CBMl ~/0Щ@թբx FL S "1 ! ʽRwl L":*" ,P(2026),1 Ģ ǩ Jx  wЄȄLqU0>M0  . : HE BEST TILL LAST! F YOU HAD 1 MILLION POUNDS WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH IT? : UHHH.... CHANGE IT FOR EUROS! ; ...END... WWW.COMMODOREFREE.COM ERNET, SO USE THE EMULATOR THE PLAY THEM. LSO DESIGN MY OULDER ASH LEVELS WITHINST GUIDE THRU WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF EACH LEVEL: TO RESCUE THE TRAPPED MINER. ELL SOMETHING LIKE THAT, DON'T HAVE ANY MANUALS FOR THESE GAMES REVIEWED TODAY. HE GRAPHICS ARE QUITE NICE, & THE SOUNDS ARE ALSO SUITABLE FOR THIS TYPE OF GAME. HE HIGHER  S THE LEVEL/ STAGE INCREASES - THE DIFFICULTY INCREASES BY GRADUAL (NOT TOO STEEP) DEGREES. OU REALLY WANT TO GET TO THE NEXT LEVEL, SO THE ADDICTIVENESS TAKES HOLD OF YOU. HEY ARE ALL EXTREMELY PLAYABLE, & ARE MOST OF ALL, FUN. [1] ILOTVIEWED HERE - ALSO PLAY THE TARI 2600 VERSIONS IF YOU CAN, FOR THEY ALSO RETAIN A SIMILAR ADDICTIVE GAMEPLAY. ELL THERE YOU HAVE IT. CTIVISION RULES ON 64. HERE IS MORE TO A GAME THAN EXCELLENT GRAPHICS & SOUND. PRIME EXAMPLE WOULD BE ETRIS. HI S THE TOP OF THE SCREEN. ILLING THIS WITH ONE OF YOUR THREE MEGA SHOTS, GAINS YOU AN EXTRA LIFE. HIS GAME IS A COMBINATION OF ACCURACY, INTUITION, & AVOIDANCE. LAY IT & YOU WILL SEE WHAT MEAN. GREAT GAME, THAT WOULD LOOK GOOD IF IT WAS REWORKED T THE LEVEL, THE MORE SCREENS A CAVERN WILL CONSIST OF. OU HAVE BOMBS AT YOUR DISPOSAL TO BLOW UP WALLS, & THE ENEMIES CONSIST OF SPIDERS, BUTTERFLIES (?!), SOME GREEN HANDS COMING OUT OF THE WALLS (?!?), & INSTANT DEATH TOUCH WALLS. HIS GAME APPEARS VER A PLANE THROUGH THE CANYONS, OVER THE WATER, DESTROYING ANYTHING IN YOUR PATH. HIS IS A BASIC VERTICAL SCROLLING SHOOTING GAME, WHERE YOU MUST NAVIGATE YOUR PLANE THROUGH ENEMY TERRITORY - WHICH CONSISTS OF PLANES, HELICOPTERS, SHIPS, TANKS, & BALLOONS]S IS GAMEPLAY AT ITS PUREST FORM. AKE A TRIP DOWN EMORY LANE, & PLAY THEM AGAIN SOMETIME. u]Jr5wy)v]=]rwV^Usg=deJr]u\)r>Muser)s\v]9)}z^JuJr9)r]]uܷuϒwU|*V5͒%ϒWs'Jnd%}us)J ODAY TO A MORE MODERN FORMAT. [4] NE OF THE SINGLE MOST POPULAR COMPUTER GAMES OF ALL TIME. T IS SO WELL KNOWN, & SECOND, SO TIED UP WITH THE TARI CRAZE, BEYOND RATIONAL COMPREHENSION. HIS WAS "THE" TARI GAME, WHEN RELEASED. OU ARE PRESENY SIMPLE & STRAIGHTFORWARD, BUT YOU ALWAYS ARE UNDER THE URGE TO GET FURTHER & FURTHER IN THE GAME WHERE IT OBVIOUSLY GETS A LITTLE MORE COMPLEX. T THE END OF EACH LEVEL WHEN YOU RESCUE A MINER, A BONUS IS PROVIDED FOR BOMBS THAT YOU DID NOT USE. OU WI. UEL CELLS CAN BE FLOWN OVER TO REPLENISH YOUR FUEL SUPPLIES. AREFUL NAVIGATION IS REQUIRED SO YOU DON'T HIT THE SIDES OF THE CANYON. ROM THE PTION ELECT SCREEN, THERE ARE 8 GAME VARIATIONS - WHERE YOU TRAVEL FROM BRIDGE TO BRIDGE. OU CAN INCREASU64 ARK 2 DREAM VISION OF A = FUTURE HAD A DREAM, NOTHING UNUSUAL ABOUT THAT; BUT THIS WAS A = DREAM & IN IT THOUGHT ABOUT = MAKING A COMEBACK & WAS RODUCT EVELOPMENT MANAGER OF =. = HAD ASSIGNED ME THE TASK OF BRINGING BACK THE 64 NTED WITH SCREEN UPON SCREEN OF A FOREST SCENE, WHICH INVOLVES SMALL CHANGES TO EACH SCREEN USING THE SAME DATA - MAKING THIS GAME LOOK A LOT BIGGER THAN IT ACTUALLY IS. OU HAVE TO SWING ON ROPES, JUMP LOGS & SCORPIONS, STEP ON CROCODILE HEADS (CRIKEY!)LL NEED A STEADY HAND FOR THIS GAME. [3] RETRO FASHIONED SHOOT'EM UP, VERY REMINISCENT OF THE EARLY 1980'S. HE PLAYING AREA CONSISTS OF A VERTICAL GRID, WITH YOUR SHIP AT THE BOTTOM & YOUR ENEMIES MOVING DOWN ON THE GRID OWARD YOUR SHIP, E & DECREASE THE SPEED OF YOUR PLANE, BUT YOU CAN NOT STOP THE SCROLLING - SO IT TAKES SOME ART TO BECOME GOOD AT THIS GAME. E CAREFUL TO AVOID ANYTHING THAT GETS IN YOUR WAY, BY EITHER SHOOTING AT IT OR NAVIGATING YOUR WAY AROUND IT. HE GRAPHICS & SOUOT IN ITS OLD VERSION BUT IN A FORMAT TO SELL IN 2007+. HAD A LARGE BUDGET & ASKED TO SPEND IT ALL SINCE SOME WILL BE FOR MARKETING; MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS TO CONTACT ERI LLSWORTH TO USE COMPONENTS & WORK SHE DID ON -1 & . LSO WANTED HER T, COLLECT MONEY, & TRAVERSE LAKES OF WATER THAT APPEAR & DISAPPEAR. HE POINT OF THIS GAME IS BEYOND ME, DID HAVE THE INSTRUCTIONS A LONG TIME AGO. OWEVER, IT IS A GOOD GAME, A SEMINAL CLASSIC EVEN. S FAR AS THIS GAME GOES, & ALL THE OTHERS HAVE REIN AN EFFORT TO ANNIHILATE YOUR VERY EXISTENCE COMPLETELY. N ALIEN TYPE INSPIRED GAME. ACH SECTOR (LEVEL) COMPRISES OF 15 ALIENS TO DESTROY & IT IS A GAME OF DODGE & KILL FOR IMMEDIATE SUCCESS. OUR SHIP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN HAS 4 POSITIONSND EFFECTS ARE BASIC & SIMPLE, BUT THE CONCEPTUAL ADAPTION & PLAYABILITY RANK IN THE HI ECHELONS OF GAMING NIRVANA. [2] .... OU HAVE A HELICOPTER ATTACHED & A LASER AT YOUR DISPOSAL. HE GAME CONSISTS OF SCREEN AFTER SCREEN OF CAVERNS, WHICH YOU MUO WORK ON 64 AS A FULL TIME EMPLOYEE. MANAGED TO CONVINCE HER THAT = WAS BACK TO STAY. EXT LAWYERS WERE CALLED TO CHECK PAPERWORK. VENTUALLY DOCUMENTS WERE SIGNED, RESIGNED AMENDED, COPIED, FAXED, LOST, SIGNED RESIGNED ... WANTED TO USE LO WHICH IS LESS KNOWN, BUT LIKE VERY MUCH (BECAUSE OF THE PUZZLE ASPECT), IS ENSITIVE. N EACH LEVEL YOU HAVE TO MOVE AN UFO-LIKE OBJECT FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER BY FLYING OVER TILES. HE TILES EXPLODE WHEN YOU FLY OVER IT. OME OF THE TILES CAN BE USy HE PROJECT IS DONE SOLELY ON MY FREE-TIME AS HAVE A ORDINARY WORK ON DAY-TIME. ...END... WWW.COMMODOREFREE.COM AST AS POSSIBLE. HIS IS A ONE-MAN PROJECT, AM THE SINGLE AUTHOR OF 64 AND TRY TO PROGRAM EVERYTHING MYSELF FROM BOTTOM AND UP. BECAUSE THE EXIT LOOKS LIKE A TITANIUM WALL. UT IN OTHER CAVES THE EXIT IS HIDDEN SOMEWHERE ON THE BORDER, OR IT COULD BE PLACED ANYWHERE BECAUSE THE CAVE CONTAINS MANY TITANIUM WALLS. : O YOU PLAY ANY OTHER GAMES? : HAVE BEEN PLAYING UNCOUNTAB A LOT OF DAMAGED DISK AND TAPE IMAGES SPREADING AROUND, THAT WERE DAMAGED DURING THE CONVERSION FROM THE C64 MEDIA OR PERHAPS LOST SOME INFORMATION THAT WERE ON THE ORIGINAL 64 MEDIA (LIKE COPY PROTECTION). UESTION: HEN WILL YOU IMPLEMENT THIS PARTIC TIGHT. UT OVERALL THINK EACH CAVE IS UNIQUE AND NEEDS ITS OWN APPROACH. OME CAVES HAVE UNAVOIDABLE "BOBBY TRAPS". HEN YOU FIRST HAVE TO "LEARN" THE CAVE AT THE COST OF ONE OR A FEW LIVES. O GIVE SOME HINTS: WHEN PLAY A NEW CAVE USUALLY TRY TORTICULAR GAME WORK ON 64? VEN THOUGH AIM TO GET 64 TO BE PERFECT, THERE MAY BE SOME PROGRAMS THAT DOESN'T WORK CORRECTLY. HE FIRST THING YOU SHOULD TRY IS TO SEE IF YOU COULD CHANGE SOME OF THE PARAMETERS LIKE DISABLING THE OR 1541, DIFFERRE ANY TRICKS OR TIPS THAT ARE USEFUL FOR PLAYING THE GAME? : ELL, EUHH... THERE ARE MANY TRICKS THAT CAN BE USEFUL IN GENERAL. N EXAMPLE IS THAT YOU CAN GET RID OF A FIREFLY BY, FOR INSTANCE, KILLING IT WITH A BOULDER, OR DIG A ROUND TUNNEL SUCH THIBUTED AS 5 1/4" DISKS OR ON TAPES, AS MOST 64 SYSTEMS WERE CONNECTED TO A 1541 DISKDRIVE OR A 2 CASSETTE RECORDER.N 64 ARE INSTEAD DISK IMAGES AND TAPE IMAGES USED, AS THE ORIGINAL MEDIA CAN NOT BE USED DIRECTLY. HEY ARE AVAILABLE AT THE NTERNELY AMONGST OTHERS. : OW WOULD OUR READER CREATE HIS OR HER OWN OULDER ASH GAME? : VERYONE CAN MAKE HIS/HER OWN OULDER ASH GAMES! OU HAVE TO USE A FEW OF THE TOOLS MENTIONED ABOVE. OST OF THESE TOOLS ARE EASY TO LEARN AND QUITE SELF EXPLANAT P THROUGH AN OIL PUDDLE. T IS ALSO POSSIBLE TO CREATE YOUR OWN RACE TRACKS. HERE IS A COMMUNITY OF FANS RELEASING THEIR SELF-MADE TRACKS AT SOME WEBSITES. THINK ABOUT A FEW HUNDREDS OF TRACKS CAN BE DOWNLOADED THERE. : O YOU OWN ANY OMMODORE MACED ONLY ONCE, OTHERS TWICE. NFORTUNATELY THIS GAME HAS NO SEQUELS, AND THERE IS NO EDITOR. THERWISE WOULD HAVE DESIGNED TONS OF LEVELS! EXT TO THESE 64 GAMES, PLAY ONE PC GAME QUITE OFTEN, WHICH IS EVOLT (1999). HIS IS A RACING GAME WITH SMALL HINES? : EP, HAVE A REAL OMMODORE 64, BUT DON'T USE IT VERY OFTEN. OST OF THE 64 GAMES THAT 'M PLAYING REGULARLY ARE DOWNLOADED SOMEWHERE FROM THE INTERNET, SO USE THE EMULATOR THE PLAY THEM. LSO DESIGN MY OULDER ASH LEVELS WITHINLE 64 GAMES. Y FAVOURITES SEEM TO BE THE PLATFORMERS LIKE HOSTS N OBLINS, ONTEZUMA'S EVENGE, IE AR UNG U, AND HO ARES INS. NE OF THE BEST GAMES (I.M.H.O.) TO PLAY AGAINST THE COMPUTER OR WITH 2 PLAYERS IS AT RICK CE OCKEY. NOTHER GAME,ULAR FEATURE AND RELEASE THE NEXT VERSION OF 64? ACTUALLY DO NOT KNOW, BUT YOU CAN COUNT ON THAT WILL DO IT AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. HIS IS A ONE-MAN PROJECT, AM THE SINGLE AUTHOR OF 64 AND TRY TO PROGRAM EVERYTHING MYSELF FROM BOTTOM AND UP. GET AN OVERVIEW BY JUST WALKING AROUND. UT FIRST LOOK AT THE INFORMATION BAR ABOVE THE SCREEN, SAYING HOW MANY DIAMONDS NEED TO COLLECT AND HOW MUCH TIME HAVE. LSO TRY TO FIND OUT QUICKLY WHERE THE EXIT HAS BEEN PLACED. OMETIMES THIS IS EASY ENT RESET MEMORY PATTERNS, SYSTEM MODES ETCETERAS. F YOU HAVE TRIED ALL POSSIBLE COMBINATIONS AND IT STILL DOESN'T WORK, THEN PERHAPS TRY WITH SOME OTHER EMULATOR, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY - IF POSSIBLE - TRY THE PROGRAM WITH A REAL 64. HERE ARE ACTUALLY AT IS KEEPS SPINNING AROUND. N CAVES WHICH ARE VERY TIGHT BECAUSE OF MANY