT YOU SEND, WHEREAS IN YOU DO. REDITS EIF LOOMQUIST AME CODE LIVER IEROOKS ETWORK LIBRARY CODE HURSTAN OHNSTON ESTING AIK ICHETA USIEATURES: WO PLAYERS OVER THE NTERNET OR (TURN-BASED) HAT (7) EDIOCRE GRAPHICS OUND EFFECTS OYSTICK CONTROL (ORT 2) ECHNICAL ETAILS: -BASED COMMUNICATION (DON'T FORGET TO FORWARD PORT 3000 IN YOUR ROUTER/FIREWALL) RITTEN IN ASSEMBLEUR NETWORK SETTINGS.LEASE NOTE THAT ISN'T YET SUPPORTED, AS ITS -ET EMULATION IS A BIT BUGGY. UTURE LANS: NCE RTILLERY UEL IS FINISHED, WE PLAN TO RE-USE MANY OF THE GAME IDEAS AND PROTOCOL INTO A REWRITE OF EATHER AR, ANOTHER 64/ CLWORK AME EVELOPMENT FORUM. HTTP://JLEDGER.PROBOARDS19.COM/INDEX.C GI?BOARD=C64NGD OOK FOR OPPONENTS ON THE 64FRIENDS CHAT. HTTP://WWW.C64FRIENDS.COM/ AMES HOMEPAGE. HTTP://HOME.ICA.NET/LEIFB/COMMODORE/D UEL/INDEX.HTML THERNET...ON THE OMMODOF UNTAPPED POTENTIAL FOR ONLINE NETWORK GAMES, AND GAMES WERE ONE OF THE 64'S STRENGTHS. T ALSO APPEALS TO ME IN A HINDOGU KIND OF WAY IT'S UN-USELESS! ;-) HIS PAGE IS A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE "STATE OF THE ART" OF THERNET ON THE 64 AS OF OVEMBERBLE THERNET DEVICES FOR THE OMMODORE 64. NFORTUNATELY, THEY AREN'T STANDALONE THEY BOTH NEED TO BE COMBINED WITH ANOTHER (USUALLY EXPENSIVE) CARTRIDGE TO WORK. HEY ALSO USE DIFFERENT CHIPS (SEE ASSOCIATED PAGES FOR DETAILS), SO SOFTWARE FOR ONE ISNS MOST OF THE SOFTWARE LISTED BELOW ONLY WORKS WITH IT. VAILABLE FROM NDIVIDUAL OMPUTERS, ROTOVISION, ESALIA, AND 64ELOADED. HE 64 EQUIRES AN 64. VAILABLE FROM THE 64 TEAM.N DEVELOPMENT: NHANCED ERY PROMISING PROJECT WITH TH THE ORIGINAL . OMPATIBILITY WITH -ET UNKNOWN. OFTWARE ONTIKI ULL-BLOWN NETWORKING OPERATING SYSTEM FOR THE UNEXPANDED OMMODORE 64. NCLUDES WEB BROWSER, WEB SERVER, TELNET CLIENT, CLIENT, AND MUCH MORE. RIVERS ARE AVAILABLE FOR ANY LY WORKS WITH THE -ET. INGULAR ROWSER TANDALONE EB BROWSER. ARPOPY64 LTRA-FAST FILE AND DISK IMAGE COPIER THAT WORKS BETWEEN THE 64 AND A INDOWS OVER THERNET. LSO -ET ONLY. IBRARIES / TACKS U HE CORE OF ONTIKI. RITTEN  ORIGINAL PROTOTYPE OR THE -ET. ETUP INSTRUCTIONS ARE HERE. NTERESTINGLY, ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE AN EMULATED -ET ESSENTIALLY CONNECTED DIRECTLY TO THE 64, A CONFIGURATION THAT CANNOT EXIST YET WITH REAL HARDWARE.HERE IS APPARENTLY A BUG WIVC LSO THANKS TO USTIN HAMBERS, OBIN ARBRON FOR IDEAS AND ASSISTANCE ...END... CKETS THAT YOU SEND, WHEREAS IN YOU DO. REDITS EIF LOOMQUIST AME CODE LIVER IEROOKS ETWORK LIBRARY CODE HURSTAN OHNSTON ESTING AIK ICHETA USI R SES NETLIB64, WHICH IN TURN SUPPORTS THE -ET OR 64 CARTRIDGES. OWNLOAD: T'S ETA 0.004, SO CONTAIN YOUR EXPECTATIONS. HE NETWORK CONFIGURATION FILE FOLLOWS THE PROPOSED STANDARD SET OUT BY ER LOFSSON. UN THE PROGRAM TO CHOOSE YO U ACKING ERE ARE A FEW PICS OF MY OWN UMMER PROJECT. HAD AN OLD NE SCREEN LYING AROUND AND THOUGHT 'D MAKE A 64 LAPTOP. CTUALLY, IT'S MORE LIKE A 64 ! T MEASURES 6.5 X 6 X 1.5 INCHES (15.5 X 16.5 X 4 CM) WHEN CLOSED. T CAN HE CHECKS TO SEE IF AN EXTERNAL /2 KEYBOARD IS CONNECTED ON POWER UP. F ONE IS HOOKED UP, IT WILL ROUTE DATA FROM THAT INSTEAD. HERE IS AN INTERNAL AMPILFIED SPEAKER AS WELL AS CONNECTIONS FOR AUDIO AND VIDEO OUTPUT ON THE BACK. HERE'S A SER YSTICK WASN'T IN THE ORIGINAL PLAN BUT AFTER ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERED IT ON EBAY, IT SEEMED PERFECT. ERE'S A HOW-TO POST REGARDING THE 232 TO /2 KEYBOARD HACK: HTTP://JLEDGER.PROBOARDS19.COM/INDEX.C GI?BOARD=DTVH ACKING&ACTION=DISPLAY&THREAD=11677 OWING INFORMATION DESCRIBES HOW TO INTERFACE THIS KEYBOARD TO UMMER AND POSSIBLE THE REST OF THE VERSIONS. UT OF THE BOX: ISASSEMBLING THE KEYBOARD, YOU'LL SEE 5 LABELED CONNECTIONS: , , , , AND . IS +5 FOR THIS UNIT. IHIS, YOU ONLY NEED TO RUN THREE WIRES FROM THE KEYBOARD (, AND ROUND). S FAR AS WHAT MECHANICAL MODIFICATIONS CHOSE TO CUT AWAY A LOT OF EXTRA PLASTIC FROM THE TWO FOLDING HALVES AND SUPERGLUE THE SIDES TOGETHER. HIS EFFECTIVELY CREATED ONE/2 KEYBOARDS USE "MAKE" AND "BREAK" CODES NE OR MORE "MAKE" CODES IS SENT WHEN A KEY IS PRESSED AND SEVERAL "BREAK" CODES AND ARE SENT ON KEY RELEASE. HE ORNADA KEYBOARD KIND OF WORKS THE SAME WAY IN THAT IT USES MAKE AND BREAK CODES, UNFORTUNATELY T. HE ADDS A ONE SECOND DELAY TO GET RID OF THE PESKY "". ERE'S THE CIRCUIT: HE DIODE AND RESISTOR ON PIN 4 ARE FOR IN-CIRCUIT SERIAL PROGRAMMING () AND CAN BE LEFT OUT AS WELL AS ANY OTHER CONNECTIONS LABELED . HE 100K RESISTOR ON PIN EN TO MY DESIGN. HE POWER SURGE ON START UP WAS TOO MUCH AND THE KEYBOARD WOULD NOT INITIALIZE PROPERLY UNTIL INCREASED IT TO 470U. OR TIMING, THE INTERNAL 8 Z OSCILLATOR IS USED. T SEEMS TO WORK JUST FINE. ERE'S THE FILE: WWW.PICOBAY.COM/PEDUCED TO HALF THE SIZE BY CONSTRUCTING THE SEND CODES ON THE FLY INSTEAD OF HARD CODING THEM. HE START, STOP PARITY BIT COULD BE ADDED AUTOMATICALLY AND EACH MAKE/BREAK CODE WOULD ONLY TAKE UP A BYTE INSTEAD OF A WORD. UT THE 1688 HAS 4 OF SPACE AND HAD TO SWITCH SOME OF THE KEY ASSIGNMENTS: ODAY = () PACE = INDOWS KEY = OMMODORE EY + IGHT RROW = + + IGHT RROW = HE 4 KEYS IN THE TOP LEFT ARE THE 1 THRU 4 KEYS, 5 THRU 8 WITH THE PRESSED. D RUN FROM AN WALL ADAPTER OR 6 I BATTERIES. HE KEYBOARD IS HACKED FROM A PORTABLE FOLDING KEYBOARD FOR A ORNADA WHICH OUTPUTS -232. 'M USING A 1688 TO DECODE THE SIGNALS AND REENCODE THEM TO /2 (THAT WAS AN ORDEAL TO FIGURE OUT).IAL CONNECTION FOR A DISK DRIVE AND AN CARD SLOT IN THE SIDE FOR A 1541- BUT HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET THAT TO WORK YET. ALSO HAVE A CONNECTION FOR A USERPORT/JOYSTICK. HE JOYSTICK IN THE PICTURE IS A HACKED TARI KEYCHAIN JOYSTICK. HE MINI JO8302 4 HE ICRO OLDING EYBOARD (ODEL#: 420) MADE BY ICRO NNOVATIONS IS A SMALL PORTABLE KEYBOARD FOR ATTACHING TO A ORNADA . T BASICALLY HAS ALL KEYS NEEDED FOR ADAPTING TO A BUT UNFORTUNATELY OUTPUTS -232 INSTEAD OF /2. HE FOLLS THE LINE ON WHICH DATA IS ACTUALLY SENT, ALTHOUGH THE KEYBOARD WON'T SEND ANYTHING UNTIL IS PULLED HIGH. DO THIS RIGHT ON THE BOARD BY SOLDERING A 1K RESISTOR BETWEEN THE PAD AND THE ONBOARD MICROCONTROLLER'S CC PAD (SEE PICTURE). Y DOING T SOLID PIECE. ALSO GLUED THE FLEXI-RIBBON FLAT AGAINST ITSELF TO TAKE UP LESS SPACE. INCE THIS KEYBOARD OUTPUTS -232 (9600 BAUD, 8 DATA BITS, 1 STOP BIT AND NO-PARITY), A 1688 MICROCONTROLLER IS USED TO CONVERT THE DATA TO /2 FOR THE . HE CODES ARE NOT A ONE FOR ONE MATCH AND MUST BE RE-MAPPED BY THE . N POWER UP, THE WILL CHECK TO SEE IF A REGULAR EXTERNAL /2 IS ATTACHED. F SO, IT WILL JUST GO INTO "REPEATER" MODE AND PASS ALONG ANY SIGNALS FROM THE /2 KEYBOARD TO THE 11 IS NEEDED EVEN IF YOU DECIDE NOT TO MESS WITH THE EXTERNAL /2 CONNECTOR, SO DON'T LEAVE IT OUT. HE REST IS FAIRLY STRAIGHT FORWARD. HE 100U CAP MAY NEED TO BE LARGER DEPENDING ON YOUR SETUP. 