BOULDERS ALWAYS TRY TO WORK FROM THE LOWER AREA TO THE UPPER AREA, BECAUSE IT'S MUCH SIMPLER TO DROP BOULDERS THAN TRYING TO MAKE A WAY THROUGH THE CAVE WHEN THE SPACES ARE VERYT IN VERY LARGE QUANTITIES, A GOOD STARTER IS WWW.C64.COM . OU SHOULD REALLY START READING THE USER MANUALS AND OTHER USEFUL PAPERS FOR 64. HERE ARE A LOT OF LITERATURE AVAILABLE AT THE NTERNET, SEARCH FOR "ROJECT 64". UESTION: HY DOESN'T THIS PAORY. UTORIALS ARE CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE AT MY SITE (THERE WILL BE LATER ON), BUT OF COURSE 'M ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP IN CASE OF PROBLEMS. E DON'T WANT TO MISS ANY CREATIONS SIMPLY BECAUSE THE TOOLS SEEM TOO COMPLICATED TO THE PUBLIC! : RE THELF AS AN EXAMPLE, MOSTLY PLAY GAMES TO TRY THE CAVES ONE BY ONE. Y GOAL IS USUALLY TO COMPLETE ALL THE CAVES, RATHER THAN GOING FOR A HIGH SCORE. F THE CAVES ARE WELL DESIGNED AND CONTAIN NICE PUZZLES, THEN WILL KEEP THE GAME AND PLAY IT REGULAR CARS. HERE ARE RACE TRACKS IN WHICH THE CARS ARE DRIVING THROUGH SUPERMARKETS, MUSEUMS, WILD WEST TOWNS, AND CRUISE SHIPS. PTIONALLY THERE ARE PICKUPS THAT YOU CAN USE AGAINST YOUR OPPONENTS. OR EXAMPLE, YOU CAN SHOOT AT OTHER CARS, OR LET THEM SLI POWERFUL ? HE REASON IS THAT THE 64 IS MAKING FRAMES WITH 50.12 Z (985248/63/312) AND THE SCREENMODE YOU ARE USING IS PROBABLY NOT EXACTLY 50.12 Z BUT RATHER PERHAPS 50.00 Z. HAT MEANS THAT AFTER ABOUT 8 SECONDS (1/0.12) IT WILL BE PRODUCE OU HAVE THE LATEST IRECT VERSION AND THE LATEST VERSION OF DRIVERS FOR YOUR VIDEO-CARD.T SEEMS ALSO THAT IT MATTERS IF THE - PROMPT WINDOW IS IN WINDOWED OR FULL-SCREEN MODE, IRECT SOMETIMES FAILS TO INITIALIZE PROPERLY WHEN THERE IS A FULL-SCR ES SEVERAL MINUTES ON A REAL 64 WITH A 1541 DISKDRIVE BEFORE THE GAME IS FULLY LOADED. N VERSION 2.0 OF 64, THERE ARE SEVERAL POSSIBILITIES TO SPEED UP THE LOADING PROCEDURES. NE IS TO USE A FASTLOAD -SET OR CARTRIDGE, AS YOU WOULD ON A REAL 64 D THE JOYSTICKS CORRECTLY IN THE EMULATOR. N 64 2.0 THERE IS A SPECIAL SUB-MENU FOR THIS PURPOSE. UESTION: HY DON'T GET ANY GRAPHICS DISPLAY WITH 64 FOR IN32/IRECT (IRECTRAW-NIT RROR)? 64 FOR IRECT USES A DOUBLE-BUFFERING SYSTEM INFORMATION, OR WHERE THE PROGRAM CHECK FUNCTIONS ARE FIXED. T COULD ALSO BE THE CASE THAT YOU HAVE TO LITTLE KNOWLEDGE OF THE 64 AND ITS EQUIPMENT TO DO A CORRECT DECISION. N THIS CASE THERE ARE A LOT OF LITERATURE AVAILABLE AT THE NTERNET, SEARCH Y TO CHANGE THE OUND EVICE SETTINGS, HOPEFULLY SOME OTHER SETTING WILL WORK. UESTION: HY DOESN'T MY JOYSTICK WORK WITH 64? OR USE WITH THE VERSION, YOU MUST HAVE A COMPATIBLE JOYSTICK. ANY NEW ADVANCED JOYSTICKS ARE ONLY DESIGNED FOR UELECTED AS SOON AS YOU LOOK AT ITS CONTENTS.OMETIMES YOU COULD HAVE THIS MESSAGE REPEATING - EVEN IF YOU HAVE SELECTED THE CORRECT DISK IMAGE IN 64. HIS IS MOST PROBABLY BECAUSE THE NORMAL KIND OF FORMAT FOR DISK IMAGES, .64, DOESN'T CONTAIN ALL INOUR SOUNDCARDS MANUAL AT THE TOPIC "OW TO USE MY SOUNDCARD WITH GAMES" OR VISIT YOUR SOUNDCARDS VENDORS HOMEPAGE ON THE NTERNET. F YOU ARE USING THE IRECT VERSION, YOU SHOULD ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE THE LATEST DRIVERS FOR YOUR SOUNDCARD INSTALLED, ANGING OF THE KEYBOARD LEDS FROM SOFTWARE. CCORDING TO ICROSOFT ROMOURS, THERE WILL BE SUPPORT FOR THIS IN FUTURE VERSION OF IRECT TOGETHER WITH INDOWS98/5.0. UESTION: HAT SHOULD DO WHEN THE GAME ASKS ME TO "NSERT ISK 2"? ELL, YOU SHOULD  DO ONE USE A 64? OU SHOULD REALLY START READING THE USER MANUALS AND OTHER USEFUL PAPERS FOR 64. HERE ARE A LOT OF LITERATURE AVAILABLE AT THE NTERNET, SEARCH FOR "ROJECT 64". UESTION: HERE DO GET GAME S FOR USE WITH 64? OU DON'T. D ONE MORE FRAME THAN HAVE BEEN SHOWED, AND THAT FRAME WILL NEVER BE DISPLAYED. ND BECAUSE OF THE MISSED FRAME THE SCROLLER WILL MAKE A VISIBLE JUMP. F YOUR DISPLAYS REFRESH RATE IS FASTER THAN 50.12 Z, PERHAPS 70.00 Z, THIS MEANS THAT SEVERAL FRAMESEEN - WINDOW. O TRY TO CHANGE THE SETTINGS TO WINDOWED MODE FOR THE - PROMPT (OMMAND PROMPT IN ). UESTION: HY DOESN'T GAMES (SCROLLERS IN PARTICULAR) RUN SMOOTHLY ON MY COMPUTER - EVEN IF HAVE SELECTED THE 384X282 SCREENMODE AND HAVE A . HERE IS ALSO A EMULATOR FASTLOAD FUNCTIONALITY THAT WILL TRAP NORMAL LOADING DEMANDS FROM GAMES WHICH USES THE 64 ERNAL $5 VECTOR, AND THEN WILL LOAD THE FILE INTO VIRTUAL IN IN NO-TIME. UESTION: HAVE SUCCESSFULLY INSTALLED 64, BUT HOW FOR THE VIDEO DISPLAY, TO MINIMIZE POSSIBLE FLICKER. HIS CAN CONSUME QUITE A LOT OF VIDEO MEMORY, PERHAPS YOUR VIDEO-CARD HAS TOO LITTLE. IFFERENT VIDEO-MODES REQUIRES DIFFERENT AMOUNT OF VIDEOMEMORY, SO TRY WITH DIFFERENT SETTINGS. LSO ENSURE THAT YFOR "ROJECT 64". UESTION: HAVE SUCCESSFULLY STARTED A GAME, BUT ALL GET IS A BLANK OR STATIC SCREEN? S THE VIRTUAL 1541 DISK DRIVE IS EMULATED TO BE AS ALIKE AS A REAL 1541 DISK, IT IS ALSO AS SLOW OR FAST AS THE REAL THING. N MANY GAMES IT TAKSE WITH INDOWS AND IRECT WITH SPECIAL DRIVERS. N THIS CASE ONE POSSIBILITY IS TO USE THE IN32/IRECT VERSION OF 64. HE VERSION CAN SADLY NOT USE ANY FEATURES OF INDOWS EVEN IF IT IS RUNNING UNDER INDOWS. LSO ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE CALIBRATEFORMATION THAT IS ON A REAL 1541 DISK. HERE ARE QUITE MANY PROGRAMS FOR 64 THAT CHECK FOR THIS INFORMATION TO DETECT WHETHER THE CORRECT DISK IN INSERTED OR NOT. N THIS CASE SEARCH THE NTERNET FOR A BETTER DISK IMAGE, THAT EITHER CONTAINS THE MISSINGAND THAT THEY ARE COMPATIBLE WITH IRECT. LSO ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE THE LATEST VERSION OF IRECT INSTALLED. OUR SOUNDCARD MAY ALSO HAVE DIFFERENT MODES OF IRECTOUND INTERFACE, OF WHICH ONLY SOME WORKS WITH 64. NTER THE OUND-MENU IN 64 AND TRINSERT DISK 2 INTO YOUR VIRTUAL 1541 DISKDRIVE. HEN YOU STARTED THE GAME YOU PROBABLY "INSERTED" DISK NUMBER 1, SO THE ANSWER LIES IN THE SAME MENU, WHERE IT IS PROBABLY CALLED "SELECT". N VERSION 1.09 THE DISK IMAGE (PROBABLY WITH .64 EXTENSION) IS S STANDS FOR EAD NLY EMORY AND IS NORMALLY THE BASIC PART OF A COMPUTERS OPERATING SYSTEM (). HE IS AN INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT AND IS LOCATED ON THE COMPUTERS MOTHERBOARD, AND ON EXPANSION CARTRIDGES. AMES FOR 64 WERE MOST OFTEN DISTR WILL BE DISPLAYED TWICE BUT OTHERS ARE DISPLAYED ONLY ONCE. UESTION: HY DON'T GET ANY FLASHING CROLL OCK WITH 64 FOR IN32/IRECT WHEN THE 1541 DRIVE IS WORKING? HE REASON IS THAT CURRENT VERSION OF IRECT OR INDOWS DOESN'T SUPPORT CH ION PROBLEM OF DOWN TO 1/1000000 SECONDS. HAT KIND OF SYNCHRONIZATION IS NOT SUPPORTED BY ANY OPERATING SYSTEM ON , AND NEITHER DOES THE 'S HARDWARE ALLOW THAT ACCURACY - FOR INSTANCE THE OUNDLASTER HARDWARE INTERRUPTS THE MAIN PROCESSING ABOUT 50 -LOADER NORMALLY WORKS IN THAT WAY THAT IT FIRST SENDS OVER A SPECIAL PROGRAM TO THE 1541 AND THEN STARTS THE EXECUTION OF THIS PROGRAM (INSIDE THE 1541!). HIS PROGRAM HAS FULL CONTROL OF ALL THE HARDWARE THAT IS INSIDE THE 1541 AND EXECUTES ON AN C E-CONVENTION FOR INDOWS95/98/ WHICH ALL IS BUILT AROUND A SIMILAR 32-BIT ARCHITECTURE. O HAVE IRECT ON INDOWS 4.0 YOU MUST HAVE INSTALLED ERVICE ACK 3 OR LATER. O HAVE IRECT FOR INDOWS95 YOU MUST INSTALL A SPECIAL PACKAGE FROM ICROSOFT.  RT THAT SHOULD BE POSSIBLE IS THE 1541 NORMAL LOADING PROTOCOL AND PERHAPS SOME SPECIAL SELECTED FAST-LOADERS. O UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER THAT THE 1541 IS NOT JUST AN ORDINARY DEVICE WITH A SPECIFIED COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL. N FACT IT09 IS DEVELOPED FOR USING A 32-BIT OS-XTENDER. INDOWS 4.0 CAN ONLY TOLERATE 16-BIT PROGRAMS. ECAUSE THIS PROBLEM ISN'T ONLY ARISING WITH 64, BUT ALSO WITH MANY COMMERCIAL GAMES, ICROSOFT HAVE DEVELOPED THE IRECT INTERFACE TO INDOWS RRING THE DATA ON 1541 DISKS TO SYSTEM INDEPENDENT FILE FORMATS (LIKE .64). S SEE IT THE MAIN BENEFIT OF USING A REAL 1541 DISK DRIVE CONNECTED TO THE EMULATOR WOULD BE TO USE COPY-PROTECTED SOFTWARE THAT USES FAST-LOADERS AND/OR SPECIAL FORMATTING T DRIVE, IN FACT IT IS A COMPLETE COMPUTER, WITH ITS OWN AND /. HE 'S DISKDRIVE IS JUST MECHANICS WITH SIMPLE READ/WRITE ELECTRONICS, WITH NO INTELLIGENCE OF ITS OWN. UESTION: HY DOESN'T 64 WORK ON MY INDOWS SYSTEM? HE REASON IS TIVE IS ALSO EMULATED IN SOFTWARE, AND BEHAVES AS ALIKE THE REAL THING AS IT IS POSSIBLE. HE ORIGINAL 5 1/4" DISKS IS REPLACES BY ORDINARY FILES, DISK IMAGES. O TRANSFER YOUR DISKS TO DISK IMAGES USE ONE OF THE EXISTING PROGRAMS AVAILABLE, TOGETHER WETERAS. OR EXAMPLE IN INDOWS 3.1 YOU CAN BE GUARANTEED A RESPONSE TIME OF 1/18 SECONDS - AND IN THAT TIME THE PROGRAM THAT IS INSIDE THE 1541 HAS CRASHED FOR A LONG TIME AGO, BLINK BLINK! UESTION: HY CAN'T USE MY ORIGINAL 1541 DISKS IN MY 5 1/4ITHER A OUNDLASTER COMPATIBLE OR RAVIS LTRASOUND SOUNDCARD. ITH YOUR SOUNDCARD PACKAGE THERE SHOULD BE A 1.44" DISK CONTAINING DRIVERS. HEN THIS IS PROPERLY INSTALLED, THE SYSTEMS BOOT FILES . AND . SHOULD BE CHANGED TO CONT TIMES PER SECONDS FOR QUITE LONG PERIOD WHEN IT IS MOVING DATA FROM THE AND REINITIALIZES THE LOOPING. O BE ABLE TO EMULATE THE CONNECTION FULLY YOU MUST HAVE A REAL-TIME AND A REAL-TIME COMPUTER SYSTEM, WHERE YOU CAN BE GUARANTEED NOT GET YOULOCKED ON 1.0 Z. N THE 64 IS ALSO A PROGRAM EXECUTING, THAT IS RUNNING FULLY IN PARALLEL WITH THE OTHER PROGRAM AND IS SYNCHRONIZED DOWN TO THE LEVEL OF SOME CYCLES (APPR. 1/1000000 SECONDS) . O THE PROBLEM IS MAINLY BECAUSE OF THE SYNCHRONIZAT N INDOWS98 THERE IS AN PRE-INSTALLED VERSION OF IRECT 5.0. UESTION: HY DON'T GET ANY SOUND WITH 64? F YOU ARE USING THE VERSION, YOU SHOULD ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE PROPERLY INSTALLED YOUR SOUNDCARD FOR USE WITH , AND THAT YOU ARE USING E IS A COMPLETE COMPUTER OF ITS OWN AND CAN THEREFORE BE RE-PROGRAMMED TO SEND SIGNALS IN ANY WAY AND IN ANY SPEED WANTED, AND MOSTLY WITH VERY LITTLE OR NONE HANDSHAKING CONTROL (CONTROLLING THAT THE DATA ACTUALLY HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED BY THE 64). FAST32-BIT. HIS ENABLES PROGRAM TO GET NEARLY DIRECT ACCESS TO THE HARDWARE UNDER CONTROLLED MANNERS, THUS KEEPING SYSTEM STABILITY. 