100U WORKED INITIALLY FOR ME UNTIL ADDED AN SCREICODORE64/ORNADA1 688.HE X ND THE SOURCE CODE: WWW.PICOBAY.COM/PICODORE64/ORNADA1 688.TXT GAIN, THIS IS FOR A 1688 AND ANY $15 PROGRAMMER WILL WORK JUST FINE. HE SOURCE CODE IS WRITTEN IN ICASIC RO. HE CODE COULD PROBABLY BE R WASN'T TIGHT ON SPACE. AYBE AS ADD MORE FEATURES, 'LL RECODE THAT SECTION. ND WHILE 'M AT IT, 'LL SWITCH TO USING INTERRUPTS TO GET THE DATA FROM THE ORNADA KEYBOARD INSTEAD OF JUST WAITING FOR DATA. BVIOUSLY THIS IS AN ADAPTED KEYBOARD AND  IDN'T BOTHER TO IMPLEMENT THE UMLOCK KEYPAD, THERE DIDN'T SEEM TO BE MUCH POINT TO DOING SO. UST FOR THE HECK OF IT 'M POSTING THE /2 WAVEFORM OF A MAKE CODE FOR THE "" KEY. HANNEL 1 IS THE CLOCK AND HANNEL 2 IS DATA. HIS IS FROM A REAL /2 KEY OUND: MPILFIED 1.5" 0.4 INTERNAL SPEAKER ONNECTIONS: POWER, USERPORT/JOYSTICK, SERIAL DISK DRIVE, AUDIO/VIDEO OUTPUT, HEADPHONE JACK, EXTERNAL /2 KEYBOARD, CARD SLOT. DDITION PERIPHERALS: 1.75" X 1.5" MINI TARI JOYSTICK. EATURES: ON SCREEN EN IS FROM A NE. 'M ALSO USING ON 'S BOARD AUDIO AMP TO DRIVE THE SPEAKER. HE IS WHAT ULTIMATELY DROVE MY POWER REQUIREMENTS. LMOST THE ENTIRE CIRCUIT FOR THE USES 5V EXCEPT FOR ONE WHICH NEEDS BETWEEN 7V AND 8V TO GENERATE -YNC.  KING A SINGLE SOLID KEYBOARD. HE KEYBOARD NORMALLY INTERFACES WITH A ORNADA VIA A -232 LINK AND SPECIAL DRIVER. WAS ABLE TO CAPTURE ALL THE OUTPUT CODES AND PROGRAM A 1688 MICROCONTROLLER TO RE-MAP AND OUTPUT WITH THE APPROPRIATE /2 PROTUNTERVIEW WITH RIAN AGNALL NTERVIEW RINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM ? RIAN AGNALL MAY BE A NAME THAT THE OMMODORE-COMMUNITY WILL REMEMBER: E IS THE AUTHOR OF A BOOK NAMED "HE PECTACULAR ISE AND ALL OF OMMODORE", WHICH SEEMS PRETTY MUCH THE THTO A HISTORIC VIEW OF A COMPANY. AN YOU TELL US WHEN (AND WHY) DID YOU GET THE IDEA TO WRITE THIS BOOK? RIAN FIRST HAD THE IDEA IN 2002, NEAR THE END OF MY LAST BOOK. STARTED NOTICING THERE WAS FAR MORE OMMODORE NOSTALGIA ON THE WEB THAN PPLE, WSONAL COMPUTER MARKET AS PPLE REVISIONISTS WANT YOU TO BELIEVE. HE THING THAT REALLY GOT ME INTO IT WAS REALIZING THAT OMMODORE SOLD ABOUT 20 MILLION 64S, YET FOR SOME REASON PPLE RECEIVES ALL THE CREDIT EVEN THOUGH THEY ONLY SOLD 5 MILLION PPLE EOPLE WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THOSE DAYS - THAT'S WHY THE SUBTITLE IS "HE NSIDE TORY". HAT CAN THE READER EXPECT AS A RESULT OF THIS AND HOW CLOSE IS THE RESULT TO ICHAEL OMCZYK'S BOOK (REFERRING TO THE TIME HE COVERED IN HIS BOOK)? RIAN EOPLE WHO LD MACHINES. HERE WERE A LOT OF STRUGGLES.ITH DUE RESPECT TO ICHAEL OMCZYK, THIS BOOK WILL PRESENT A LARGER OVERVIEW OF OMMODORE THAN "HE OME OMPUTER ARS", WHICH HAVE READ. IS BOOK ENDS IN EARLY 1984 AND MOSTLY DEALT WITH THINGS AT A MANAGEOES THE BOOK START, AS YOUR HOMEPAGE LETS US KNOW THAT SEVERAL CHAPTERS (THAT COME TO THE READERS MIND FIRST, LIKE THE OMMODORE TYPEWRITERS AND THE CALCULATORS) WERE "ONUS ATERIALS" NOT YET TO BE READ? HE BOOK STARTS WITH ECHNOLOGY, BEFORE OMMBOARD. ERE ARE THE SPECS: AINBOARD: UMMER ONSTRUCTION: OBBY PLYWOOD COVERED IN FAUX STAINLESS STEEL CONTACT PAPER IZE: 6.5" X 6" X 1.5" (CLOSED) OWER: 7.5V WALL ADAPTER OR 6 RECHARGABLE I BATTERIES CREEN: 5" EYBOARD: 69-KEY  DISPLAY FOR VOLUME AND BRIGHTNESS CONTROL, AUTO SENSING OF EXTERNAL KEYBOARD CONNECTION, PROGRAMMABLE FUNTION KEYS, VIDEO SELECTOR SWITCH. LTHOUGH PLAN ON POSTING A MORE LENGTH WRITE-UP, FOR NOW, 'LL GIVE YOU JUST THE IMPORTANT DETAILS: HE SCREHE KEYBOARD WAS A BITCH TO FIGURE OUT AND WILL BE THE SUBJECT OF A POST OF IT'S OWN. T'S FROM A ORNADA FOLDAWAY KEYBOARD MADE BY ICRO NNOVATIONS. N TERMS OF CONSTRUCTION, HAD CUT AWAY A LOT OF EXTRA PLASTIC AND SUPERGLUE THE TWO HALVES TOGETHER MAOCOL. N POWER UP, THE CHECKS IF THERE IS AN EXTRENAL KEYBOARD ATTACHED. F SO, IT IGNORES DATA FROM THE ONBOARD KEYBOARD. ...END... E ALL THE OUTPUT CODES AND PROGRAM A 1688 MICROCONTROLLER TO RE-MAP AND OUTPUT WITH THE APPROPRIATE /2 PROTING ALL "OMMODORIANS" HAVE WAITED FOR SO LONG: A HISTORY OF OMMODORE. UESTION 1) RIAN, THIS IS NOT THE FIRST BOOK ON COMPUTERS YOU WROTE. OUR LAST ONE IS ABOUT "EGO INDSTORMS PROGRAMMING". ELL, THAT'S QUITE A DIFFERENCE: FROM A PROGRAMMING BOOK HICH SEEMED TO CONFLICT WITH THE POPULAR PERCEPTION THAT PPLE WAS THE BIG DOG BACK THEN. N THE SEVENTIES, WHEN THE PERSONAL COMPUTER MARKET KICKED OFF, THE -80 (AND EVEN THE OMMODORE ) FAR OUTSOLD THE PPLE , SO PPLE DID NOT ESTABLISH THE PERS. HAT JUST DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME. HY WAS OMMODORE BEING IGNORED? T WASN'T UNTIL LATE 2003 THAT REALLY GOT INTO THE RESEARCH AND WRITING. NCE GOT INTO IT, KNEW THERE WAS AN EXCITING STORY. UESTION 2) T WAS ESSENTIAL FOR YOU TO INTERVIEW PHAVE READ THROUGH THE CHAPTERS SAY THE INTERVIEWS GIVE A DEEPER PICTURE OF WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE COMPANY. OR ME, THE INTERVIEWS REALLY PERSONALIZE THE STORY. OU GET TO KNOW THESE PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH TO DELIVER SOME OF THESE WONDERFUL O RIAL LEVEL. N MY MIND, THE ENGINEERING STORY IS AT LEAST AS IMPORTANT AS THE MARKETING AND BUSINESS PEOPLE. LSO, HE DIDN'T USE INTERVIEWS OR FIRSTHAND QUOTES VERY MUCH, IF AT ALL. T WAS KIND OF OMMODORE AS SEEN BY ICHAEL OMCZYK. UESTION 3) HEN D ODORE PURCHASED THEM. ECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED THE 6502 MICROPROCESSOR, WHICH REVOLUTIONIZED THE PERSONAL COMPUTER INDUSTRY AND LED TO THE TARI 2600 , THE PPLE , THE TARI 400 AND 800, AND OF COURSE OMMODORE'S COMPUTERS. HE TYPEWRITER AND CALCUL E MAINLY FROM OMMODORE , SO WOULD YOU SAY THAT THIS IS MORE OR LESS THE STORY OF THIS PART OF "OMMODORE ORLD"? RIAN ES. HE STORY IS TOLD MAINLY FROM THE REAL CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS' VIEW OF OMMODORE USINESS ACHINES. EALLY THERE WAS A THING C ON TOOK PLACE AS FAR AS ENGINEERING THE MACHINES AND MAKING DECISIONS. UROPE, USTRALIA, AND APAN ARE MENTIONED A LOT THROUGHOUT THE BOOK, SINCE THEY WERE ALWAYS CENTRAL TO THE SURVIVAL OF OMMODORE, BUT THE INTERNATIONAL SIDE OF OMMODORE IS PROBABLY ORE APAN, PLUS A FEW APANESE ENGINEERS. UESTION 5) OW WOULD YOU, WITH HAVING AN OVERVIEW OF OMMODORE NOW, EVALUATE THE -OMPUTER? REMATURE BABY, FAR BEYOND ITS TIME, A WASTE OF MONEY OR SOMETHING ELSE? RIAN ASTE OF MONEY. UST KIDDING! T COMMUNICATE THAT TO THEIR POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS AND THE MACHINE DID NOT SURVIVE AS THE (THEN) INFERIOR ACINTOSH DID. UESTION 6) RAMIEL DENIED TO GET INTERVIEWED ON OMMODORE - ON THE WEBPAGE COMMODOREBOOK.COM WE CAN READ "ACK HAS A STRICT NO-OMMODORE E HAS GIVEN INTERVIEWS ABOUT OMMODORE TO ERMAN MAGAZINES FROM TIME TO TIME, THOUGH, SO MAYBE HE JUST DOESN'T TRUST THE ORTH MERICAN MEDIA. E LEFT ON BAD TERMS IN 1984 AND OMMODORE IS PROBABLY NOT A HAPPY MEMORY FOR HIM OR AM RAMIEL, HIS SON. THE INTERVIEWED PEOPLE LIKE EONARD RAMIEL NO INTEREST IN READING IT BEFORE IT GETS RELEASED? RIAN HAT'S AN EXCELLENT QUESTION. THOUGHT LONG AND HARD ABOUT SHOWING THE FINISHED CHAPTERS TO OMMODORE PEOPLE BUT DECIDED AGAINST IT. HERE IS PERSONAL IS POWER TO PROTECT HIS FATHER, EVEN THOUGH EONARD SEEMS LIKE AN HONEST PERSON. WOULD HAVE THIS PRESSURE TO REMOVE THE BEST PARTS AND IT WOULD END UP DULLING THE OMMODORE STORY RATHER THAN ENHANCING IT. NSTEAD, DECIDED TO PULL PEOPLE WHO KNOW A LDORE STORY AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THEIR WEB SITES, AND THEY HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE TO MAKE SURE THE STORY IS TOLD ACCURATELY. UESTION 8) INALLY, IS THERE A CHANCE THAT THIS BOOK WILL BE TRANSLATED INTO ERMAN LANGUAGE, FOR EXAMPLE? RIAN THINK THERE IS A DEAL FOR THE TRANSLATION RIGHTS. HANKS FOR THE INTERVIEW! RIAN LEASURE. REAT QUESTIONS! OOK AVAILABLE FROM HTTP://WWW.COMMODOREBOOK.COM/ ...END... WHICH COULD BE DIFFICULT CONSIDERING KNOW NOTHING OF THE ERMAN PUBLISHING INDUSTRY) AND MAKE A ATOR CHAPTERS ARE COMPLETE BUT DIDN'T GET ANY REAL INTERVIEWS FOR THOSE CHAPTERS. AYBE AFTER THE BOOK IS OUT, SOME OF THESE PEOPLE WILL APPROACH ME AND CAN LAND SOME INTERVIEWS BEFORE MAKE THEM AVAILABLE. UESTION 4) HE PEOPLE YOU INTERVIEWED ARALLED OMMODORE NTERNATIONAL IMITED WITH "HEADQUARTERS" IN THE AHAMAS (A SMALL RENTED OFFICE SPACE WITH SOME DESKS), BUT THAT WAS SET UP FOR TAX PURPOSES. ACK RAMIEL WORKED AT OMMODORE USINESS ACHINES IN THE , AND THAT WAS REALLY WHERE THE ACTI A WHOLE OTHER STORY. OU'LL READ ABOUT OB LEADOW, THE OF OMMODORE , AROLD PEYER OF OMMODORE ERMANY, IT PENCER, THE MARKETING DIRECTOR OF OMMODORE WHO LATER CAME TO THE , IGEL HEPHERD OF OMMODORE USTRALIA, AND ONY OKAI OF OMMODWAS DEFINITELY FAR AHEAD OF ITS TIME. DON'T THINK IT WAS A PERFECT COMPUTER BUT IT WAS REVOLUTIONARY. T WAS THE FIRST TRULY MULTIMEDIA PERSONAL COMPUTER AND DON'T THINK ANYONE WOULD ARGUE WITH THAT TODAY. NFORTUNATELY OMMODORE DID NOT KNOW HOW TO  INTERVIEW POLICY." OULD YOU DIG OUT WHY SO? RIAN HUCK EDDLE, ONE OF THE EARLY OMMODORE ENGINEERS, SAYS HE GOT BURNED BY A ARON'S ARTICLE THAT WAS VERY HARSH ON HIM. THINK HE COOPERATED WITH THE ARTICLE AND THEY TURNED AROUND AND DEMOLISHED HIM.EONARD RAMIEL SEEMS A LITTLE MORE OBJECTIVE AND HE SOUNDED FRUSTRATED THAT HIS FATHER WOULD NOT COME OUT AND SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. UESTION 7) O-DITORS OF YOUR BOOK ARE WELL-KNOWN OMMODORE EXPERTS LIKE IM UTTERFIELD OR OBERT ERNARDO. UT HAD INFORMATION ABOUT THEM IN THIS BOOK, AND NOT ALL OF IT IS FLATTERING. THINK IT WOULD TAKE AWAY FROM THE OBJECTIVENESS OF THE STORY TO HAVE THOSE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE EDITING PROCESS. OR EXAMPLE, IF SHOWED IT TO EONARD, HE WOULD DO EVERYTHING IN HOT ABOUT THE OMMODORE PERIOD. UYS LIKE ARTIN OLDBERG FROM LASSIC GAMING, ARETH NIGHT FROM THE MIGA ISTORY UIDE, AN FROM OMMDORE.CA, AND IM UTTERFIELD (WHO WAS THERE WHEN A LOT OF THIS STUFF HAPPENED). HESE GUYS ALL HAVE A LOVE OF THE OMMO VERY GOOD CHANCE. 'VE BEEN CONTACTED BY AT LEAST THREE ERMAN PUBLISHERS SO FAR AND THE BOOK ISN'T EVEN OUT YET, SO 'M GOING TO TRY TO PICK THE BEST ONE (WHICH COULD BE DIFFICULT CONSIDERING KNOW NOTHING OF THE ERMAN PUBLISHING INDUSTRY) AND MAKE A  UOMMODORE REE NTERVIEW WITH ON VAN CHAIK FROM THE UTCH OMMODORE CLUB >WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU DO? Y NAME IS ON VAN CHAIK AND AM CHAIRMAN OF THE UTCH OMMODORE LUB F YOU WANNA KNOW WHO AM, YOU CAN FIND A PICTURE ON THE PAGE HTTP:/ RMALLY HOW PEOPLE FIND YOUR WEBSITE? DON'T HOPE SO..... LOT OF WELL KNOWN SITES HAVE A LINK TO OUR WEBSITE. LSO FOR EXAMPLE OUR CALENDAR IS ON THE 64 PORTAL AND THE BIGGEST MIGA SITES. LSO POST OFTEN NEWS ON THE DIFFERENT NEWS PORTALS ABOUT WHA FOR: EBRUIKERS ROEP, THIS IS IN NGLISH: USER GROUP >>HOW DID THE CLUB START UR CLUB STARTED IN THE MID EIGHTIES WHEN THE OMMODORE COMPUTERS WERE LIKE A VIRUS IN OLLAND OW WE ORGANIZE 6 TIMES A YEAR A = HOW IN THE REFPUNT, AARSSEN, OLLAND.  PARTICIPATE WITH SOME MEMBERS AT OTHER ETRO AME AND OMPUTER EXPOS AND WE ORGANIZE SOMETIMES A = HOW IN AN OTHER PART OF OLLAND OR ELGIUM. OU CAN FIND A LOT OF PHOTO'S ABOUT THIS ON OUR REPORT PAGES AND FOR COMING = SHOWS YOU CANLOOK AT OUR CALENIRST TIME FOR FREE). LSO YOU CAN GO TO THE OMPUTER EURS (THE BIGGEST COMPUTER XPO IN THE ENELUX) FOR HALF PRIZE. E ARE PARTICIPATING THERE EVERY YEAR AS WELL. OU CAN USE OUR "HELPDESK" AND MORE. >WHAT IS THE CLUBS FUNCTION O HAVE CONTACT WI CLUB) >THE CLUBS WEBSITE HAS LOTS OF INFORMATION CAN YOU TELL READERS ABOUT WHAT IS ON OFFER? E STARTED A FEW YEARS AGO WITH AN NGLISH PART BECAUSE WE HAD MORE AND MORE VISTORS FROM ABROAD ON OUR = HOWS. OW WE HAVE EVERY WEEK NEW NEWS, ARTICLES, EBSITE BETTER AND BETTER IN THE NEAR FUTURE. >WHAT MACHINES DOES THE CLUB SUPPORT? LL OMMODORE AND MIGA COMPUTERS >CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE OF YOUR PERSONAL HISTORY STARTED IN 1986 WITH A 128 (ALWAYS IN 64 MODE...) AND SOLD IT AND FOR THAT MDIFFERENT KINDS OF THE 64, 64, 128, 128, 500, 1000 1400 ORIGINAL 64 GAMES, 150 ORIGINAL 16 AND 20 GAMES, HUNDREDS OF BOOKS AND MAGAZINES, ALL KINDS OF DEVICES (A FEW BOXED) >THE WEBSITE HAS BOTH ENGLISH AND UTH PRIMARILY UTCH, ARE THERE SEE YOU HAVE LINKS TO OMMODORE FREE MAGAZINE THAT'S A GOOD THING, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON MY WORK? AN VERY PLEASED ABOUT YOUR WORK. T'S GREAT THAT THERE ARE STILL GUYS WHO ARE WORKING AT THE POPULARITY OF OMMODORE ! >THE LINKS TO COMMODORE FREE MAGAZINE HAVE GENERATED QUITE A LOT OF TRAFFIC, DO YOU THINK PEOPLE MISS COMMERCIAL COMMODORE MAGAZINES? T'S DIFFICULT TO SAY BECAUSE WE HAVE ALSO A MAGAZINE AND THAT WAS NOT A BIG SUCCESS (AS A PAPER MAGAZINE) OW WE ARE DISTRIBUTING OUR MAGAZINE /COMMODORE-GG.HOBBY.NL/OKT2006CO L7.HTM AM THE ONE WHO'S BEING INTERVIEWED BY TELEVISION AND THIS LINK YOU CAN FIND HERE: HTTP://VIDEO.GOOGLE.NL/VIDEOPLAY?DOCID =- 4814625904960876672&Q=RETRO+COMPUTERS > CAME ACROSS THE SITE BY ACCIDENT, IS THIS NOT WE ARE DOING. > - OMMODORE WHAT DOES THIS STAND FOR? = OBBY OMPUTER LUB (T'S THE BIGGEST COMPUTER CLUB OF THE ENULUX WITH 170,000 MEMBERS) HERE ARE A LOT OF GROUPS IN THIS , LIKE , ULTIMEDIA, LIGHTSIMULATOR AND WE!!! STANDS OST = HOWS WE HAVE A THEME, LIKE IN FEBRUARY NNOVATION. E DEMONSTRATE THAN THE INIIG, HE 1541- AND THE 1541 ULTIMATE. LSO WE HAD THEMES LIKE ETRO AME AND OMPUTER ARTY WITH ALL OTHER RETRO COMPUTERS, INKER WORKSHOP, MUSIC ETC. LSO WE DAR. LL THIS IS A LOT OF WORK AND WE ARE NOW LEADING OUR CLUB WITH AROUND EIGHT GUYS. >DO YOU PAY TO BE A MEMBER ES, YOU PAY 10 EURO PER YEAR. OU ARE ALLOWED THAN TO PARTICIPATE (ACTIVE) ON OUR CLUBMEETINGS (IT'S NO PROBLEM TO COME AND SEE FOR THE FTH OTHER OMMODORE AND MIGA USERS, COLLECTORS, GAMERS ETCETERA. O HELP EACH OTHER WITH PROBLEMS, REPAIRS, PROGRAMMING AND HARDWARE. E HAVE EVERY = HOW A TABLE WITH STUFF FOR FREE AND YOU CAN BUY FOR LITTLE PRIZES MORE USEFULL THINGS (THIS IS FOR OURINFORMATION ABOUT THE = COMPUTERS AND DEVICES, MANUALS, SCANS FROM MAGAZINES AND BOOKS ETC . ERY INTERESTING ARE FOR EXAMPLE THE PAGES ABOUT ICE, 64, NNOVATION AND = COMPUTERS AND DEVICES FOR FOREIGN VISITORS. E HAVE A LOT OF PLANS TO MAKE OUR WONEY (AND A LITTLE BIT MORE) BOUGHT AN MIGA 500. ATER ON BOUGHT A (486) AND IN THE MID NINETIES SAW ON A FLEEMARKET A 64 AND THAT WAS THE START OF A FLOOD OF = COMPUTERS >WHAT OMMODORE MACHINES DO YOU OWN 20, 16, 4, 232, A LOT OF  PLANS TO CONVERT ALL THE WEBSITE TO ENGLISH HE WEBSITE IS NGLISH AND UTCH....... AINLY IT WILL HAVE TO STAY IN UTCH BECAUSE WE'RE THE ONLY ONE, AND THAT'S THINK IMPORTANT FOR OUR MEMBERS (800) UT IT IS OUR PLAN TO CONVERT THE MOST IN NGLISH! > AS A FILE, AND THAT'S GOING A LOT BETTER >WHAT PLANS DOES THE WEBSITE AND CLUB HAVE? E WILL TRY TO HAVE A LEADING ROLE IN OLLAND ABOUT EVERYTHING WHAT'S ABOUT OMMODORE AND MIGA LSO WE WORK HARD AT OUR INNOVATION PLANS, A NEW GUY IS COORDINATIN ABOUT THIS >HOW IS THE WEBSITE FUNDED? ITH THE MONEY FROM OUR MEMBERS WE PAY THE CLUB BUILDING, THE WEBSITE, THE PRINTER, VIEWER AND ALL THAT SORT OF THINGS. E ARE PART FROM A BIG UTCH OMPUTER LUB CALLED AND THOSE ARE SUPPORTING US TOO . >THAOU AY ALSO INTERESTING IS A PEEK AT OUR MAGAZINE: HTTP://COMMODORE-GG.HOBBY.NL/DOWNLOAD/ 1006.PDF EBSITE AND FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM HTTP://COMMODORE-GG.HOBBY.NL/ ...END... ALL PRESS REPORTS OF OUR CLUB: NEWPAPERS, MAGAZINES AND .  