64 2.0 THEREFORE IS DISTRIBUTED AS TWO VERSIONS FOR , ONE AND ONE IN32/IRECT VERSION. IN32 IS A ICROSOFT NAMHAT THE TRANSFERRING TOOLS CAN NOT HANDLE. UT AS AM PRETTY SHURE THAT IT IS THEORETICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO GET THE CONNECTION 100% COMPATIBLE SO THAT IT WILL SUPPORT ALL KIND OF FAST-LOADERS, THINK IT IS NOT WORTH TO IMPLEMENT A HALF SUPPORT. HE SUPPOHAT INDOWS IS A SYSTEM THAT DOES NOT SUPPORT PROGRAMS THAT ACCESSES THE 'S HARDWARE DIRECTLY, PROBABLY TO ENSURE SYSTEM STABILITY. ECAUSE WHEN PROGRAMS DEAL WITH THE HARDWARE DIRECTLY, ANY PROGRAM FAULT CAN MESS UP THE SYSTEM COMPLETELY. 64 1.ITH AN SPECIAL CABLE FOR THE CONNECTION. HE BEST PROGRAM FOR IS CALLED "TAR OMMANDER", AND IS AVAILABLE AT THE NTERNET. UESTION: HEN WILL 64 SUPPORT CONNECTION TO A REAL 1541 DRIVE? ROBABLY NEVER AS THERE EXISTS VERY GOOD TOOLS FOR TRANSFE" DISKDRIVE (:)? T IS TECHNICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO READ A 1541 DISK IN A DISKDRIVE. HE REASON IS THAT AND 1541 USES COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SYSTEMS FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING, VERSUS . OTE ALSO THAT THE ORIGINAL 1541 IS MUCH MORE THAN JUST A DISKAIN AN ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE SETTING. FTEN THIS WILL LOOK LIKE =220 5 1 5 4 ETCETERAS. HEN 64 STARTS IT WILL LOOK AFTER THIS ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE SETTING AND CONFIGURE ITS SOUNDDRIVERS ACCORDING TO THAT. OR MORE INFORMATION LOOK IN YR PROGRAM EXECUTION TO BE INTERRUPTED BY MORE THAN 1/1000000 SECONDS. ND IN A NORMAL , YOUR PROGRAMS ARE NORMALLY INTERRUPTED BY A LOT OF THINGS THAT TAKES A LOT MORE TIME THAN THAT, LIKE HARDDISK ACCESS, KEYBOARD, MOUSE, SCSI, EIDE, USB, NETWORKS ETC R 20 YEARS, AND AS THE SMALL-ADVERTS HAVE DROPPED, THE EDITORIAL HAS INCREASED. IS A FREE-THINKING MAGAZINE THAT ALSO COVERS INUX, MIGA AND EVEN . REEDOM OF SPEECH, OR IN THIS CASE FREEDOM OF PRINT, DOESN'T WORK UNLESS THE EDITORIAL PROCESS  BREW PROGRAMMERS. IS IDEAS ARE THOUGHT PROVOKING AND WELL WORKED EVEN IF YOU DON'T LIKE HIS GAMES. VEN AN ARDENT OMMODORE ENTHUSIAST LIKE ME HAS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT. ) AN YOU TELL OUR READER A LITTLE OF THE HISTORY OF ICRO ART, AND HOW YOU CAME  YOU WERE A STAFF WRITER, WHAT WENT WRONG? ) WAS A STAFF WRITER FOR NINE MONTHS. S FOR WHAT WENT WRONG, WELL PROBABLY WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH AND COULDN'T COMPETE WITH THE FREELANCERS. ARTYN WAS TRYING TO KEEP PEACE WITH THEM AS BEST HE COULD AS FA OR BEDROOM PROGRAMMERS TO EARN A FEW QUID AND FOR RONOSOFT'S ACTIVITIES TO BE VIABLE BEYOND A SMALL NICHE. HE FACT THAT ETRO AMER SEEM NOW TO BE TAKING HOME-BREW SOFTWARE A LITTLE MORE SERIOUSLY IS A GOOD THING. OPEFULLY, SALES WILL CONTINUE INCREAS. O, IF YOU'RE UP TO ANYTHING IN THIS REGARD, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH. Y EMAIL IS SHAUN@MICROMART.CO.UK. ) O YOU WANT TO PLUG THE ICRO ART WEBSITE? ) OOKS LIKE YOU WANT ME TO. KAY, HEAD OVER TO WWW.MICROMART.CO.UK AND IF YOU'RE LUCKY YOU MIGHT BERE JUST STARTING UP. HEIR AIM WAS TO OFFER NEW SOFTWARE ON COMPUTERS SUCH AS THE INCLAIR PECTRUM AND OF COURSE THE OMMODORE 64. HEIR FIRST GAME WAS GGEAD IN PACE, WHICH WAS A NICE LITTLE GAME FOR THE PECCY. ASKED OLIN OODCOCK TO REVIEW IW A REGULAR RETRO COLUMN WOULD WORK, AND ASKED ME TO WORK FOR HIM ON AN EIGHT-WEEK TRIAL BASIS. DID, AND WAS NEVER ASKED TO STOP, SO GUESS THE TRIAL IS STILL ON-GOING. HAT IS, AS LONG AS CONTINUE TO FIND NEW CONTENT, THE COLUMN WILL THRIVE. HOHING THE RETRO ASPECT OF COMPUTING? ) BSOLUTELY. ITH SO MUCH HAPPENING, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THERE IS AT LEAST ONE NATIONAL MAGAZINE WHICH IS TAKING RETRO COMPUTING AND GAMING SERIOUSLY BEYOND THE USUAL COLLECTORS/EAY/NOSTALGIA SLANT. T FIRST DID, ROTOVISION AND OTHER SUCH THINGS. IMON REW DID RESPOND TO ME PERSONALLY, BUT WAS THINKING OF HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT, AND AFTER ALL COULD ONLY COVER OMMODORE STUFF AT THE TIME, OR SO IT WOULD SEEM. FEW MONTHS LATER AND STARTED WORKING ON AN ELECWN. NYWAY, WAS MADE REDUNDANT BECAUSE WAS REDUNDANT. UT IF HAD BEEN THERE UNTIL THE BITTER END, WOULD HAVE BEEN WORSE OFF, THAT IS FOR SURE. ONTINUED IN 2 D ALREADY HAPPENED ANYWAY IN THE VERY EARLY DAYS WHEN ARTYN WAS WORKING ON HIS OALLOWS IT. HANKFULLY, IN MY CASE IT DOES, AND 'M GIVEN A FREE HAND IN WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT. N OTHER WORDS, WRITE THE COLUMN BECAUSE WANT TO COVER WHAT INTERESTS ME AND NOT WHAT MY EDITOR TELLS ME TO WRITE. T'S A VERY GOOD SITUATION, AND IS LIKE WOTO WORK ON THE RETRO SECTION? ) ICRO ART STARTED IN 1984 OR 1985 THINK, OFFERING "FREE ADDS" AND NUMEROUS TYPOS. T WAS LIKE THE EAY OF IT'S TIME FOR PEOPLE INTERESTED IN TRADING OR SELLING COMPUTERS. T'S DONE EXTREMELY WELL TO HAVE SURVIVED OVE R AS COULD TELL, SO IF SOMEONE EMAILED IN SUGGESTING A FEATURE, HE WOULDN'T SAY NO IN CASE SOMEONE WOULD KICK UP A FUSS IF HE, ARON IRCH OR WROTE "THEIR IDEA". HIS HAD ALREADY HAPPENED ANYWAY IN THE VERY EARLY DAYS WHEN ARTYN WAS WORKING ON HIS OE STEADILY AND PEOPLE WILL START USING THEIR OLD MACHINES AGAIN RATHER THAN JUST COLLECTING THEM. PECCY FANS ARE ESPECIALLY SPOILT AT THE MOMENT HAVE TO SAY, WITH ONATHAN AULDWELL THE STANDARD BARER NOT JUST FOR THAT MACHINE, BUT FOR ALL 8-BIT HOME-E ABLE TO READ MY COLUMN WITHOUT BUYING THE MAGAZINE, THOUGH YOU'LL HAVE TO DO A SITE SEARCH FOR EITHER "RETRO" OR "SHAUN" WHILE YOU'RE THERE, ALSO CHECK OUT THE RETRO FORUM. VERYONE THERE IS FRIENDLY, HONESTLY. ) AN YOU TELL US ABOUT RETRO GAMER,T FOR ME AS HE WAS A PECCY ENTHUSIAST AND WASN'T, AND HE WAS AND IS ONE OF THE BEST WRITERS THAT KNOW. IS REVIEW WAS BRILLIANT. FTER THIS, TRIED TO PROMOTE HOME-BREW SOFTWARE AS MUCH AS COULD. Y AIM WAS AND IS TO CREATE A BIG ENOUGH MARKET FUGH CAN'T DO THAT UNLESS PROGRAMMERS AND HARDWARE HACKERS CONTINUE TO DO WHAT THEY DO. 'M SORRY TO SAY THAT DON'T TEND TO COVER DEMOS, BUT DO COVER NEW GAMES AND HARDWARE, AS WELL AS MODIFICATIONS, SUCH AS ADDING AN INTERNAL -OM DRIVE TO A 64CN'T HAVE MUCH FAITH IN THE HOME-BREW SCENE, BUT THEN PLAYED A DEMO OF THE FORTH-COMING ETAL ARRIOR . HIS WAS A BRILLIANT LITTLE GAME, AND INSTANTLY DOWNLOADED THE FIRST THREE TITLES, WHICH WERE ALL EQUALLY AS GOOD. ROUND THAT TIME, RONOSOFT WTRONIC FANZINE CALLED ETRO OMPUTING ODAY. HIS WAS AN EIGHT-PAGE SAMPLER FOR PEOPLE TO DOWNLOAD, AND COVERED FORMATS SUCH AS THE TARI AGUAR, AND OMMODORE LUS/4. S IT TURNED OUT, IMON (REW) DOWNLOADED A COPY AND LIKED IT. E COULD NOW SEE HOU 64 .. OMMODORE 64 MULATOR Y ER EKAN UNDELL UESTION: HERE DO CONNECT MY REAL 1541 DRIVE FOR USE WITH 64? OU DON'T. 64 DOESN'T SUPPORT CONNECTION OF ANY ORIGINAL HARDWARE COMPATIBLE WITH 64. NSTEAD THE 1541 DISK DRRKING ON A FANZINE ONLY ON A BIGGER AND MORE PROFESSIONAL SCALE. S FOR HOW MY ETRO COVERAGE STARTED, WELL DID WRITE INTO ICRO ART AFTER SEEING SOME RETRO FEATURES THAT THEY WROTE, AND NOTING THEIR MIGA PAGE. TOLD THEM ABOUT THE UPER AND  UBLISHED FOR OVER FIVE YEARS, THOUGH WAS FIRST PUBLISHED SOME 10 YEARS AGO IN ART. FIRST STARTED REGULAR WRITING FOR ICRO ART, ISSUE 686 TO BE EXACT, AND THROUGH THAT WAS ASKED TO SET UP A "ETRO AREA" FOR THE TWO ICRO ART COMPUTER SHOWS TH E LESS THE 80 (AND TO BE HONEST, DON'T WANT A 80 ANYWAY), MOST OMMODORE MACHINES EXCEPT THE RARE ONES AND THE 16 ( HAVE A FEW LUS/4S THOUGH), AND AN MSTRAD FOR SHAME. T'S RUBBISH, OF COURSE! ) OU HAVE WRITTEN FOR MANY MAGAZINE WOULD Y HORTLY AFTER, WAS WRITING FOR G. T WAS QUITE A RELIEF AS FELT FRUSTRATED AFTER MY EXPERIENCE. NYWAY, WROTE AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE OMMODORE -20, TARI 2600, MIGA 500 AND 81 (NOT NECESSARILY IN THAT ORDER). HE -20 PIECE IS MY BEST W - AND DRIVE, MART AND A FEW OTHER HARDWARE ITEMS. HOPE TO ADD A TEREOID INTO THIS MIX, JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT. N FOR A PENNY, IN FOR A POUND, THAT'S WHAT SAY. HEN THIS HAS HAPPENED, 'LL BE RUNNING HEELS 128, WHICH IS BASICALLCORD, A OMMODORE EXPERT. AM MERELY AN ENTHUSIAST. KAY! NYWAY, FROM THERE, BECAME A STAFF WRITER ON ETRO AMER, AND OFFICIALLY WORKED UNTIL ISSUE 12 WHEN WAS MADE REDUNDANT. HOUGH CONTINUED WRITING FOR THE MAGAZINE UNOFFICIALLY UNTILODORE MACHINES ACTIVELY? ND CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT YOUR VARIOUS SET-UPS? ) URRENTLY, DON'T HAVE A PLACE OF MY OWN AS SUCH, SO AM A "SLEEPING" OMMODORE USER, AS ALL OF MY MACHINES AND HARDWARE ITEMS ARE IN STORAGE. Y THE TIME YOU ARE READING THIOTEPAD, AND DIDN'T REALISE THAT THIS PACKAGE ON INDOZE 98 WOULDN'T ALLOW YOU TO WRITE MUCH MORE THAN 5,000 WORDS WITHOUT LOOSING SOME OF THE TEXT. O, HAD TO REWRITE A WHOLE SECTION BEFORE SENDING MY WORK TO THE THREE OMMODORE EXPERTS THAT TRUSTR AND COLUMNIST FOR ICRO ART MAGAZINE, AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE VIA MITHS AND THE LIKES. ) HAT ARE YOUR FIRST MEMORIES OF OMMODORE? ) HAT WOULD BE ONE HRISTMAS, THINK 1985 THOUGH 'M NOT ENTIRELY SURE. Y AD BROUGHT A OMMODORE 64 FFOR A SINGLE FEATURE. NYWAY, AT FIRST WAS TOLD THAT THE DEADLINE WOULD BE AGES AWAY, SOME TWO MONTHS. UT THINGS WERE HAPPENING AT IVE UBLISHING, AND THE EDITORIAL DEADLINES WERE BROUGHT FORWARD TO INCREASE THE FREQUENCY OF THE MAGAZINE. LL OF A STHE REST TO HISTORY FOR NOW. T WAS GOOD WHILE IT LASTED. ) HICH MAGAZINES DO YOU CURRENTLY WORK FOR? ) UST ICRO ART PRESENTLY. HAVE NO PLANS TO WORK FOR ANYONE ELSE. ) S ALL YOU WORK REELANCE? ) T CURRENTLY IS, THOUGH WAS A STAFF AT THEY RAN IN 2002 AND 2003 THINK. URING THE LATTER ONE, A GUY NAMED ARTYN ARROLL INTRODUCED HIMSELF TO LLAN AIRSTOW AND WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS NEW MAGAZINE CALLED ETRO AMER. BUTTED IN, TELLING ARTYN THAT WAS A WRITER, AND IMPORTANTLY THATOU LIKE TO TELL OUR READER ABOUT SOME OF THEM? ) ELL, 'VE BEEN PUBLISHED IN ART, ICRO ART, ETRO AMER, GAMES, XTREME AND CTION MULATE, AND A FEW FAN-BASED PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS , HED AND OMMODORE CENE. 'VE BEEN REGULARLY P ORK EVER, AND 'M NOT SURE IF 'LL EVER WRITE ANYTHING MORE WORTHWHILE, THOUGH THE 81 FEATURE COMES CLOSE. ALSO REPRESENTED G TO A DEGREE AT THE - 2005, WHICH WAS GREAT FUN THOUGH WAS A BIT HUNG OVER. ID ANYONE NOTICE? 'M HAPPY TO CONSIGN Y A STEP UP FROM . O FIND OUT MORE ABOUT , WWW.CMDRKEY.COM SHOULD HAVE THE ANSWERS, THOUGH 'M NOT SURE IF YOU ARE ABLE TO ORDER ANYTHING FROM THE SITE YET. ) O YOU OWN OTHER RETRO MACHINES? ) ES, QUITE A FEW. OWN EVERY INCLAIR MACHIN ISSUE 15. JUST DIDN'T ALLOW ARTYN TO USE MY NAME. FTER BEING MADE REDUNDANT, DID SOME FREELANCE WORK FOR RONOSOFT AND THE LTEN8/ETRO-OFT GROUP. Y DOING THIS, GOT TO KNOW ARRAN ONES, WHO WAS THE "ETRO" EDITOR ON THE MAGAZINE GAMES. S, WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MY OMMODORE 128-R, WHICH HAS THE INTERNAL 1571 REMOVED AND ATTN LINE CUT, UP AND RUNNING, WITH A UPER 128 AND INK - AS WELL AS A -. ALSO HAVE A 1581 AND -2000 (NOTE, NO 5.25" FLOPPY DISKS HERE), -64, ED, BEING LLAN AIRSTOW, O IMMERMAN AND OBERT ERNARDO, TO MULL OVER. NFORTUNATELY, THE DEADLINE FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH ME AND HAD TO SUBMIT IT WARTS AND ALL. DIDN'T REALISE THAT ETRO AMER WERE GOING TO PUT ME AS A OMMODORE EXPERT. OR THE REROM HIS BROTHER WHO HAD RECENTLY UPGRADED TO A FLAT OMMODORE 128 WITH A 1541 DISK DRIVE. HE FIRST GAME REMEMBER WAS EECH EAD . RILLIANT LOADING MUSIC, GRAPHICS AND SPEECH IT HAD. HE CRIES OF "EDIC!" STILL RING TODAY. ) O YOU STILL USE OMMUDDEN, HAD TWO WEEKS TO WRITE MORE WORDS ON A SINGLE FEATURE THAT HAD EVER DONE. BOOKED A FEW DAYS OFF FROM WORK, AND WAS EVEN WORKING AT MY PARTNER'S PARENT'S HOUSE WHENEVER COULD. LAS, LOST SOME OF THE TEXT DURING THE PROCESS AS WAS USING WRITER ON ETRO AMER FOR ALL OF NINE MONTHS. HOSE WERE THE DAYS! ) OME OF OUR READER WILL RECOGNISE YOU AS THE VOICE OF THE RETRO SECTION IN ICRO ART - ALTHOUGH ITS ONLY A ONE PAGE SECTION IN A MAGAZINE. O YOU THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP PUS DON'T WRITE FOR FREE. EVEN GOT A MENTION IN THE VERY FIRST ISSUE. OR ISSUE TWO, WROTE THE OMMODORE FEATURE. HIS WAS A BIT OF A NIGHTMARE. IRSTLY, ARTYN ASKED ME TO WRITE 7,000 WORDS. HAD NEVER WRITTEN THAT MANY WORDS BEFORE OR SINCE, NOT  FFECT TO WORK SO IT HAS A VALUE OF $40 INSTEAD. LDA #$FF STA $D015 STA $D01C STA $D01D IGHT, 'VE ASSUMED THAT YOU ALL HAVE SOME KNOWLEDGE OF SPRITES FROM THE 64'S MANUAL BUT WE'LL CLARIFY A LITTLE TO BE SURE; THE ABOVE FOUR LINES WILL, IN OR DO A SHORTER LOOP FOR THE LAST BIT OF THE SCREEN. HE VALUE $20 IS THE SPACE CHARACTER SO THE WHOLE SCREEN IS CLEARED AND THE VALUE $0F IS GOING TO THE COLOUR MEMORY TO SET ALL THE CHARACTERS LIGHT GREY. LDA #$00 STA $D020 STA $D021 STA SCRLCOUN TEC OW WE HAVE TO SET THE SPRITE COLOURS. $027 ONWARDS GOVERN THE SPRITE COLOURS AND THE VALUE OF $0E WILL PRODUCE THE SAME LIGHT BLUE AS THE BORDER COLOUR WHEN THE 64 IS TURNED ON. HE MULTICOLOURS ARE SET TO DARK GREY AND LIGHT GREY SO THE SPRITES  THE COMMAND TO DROP BACK TO AFTER OUR CODE HAS FINISHED, BUT IF WE WERE TO TO A PIECE OF CODE AN WOULD RETURN US BACK TO THE NEXT COMMAND ALONG SO IT ALLOWS US TO POP OFF TEMPORARILY AND DO SOMETHING ELSE, THEN COME BACK AND CONTINUE WAR OB, WE USE THE FIRST. UT WHAT DOES THIS LOOP ACTUALLY DO? ELL, IT PUTS A VALUE OF $30 INTO $078, A VALUE OF $31 INTO $079 AND SOON UNTIL IT PUTS $37 INTO $07F, ALL OF WHICH POINT THE TO $000, $040 AND SO ON TO $0D0 FOR THE SPRITE DATA.THE FIRST ONE IT HAS AND LATER ON THERE'S A $1003 THAT ACTUALLY PLAYS THE MUSIC. IGHT, THAT'S YER LOT FOR ANOTHER TIME, HOPE YOU'RE ALL FOLLOWING OKAY. F YOU WANT TO, YOU CAN TRY TO CARRY ON ALONE AND EXAMINING THE REST OF THE PROGRAM, ALTHOUGH  EXPLAIN THE COMMAND THAT FOLLOWS IT. #$01 WILL ADD ONE TO WHATEVER VALUE IS IN THE ACCUMULATOR, SO IF IT'S PRESENTLY $30 AS AT THE START OF THE LOOP THE COMMAND WILL MAKE IT $31. T'S LIKE THE COMMAND EXCEPT THAT BY CHANGING THE VALUE YAIL ME IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS INSTALLMENT. HIS WEB SITE WILL SELF DESTRUCT IN TEN SECONDS. HE SOURCE CODE FOR THE ROUTINES ABOVE CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE HTTP://WWW.OLDSCHOOL-GAMING.COM /FILES/C64/HEXFILES/PART4FILES.ZIP FOR EASIER REFERTA $07F8,X CLC ADC #$01 INX CPX #$08 BNE SETSDP EXT WE SET THE SPRITE DATA POINTERS (...'S FOR SHORT) USING ANOTHER LOOP. UT THIS TIME THERE ARE TWO COMMANDS WE HAVEN'T COVERED AGAIN. HESE ARE (EAR ARRY FLAG) AND (DD ECIMAL DER, TURN ON ALL EIGHT SPRITES ($D015), MAKE THEM MULTICOLOUR ($D01C) AND ALSO ALTER THEIR PRIORITY TO PUT THEM UNDER ANY CHARACTERS ON THE SCREEN LIKE OUR SCROLLER ($D01D). HE EIGHT BITS IN EACH OF THESE LOCATIONS REPRESENT ONE SPRITE, SO THE FIRST SPRT STA MESSCOUNT STA SINEPOSX LDA #$40 STA SINEPOSY HIS NEXT PIECE OF CODE PUTS 0 INTO THE SCREEN AND BORDER COLOURS, MAKING THEM BLACK AND ALSO ZEROES OFF OUR COUNTERS - AT LEAST, ALL EXCEPT SINEPOSY WHICH WE WANT TO BE DIFFERENT FOR THE SINE ECAN HAVE A NICE SHADING EFFECT. LDA #$00 JSR $1000 HE FINAL PART OF THE SETUP WE WILL COVER THIS ISSUE IS ANOTHER NEW COMMAND. MEANS UMP TO UB OUTINE AND IT'S THE MACHINE CODE EQUIVALENT OF THE COMMAND . P UNTIL NOW WE HAVE USEDHERE WE LEFT OFF. N THIS CASE IT CALLS THE PART OF THE MUSIC ROUTINE (IT WAS INCLUDED EARLIER WITH THE COMMAND, REMEMBER?) THAT SETS THE MUSIC UP FOR PLAYING AND TURNS THE VOLUME ON. HE #$00 IS TO TELL THE MUSIC ROUTINE THAT WE WANT TUNE 0,  F YOU LOOK AT THOSE SPRITES IN MEMORY THEY SPELL (WE HAVE PUT IN TWO DEFINITIONS TO MAKE THIS A BIT EASIER FOR NOW). LDA #$0B STA $D025 LDA #$0F STA $D026 LDX #$00 LDA #$0E SPRITECIISTA $D027,X INX CPX #$08 BNE SPRITHERE ARE SOME NEW COMMANDS WILL COVER IN THE NEXT INSTALLMENT. ND YOUR MISSION, SHOULD YOU DECIDE TO ACCEPT IT, IS TO TRY AND CHANGE THE SPRITE COLOURS TO $04 (FOR PURPLE) AND THE MESSAGE COLOUR TO $01 (FOR WHITE). OOD LUCK AND, AS USUAL, YOU CAN EMOU CAN ALTER HOW MUCH THE CHANGES BY AND, IF THE CARRY FLAG IS SET FROM ANY PREVIOUS JOB, THEN IT WILL BE ADDED IN TOO! INCE WE DON'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN HERE BECAUSE THE CARRY WILL ONLY HAVE BEEN SET BY SOMETHING WE DON'T WANT TO AFFECT THIS PARTICULrENCE. (C) ASON ELK -PRINTED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER, ...END... WWW.COMMODOREFREE.COM E CODE FOR THE ROUTINES ABOVE CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE HTTP://WWW.OLDSCHOOL-GAMING.COM /FILES/C64/HEXFILES/PART4FILES.ZIP FOR EASIER REFERCCUMULATOR). HE FORMER'S JOB IS TO EMPTY THE CARRY FLAG, WHICH IS ONE OF A SERIES OF FLAGS THE 64 USES TO REMEMBER THINGS (IN THIS CASE, IT'S AN "OVERFLOW" FOR VARIOUS CALCULATIONS). HE REASON FOR IT'S USE HERE WILL NOT BE IMMEDIATELY APPARENT UNTIL U NTERVIEW WITH HAUN EBBINGTON ETRO PROMOTER AND RITER 1 OMMODORE REE) LEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO OUR READER. HAUN EBBINGTON) ELLO ALL. AM HAUN EBBINGTON. UST CALL ME HAUN, EBBERS, LUFF OR ICTO. AM A PART-TIME WRITEITE IS THE LOWEST BIT AND THE LAST IS THE HIGHEST; SINCE A VALUE OF #$FF HAS ALL OF IT'S BITS SET THAT MEANS ALL EIGHT SPRITES