UNTERVIEW WITH ICCADORE 64 CREATOR ASON INTERS N A REVERSE OF EFFORTS ASON CAUGHT UP WITH OMMODORE REE MAGAZINE, FIRSTLY TO OMMEND MY EFFORTS, AND ALSO TO TELL ME ABOUT HIS PROJECT. THEN PERSUADED ASON TO A SMALL INTERVIEW FOR THE READERS. HOSE JOYSTICK GAMES THAT YOU CONNECT DIRECTLY TO A . HE GAME WASN'T VERY GOOD BUT IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR THE HACKERS TO DISCOVER ITS SECRETS. S FAR AS LAPTOPS GO THE ICODORE IS A TINY ONE. T'S A LITTLE SMALLER THAN THOSE PORTABLE PLAYERS. TO THE ENCLOSURE. HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH SUCH A GREAT NAME FOR THE MACHINE? WANTED THE NAME TO EMPHASIZE THE SMALLNESS OF IT AND THE PREFIX "PICO" MEANS ONE-TRILLIONTH. INCE ALREADY OWN THE DOMAIN "PICOBAY.COM", IT SEEMED LIKE AN EASY DECID. WAS WRONG ON BOTH COUNTS. ELL THE READS A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF Y FATHER WAS IN THE MINING BUSINESS AND A JACK OF ALL TRADES. LEARNED A LOT FROM WATCHING HIM PATCH TOGETHER BROKEN MACHINERY WITH WHATEVER WAS ON HAND. , ON THE OTHER HAND Y LAST YEAR IN COLLEGE, PLACED IN A NATIONAL ROBOTIC DESIGN COMPETITION AND LANDED A COOL JOB DESIGNING GIZMOS FOR THE .. MILITARY AND SPACE PROGRAM. VER THE COURSE OF FIVE YEARS, MOVED UP IN THE RANKS AND, UNFORTUNATELY, BECAME LESS AND LESS  GAIN. 'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT JUST RECEIVED MY MASTER'S DEGREE IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING LAST MONTH AND NOW 'M WORKING ON MY H. Y AREA OF RESEARCH INVOLVES IMPLANTING ELECTRODES INTO THE BRAIN FOR BOTH DATA ACQUISITION AND STIMULATION. T'S A DREAM J OB FOR A HACKER SINCE SO MUCH IS STILL UNKNOWN ABOUT THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AND HOW THE VARIOUS AREAS COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER. F LEASE TELL US ABOUT OMMODORE AND YOURSELF, WHAT MACHINES DO YOU OWN, YOUR FIRST MACHINE, DO YOU STILL USE OMMODOG THIS NOW E ARE VERY PROUD THAT OUR CLUBMEMBERS HAVE BUILD THE INIIG, THE 1541- AND THE 1541 LTIMATE >COMMODORE FREE HAS BEEN PLAGUED BY COPYRIGHT PROBLEMS HAS ANYONE ASKED YOU TO REMOVE PICTURES OR NEWS FROM THE WEBSITE? O, WE HAD NO PROBLEMSNKS YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND EFFORTS LSO THANKS AND WISH YOU A LOT OF SUCCESS WITH YOUR WORK! EST REGARDS ON VAN CHAIK N OUR WEBPAGE HTTP://COMMODORE-GG.HOBBY.NL/PERSBER.H TM YOU CAN SEE ALL PRESS REPORTS OF OUR CLUB: NEWPAPERS, MAGAZINES AND . RE ACHINES? 'M 29 YEARS OLD, SO GREW UP DURING THE MIDDLE TO END OF THE OMMODORE'S GOLDEN ERA. RECEIVED A 64, WHICH WAS MY FIRST COMPUTER, WHEN WAS ABOUT 12. LOVED PROGRAMMING AND THE OMMODORE WAS GREAT FOR THAT. WAS ALSO FASCINATED WIERE IS THE INTERVIEW. PLEASE TELL THE READERS WHAT IS A ICODORE 64 HE ICODORE 64 IS A CUSTOM BUILT 64 LAPTOP BASED ON THE MAIN CIRCUIT BOARD FROM A UMMER FF-OAD ACING GAME (MANY THANKS TO ERI LLSWORTH). HE UMMER GAME WAS ONE OF TT INCLUDES CONNECTIONS FOR A DISK DRIVE, EXTERNAL KEYBOARD, AUDIO/VIDEO OUTPUT, HEADPHONES, JOYSTICK/USERPORT, EXTERNAL POWER ADAPTER AND CARD. UTTONS BELOW THE SCREEN ALLOW FOR BRIGHTNESS AND VOLUME ADJUSTMENT. HERE IS EVEN A SPEAKER TUCKED INSION. "ICOBAY" DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR. REGISTERED IT WAY BACK IN 1996. ITH THE SUCCESS OF BAY, THOUGHT THE "BAY" SUFFIX WAS REALLY GOING TO CATCH ON. ANOTECH WAS JUST STARTING TO GET ITS ROOTS AND FIGURED PICOTECH WASN'T FAR BEHIN, WAS ALWAYS TEARING THINGS APART WHEN WAS A KID TO SEE HOW THEY WORKED (ACTUALLY STILL DO). LOVED ANYTHING RELATED TO COMPUTERS, ELECTRONICS AND EGO BLOCKS. WANTED A CAREER IN ROBOTICS AND EVENTUALLY WENT TO SCHOOL FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.INVOLVED IN THE TECHNICAL SIDE OF THINGS. ONSEQUENTLY, INTERFACING WITH THE HUMAN MIND AND BODY WAS ANOTHER AREA OF INTEREST FOR ME. O MUCH TO THE BEWILDERMENT OF MY PARENTS (AND JEALOUSY OF MY FRIENDS), DECIDED TO QUIT MY JOB AND RETURN TO SCHOOL A SSION BUT, PLEASE CAN YOU GIVE US (IN AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE) HOW YOU CAME TO DESIGN THE MACHINE AND THE THOUGHT PROCESS, AND PROBLEMS YOU HAD ALONG THE WAY. Y INITIAL TINKERING WITH THE UMMER INVOLVED HOOKING UP A /2 KEYBOARD, DISK DRIVE AND MAKE SURE THAT THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST OF ITS KIND. THEN STARTED LOOKING FOR A SMALL KEYBOARD WITH THE AS A GUIDE FOR THE APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS NEEDED. TOOK A CHANCE AND ORDERED A FEW DIFFERENT TYPES. T TURNED OUT THAT A PORTABLE FOLDING KEYB HOOL AND USED IT TO DECODE THE SIGNALS. NOWING VERY LITTLE ABOUT HOW KEYBOARDS WORK, IT TOOK ME A FEW DAYS TO GET A MICROCONTROLLER TO DECODE THE ORNADA KEYBOARD SIGNALS AND RE-ENCODE THEM TO /2. IGURING OUT THE POWER CIRCUIT TURNED OUT TO BE EASY S TH CONTROLLING THINGS WITH A COMPUTER. FELT LIKE DISCOVERED COLD FUSION THE FIRST TIME HOOKED UP AN TO THE USERPORT AND MADE IT BLINK. EEDLESS TO SAY, IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE FRIED THE CHIPS IN THAT FIRST MACHINE. FEW YEARS LATER GOT A AGO WHEN WAS DESIGNING A CUSTOM VIDEO CARD THAT RELIED ON CONTROL VIA -232 INPUT AND OUTPUT COMPOSITE VIDEO. Y INITIAL ATTEMPT WITH A MICROCONTROLLER YIELDED POOR RESULTS. HEN THOUGHT ABOUT MY OLD OMMODORE AND WONDERED IF COULD USE THE -NEXT WEEK ORDERED A DISK DRIVE AND THE PARTS TO MAKE A 1541 CABLE. LEARNED ABOUT THE WHILE RESEARCHING THE -. T WAS BY ACCIDENT THAT SAW A -UMMER GAME AT A LOCAL ADIO HACK. DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO DO WITH IT, BUT KNEW THE ENTIRE HACKING COMMUNITY. WAS JUST THE FIRST PERSON TO PUT IT ALL IN A NICE LITTLE LAPTOPISH PACKAGE. , TOO, WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY HACKERS ARE OUT THERE. HERE ARE ABOUT TEN VERY ACTIVE MEMBERS WHO ARE BLAZING THE TRIAL FOR THE REST LE AND IS THE MACHINE ABLE TO RUN FROM MAINS POWER ? HE SCREEN IS VERY POWER HUNGRY BECAUSE OF THE TYPE OF BACKLIGHT IT USES. HAT COMPONENT BASICALLY SETS THE POWER REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ENTIRE UNIT. KNEW WANTED TO USE RECHARGEABLE BATTERIESONTACT SWITCH IN THE RECEPTACLE. WANTED TO MAKE IT AS USEFUL AS POSSIBLE, BUT STOPPED SHORT OF ACTUALLY CHARGING THE BATTERIES WHILE THEY ARE IN THE UNIT. HAVE INCLUDED THE SPECIFICATIONS OF THE MACHINE AT THE END OF THIS QUESTION AND ANSWER SEWERE ALMOST THE RIGHT SIZE BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A LOT OF WORK TO MAKE IT LOOK RIGHT. ENDED UP JUST MAKING THE ENTIRE CASE OUT OF WOOD AND SUPERGLUE. T TURNED OUT TO BE A GREAT DECISION. HE MATERIALS WERE CHEAP AND READILY AVAILABLE. WAS ABLE TO B FIXING SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE VIDEO AND AUDIO CIRCUITS. T WASN'T UNTIL CONNECTED THE VIDEO OUTPUT TO A LITTLE SCREEN THAT DECIDED A TINY LAPTOP WAS IN ORDER. READ THROUGH THE ENTIRE FORUM ( RESOURCE FOR HACKING INFORMATION) TO OARD MEANT FOR A ORNADA WAS THE PERFECT SIZE AND HAD ALL THE NECESSARY KEYS. HE ONLY