ARE BEING TURNED ON AND THEN ALL HAVE THEIR MULTICOLOUR ENABLED AND ARE SET TO "LOW" PRIORITY. LDX #$00 LDA #$30 SETSDPIIS U HE PART 4 Y ASON ELK RE MISTER, WANNA LEARN MACHINE CODE? ELL YOU'VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE AIN'T YA? UP, WELCOME TO ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF THE EX ILES AND, AS IS BECOMING FAIRLY COMMON GROUND NOW, 'LL START O LLY A PIECE OF MUSIC BY EAN OF OSINE (AT $1000 TO $1XXXX). *= $0900 SEI S USUAL THE * COMMAND TELLS THE ASSEMBLER WHERE WE WANT OUR CODE PUT, IN THIS CASE AT $0900. ND NEXT WE HAVE A NEW 6510 COMMAND, MEANS T NTERRUPT DISABLE STATUS AND HEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN IS PART OF THE CASSETTE BUFFER SO WILL CAUSE NO PROBLEMS. .INCBIN SPRITES.PRG .INCBIN SINES.PRG .INCBIN MUSIC.PRG HESE THREE ARE "LUDE ARY" FILE COMMANDS; THEY'RE NOT 6510 MACHINE CODE INSTRUCTIONS BUT ASSEMBLER DIRECT\64 WEBSITE HTTP://FREEDOMIRC.NET/MEGABOZ/SHREDZ6 4/ ...END... WWW.COMMODOREFREE.COM MES 1 MILLION IS MORE THAN ENOUGH. LUS, COME ON, HOOKING A PLAYSTATION GUITAR UP TO A OMMODORE 64 IS JUST DAMN COOL. ;) OR MORE INFORMATION HEAD OVER TO THE  ON THE WAY PAST. HE FIRST PART OF THE SOURCE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INITIALIZATION, THE SETTING UP OF THE COMPUTER. SCRLCOUNTI= $0340 MESSCOUNTI= $0341 SINEPOSXI= $0342 SINEPOSYI= $0343 SINECURVEI= $0E00 SINECURVE2I= $0F00 HE ABOVE ASSIGNS THE NAMES6-7 IS CONSIDERED USELESS, LET ALONE 25 YEARS. ELL, ABSOLUTELY LOVE MY OMMODORE 64, IT HAS A LOT OF MEANING AND MEMORIES FOR ME, AND LOVE DOING FUN THINGS WITH IT - AND THERE'S NO REASON WHY IT CAN'T DO A LOT OF COOL THINGS, EVEN STILL. OU DON'T ITH SPRITES, A PIECE OF MUSIC AND A SLIGHTLY MORE COMPLEX SCROLLING MESSAGE THAN THE ONE ABOVE. ND YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO TYPE THE CODE IN, IT'S ALL AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD AS WE GO IF YOU FEEL LAZY! O FIRST, DOWNLOAD THIS INSTALLMENT'S SAMPLE DATA, EXTR SAME TIME HAD ALSO READ ABOUT ERI LLSWORTH AND HER AMAZING WORK AND SUCCESS WITH RECREATING THE 64, AND WAS JUST REALLY INSPIRED ALL AROUND. F ALL GOES WELL, PERHAPS CAN PRESENT MY LITTLE PROJECT AT NEXT YEARS CONFERENCE! EALLY, WHEN ITS THE NEW "TEXT" FROM $E460 STA $044F ; AND THIS USED TO BE $0427 INY JMP MAIN IGHT, AT THIS POINT YOU'RE ALL SAYING SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF "THAT'S ALL VERY WELL, BUT WHAT GOOD IS IT?" N IT'S OWN NOT AN AWFUL LOT, BUT IF YOU START ADDING E DON'T WANT THAT. HE ACTUAL USE OF (FOR SETTING UP INTERRUPTS) WILL BE COVERED LATER ON. LDX #$00 CLRPAGEIILDA #$20 STA $0400,X STA $0500,X STA $0600,X STA $06E8,X LDA #$0F STA $D800,X STA $D900,X STA $DA00,X STA $DAE8,X INX FF BY HAVING A LOOK AT THE SOLUTION TO THE "CHALLENGE" (SINCE SOME PEOPLE HAVE SAID THEY ARE TOO EASY) SET IN THE PREVIOUS INSTALLMENT.F YOU REMEMBER, WE HAD A SIMPLE SCROLL ROUTINE AND ASKED YOU TO MOVE IT DOWN A LINE AND CHANGE WHERE THE DATA WAS CO BASICALLY IT TURNS OFF THE 64'S INTERRUPTS WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE INTERFERE WITH THE RUNNING OF OUR CODE. OU MAY HAVE NOTICED THE OCCASIONAL JUMP IN THE OLD SCROLLER AS THE SYSTEM INTERRUPTS OCCURRED AT THE SAME POINT ON THE SCREEN AS THE ROUTINE AND WIVES, IN OTHER WORDS THEY TELL 64SM TO LOAD THOSE BINARY FILES AND INCLUDE THEM IN THE FINAL IT MAKES. N THIS CASE, THEY'RE THE SPRITE DEFINITIONS (AT $0C00 TO $0DFF), THE SINE CURVES WE'LL USE TO MAKE THE SPRITES MOVE (AT $0E00 TO $0FFF) AND FINA WELL. OU MAY BE WONDERING ABOUT THE LAST LOCATION BEING $068, WELL THIS IS A LITTLE TRICK; THE SCREEN MEMORY IS 1,000 BYTES LONG AND RUNS FROM $0400 TO $077 AND THE MAXIMUM VALUE A REGISTER CAN HOLD IS $ SO $068 + $FF IS $077. T SAVES HAVING TO  SCRLCOUNT, MESSCOUNT, SINEPOSX AND SINEPOSY TO VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN MEMORY AND SPECIFY WHERE TO LOOK FOR THE TWO SINE CURVES THAT ARE ABOUT TO BE LOADED IN. PART FROM THE CURVES, THESE ARE OUR COUNTERS FOR VARIOUS PIECES OF THE CODE AND THE MEMORY TALWAYS NEED A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THAT CAN PERFORM 4 BILLION CALCULATIONS PER SECOND, SOMETIMES 1 MILLION IS MORE THAN ENOUGH. LUS, COME ON, HOOKING A PLAYSTATION GUITAR UP TO A OMMODORE 64 IS JUST DAMN COOL. ;) OR MORE INFORMATION HEAD OVER TO THE ACT EVERYTHING TO THE SAME DIRECTORY AND DROP DEMO1.ASM INTO A PASSING TEXT EDITOR SO WE CAN HAVE A PROD AROUND. IRST OFF, SINCE THIS IS SUCH A LARGE PIECE OF SOURCE 'LL COVER IT IN CHUNKS AND ANY COMMANDS WE HAVEN'T COVERED ALREADY WILL BE EXPLAINED COMES RIGHT DOWN TO IT, WORK ON "MORE SERIOUS" PROJECTS ALL THE TIME, FOR MY DAY JOB, FOR PRIVATE CONTRACTS, ALL THE TIME. HEY PAY THE BILLS, AND DO ENJOY THEM, BUT ALSO LIKE TO DO FUN, WACKY STUFF. E LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE A COMPUTER OLDER THAN OTHER THINGS TO IT YOU GET A LITTLE DEMO AND THAT'S JUST WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO. OW EXPECT YOU ARE ALL WONDERING HOW EXPECT YOU TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE CODE FOR A DEMO, RIGHT? ELL, IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A COMPLEX DEMO, JUST SOMETHING SIMPLE W BNE CLRPAGE KAY, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE LOOP THINGIES ISN'T IT? ES, JUST LIKE THE LOOPS WE HAVE SEEN BEFORE IT'S JUST PUTTING A REPEATED CHARACTER ONTO THE SCREEN. T'S A BIT DIFFERENT IN THAT IT DOES THE WHOLE SCREEN AND THE COLOUR MEMORY AT $800 ASMING FROM TO $E460. ERE'S THE MODIFIED ROUTINE: * = $0900 LDY #$00 MAIN LDX #$00 LDA #$FE RASTER CMP $D012 BNE RASTER MOVELOOPILDA $0429,X STA $0428,X ; READ/WRITE MOVED FROM $0400/1 INX CPX #$27 BNE MOVELOOP LDA $E460,Y ; READ YS THAT. T'S NOT ALIGNED TO REAL NOTES RIGHT NOW, DID IT MORE FOR JUST A FUN TEST TO ACTUALLY SEE THE THING WORKING. HERE REALLY IS NO OTHER STEPS BETWEEN HERE AND HOOKING IT TO THE COMMODORE 64 OTHER THAN WIRING UP A 9 CONECTOR. HAT'S IT FOR NOW C, OF FRET BUTTON MAPPINGS TO NOTES AS WELL. LSO, EFFICIENCY NEEDED FOR QUICK POLLING OF THE GUITAR CONTROLLER. 'M KEEPING THE GRAPHICS VERY SIMPLE, CONFINED TO AND SPRITES DURING THE EARLY PHASES, SINCE WANT TO SAVE ALL THE PROCESSING POWER T MANIPULATES ONE OF THE ANALOG STICKS, AND DON'T KNOW THE COMMAND YET TO FORCE A CONTROLLER INTO ANALOG MODE, SO THE GUITAR STARTS UP IN DIGITAL MODE AND DISABLES THE WHAMMY BAR. NYWAY, GOT THE DECODER WORKING, AND USING THE BUTTON MAP DATA, CRE TION GUITAR CONTROLLER HOOKED THROUGH THE 64 INTERFACE. T IS IN THE BEGINNING STAGES RIGHT NOW, WITH ONLY BUTTON TESTING AND SOME GRAPHICS ROUTINES DONE, BUT IS ON A STEADY TRACK. HERE IS A GOOD CHANCE HREDZ64 WILL MAKE USE OF AND/OR FILES S ON THE FALL OF THE CLOCK. T WAS FRUSTRATING, BUT EVENTUALLY GOT IT WORKING. THEN WROTE A QUICK PROGRAM TO PRINT OUT TO MY LAPTOP (VIA THE SERIAL LINK) WHAT BUTTON WAS BEING PRESSED, THEN PRESSED EACH BUTTON ON THE GUITAR CONTROLLER AND SAW W  T ENCODES STRUM UP, STRUM DOWN, AND LIFT UP INTO ONE OF THE LINES. T ENCODES THE VALUE OF THE WHAMMY BAR INTO THE OTHER LINE. 5. HE 64 USES A SOCKET MOUNTED EGA8 MICROCONTROLLER, FLASHABLE WITH FIRMWARE UPDATES WITH EASY TO BUILD PROGR OR 1 DEPENDING ON IF THE BUTTON IS PRESSED OR NOT. T TOOK ABOUT TWO DAYS TO GET THIS WORKING, ONE BECAUSE NEEDED TO ADD A 10 PULLUP RESISTOR ACROSS THE PIN AS THE ARDUINO WAS POLLING THE CONTROLLER TOO FAST AND THE LINE NOISE WAS CRAPPING OU DIRECTIONS. 3. N A NORMAL PLAYSTATION CONTROLLER, IF THE START BUTTON IS PRESSED, THE 64 GOES INTO PROGRAMMING MODE. HE USER CAN THEN HIT 1, 2, 1, OR 2, AND PROGRAM UP TO 127 BUTTONS IN FOR A MACRO MAPPED TO THAT BUTTON. ITTING START AGAIN END D ANY FUTURE PROJECTS), THE NORMAL FUNCTIONALITY OF THE 64 INTERFACE CAN BE USED WITH ANY GAME, AND WORKS WELL! HE 64 FEATURES THE FOLLOWING: 1. HE AFOREMENTIONED ABILITY TO HOOK A PLAYSTATION CONTROLLER UP TO A 9 JOYSTICK COMPUTER. T MAPS U . N ECEMBER OF 2006, ATTENDED THE ORLD OF OMMODORE CONVENTION IN ORONTO, ANADA, AND FOUND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE STILL VERY MUCH INTERESTED IN THE OMMODORE 64 AND EXPANDING ITS CAPABILITIES, EVEN TODAY. SAW SOME AWESOME DEMOS OF PEOPLE BUILDI ! OON THE INTERFACE WILL BE DONE AND IT WILL BE TIME TO START ON THE GAME. HE NTERFACE HE 64 INTERFACE CONNECTS PLAYSTATION CONTROLLERS TO COMPUTERS THAT USE A 9 PORT AND 64 PIN CONFIGURATION (SUCH AS THE MIGA, TARI 2600, EGA ASTER YSTEM, CAN FOR THE MUSIC AND RESPONSE. F HAVE SOME EXTRA CYCLES LEFT OVER AT THE END, 'LL TWEAK AND POLISH UP THE GRAPHICS. NYWAY, YOU CAN SEE THE (VERY) BEGINNINGS OF HOW THE MAIN SCREEN WILL LOOK. HY DO IT A, THIS SEEMS TO BE A QUESTION GET A LOT ATED A LITTLE PROGRAM FOR THE ATMEGA THAT PLAYS A NOTE THROUGH THE LOUDSPEAKER WHEN THE STRUM BAR IS HIT DEPENDING ON WHAT KEY COMBINATION IS HELD DOWN DURING THE STRUM. T BASICALLY ASSIGNS A FREQUENCY VALUE TO EACH KEY, THEN ADDS THEM TOGETHER, AND PLA FOR ITS MUSIC, THOUGH WITH CHANNEL CONSTRAINTS, FILES ARE MORE LIKELY THAN FILES OFF THE BAT. OME OBSTACLES TO BE WORKED THROUGH INCLUDE PRESENTATION OF MUSIC GIVEN THE 3 VOICE NATURE OF THE 6581 AND 8580. ALCULATION, WHETHER STATIC OR DYNAMI HAT THE CORRESPONDING BUTTON WAS. ERE'S : REEN = 2 ED = ELLOW = RIANGLE LUE = RANGE = QUARE TART = TART ELECT = ELECT IFT GUITAR UP = 2 TRUM UP = TRUM DOWN = COULDN'T TEST THE WHAMMY BAR OUT AS KNOW FOR A FACT I AMMERS. T MAKES USE OF TWO DIGITAL POTENTIOMETERS FOR ACCURATE STRUM AND WHAMMY ENCODING. T DOES REQUIRE A 9V-15V POWER SUPPLY TO OPERATE. HREDZ64 THE GAME HREDZ64 IS (WILL BE IF SUCCESSFUL!) A GAME FOR THE OMMODORE 64 THAT MAKES USE THE PLAYSTA T ANY PACKETS WAS SENDING. FOUND THIS TIP ONLINE BY SOMEONE WHO HAD DONE ANOTHER CONTROLLER PROJECT. HE OTHER WAS WASN'T READING AND WRITING DATA PROPERLY WITH THE CLOCK CYCLE, WAS DOING MORE ON THE RISE OF THE CLOCK AND NEEDED TO DO THING S PROGRAMMING MODE AND SAVES THE MACRO. HESE MACROS ARE SAVED IN THE 64'S AND WILL BE RETAINED AFTER POWER OFF. 4. F A GUITAR IS PLUGGED IN, THE 64 GOES INTO GUITAR MODE AND MAPS THE FRETBOARD BUTTONS INTO UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, AND FIRE. P, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT AND ON THE CONTROLLER TO UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, AND FIRE ON THE COMPUTER, RESPECTIVELY. 