PROBLEM WAS THAT IT COULDN'T BE DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THE BOARD BECAUSE IT DIDN'T USE THE REQUIRED /2 PROTOCOL. BORROWED AN OSCILLOSCOPE FROM MY LAB AT SC INCE THE VARIOUS COMPONENTS USED STANDARD VOLTAGES. HE CARD SLOT INTERFACE WAS ADAPTED FROM A DESIGN BY AN EROGEE AND YROFER. STARTED LOOKING FOR A CASE TO MODIFY AS SOON AS GOT THE KEYBOARD WORKING. FOUND A BUNCH OF LITTLE ENCLOSURES THAT  128 BUT USED IT IN 64 MODE 99% OF THE TIME ANYWAY. LOST TOUCH WITH THE OMMODORE SCENE DURING COLLEGE SINCE EVERYTHING SEEMED TO BE BASED IN THE WORLD OF ENGINEERING. O TELL THE TRUTH, REALLY DIDN'T GET BACK INTO OMMODORES UNTIL A FEW MONTHS CHIP AND MODULATOR. BOUGHT A 64 ON BAY WITH THE INTENSION OF GUTTING IT FOR THE COMPONENTS THAT NEEDED BUT ONCE GOT IT IN THE MAIL AND BOOTED IT UP TO THAT FAMILIAR BLUE ON LIGHT BLUE SCREEN, DIDN'T HAVE THE HEART TO DESTROY IT. URING THE THEY WERE GETTING SCARCE SO BOUGHT IT ON A WHIM. F ELL US A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT, ALSO HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE WOULD YOU ESTIMATE ENJOY AND UMMER HACKING? CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH HOW THIS PROJECT IS A COMBINATION OF A LOT OF EFFORT BY OF US. REALLY DIDN'T JOIN THE FORUM DISCUSSIONS UNTIL WAS ALMOST DONE WITH MY PROJECT AND WOULD THINK THERE ARE MANY OTHERS READING THOSE MESSAGE BOARDS AND WORKING ON THEIR OWN PROJECTS. SEE THE MACHINE IS BATTERY POWERED, ARE THESE RECYCLAB AND THANKFULLY THE DISCHARGE CURVE OF I 'S FIT WITHIN THE VOLTAGE REQUIREMENTS OF THE . HE ICODORE 64 CAN ALSO RUN FROM AN WALL ADAPTER. HEN THE EXTERNAL POWER PLUG IS INSERTED, THE BATTERIES ARE REMOVED FROM THE CIRCUIT VIA A MECHANICAL C UILD THE ENTIRE THING WITH A MINIMAL SET OF TOOLS. LL REALLY NEEDED WAS A SAW, DRILL, SANDPAPER, DREMEL TOOL, MICROMETER AND RAZOR-KNIFE. OVERING IT WITH FAUX STAINLESS STEEL CONTACT PAPER WORKED OUT GREAT AND REALLY GAVE THE PROJECT A PROFESSIONAL L LASSIC GAMES AND A FULL SIZED JOYSTICK WASN'T GOING TO LOOK RIGHT. FOUND A MINIATURE TARI KEYCHAIN JOYSTICK THAT MANAGED TO CONVERT INTO A DEVICE THAT WAS COMPATIBLE WITH THE OMMODORE JOYSTICK PORT. OULD YOU CONSIDER SELLING THE MACHINE IF SOM T FOR THE OMMODORE COMMUNITY, IF IT COULD BE MASS PRODUCED? HIS PARTICULAR DESIGN WOULDN'T BE GREAT FOR MASS PRODUCTION SINCE IT SEEMED TO TAKE FOREVER TO GET THE CASE DONE. UT IF YOU'RE ASKING ME IF A 64 LAPTOP WOULD SELL? WOULD SAY "BSOLUTEL RE IS A RESOURCE JUST WAITING TO BE TAPPED INTO. THINK THIS WOULD BE A NO-BRAINER FOR SOME COMPANY OUT THERE. HOUGH, DO HAVE A LAUNDRY LIST OF THINGS 'D LIKE TO SEE ON A MASS PRODUCED UNIT. OME SORT OF MEMORY CARD SLOT WOULD BE A MUST TO GET SOFTW PURISTS OUT THERE BUT MY OWN 64 BECOME A LOT MORE ENTERTAINING ONCE PLUGGED IN A UPER XPANDER 64 CARTRIDGE. THINK BETTER ACCESS TO MUSIC AND GRAPHICS FROM WITHIN COULD BE ADDED WITHOUT SACRIFICING COMPATIBLY. ND LET'S FACE IT, IF YOU'RE THAGO. S CERTAIN TITLES BECOME POPULAR AGAIN, SOFTWARE COMPANIES MAY ATTEMPT TO ENFORCE OLD COPYRIGHTS AND CAUSE TROUBLE FOR SHARING SITES. OPEFULLY, THESE COMPANIES WOULD CHOOSE TO DEVELOP NEW SOFTWARE INSTEAD. HE THOUGHT OF AMES WRITING NEW SOFTWAMAKING THE CURRENT BATCH OF GAMING DEVICES. ACH PARTY OWNS A PIECE OF THE TECHNOLOGY PUZZLE AND 'M NOT SURE THEY ARE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE THESE DAYS. DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER PROJECTS IN THE PIPE LINE? AHA, 'M ASSUMING YOU ONLY WANT TO KNOW MMODORE 64 HAS BEEN AROUND SO LONG THAT IT'S DIFFICULT TO COME UP WITH AN ORIGINAL HACK FOR IT. HOUGH DO THINK MY FUTURE PROJECTS WILL FOCUS ON DEMONSTRATING THAT THERE IS STILL A PLACE FOR THIS CLASSIC MACHINE IN TODAY'S WORLD OF ULTRA-FAST AND ULTRA . ND YES, MANY OF THEM DO EXPRESS THE DESIRE TO OWN ONE. WOULD BUILD MORE OF THESE BUT UMMER PARTS ARE GETTING HARD TO FIND. ESIDES, MY APARTMENT IS TINY AND NEED MY KITCHEN TABLE FOR OTHER THINGS SOMETIMES. INALLY, WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THOSE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE HACKING EFFORT ON THE FORUM. ALSO NEED TO THANK MY GIRLFRIEND FOR NOT COMPLAINING DURING THE WEEK THAT CONVERTED OUR KITCHEN INTO A WORKSHOP. HE WAS MORE THAN TOLERANT OF THE LAYER OF SAWDUST THAT WAS DEOOK. DON'T THINK IT WOULD HAVE RECEIVED THE SAME AMOUNT OF ATTENTION IF LEFT IT LOOKING LIKE WOOD. HE JOYSTICK WAS ONE OF THE LAST THINGS DID FOR THIS PROJECT. EALISTICALLY KNEW THE ICODORE 64 WAS GOING TO BE PRIMARILY A MACHINE FOR PLAYING CEONE WAS INTERESTED? 'VE BEEN DEBATING THIS, BUT YEAH, PROBABLY WILL EVENTUALLY. 'VE GOT A FEW OTHER PROJECTS THAT 'D LIKE TO PURSUE AND AS A POOR COLLEGE STUDENT MY FUNDS ARE LIMITED. DO YOU THINK THE MACHINE IS A COMMERCIALLY VIABLE PRODUCY!" RANTED, A 64 LAPTOP DOESN'T HAVE THE MARKET POTENTIAL OF A ONY LAYSTATION , BUT IT DEFINITELY FILLS A NICHE. OT ONLY WOULD THIS BE A GREAT CREATIVE OUTLET FOR ALL THOSE YOUNG PROGRAMMERS OUT THERE, BUT THE ENORMOUS LIBRARY OF EXISTING SOFTWAARE ON AND OFF OF IT. MILLION NEW 64 LAPTOP OWNERS SCOURING BAY FOR 1541 DRIVES AND 5.25" FLOPPIES ISN'T VERY REALISTIC. LSO, 'D LIKE TO SEE AN ENHANCED VERSION OF AND A IFFY-LIKE UTILITY INCLUDED. HIS MIGHT BE UPSETTING TO THE OMMODOREAT NUTS ABOUT THE 64, YOU'RE PROBABLY CODING IN ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE ANYWAY. WHAT PROBLEMS WOULD MASS PRODUCTION CAUSE HE OBVIOUS PROBLEM INVOLVES ALL THE OLD SOFTWARE THAT WAS WRITTEN OFF AS UNPROFITABLE AND ABANDONED BY SOFTWARE COMPANIES YEARS RE FOR A 64 MAY SOUND FAR FETCHED, BUT MOBILE PHONE GAMING HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT THERE IS STILL MONEY TO BE MADE FROM RELATIVELY LOW TECH 2 GAMES. NOTHER PROBLEM THAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IS THE LEGAL ENTANGLEMENT OF THE SEVERAL PARTIES INVOLVED IN ABOUT THE OMMODORE RELATED PROJECTS. HAVE ANOTHER, LARGER, 64 LAPTOP IN THE WORKS WITH A 3.5" FLOPPY DRIVE IN IT. LTHOUGH THE ICODORE 64 WINS THE PRIZE FOR BEING LITTLE, IT'S REALLY TOO SMALL FOR CODING WITHOUT AN EXTERNAL KEYBOARD ATTACHED. HE O-COMPLEX COMPUTER SYSTEMS. AM SURE ALL READERS, WOULD LIKE ONE OF THESE, HAVE YOU HAD MANY COMMENTS? THOUGHT MIGHT GET SOME FEEDBACK, BUT REALLY DIDN'T ANTICIPATE THE OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF POSITIVE COMMENTS LEFT ON VARIOUS MESSAGE BOARDSPOSITED ON EVERYTHING IN OUR APARTMENT AND THE FREQUENT TRIPS TO THE HARDWARE STORE. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME AND EFFORTS ...END... NG THE WEEK THAT CONVERTED OUR KITCHEN INTO A WORKSHOP. HE WAS MORE THAN TOLERANT OF THE LAYER OF SAWDUST THAT WAS DE UOW TO UIK MENU OW TO "UIKMENU" BY OMMODORE REE OADSTARS QUICK MZNU SYSTEM FEATURING "MINI PRESENTER" LLOWS USERS TO QUICKLY AND EASILY CREATE A DISK BASED MAGAZINE OR MENU SYSTEM TO LAUNCH APPLICATIONS AND TEXT FILES. K THEN REATING "COMMODO U CAN DRAW DRAW A LOGO IN 2 COLOURS BLACK AND WHITE AND GO TO THE VERYONE WHO CAN DRAW SECTION. AM ASSUMING LITTLE DRAWING ABILITY AND WE ARE GOING TO USE A TO DESIGN OUR CREEN. HIS IS A 320 X 200 SCREEN WITH THE WORDS OMMODORE REE. HE CONVER PROCESS. TART ONGO AND SEARCH FOR THE PICTURE, ONGO OPENS A FAMILIAR INDOWS BROWSER TO LOOK FOR THE FILES OW PRESS THE CONVERT BUTTON (THIS IS THE ICON OF 3 FLOPPY DISKS STACKED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER) HIS WILL WALK THROUGH A ONVERSION PROCESS. EVES YOU TO THE ITHER SETTINGS FIND HERE YOU NEED TO GO FORWARD AND BACKWARDS THROUGH THESE SCREENS AS CHANGING ONE SETTING WILL AFFECT OTHERS, SO IT'S A LITTLE TRIAL AND ERROR SELECTED VERYTHING ON ERO EXCEPT THE AMMA CORRECTION OF 2.55 NORMALLY MODORE DISK IMAGES JUST PICKING ONE FROM RANDOM THEN AND FOR NO REASON AM USING OPY 64 TART THE APPLICATION PRESS 9 TO GET THE MENU SYSTEM CROLL THROUGH THE LIST AND SELECT "CREATE DISK IMAGE" AM GOING TO MAKE A 81 DISK O SELECT 81 AND PRESS E IT SHOULD END .DD REMEMBER WE SAVED IT IN THE OOT OF DRIVE C:\ SELECT THE FILE AND PRESS 5 TO COPY IT INTO OUR DISK IMAGE, A MESSAGE WILL APPEAR ABOUT RENAMING OR COPYING NOW THE IMAGE HAS BEEN COPIED TO OUR 81 FILE OR SOME REASON THE FILE WOAS OODLE AND ELECT AS OODLE HEN CLICK ON THE IGHT AND SEARCH FOR YOUR FILE FROM DISK IND THE FILE ON YOUR DISK OR DISK IMAGE ET THE "SCREEN ONTROLS" OLOURS 2 XEC REA LIP LICK DISPLAY TO LOOK AT THE IMAGE, ENSURE ITS ALL OK  THIS AS THE WORKING AREA , REDISPLAY THEN SAVE THE IMAGE WITH A NEW NAME CALLED MINE FREE2.DD SAVE THE FILE UNCOMPRESSED VERYONE WHO CAN DRAW K DOODLE EXPERTS AND ARTY TYPES CAN STOP LAUGHING NOW AND CONTINUE WITH THE TUTORIAL. K SO WE HAVE A LOGO NOW TO CONVERT THE LOGO TO THE LOADSTAR FORMAT FOR FURTHER MANIPULATION. TART MENU APPLICATION AND FROM THE LIST ON THE RIGHT SELECT UN THE APPLICATION, OW SELECT THE OURCE DISK "WHERE THE IMAGE FILE IS" AND THEN SELECT THE ARGET "WHERE THE FILE WILL BE SAVED BY PRESSING " ELECT THE FILE FREE2.DD NOTICE ODOT ADDED THE DD PREFIX ONCE SELECTED PRESS TO VIEW THE FILE, IF IT LOOKS OK SELECT TO CONVERT THE FILE AND THEN SELECT THE OUTPUT FORMAT OF GIVE THE FILE A NAMERE REE" ISSUE NUMBER 4 AYOUT AND ART WORK E NEED A TITLE FOR THE MAGAZINE THIS WOULD BE A TEXT "TITLE" OBVIOUSLY WE ARE GOING TO USE "COMMODORE FREE", THIS CAN BE A OODLE, DVANCED ART STUDIO, RT STUDIO, OADSTAR FORMAT OR A OLA ICTURE, F YOSION WILL CREATE A MIRROR IMAGE OF THE SCREEN AND WE NEED ONLY DRAW IN BLACK AND WHITE 2 COLOUR DESIGN. UST CREATE A TEXT PICTURE. IGHT ARTWORK CREATED BUT, THIS IS A BITMAP WE NEED TO CONVERT THE IMAGE TO OODLE FORMAT AND HAVE USED ONGO FOR THELECT THE OUTPUT FORMAT OF "DOODLE UNCOMPRESSED" ELECT A LOCATION TO SAVE THE FILE HERE JUST TO THE ROOT OF DRIVE C:\ LICK OU CAN NOW ADJUST BRIGHTNESS AND AMMA CORRECTION, THE SCREEN WILL UPDATE LIVE SO YOU CAN SEE THE EFFECTS. RESSING NEXT MOWORKS OK .ITHER PERCENT OF ERO AND DITHER KIND OF NEAREST CLICK EXT SELECT 2 NEAREST COLOURS AND THEN CLICK AVE THE FILE WILL BE SAVED IN OUR CASE TO THE ROOT OF OUR ;\ DRIVE ETTING THE ILE TO ISK ARIOUS UTILITIES EXIST FOR GETTING FILES TO COMNTER IVE THE FILE A NAME HERE AM USING FREE4.D81 AND THE FILE WILL BE CREATED IN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY. ELECT THE FILE AND PRESS ENTER TO SEE THE IMAGES CONTENTS RESSING MOVED BETWEEN THE SPIT SCREEN WINDOW DISPLAY, NOW LOOK FOR THE OODLE IMAGENT LOAD PROPERLY IN THE QUICK MENU SO WE NEED TO RUN IT THROUGH ODOT, THINK ALL ODOT DOES IS RENAME IT TO DDFREE.DD .E. PREFIX THE FILE WITH DD OTHERWISE OUR SOFTWARE CANT TELL IT'S A OODLE FILE, ANYWAY IT GIVES AN EXCUSE TO RUN ODOT ELECT HEN LICK ANYWHERE TO RETURN TO THE MENU CREEN, NOW WE ARE GOING TO SELECT A REGION TO WORK ON MAGE OPERATORS LICK ON XECUTE AND THE LIP WORKS SHOULD ALREADY BE LOADED THEN SELECT AND DRAW AROUND THE AREA YOU WANT THEN SELECT CCEPT TO CONFIRM MAY TAKE TIME TO GET USED TO IT, NCE ALL YOUR FILES ARE EDITED, SAVE THEM BACK WITH THE SAME FILENAME, OR RENAME PC TEXT FILES AS DESCRIBED ABOVE,. AND OPTIONS EARLY THERE NOW SUGGEST YOU MAKE A COPY OF THE MENU DISK, ONCE DONE REMOVE ALL THE AM USING "FREE" NOW UIT BY PRESSING TO RETURN TO MENU MAIN SCREEN ELECT FROM THE MENU TO CONVERT THE CREEN TO A FONT OPTION 1 CHANGES DISKS SO SELECT THE DRIVE WITH THE FILE TO CONVERT ON IT THEN SELECT OPTION 2 ELECT AKE  128 CHARACTERS TO CONVERT, OURS IS A BIG LOGO, IF YOU SELECT TO LITTLE FONTS THE SCREEN WONT LOOK RIGHT AS ALL OUR LETTERS WON'T BE CONVERTED SAVE THE FILE AND XIT TO MAIN MENU. OW TO THE SCREEN LAYOUT START ICK APPLICATION ELECT ILE TH 4 TO BRING BACK THE MENU BAR, THE TEXT WILL LOOK STRANGE COS WE HAVE CONVERTED IT, BUT DON'T WORRY, RESS 3 THIS WILL SHOW THE CHARACTERS THAT HAVE BEEN USED TO CONVERT OUR CREEN LOGO TO EXT CHARACTERS. RESS 5 WITH IS THE OLOUR MENU AND WILL SHOWNU THE FILE, WE DON'T WNT TO BE HOME TO MR COCKUP AS WELL AS ICK AVE THE FILE AS AN FILE RESS 3 THEN 5 SELECT WHITE FOR THE COLOUR OF OUR LOGO AND THEN PRESS 5 AND 3 NOW COLOUR THE OGO, PLAY AROUND RESELECTING COLOUR OR WHATEVER ED AND WE HAVE OR TITLE SCREEN, BASIC YOU CAN PLAY AROUND MORE IF YOU LIKE, IME IS RUNNING OUT AND WE HAVE LOTS TO LOOK AT. THE ITEMS ON THE FOOTER ARE OPTIONAL, AND SELF EXPLANATORY, THE PAGE IS ALREADY SET WITH HOTSPOTS FOR THE MOUSE SO ALL YOU DO IS SK IMAGE WE CREATED OR YOU CAN ENTER THEM FREE HAND IF YOU LIKE TYPING DIRECTLY IN TO THE EDITOR, THE EDITOR LOADS PLAIN SCII FILES. SAVE THE FILES GIVE THEM NAMES AND THEN COPIED THE PLAIN TEXT FILES INTO MY DISK IMAGE. OW START THE TO APCATION LOOKS FOR THE EXT FILES AND CONVERTS THEM TO OMMODORE FORMAT, THEN RENAMES THEM WITH THE PREFIX OF T. ORE ABOUT WHY THIS IS LATER ON, ONCE THE PROCESS IS DONE (SUPERCPU USERS HIT TURBO) OTHERWISE GO AND MAKE A CUP OF TEA.) OW PRESS IT TOESE REMEMBER TO SAVE THEM WITH THE T. PREFIX SO EDITOR.TXT BECOMES JUST T.EDITOR THE FILE EXTENSION ISN'T NEEDED! OAD THE FILE AND CLICK THROUGH THE MENUS, OPTIONS EXIST FOR CENTRED, INDENTED, ADDING A NEW LINE ETC. HIS ISN'T A NORMAL WORD PROCESSOR ITFILES ON THE DISK, YOU CAN EDIT IT BY HAND OR DO THE LAZY WAY DELETE IT AND ONCE THE DISK IS STARTED IT WILL BE GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY WITH THE CORRECT FILES ADDED, DO THIS AT THE END THOUGH AFTER ADDING ALL YOUR FILES! OW START R EDSTAR AND LOAD THE  TEXT FILES AND FILES BEGINNING WITH ASICALLY EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR HESE WILL BE NEEDED FOR OUR DISK, THE QUICK.FTS IS OUR LAYOUT DESIGN SCREEN THIS CAN BE DELETED AND OUR SPLENDID EFFORT COPIED IN ITS PLACE, LSO THE QUICK LIST IS A LIST OF ALL THE BLOCK AND DRAG AROUND THE IMAGE, YOU MAY NEED SEVERAL ATTEMPTS BUT ONCE A BLOCK IS DRAWN YOU SEE THE PREVIEW IF IT LOOKS OK THEN YOU CAN GO ON OTHERWISE SELECT MAKE BLOCK AGAIN AND CONTINUE WITH THE PROCESS UNTIL YOU ARE HAPPY. ELECT AKE AND SELECTEN / TO SELECT THE DRIVE AND OR DIRECTORY TO LOAD THE FILE FROM ELECT THE FILE FROM THE LIST AND LOAD THE FILE, REMEMBER THE IMAGE WILL BE REVERSED LACK IS NOW WHITE AND WHIT BLACK, BUT AS WE CREATED A MIRROR IMAGE, YOU STILL WITH ME ? RESS THE AVAILABLE COLOURS AND ON THE LEFT A REPRESENTATION OF THE SCREEN BORDER AND PAGE COLOUR, AM GOING FOR IGHT BLUE PAGE AND BLACK BORDER. ELECT THE COLOUR AND MOVE TO THE BORDER OR PAGE AND CLICK TO CHANGE RESS 5 THEN 3 TO RETURN TO THE MAIN MEYOU WANT. RESS HIFT AND NTER TO GO TO REE TEXT MODE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TYPE NOW IF IT DOESN'T WORK PRESS 5 AND 3 AND YOU CAN SELECT THE EXT CLICK ON THE TEXT AND CLICK WHERE ON THE PAGE YOU WANT IT TO