2. F THE PLAYSTATION CONTROLLER IS PUT INTO ANALOG MODE, IT WILL ALSO MAP OVER THE LEFT ANALOG CONTROL STICK TO THE 4 UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT NG NETWORK ADAPTERS, ONLINE GAMES, INTERFACES, AND OTHER COOL STUFF FOR THEIR 64S. FELL IN LOVE WITH THE IDEA - LOVE THE 64 AND LOVE HACKING AROUND WITH SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE ALIKE, SO FIGURED THIS WOULD BE THE PERFECT PROJECT! ROUND THE  ETC). DDITIONALLY, IF A GUITAR CONTROLLER IS DETECTED, IT WILL ENCODE STRUM UP, STRUM DOWN, LIFT UP, AND THE WHAMMY BAR ONTO THE TWO POTENTIOMETER LINES OF THE JOYSTICK PORT. HILE THIS EXTRA GUITAR FUNCTIONALITY IS USABLE BY THE HREDZ64 GAME ONLY (AN CUSTOMERS ON WHAT MODS THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE AND IF THERE WAS A BIG DEMAND WOULD SEE IF WE COULD DEVELOP IT AND MARKET IT. ILL THE PRODUCTS BE AVAILABLE TO DISTRIBUTORS FOR EXAMPLE "PROTOVISION" AND SHOULD IT RETURN "OMMODORE CENE MPORT ERVI U HE HREDZ64 ROJECT Y ONI ESTBROOK 2 FTER A HEFTY DEBUGGING SESSION, THE PHYSICAL ADAPTER IS SOLID AND WORKS GREAT WITH BOTH A GUITAR CONTROLLER AND NORMAL DUAL SHOCK CONTROLLER. T WAS AMAZING TO TRY ALL MY OLD GAMES WITH WHAT GUITAR BUTTONS WERE BEING PRESSED. ERE ARE TWO SCREENSHOTS (LITERALLY) OF THE 64 REPORTING WHATS HAPPENING ON BOTH THE FRET BOARD AND STRUM BAR/LIFT SENSOR: HILE THIS PROGRAM WAS WRITTEN IN , THE FINAL HREDZ64 PROGRAM IS BEING WRITTEN IN A F FOR TESTING. NYWAY, SO MUCH MORE TO COME, BUT THINGS ARE PROGRESSING NICELY! 'VE FOUND OUT THAT THIS PROJECT IS FEATURED IN NGADGET WHICH IS GREAT, HOPE TO BE MAKING UPDATES MORE REGULARLY NOW THAT KNOW PEOPLE ARE READING. F YOU HAVE ANY QUEST 5 FOR THE BOARD, 3 BUCKS PER EGA8 CHIP). HE ALLOWS YOU TO PROGRAM IN CODE AND UPLOAD IT STRAIGHT TO THE FLASH MEMORY ON THE EGA, WHICH IS CALLED BY THE BOOTLOADER ON STARTUP. HE EGA8 IS AWESOME FOR 3 BUCKS, IT RUNS AT 16MHZ, HAS 1 , RUE ON TARI/OMMODORE/EGA/MIGA CONTROLLERS, BUT NOTHING RECENT. ACK IN THE DAY, IF YOU PRESSED , A CIRCUIT TO A SPECIFIC PIN WOULD BE COMPLETED ON THE 9 PIN CONNECTOR. RESS UP, A DIFFERENT PIN WOULD BE CONNECTED. PIN FOR EVERY BUTTON, IT WAS A 8 MICROCONTROLLER. HE ATMEGA RECEIVES THE SERIAL STREAM OF PACKETS, DECODES THEM AND FIGURES OUT WHICH BUTTONS ARE BEING PRESSED. T THEN DROPS VOLTAGE ON CORRESPONDING LINES TO THE OUTPUT TO THE COMMODORE. UT BEFORE DID THAT HAD TO TEST TO MAKE SU O A SOLDERLESS PROTOBOARD AND MAPPED ARBITRARY PINS OFF THE ARDUINO BOARD INTO THE PROTOBOARD. ALSO HOOKED A TINY LOUDSPEAKER UP TO THE PROTOBOARD TOO AND MAPPED THE ARDUINO INTO IT. HE GOAL TO TEST THIS GUY OUT WAS TO HAVE THE EGA PLAY SOUNDS ON T7HING FOR OMMODORE ...END... WWW.COMMODOREFREE.COM ASKED? OPE THINK WE COVERED IT ALL. OMMODORE REE HANKS FOR YOUR TIME AND GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR PURCHASE. OPEN THIS FOR DISCUSSION IN THE MAGAZINE, WOULD A PURCHASER OF BE A GOOD OR BAD T NING ON THE LINE, MANIPULATING THE LINE TO DRIVE THE DATA, CHECKING THE LINE FOR GOOD MEASURE (NOT REALLY NECESSARY), AND DROPPING THE LINE WHEN IT WAS TIME TO WAKE THE CONTROLLER UP. HE PROTOTAL WAS THE FOLLOWING. ROP THE ATTE CE" ISTRIBUTORS ARE ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA AS IT GET'S YOUR PRODUCT TO MORE CUSTOMERS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRY'S. - F YOU WERE GIVEN 1 MILLION POUNDS WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH THE MONEY (CAN BE NONE OMMODORE RELATED) CASTLE WHAT MAN DOESN'T WANT THAT. -  A 2 CONTROLLER (AS WELL AS SOME MIGA GAMES AND TARI 2600, HAVEN'T TRIED THE EGA ASTER YSTEM YET). LSO, 'VE STARTED WRITING THE ACTUAL HREDZ64 (GUITAR HERO) GAME FOR THE 64. STARTED OUT WITH A SIMPLE DEBUGGING ROUTINE TO SHOW THE STATUS OF  COMBINATION OF AND 6502 ASSEMBLY USING THE 65 CROSS COMPILER, WHICH GOT UP AND RUNNING A FEW DAYS AGO. 'M CURRENTLY DEVELOPING IN AN EMULATOR ENVIRONMENT AND AM WAITING FOR PARTS TO ARRIVE TO BUILD A CABLE TO TRANSFER THE PROGRAM TO THE 64 ITSEL IONS, FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME: TWESTBROOK SYNTHDREAMS COM. UZZAH! 1/10/07 - 1/11/07 RECENTLY ORDERED THE ARDUINO DEVELOPMENT BOARD - IT'S A PROGRAMMING BOARD FOR THE 8 MICROCONTROLLER WITH A BUILT IN INTERFACE. T WAS EXTREMELY CHEAP 3 8 FLASH MEMORY, AND 512 BYTES OF MEMORY. REAT FOR A PROJECT LIKE THIS. ? ELL, LONG GONE ARE THE DAYS WHEN A JOYSTICK SIMPLY PUT VOLTAGE OVER A LINE TO INDICATE A BUTTON BEING PRESSED. HIS IS T N EASY LIFE. UT NOW , , CONTROLLERS HAVE A BILLION BUTTONS AND ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER OF LINES, SO THEY ENCODE THE DATA INTO A SERIAL STREAM OF PACKETS, JUST LIKE IF YOU WERE SENDING DATA OVER A SERIAL CONNECTION OR NETWORK. N COMES THE EGA RE MY DECODING PROGRAM WAS WORKING! . IRST TOOK A EXTENDER CABLE: OPENED THE MALE CONNECTOR AND GOT THE PINS OUT. CONTINUITY TESTED EACH LINE SO COULD FIGURE OUT WHICH COLOR WAS WHICH PIN. THEN CONNECTED THESE PINS INT HE SPEAKER WHEN STRUMMED WITH BUTTONS HELD DOWN ON THE GUITAR. HEN WAS THE TASK OF WRITING THE DECODER IN . FOUND SOME DOCS ONLINE THAT DESCRIBE THE PROTOCOL THE CONTROLLER USES. T BASICALLY CONSISTS OF SENDING DATA OVER A LINE, LISTE  IN (IGITAL OR NALOG, MOUSE OR WHATEVER). T THEN SENDS BACK 0X5 TO INDICATE "ERE COMES THE DATA ", AND THEN SENDS 2-7 BYTES DEPENDING ON IF THE CONTROLLER IS IN DIGITAL OR ANALOG MODE. HOSE BYTES CONTAIN A BIT FOR EACH BUTTON, EITHER SET TO 0 NTION LINE, END 0X01 OVER THE LINE TO THE CONTROLLER, THE ARDUINO SHOULD RECEIVE 0X BACK ON THE DATA LINE. HEN THE CONTROLLER IS SENT 0X42 WHICH IS A COMMAND, AT THE SAME TIME THE CONTROLLER RESPONDS BACK WITH WHAT MODE IT IS  S THERE A QUESTION YOU WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE BEEN ASKED? OPE THINK WE COVERED IT ALL. OMMODORE REE HANKS FOR YOUR TIME AND GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR PURCHASE. OPEN THIS FOR DISCUSSION IN THE MAGAZINE, WOULD A PURCHASER OF BE A GOOD OR BAD T D TIME FOR YOU TO INTERVIEW HIM AND SEE WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT THE THOUGHT OF SELLING AND IF SO WOULD BE HAPPY TO RE-CONTACT HIM. EMAILED HIM BUT WILL NEVER BEG FOR HIS BUSINESS SO WILL NOT CONTINUE TO EMAIL HIM OVER AND OVER AGAIN FEEL HE WILL NG THEM WOULD HIRE SOMEONE THAT WOULD DO THIS WORK BUT WOULD ALSO HIRE SOMEONE TO DO QUALITY CONTROL AND MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS WORKING BEFORE IT SHIPS OUT. - ILL THE DESIGNS CHANGE, AND HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO ANY LECTRONICS MANUFACTURER ABOUT MASS D HIS. HAVE NO HARD FEELINGS FOR HIM BECAUSE NEVER DEALT WITH HIM BEFORE AND HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY OF MY MONEY. FTER HEARING HIS SIDE COULD CREATE A GREAT BUSINESS PLAN TO PRESENT TO HIM. HAVE BEEN SELF EMPLOYED FOR MANY YEARS AND KNOW WHAT IT TAK OF DAMAGE CONTROL THAT WOULD NEED TO BE ADDRESSED BUT THERE IS ALSO FRAUD ISSUES WHERE ANYONE CAN SAY WE OWE THEM PRODUCT. HERE WOULD NEED TO BE PROOF. REDIT CARD RECEIPTS, MAILING TRACKING #'S, INVOICES, ETC TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS. - AVE YOU LOOK  FROM AURICE ANDEL - DO YOU HAVE A BUSINESS PLAN EMAILED HIM AND DIDN'T GET A RESPONSE. SAW A HUGE DEMAND FOR PRODUCTS ON EAY AND THEY WERE ALWAYS GOING FOR HIGH AMOUNTS. ET ON AURICE'S WEBSITE THEY ARE A LOT LESS MONEY. ALMOST ORDERED  HELP OR KEEP AURICE AROUND TO ASSEMBLE THE PRODUCTS UNTIL SOMEONE WAS TRAINED OR JUST KEEP HIM DOING IT IF HE CHOOSE TO DO SO. - ILL THE PRODUCTS BE MASS PRODUCED OR DO YOU INTEND TO CARRY ON HAND PRODUCTION WOULD HAVE TO SEE THE MANUFACTURING P 2 (5 KNOWN TO EXIST IN THE WORLD), 2001 8K ET LICKET EYBOARD (PRETTY RARE IN MINT CONDITION), 3 AX OMPUTERS, ABOUT $55K IN RARE GAMES AND THEN A BUNCH OF MISC STUFF. - HY OMMODORE WHAT IS THE ENTIRE UZZ ABOUT. ACK IN THE 80'S EVERYONE