APPEAR. LITTLE TIDYING UP AND THE FOOTER ADDADD THE TEXT IN THE ROUGH LOCATION. HE SHORTCUT KEYS ARE BUILT IN THE APPLICATION FOR EXIT FOR ELP ETC ROCESSING E NEED TEXT FILES, SO IF YOU ARE USING SOME OTHER SYSTEM SAVE THE TEXT AS PLAIN STANDARD, AND THEN IMPORT THEM TO THE DIPLICATION FROM OUR MENU MAIN SCREEN ELECTING THE FILES MENU ALLOWS YOU TO SELECT THE DISK YOU USE FOR INPUT, THE OUTPUT FILES ARE SAVED TO THE SAME DISK, ENSURE YOU HAVE SPACE ON THE DISK, ONCE OU HAVE SELECTED THE RIGHT DISK SELECT AND THE APPLI RETURN TO THE MAIN MENU (AVE THIS IS SHOCKING SLANG LANGUAGE >>RIN<<) OW SELECT R EDSTAR FROM THE MAIN MENU MENU SYSTEM THIS RUNS THE TEXT EDITOR, THE EDITOR CAN LOAD PLAIN (PC TEXT FILES AND CONVERT THEM ON THE FLY) IF YOU WANT THREE ...END... TER MENU RIGHT MENU # MENU (COLUMN OF LEFT EDGE OF MENU) 2 "!" PRG 4 "STAR" PRG 71 "QUIKMENU.PKD" PRG 2 "QUIK.INI" PRG 17 "QUIK.FTS" PRG 1 "QUIKLIST" PRG 4 "HELLO CONNECT" PRG 0 "________________" DEL EAD T UN T ORGET T OMMODORE  FILE QUICK.INI HIS IS THE SCREEN OPTIONS MENU, LOAD THE FILE AS A C= FILE AND NOT A PC TEXT FILE OU SHOULD SEE THESE OPTIONS ENTER MENU EP YOU GUESSE D IT THIS CENTERS OUR LIST MENU ON SCREEN OTHER OPTIONS ARE LEFT AND RIGHT ACKGROUND + BORDER ET 62/EDITOR 62/COMMENTS 62/ARTILLERY 62/DIRMASTER 62/DTV HACK 62/IV BAGNALL 62/IV BLOOMQUIS 62/IV MOORMAN 62/IV RON 62/IV WINTERS 62/LOADSTAR 62/NEWS 62/QUIKMENU 62/TAP TRANSFER  EXT WHEN VIEWING TEXT FILES COORDINATE + COORDINATE O ORDINATES FOR THE MINI MENU LAYOUT ENU OP ETS THE LOCATION OF THE MENU ON THE SCREEN READER BACKGROUND OLOUR OF THE PAPER WHEN VIEWING TEXT FILES LAY AROUND AND GET A FEEL OF THE IS NOT UNUSUAL FOR OMMODORE COMPUTERS TO HAVE SIMILAR SYMPTOMS WHILE ACTUALLY HAVING DIFFERENT UNDERLYING PROBLEMS. VEN WHEN EXPERIENCING OCCASIONAL HARDWARE PROBLEMS THE OMMODORE USERS RARELY FELT LIKE THEY WERE AT THE MERCY OF THE SERVICE WOLVES DUTION THIS NEEDS TO START WITH A . PREFIX, ACH PPLICATION NEEDS A TEXT FILE OTHERWISE IT WONT WORK. HEN MENU SYSTEM HANDLES DISPLAYING TEXT OR AN APPLICATION WITH THE MINI MENU, YOU GET THE EAD THE TEXT FILES ABOUT HOW YOU CAN GET YOUR APPLICATIONS T ELOP NEW COMPUTER MODELS. OMMODORE UNVEILED THE OMMODORE -64 PORTABLE COMPUTER AROUND 1984 WHICH WAS INCREDIBLY NICE & AFFORDABLE FOR ITS TIME PERIOD. HE -64 COMPUTER HAD A DETACHABLE KEYBOARD AND A 5" COLOR MONITOR AND A FLOPPY DRIVE BUILT-IN. T+++++++++++++ CENTER MENU RIGHT MENU # MENU (COLUMN OF LEFT EDGE OF MENU) 2 "!" PRG 4 "STAR" PRG 71 "QUIKMENU.PKD" PRG 2 "QUIK.INI" PRG 17 "QUIK.FTS" PRG 1 "QUIKLIST" PRG 4 "HELLO CONNECT" PRG 0 "________________" DEL EAD T UN T ORGET T OMMODORE  E TO THE MANY OPTIONS WHICH THEY HAD. FTENTIMES THERE WERE SIMPLE AND EASY TO IMPLEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR OMMODORE MALFUNCTIONS. USES (WHICH WERE USUALLY EASY TO REPLACE) WOULD GET BLOWN OUT IN THE COMPUTER, DRIVE, OR POWER SUPPLIES PERIODICALLY, BUT THE MERIC KEYPAD, AND A FASTER HIGHER CAPACITY DISK DRIVE-- THE 1571 FLOPPY DRIVE. HEREFORE, THE OMMODORE 128 OVERCAME MANY OF THE WEAKNESSES AND DRAWBACKS WHICH THE OMMODORE 64 HAD WITH REGARDS TO BUSINESS APPLICATIONS. LL OF THE OMMODORE DISK DRIVES A NEEDED TO BE PLUGGED INTO AN OUTLET, BUT FOR ITS TIME IT WAS AMAZING. T IS STILL CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE NICEST COLLECTOR'S ITEMS AVAILABLE. HE -64 DID NOT BECOME AS POPULAR AS THE OMMODORE 64 DID, BUT THE FACT THAT IT HAD ALMOST TOTAL COMPS SCREEN AND BORDER COLOURS, ALTHOUGH THESE HAVE BEEN ALREADY SET IN SO ARE IGNORED FOR OUR SETUP TEXT EXT COLOUR ENU IGHLIGHT ELECTS THE HIGHLIGHT USED FOR THE MENU FRAME ETS THE FRAME COLOUR OF THE MENU EADER TEXT COLOUR OLOUR OF THE TY WERE ALL USUALLY AVAILABLE AT ADIO HACK STORES. EW CABLES OR EXTERNAL CLEANING OF CONTACTS WAS SOMETIMES ALL THAT WAS REQUIRED. OME SEEMINGLY COMPLEX PROBLEMS (ESPECIALLY WITH THE OMMODORE 128 AND MIGA) STEMMED FROM THE FACT THAT VARIOUS CHIPS SOPTIONS DOES OR LEAVE THEM AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. AVE CONVERTED EXT FILES BACK TO YOUR COPY OF THE DISK IN THE ORDER YOU WANT THEM TO APPEAR ON THE MENU, UN THE DISK HINGS TO NOTE ARE LL TEXT FILES MUST START WITH A T. PREFIX, IF YOU HAVE AN APPLICAATIBILITY WITH THE DESKTOP OMMODORE SYSTEMS MADE IT QUITE POPULAR-- ESPECIALLY TO THOSE WHO NEEDED TO TRAVEL AND/OR GO TO OMMODORE SER ROUP MEETINGS. 128 + 1571 HEN IN ABOUT 1985 OMMODORE RELEASED THE BEAUTIFUL OMMODORE 128O RUN THEN QUIT BACK TO THE MENU SYSTEM EAD THE DOCUMENTATION! UIKENU ISK CENTER MENU 0 BACKGROUND 0 BORDER 1 TEXT 7 MENU HIGHLIGHT 8 FRAME 0 READER TEXT COLOR 00 COORDINATE 16 COORDINATE XX NOT USED 02 ENU OP 15 READER BACKGROUND ++++OMETIMES BECAME LOOSE IN THEIR SOCKETS AND COULD BE EASILY PUSHED IN TIGHTER OR REMOVED AND RESEATED. HE GOOD NEWS WAS (AND STILL IS) THAT (EVEN IN A WORST-CASE SCENARIO) THE OMMODORE COMPUTERS AND PERIPHERALS COULD USUALLY BE TOTALLY REPLACED WITH A N!PARTIES, & OTHER SOCIAL EVENTS HAVE BEEN ENRICHED BY THE CREATIVE FUN INVOLVED. Y BEING ADDICTED TO SOMETHING AS ENJOYABLE & OF SUCH A POSITIVE NATURE AS THIS MANY HAVE BEEN LURED AWAY FROM (OR SPENT LESS TIME AND MONEY ON) HARMFUL ADDICTIONS SUCH AS DR OFTWARE AND TELEPHONE MODEMS SUCH AS THE MODEL 1600, THE 1650, THE 1660, THE 1670, & THE 1680 MODEM. F IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR PIONEERING EFFORTS OF INDIVIDUALS LIKE THIS WE MAY NOT HAVE HAD THE GREAT CAPABILITIES WHICH WE HAVE NOW WITH COMPUTERS AND THE N  PUBLIC DOMAIN AND SHAREWARE PROGRAMS WERE AVAILABLE. NFORTUNATELY, NOT MANY GAMES OR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE 128'S ADVANCED MODES BECAUSE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS CHOSE TO WRITE PROGRAMS FOR THE LARGER BASE OF USERS WHO OWNED OMMODORE 6 RERS) BRAND NAME- - EXCEPT THAT THE OMMODORE VERSION ALMOST ALWAYS HAD SPECIAL OMMODORE FEATURES AND/OR INTERFACING. OMMODORE COMPATIBLE FLOPPY DRIVES MADE BY OTHER MANUFACTURERS ALSO EMERGED, BUT THEY WERE INDEPENDENTLY DEVELOPED (FOR THE MOST PART) EVERAL MONITORS WHICH HAD BOTH AN MODE AND A COMPOSITE (AUDIO/VIDEO OR AUDIO/CHROMA/LUMA) MODE. THER MANUFACTURERS SUCH AS HILIPS (AGNAVOX), HOMPSON, EKNIKA, MDEK AND A FEW OTHERS ALSO MADE MONITORS WHICH COULD SUPPORT BOTH THE 40 AND 80-COLU TERNET. 