HAD A  WEBSITE WWW.CMDRKEY.COM ES THE DOMAIN ITSELF IS WORTH MONEY AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT BY THE NAME. WOULD NEVER CHANGE THE DOMAIN NAME. - ILL AURICE STILL DO REPAIRS AND PROGRAMMING? WOULD LOVE TO KEEP HIM WITH THE TEAM OF COURSE. OU CAN'T R IT SELLS FOR $242.00 HUGE PRICE DIFFERENCE. - AN YOU TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR OMMODORE OLLECTION? OME PEOPLE ON MESSAGE BOARDS STARTED POSTING EVERYTHING WAS BUYING AND THE PRICING PAID WHICH FEEL IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS AND WAS NOTIFIED T. - UR READER MAY NOT BE AWARE OF THE TERM (INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY) CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE TERM HE TERM "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" DENOTES THE SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS WHICH AUTHORS, INVENTORS AND OTHER HOLDERS MAY HOLD AND EXERCISE, AND NOT THE INTEL  CONTACT ME BACK IF ITS A INTEREST TO HIM. - OULD YOU BE PREPARED TO HINT AT THE AMOUNT YOU OFFERED FOR OPE. HERE IS ALOT OF FACTORS WOULD HAVE TO SEE THE INVENTORY, HIS FINANCIAL BOOKS, ETC. NTIL KNOW THE WHOLE PICTURE WOULD NEVER BUY PRODUCTION. F WAS BUYING THE BUSINESS WOULD HAVE ACCESS TO ALL WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS, SALES AGENTS, ETC WOULD IDEALLY CALL THEM AND TELL THEM HAVE TOOK OVER AND INTRODUCE MYSELF AND DEVELOP A RELATIONSHIP. WOULD ALSO TAKE FEEDBACK FROM OUR ES TO RUN A BUSINESS. - AVE YOU SPOKEN TO AURICE AND OR DO YOU INTENT TO VISIT HIM PERSONALLY. HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO HIM YET AND AT THIS TIME UNTIL GET SOME OF KIND OF FEEDBACK VIA EMAIL WILL NOT PURSUE THIS MUCH ANYMORE. AYBE IT WOULD BE A GOO ED INTO THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PRODUCTS - SOME OF THE DESIGNS ARE MULTILAYER BOARDS OWN ALMOST EVERY PRODUCT HAVE NOT TAKEN THE TIME TO TAKE THEM APART. AM SURE THEY ARE HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTS. Y ROLE WOULD BE MORE OF A AND NOT THE ONE ASSEMBLI THERE BUT READ ALL THE COMPLAINTS ON THE MESSAGE BOARD'S THAT HE HASN'T DELIVERED IN A LONG TIME. WOULD NEED TO FLY OUT THERE AND VISIT WITH HIM AND SEE THE WHOLE STORY BEFORE MADE A DECISION. HERE IS ALWAYS 2 SIDES TO EVERY STORY AND HAVEN'T HEAR ROCESS TO DEVELOP A PLAN TO EXPAND OR KEEP THINGS THE WAY THEY ARE. - O YOU HAVE ANY FEELINGS FOR USERS THAT HAVE ORDERED PRODUCTS FROM AURICE AND STILL AFTER 2 - 3 YEARS STILL NOT RECEIVED ANY PRODUCT OR REFUND? F COURSE DO. HERE IS A LOT OMMODORE 64 IN THEIR HOME. E ALL TEASED ANYONE THAT HAD A OR PPLE. T WAS THE MACHINE. HE LOVE FOR THEM STILL HASN'T DIED 27 YEARS LATER. HEY ARE THE BEST 8BIT COMPUTER EVER MADE. ERIOD.... - OU RECENTLY POSTED THAT YOU WANTED TO PURCHASE EPLACE HIS IDEAS, KNOWLEDGE, AND NEW PRODUCT IDEAS. - HAT IS YOU TECHNICAL BACKGROUND IN ELECTRONICS AND PROGRAMMING HAVE BEEN A TECHNICIAN FOR 8 YEARS. CAN FIX A WITH MY EYES CLOSED. UT, ANYTHING AM NOT A EXPERT IN WOULD HIRE OUTSIDE FROM A SELLER WAS BEING TALKED ABOUT AND WENT TO ANSWER WHY WAS SPENDING SO MUCH AND BUYING SO MANY RARE ITEMS. UT THE FLAMING WARS BEGAN SO NOW JUST TRY TO LAY LOW AND NOT SAY MUCH IF CAN. OME OF BIGGEST MONEY ITEMS TO DATE ARE: OMMODORE 23 LECTUAL WORK ITSELF. - HEN YOU START PRODUCTION - HAT WILL THE PRODUCTS RETAIL AT WILL LOOK AT COST'S OF MATERIALS, LABOR TO ASSEMBLE, PACKING, AND SEE WHAT THE PROFIT RATIO IS. WOULD KEEP THE PRICING THE SAME IF COULD. - ILL YOU KEEP THE SOMETHING BLIND. OU WOULD NEVER BUY A HOUSE WITHOUT SEEING IT FIRST, CORRECT? - HAT DID THE OFFER COVER NTELLECTUAL ROPERTY AND SOFTWARE OR WAS IT THE WHOLE COMPANY INCLUDING SPARES OR COMPONENTS AURICE HAS IN "STOCK". T HAS NOT GONE THIS FAR YE T HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING FROM HIM SO IF YOU ARE READING RIAN CAN YOU CONTACT ME AGAIN WOULD LOVE TO COVER MORE ABOUT THIS PROJECT. AYBE IT WAS JUST THAT MY EMAILS HAVE BEEN BLOCKED BY YOUR SPAM FILTERS HANKS COMMODORE REE NYONE ELSE F YOU HAVE O - ILLRPILR 000 RENT ANTIN 4. URRENT TATUS ENU UNDER DEVELOPMENT VIA PROJECT ON ENIAL DISCUSSION FORUM PDATES MAY BE FOUND ON ENIAL HTTP://SLEEPINGELEPHANT.COM/DENIAL OR ARDWARE PROJECT PAGE HTTP://WWW.BJLYONS.COM/CBM/VIC20/MULT U NTERVIEW WITH POTENTIAL PURCHASER OF - LEASE WOULD YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO OUR READER? AM 36 YEARS OLD, MARRIED, AND HAVE 4 CHILDREN. HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF REGON MOST OF MY LIFE. STARTED GETTING IN THE COMMOD T PHREAKED FOR A LITTLE WHILE WHEN YOU COULD GET AWAY WITH IT ON THE PRINT ETWORK TO CALL LONG DISTANCE BBS'S WITHOUT MY PARENTS KNOWING ABOUT IT. EVENTUALLY SOLD MY 64 TO GET A MIGA AND NEVER GOT INTO IT THEN JUST KIND WENT THROUGH MY 20'S A NCE AGAIN. REMEMBER THE OLD DAYS OF HAVING MEETINGS AT OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO SWAP SOFTWARE AND USING AST ACK'EM TO COPY GAMES. TILL TODAY HAVE FOND MEMORIES OF THAT SOFTWARE. HEN ABOUT 2 MONTHS AGO FOUND LEE650 IN THE THAT WAS SELL CE AXI FROM MY TEEENAGE YEARS. HAT IS THE TERM "" IS IT YOUR REAL NAME OR A "HANDLE" WHAT DOES IT MEAN T IS SHORT FOR MY CORPORATE NAME FOR ONE OF MY WEBSITE'S. ORLDWIDE AMINATE . - OU SEEM TO BE PURCHASING EVERYTHING WITH A OM F EACH ITEM AND EVENTUALLY SELLING THE REST BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. REALLY WANT TO START PLAYING WITH EPROMS AND PROGRAMMING THEM THINK IT WOULD BE FUN. JUST HAVEN'T HAD THE TIME TO IT YET. AYBE PROGRAMMING SOME CARTRIDGES AS WELL. - OME USERS  TOOK A 2 MONTH WINDOW ON EBAY OF STUFF THAT HAS BEEN AVAILABLE FOR YEARS. HAVE QUIT TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE CONTINUE TO FLAME ME JUST TRY TO IGNORE THEM NOW. T'S MAINLY ON THE MESSAGE BOARDS HAVE ENCOUNTERED THIS PROBLEM. - RE YOU AFTER. HAVE NOTICED WHERE THERES A HUGE DEMAND AND WHATEVER GET'S THE MOST BID ACTIVITY DRAWS ME TO THE AUCTION. F OTHER'S WANT IT REALLY BAD THEN FEEL THERE IS A REASON FOR IT SO SOMETIMES BID OVERSEAS TO GET ITEMS THAT ARE RARE. GOT MOST OF M ION THAT HAVE THE MOST EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT TO IS THE FREEZER CARTRIDGES I.E. RILOGIC XPERT, CTION, EPLAY, . PROM PROGRAMMERS I.E. ROMENADE 1, ERLIN, ATEL, ETC. AST ACK'EM 'S, RACKER AX, TILITIES NLIMITED, ETC. LL THE H{A PROJECT HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE LET ME KNOW SO CAN TELL EVERYONE ELSE ABOUT IT HANKS ...END... WWW.COMMODOREFREE.COM IS PROJECT. AYBE IT WAS JUST THAT MY EMAILS HAVE BEEN BLOCKED BY YOUR SPAM FILTERS HANKS COMMODORE REE NYONE ELSE F YOU HAVE I CART/ OMMODORE FREE OMMENTS RIAN YONS SENT ME AN EMAIL INFORMING ME ABOUT THIS PROJECT AND SAID IF HAVE FREE SPACE TO INCLUDE IT IN OMMODORE REE MAGAZINE, SO DID. EMAILED RIAN IN THE HOPE OF AN INTERVIEW ABOUT THE PROJECT AND AN UPDATE BU ORE SCENE BACK IN THE 80'S WHEN WAS A TEENAGER. REMEMBER AT HRISTMAS GETTING MY FIRST OMMODORE 64 BACK WHEN WAS 15 YEARS OLD. STAYED UP ALL NIGHT PLAYING GAMES. OINING DIFFERENT GROUPS IN MY LOCAL AREA AND STAYING UP ON 'S MOST OF THE NIGH LOST SOUL PARTYING WAY TOO MUCH. ETTING MARRIED AND HAVING CHILDREN BROUGHT ME BACK TO REALITY. N MY LATE 20'S WAS GOING TO THRIFT STORE'S FINDING OLD COMMODORE EQUIPMENT AND PICKED UP SOME BASIC'S AND PLAYED FOR IT FOR A WHILE AND LOST INTEREST O ING AST ACK'EM AND RACKER AX AND IT BROUGHT BACK MANY MEMORIES STARTED BUYING AND THEN COULDN'T STOP. HEN MET ERRY URTZ WHICH HAD THE BIGGEST COLLECTION OF RARE GAMES AND STARTED GETTING BACK INTO GAMES AGAIN. EMEMBERING HANTASIE AND PA MODORE NAME ON IT WOULD YOU LIKE TO COMMENT 'VE BEEN BUYING ALOT OF RARE ITEMS. ALSO COLLECT MIGA, PPLE, AND TARI. Y FIRST CHOICE IS OMMODORE 64 OF COURSE. - HAT IS ALL THE EQUIPMENT GOING TO BE USED FOR? Y GOAL IS TO END UP KEEPING ONE O ARE UPSET THEY GET OUTBID ON ITEMS AND YOU ALWAYS WIN CAN YOU COMMENT SOMETIMES OVERPAY BECAUSE OF MY AGGRESSIVE BIDDING HABITS. OWEVER, HAVE ALWAYS HAD A WINNING ATTITUDE AND DON'T LIKE TO LOSE ON ANYTHING. CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHY THEY GET UPSET AS JUST A COLLECTOR OR IS THIS A PART OF CHILDHOOD YOU MISSED OUT ON. OLLECTING ITEMS COULDN'T GET WHEN WAS A TEENAGER. IKE SAID IN MY INTRODUCTION. - FIND ITEMS ON BAY THAT WERE NEVER RELEASED IN THE UK OR WERE UNAVAILABLE IS THIS WHAT YOUR Y OMMODORE AX ITEMS IN APAN, OMMODORE 232 IN THE , ETC. HERE IN THE IT'S VERY HARD TO FIND THEM. - S THERE AN ITEM OR ITEMS YOU DESPERATELY WANT AND WHAT YOU ARE PREPARED TO PAY FOR THEM MAYBE OUR READER COULD HELP OUT. ART OF MY COLLECT ACKER TOOLS THAT WERE VERY POPULAR TODAY AS THEY WERE 27 YEARS AGO. OU WON'T FIND ME SELLING THESE ITEM'S ANY TIME SOON. HE GAMES, COMPUTERS, ETC FEEL COULD ALWAYS REPLACE. ESIDES ME AND ONE OTHER COLLECTOR THERE ISN'T MUCH COMPETITION ON THESE IT EMS SO PICK THEM UP PRETTY CHEAP. HE GAMES ON THE OTHER HAND ITS VERY EASY TO SPEND $50K AND NOT GET MUCH IN RETURN. LSO HARD TO RESELL THEM AND MAKE YOUR MONEY BACK ITS A VERY STRANGE MARKET. NE DAY PACE AXI SELLS FOR $520.00 AND TWO WEEKS LATER "ACMAN", "TARWARS" AND