64 ROUND 1986 OR 1987 OMMODORE RELEASED THE OMMODORE 64C COMPUTER WHICH WAS ESSENTIALLY FUNCTIONALLY IDENTICAL TO THE ORIGINAL OMMODORE 64 EXCEPT IT WAS MORE SLEEKLY DESIGNED AND MORE ATTRACTIVE. OMMODORE ALSO RELEASED THE 1541C 4 MACHINES- - KNOWING THAT THEIR PROGRAMS WOULD AUTOMATICALLY WORK IN THE 128'S -64 MODE. HERE WERE, HOWEVER, NUMEROUS BUSINESS, WORD PROCESSING, AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMS AND SOME TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROGRAMS WRITTEN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE OMMODORE DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE OMMODORE 64 AND 128 DRIVES WERE "INTELLIGENT PERIPHERALS" POSSESSING CHIPS THAT OMMODORE HAD DECIDED NOT TO LICENSE OR SUPPLY TO ITS COMPETITORS.ARD DRIVES WERE NOT COMMON (OR AFFORDABLE) BACK THEN, SO VIRTUALLY ALL OMMODORE MN MODE OF THE OMMODORE 128. OST OF THESE SAME MONITOR MANUFACTURERS (AND OTHERS SUCH AS AKATA AND ) HAD ALSO PREVIOUSLY MADE MODELS FOR THE OMMODORE 64 AND WANTED TO CONTINUE PROFITING FROM THE OMMODORE CONSUMERS. N FACT HILIPS (AGNAVOX) ACTU AND THE 1541- FLOPPY DRIVES TO GO ALONG WITH THIS NICER LOOKING OMMODORE 64C. HE OMMODORE 1541- FLOPPY DRIVE ANY PEOPLE'S LIVES HAVE BEEN GREATLY BLESSED BY THE ADVENT OF THE OMMODORE COMPUTERS. ANY HANDICAPPED INDIVIDUALS & SHUT-INS HAVE HAD  128 MODE. ANY OF THESE FEATURES AND PROGRAMS BECAME USEFUL AS BUSINESSES, WRITERS, PROGRAMMERS AND MODEM AND (ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARD SERVICES) BEGAN TO SEE THE ADVANTAGES OF USING THE OMMODORE 128 FOR SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL APPLICATIONS. E OWE PROGRAMS HAD TO BE RUN OFF OF FLOPPY DISKS, DATASETTE CASSETTE TAPES, OR CARTRIDGES. HE OMMODORE DRIVE WAS FAIRLY SLOW IN LOADING PROGRAMS SO MANY DIFFERENT UTILITIES, CARTRIDGES, & HARDWARE MODIFICATIONS BECAME AVAILABLE ON THE MARKET FOR SPEEDING UP ALLY MADE MANY OF THE OMMODORE BRAND MONITORS FOR THE 128. N FACT, IT WAS NOT UNCOMMON FOR OMMODORE TO SUBCONTRACT WITH OTHER MANUFACTURERS TO PRODUCE PERIPHERALS WITH THE OMMODORE NAME ON THEM. OST OF OMMODORE'S PRINTERS, FLOPPY DRIVES, AND MONIT GREAT OPPORTUNITIES OPEN UP TO THEM FROM THESE COMPUTERS. ANY SLOW LEARNERS AND CHILDREN WHO MAY NOT HAVE TAKEN AN INTEREST IN LEARNING FOUND THAT LEARNING CAN BE FUN BECAUSE OF THE OMMODORE COMPUTERS. ANY FAMILY GATHERINGS, BIRTHDAYS, HRISTMASSES, QUITE A DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO MANY OF THESE EARLY DEVELOPERS AND COMPUTER USERS WHO BEGAN TO DEVELOP AND UTILIZE THE FLEDGLING COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY. ORTUNATELY, OMMODORE AND OTHER MANUFACTURERS PROVIDED A GOOD SELECTION OF S  DISK ACCESS. Y THE MID AND LATE 1980'S A STAGGERING SELECTION OF SOFTWARE WAS AVAILABLE FOR THE OMMODORE 64 AND 128. ITERALLY THOUSANDS-- IF NOT TENS OF THOUSANDS-- OF DIFFERENT COMMERCIAL TITLES HAD BEEN MARKETED AND AN EQUAL OR GREATER QUANTITY OF ORS WERE ACTUALLY MADE BY OTHER MANUFACTURERS TO OMMODORE'S SPECIFICATIONS. OST OF THESE OMMODORE BRANDED PRINTERS AND MONITORS WERE ESSENTIALLY IDENTICAL TO EXISTING OR SUBSEQUENT MODELS MADE AND DISTRIBUTED WITH THE (ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTU"ED) MOUSE ORIENTED OPERATING SYSTEM. N FACT, CAME WITH EOWRITE AND EOPAINT-- MUCH LIKE ACWRITE AND ACAINT. OMMODORE OWNERS WERE THRILLED THAT THEY COULD HAVE A COMPUTER WHICH COULD PERFORM NEARLY LIKE THE ACINTOSH-- FOR JUST A SMALL PERCENTA!T IS NOT WISE TO KILL THE GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN EGGS. OME OF THESE HACKERS PROBABLY FELT THAT THEY WERE JUST HAVING HARM- LESS FUN & FELT SOMEWHAT CHALLENGED BY THE PROSPECT OF TRYING TO OUTSMART THE COPY PROTECTION SCHEMES. S INTEREST IN THE OM! INDUCED BY UNNECESSARILY HIGH PRICES. ORTUNATELY, MOST PEOPLE REALIZED THAT THE PROGRAMS WERE SUCH A GOOD VALUE FOR THE MONEY THAT IT WASN'T TOO BIG OF A PROBLEM. EVERAL SOFTWARE MANUFACTURERS DEVELOPED SOPHISTICATED SOFTWARE PROTECTION SCHEMES TO MA! & AS CONTROL DEVICES. HEY ARE STILL SOME OF THE BEST COMPUTERS TO LEARN COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS ON. HE FACT THAT THESE OMMODORE COMPUTERS HAVE SO MANY BUILT-IN FUNCTIONS & CAPABILITIES STILL MAKES THEM FUN COMPUTERS TO EXPERIMENT WITH. ECAUSE YOU CAN !UGS AND ALCOHOL. ANY LIFELONG AND JOB-RELATED SKILLS SUCH AS TYPING, PROGRAMMING, AND WORD PROCESSING WERE ACQUIRED VIA THESE COMPUTERS. ANY COMPUTER RETAILERS, DEPARTMENT STORES, MANUFACTURERS, & PROGRAMMERS HAVE PROFITED FINANCIALLY FROM THE OMMOD! MODORE COMPUTERS BEGAN TO DECLINE OMMODORE USINESS ACHINES AND MANY OTHER VENDORS OF OMMODORE COMPATIBLE PRODUCTS LOWERED THEIR PRICES ON BOTH HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN AN ATTEMPT TO MAINTAIN INTEREST IN THEIR PRODUCTS. OMMODORE ALSO BEGAN BUNDLING S! KE IT DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE TO DUPLICATE OMMODORE SOFTWARE. OWEVER, THESE SCHEMES SEEMED PRIMARILY TO HURT THE HONEST USERS MORE THAN THE DISHONEST PEOPLE SOME OF WHOM BECAME EXTREMELY ADEPT AT DEFEATING THE PROTECTION SCHEMES. ANY SOFTWARE MANUFACTURE! STILL OBTAIN MANY HUNDREDS OF THE ORIGINAL PROGRAMS FOR THESE COMPUTERS THEY ARE STILL VIABLE CHOICES-- ESPECIALLY FOR HOBBYISTS AND HOME EDUCATORS. HE FACT THAT THE OMMODORE 64 CAN CONNECT DIRECTLY INTO A NORMAL TELEVISION MAKES IT A GOOD CHOICE STILL! ORE COMPUTERS. ANY OTHER BUSINESSES, RESEARCHERS, STUDENTS, AND OTHER VENTURES HAVE ALSO BENEFITTED EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY. NDOUBTEDLY THE SOCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL SPIN-OFFS FROM THESE COMPUTERS HAVE HAD A RIPPLE EFFECT WHICH HAS DIRECTLY IMPROV! OFTWARE WITH HARDWARE AND MAKING PACKAGE DEALS AS DID OTHER PRODUCERS. 64 UST WHEN MANY INDIVIDUALS FELT THAT THE OMMODORE 64 MAY BEGIN TO LOSE GROUND TO THE NEWER & ACINTOSH MODELS OF THE MID 1980'S A COMPANY NAMED ERKELEY OFTWORKS CREAT!RS FINALLY DECIDED TO ELIMINATE THE SOFTWARE PROTECTION OR TO USE OFF-DISK PROTECTION SCHEMES SO THAT THE LEGITIMATE USERS WOULDN'T BE HURT AND INCONVENIENCED. VENTUALLY MANY OF THE SOFTWARE MANUFACTURERS BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT THE BEST WAY TO DISCOURAGE! FOR THOSE ON A BUDGET. HE FACT THAT USERS OF THE OMMODORE COMPUTERS DID NOT NEED TO CONSTANTLY RECONFIGURE, RE-INSTALL, & UNINSTALL SOFTWARE OR WORRY ABOUT VIRUSES AND SYSTEM CRASHES (AS IS COMMON WITH OUR MORE MODERN INDOWS COMPUTERS) ALLOWED USERS!ED THE LIVES AND STRENGTHENED THE ECONOMY OF OUR ENTIRE NATION AND OTHER NATIONS.HE ABILITY OF PEOPLE TO HAVE WHOLESOME AND AFFORDABLE RECREATION AND A DIVERSION FROM EVERYDAY STRESSES AND PRESSURES UNDOUBTEDLY HAS HELPED THE MENTAL HEALTH AND OUTLOOK O!ED A NEW OPERATING SYSTEM FOR THE OMMODORE 64 CALLED WHICH BECAME IMMENSELY POPULAR AND HELPED TO REJUVENATE INTEREST IN THE OMMODORE LINE. (RAPHIC NVIRONMENT PERATING YSTEM) WAS LARGELY A TAKEOFF OF THE POPULAR EARLY ACINTOSH (ICON BAS! SOFTWARE PIRACY WAS TO MAKE THEIR SOFTWARE MORE AFFORDABLE. NDOUBTEDLY, HOWEVER, THE DISHONESTY AND GREED OF SOME INDIVIDUALS CONTRIBUTED SOMEWHAT TO THE GRADUAL DECLINE OF THE OMMODORE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY. OME OF THESE INDIVIDUALS NEVER LEARNED THAT I! TO SPEND THE MAJORITY OF THEIR TIME ACTUALLY USING THE COMPUTER RATHER THAN SPENDING SO MUCH TIME FIGHTING IT. URING THE MID TO LATE 1980'S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF SOFTWARE PIRACY BEGAN TO HURT THE OMMODORE SOFTWARE MARKET. UCH OF THIS PIRACY WAS LIKELY!F MANY INDIVIDUALS ALSO. ANY OF THOSE WHO HAVE GONE ON TO MAKE HUGE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY BEGAN WITH THE OMMODORE HOME COMPUTERS. ANY OMMODORE -64, 128, AND MIGA COMPUTERS ARE STILL USED IN SCHOOLS, BUSINESSES, PRODUCTION STUDIOS,"GE OF THE PRICE OF A ACINTOSH - WHILE STILL HAVING COLOR GRAPHICS AND SOUND WHICH SURPASSED THE CAPABILITIES OF THE ACINTOSH. HE FACT THAT ERKELEY WAS ABLE TO SQUEEZE SO MUCH POWER OUT OF THE 64'S LIMITED MEMORY AND DISK CAPACITY WAS A TRIBUTE TO THE HIGHLY EFFICIENT PROGRAMMING WHICH ERKELEY IMPLEMENTED. ERTAINLY ICROSOFT COULD TAKE A FEW LESSONS ABOUT EFFICIENT PROGRAMMING FROM THOSE WHO WROTE . FULL LINE OF -BASED PROGRAMS ENSUED. 3 )w\5W^=tyrU)J