OTHER GAMES LIKE "PY UNTER"; WELL THESE ARE THE TYPES OF GAMES WE WANT TO SEE. IMPLE, FUN AND NOTHING SPECIAL, BUT IT MUST BE YOUR ORIGINAL CONCEPT. HE GAMES MUST BE PROGRAMMED TO WORK ON A ASED MACHINE RUNNING INDOW ENTRIES WILL START OFFICIALLY IN ANUARY 2007, BUT IF YOU ARE ALREADY INTERESTED YOU CAN EMAIL US YOUR NAME, DATE OF BIRTH, ADDRESS, YOUR KYPE AND EMAIL ADDRESS. NFORMATION WILL BE HELD UNDER THE ATA ROTECTION CT BY BOTH ETRO RCADE AC Y TO ADD YOUR GAME TO THE OYAGER PLAY LISTS. HANKS TO OYSTICK UNKIES YOU WILL ALSO GET A SPECIAL -HIRT... ..HIRD RIZE... YOU COME THIRD, YOU WILL BE INVITED TO THE PARTY AND ALSO YOU WILL BE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEMONSTRATE YOUR GAME AT T E.COM D. AND HOTOGRAPHY AND WILL ONLY BE USED TO SEND YOU INFORMATION PACKS ABOUT THE COMPETITION AND ALSO FOLLOW UP INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPETITION ONLY. OR MORE INFORMATION VISIT HTTP://WWW.JT-VOYAGERCRUSADE.COM ...END... WWW.COMMODOREFRE TY ENTRE, THE UROPEAN APITAL OF ULTURE IN 2008... AND ILM TARS WILL BE INVITED AS WELL AS SPECIAL CELEBRITY GUESTS AND AS PROMINENT GAME MANUFACTURES AND DESIGNERS WILL BE PRESENT. HO KNOWS, THEY MIGHT EVEN TAKE YOUR DESIGN ON FURTHER. ...ECO SERTED & REMOVED FROM IC-20 2. ROJECT EATURES BILITY TO RUN UP TO 255 - 8 BASED IC-20 ARTRIDGE GAMES OR UTILITIES UPPORT FOR 4, 8, 12, & 16 GAMES UPPORT FOR ALL KNOWN IMAGES, IRRESPECTIVE OF LOCATION OF IMAGE IN IC-20 OYSTICK UNKIES YOU WILL ALSO GET A SPECIAL -HIRT...HIS WILL BE ONE OF THE TOP OF THE RANGE ACHINE ABINET. NLY A FEW OF THESE TOP OF THE RANGE CABINETS EXIST AND THEY ARE ALL BESPOKE DESIGNS! COLLECTOR'S ITEM FROM DAY ONE. HE WINNERS ACHI  DEVOTED TO IC-20 TOPICS "ENIAL" HTTP://SLEEPINGELEPHANT.COM/DENIAL HE ULTI-CART IS INTENDED TO ALLOW A USER TO RUN MULTIPLE IC-20 IMAGES FROM A SINGLE CARTRIDGE. HIS DESIGN BUILDS ON ORIGINAL CONCEPT TO ADD FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS 1. O 18 UPWARDS! EE RULES FOR MORE INFORMATION. HAT WILL YOU WIN IF YOUR GAME IS PICKED? ...IRST RIZE... YOUR PROGRAM IS CHOSEN AS THE WINNER YOU WILL HAVE YOUR GAME INCLUDED ON THE OYAGER RCADE YSTEM, SO YOUR GAME WILL GET EXPOSURE TO A HUGE AUDIE ABLES, ARRAYS, ETC. BILITY TO SWITCH TO UNEXPANDED IC-20 ASIC MODE WITHOUT REMOVAL OF CARTRIDGE YSTEM RESET VIA SOFTWARE CONTROL OR PUSH BUTTON SWITCH ANK SWITCHING BETWEEN & XPANDED MAY REMAIN HIDDEN FROM KERNEL ON START UP AND ENABLED S , RAPHICS MUST BE RUN IN ONLY, WORK WITH LECTRONIC OIN YSTEM, 4 WAY AND 8 AY, 3 BUTTON, OYSTICK CONFIGURATION, 16 OUND AND ABLE TO RUN 2 PLAYERS AS WELL AS SINGLE PLAYER. EE RULES FOR FULL SPECIFICATIONS AND INFORMATION...LAUNCH OF THE HINES TD. AND HOTOGRAPHY AND WILL ONLY BE USED TO SEND YOU INFORMATION PACKS ABOUT THE COMPETITION AND ALSO FOLLOW UP INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPETITION ONLY. OR MORE INFORMATION VISIT HTTP://WWW.JT-VOYAGERCRUSADE.COM ...END... WWW.COMMODOREFRE HE EVENT.HANKS TO OYSTICK UNKIES YOU WILL ALSO GET A SPECIAL -HIRT... ...OUTLINE OF THE RULES? THE GAME MUST BE RETRO IN STYLE... HE GAME MUST BE SIMPLE, FUN FOR ALL AGES AND EASY TO PLAY. EMEMBER THE GAMES "PACE NVADERS", "OMB", "R O", LABLE FOR FURTHER IMAGES) 3. REDITS ARDWARE ESIGN: RIAN YONS ENU OFTWARE : NDRES ARLSSON ESTING: NDRES ARLSSON OBIN ARBRON ARDWARE ONCEPT & DEAS EIF LOOMQUIST RANCOIS EVEILLE ARK . AKA SAUNDBY OM MAGES AND RGANISATION E ND RIZE... YOUR PROGRAM IS CHOSEN AS SECOND PLACE THEN YOU WILL HAVE YOUR GAME DEMONSTRATED AT THE LAUNCH PARTY AND ALSO ADDED TO THE LAUNCH PARTY MACHINES SO YOU CAN SHOW IT OFF TO POTENTIAL CLIENTS AT THE PARTY. 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AGAZINE HAS CHANGED A LITTLE REMOVED THE REVERSE BLOCK TITLE IN THE MAIN TEXT, THOUGHT IT WAS USING TO MUCH INK IF PEOPLE NEEDED TO PRINT HARD COPIES, WHAT DO YOU THINK? ETTER WOREASE SEND IN IDEAS OR COMMENTS TO THE USUAL ADDRESS EGARDS IGEL OMMODORE REE WWW.COMMODOREFREE.COM OME GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT OMMODORE REE DOWNLOADS, TAKEN FROM Y LOG FILES SSUE NUMBER 8 DOCUMENT DOWNLOADS 381 DOCUMENT DOWNLXED SUPPORT FOR VERY SMALL CARDS. - IXED SOME PROBLEMS WITH BUFFERING. - IXED A BUG IN THE VOLUME NAME DISPLAY ROUTINE. - NSTEAD OF SHOWING A COMPUTED SIZE VALUE, THE BROWSER DISPLAYS THE CARD'S MODEL , WHICH ALWAYS INCLUDES THE SIZE. OWNLOADSAS ADVANTAGES ON SMALLER FLASHCARDS, BECAUSE MOST 64 FILES ARE SO SMALL THAT 16 WILL ONLY WASTE A LOT OF SPACE. HE NEW IOS ALSO MADE UPDATES ON THE PLUGINS NECESSARY, MOST PLUGINS EXPERIENCED A COMPLETE RE-WRITE, THE OLD PLUGINS WILL BE UPDATED SHO THEY ARE AVAILABLE IN VERSION 1.3 AT HTTP://WWW.SILICONSONIC.DE/T/BIN . N EXAMPLE VIDEO FILE IN FORMAT IS ALSO LOCATED THERE. N ONVERTER FOR YOUR VIDEOS IS AVAILABLE AS A BETA TEST VERSION. 64 IOS CHANGES FROM 1.04 INALLY, A BIG UPDAT D REQUIRE A CHANGE OF THE / COMMAND SET ANYWAY. - EW PLUGIN SYSTEM: 32 SUPPORT REQUIRED LIVER TO REWORK THE PLUGIN SYSTEM. HEN A 16 FORMATTED CARD IS USED, ALL PLUGINS WORK ASUSUAL. SING 32 FORMATTED CARDS, OLD PLUGINS WON'T WORK ANYMOR HTTP://HOME.ICA.NET/LEIFB/COMMODORE/D UEL OWNLOAD (GAME): HTTP://HOME.ICA.NET/LEIFB/COMMODORE/D UEL/DUEL006.D64 OWNLOAD (SOURCE CODE): HTTP://HOME.ICA.NET/LEIFB/COMMODORE/D UEL/ARTILLERY20070428-006.ZIP 64 RIAD RELEASED A  ARD R - RELOAD FILE (ONLY WORKS AT THE END OF SCREEN) SPACE - EXIT AT END OF FILE IOPOP MUST THANK OC ACARDI FOR THE 64 LIBS. OWNLOAD: HTTP://RETROHACKERS.ORG/FORUM/VIEWTOPI C.PHP?T=254 0.52 OCI/INGULAR STRIKES AGAIN AT REAKPO COLOR TEXT RENDERING - AUTOMATIC HEADER REDIRECTS - FIXED SOME BUGS IN CSS HANDLING THER UPDATES ARE E. G. 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HESE DEMOS WILL NOW WORK FROM 64 (EVEN WITHOUT ETRO EPLAY): , 26 G, ORSING ROUND, OMEO, XIS OF VIL, XIS OF VIL 2ELEASE/?ID =3015 ORSING ROUND: HTTP://NONAME.C64.ORG/CSDB/RELEASE/?ID =3017 OMEO: HTTP://NONAME.C64.ORG/CSDB/RELEASE/?ID =41459 XIS OF VIL: HTTP://NONAME.C64.ORG/CSDB/RELEASE/?ID =18059 XIS OF VIL 2006: HTTP://NONAME.C64.ORG/CSDB/RELEASE/?ID =2929TRANSFER PROGRAM 4, SEVERAL TIMES. HE LATEST VERSION IS 0.6.5. OR FURTHER INFORMATION AND THE DOWNLOAD CHECK HTTP://BLOG.PAYTONBYRD.COM/?P=89 OCKSTRAP RELEASED A MODIFIED VERSION OF YBERPUNX ETRO ILLERY UEL ETWORK. HANGELOG: ANDOM WIND FOR CHALLENGE. HE GAME'S NOW FUN! !EALLY FIXED RACE CONDITION AT END OF TURNS. WEAKED POWER SETTINGS. 20% DAMAGE FOR DIRECT HIT. 10% DAMAGE FOR NEAR HIT. / DETECTION FOR MUSIC AND TIMING. OMEPAGE: LUGIN FOR THE 64. ITH IT YOU CAN DISPLAY FILES, WHICH ARE TEXT FILES IN FORMAT.O IT'S REALLY NOTHING FANCY, JUST SOMETHING THAT HAD TO BE DONE. "N GAME" KEYS: A - ABORT SHIFT - PAUSE SHIFT LOCK - STEADY PAUSE 1-0 - SPEED <- - FAST FORWINT 2007 WITH INGULAR BROWSER V0.52. IGHLIGHTS: - SUPPORTS EXTENDED MEMORY UP TO 16 (LIKE SWAP FILES ON ETRO EPLAY , , UPER OF , +60, 64 AND 1541) - PROGRESSING RENDERING, IT'S POSSIBLE TO READ THE PAGE WHILE LOADING - OPTIMIZED LOAD SYSTEM. OMPILING FOR 128 IS SUPPORTED AS WELL.NFORTUNATELY, THE USTOM OWNLOAD YSTEM AT HTTP://SINGULARCREW.HU/BROWSER IS NOT CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. OWEVER, YOU CAN FIND THE DISK ONLY VERSION AT HTTP://NONAME.C64.ORG/CSDB/RELEASE/?ID =48032 CODE! ETROHACKERS.ORG ORUM TOPIC: HTTP://RETROHACKERS.ORG/FORUM/VIEWTOPI C.PHP?T=249 OWNLOAD: HTTP://WWW.DEKADENCE64.ORG/TARV1.ZIP - 128 + AN RELEASED A -RESIDENT URBO OADER FOR 128 WITH ETRO EPLAY.HIS IS A R WHO FREQUENTLY LOADS OR DEVELOPS 64 PROGRAMS IN THE BUILT-IN MONITOR. 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HIS VERSION SUPPORTS ODEET, THE NETWORK SERVER KNOWN FROM HE INAL EPLAY .OWNLOAD: HTTP://NONAME.C64.ORG/CSDB/RELEASE/?ID =48403 0.06 EIF LOOMQUIST RELEASED REVIEW 0.06 OF THE RT U NTRODUCTION TO VARIOUS MULATOR ILE ORMATS OMPILED Y ETER CHEPERS TARTED: UG 24, 1996 AST UPDATED: OV 27, 2005 OMMODORE REE ETER KINDLY LET ME REPRINT 2 ARTICLES FROM HIS WEBSITE, OTHER ARE AVAILABLE INVOLVES CONVERSION... "HAT DO DO WITH FILES?" OR "OW DO MAKE THESE FILES WORK ON THE 64S EMULATOR?" HESE DOCUMENTS ATTEMPT TOEXPLAIN THEIR INTERNAL STRUCTURE, WHAT TO DO WITH THEM, AND SOME OF THEIR RESPECTIVE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES. H IT), BUT ATTEMPTS WILL BE MADE TO KEEP THEM UP-TO-DATE, AND CORRECT ANYTHING WHICH IS WRONG. F YOU SPOT SOMETHING THAT NEEDS CORRECTING PLEASE MAKE SURE TO EMAIL THE AUTHOR SO THAT CORRECTIONS CAN BE MADE FOR FUTURE RELEASES... THE ADDRESS I AROUND, UPLOAD THEM, WHATEVER. UST BE SURE TO LEAVE THEM , DON'T REMOVE BITS. HAVE ATTEMPTED TO CATEGORIZE THE FILETYPES INVOLVED USING THREE BASICCATEGORIES: , AND . HE DEFINITIONS FOR EACH OF THESE CATEGORIES CANCT IS VISIBLE. APPY SHOPPING! HTTP://WWW.PROTOVISION- ONLINE.DE/CATALOG HE DESIGN OF OUR HARDWARE SECTION HAS BEEN IMPROVED. OME NEW CONTENT HAS BEEN ADDED AS WELL. HECK IT OUT! HTTP://WWW.PROTOVISION-ONLINE.DE/HARDW /HARDWSME INFO,ETC. T IS AN INVALUABLE SET OF UTILITIES PUT TOGETHER BY BOTH ARKO AKELAAND AUL OHERTY. 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OE ORSTER/ HAS AND SUGGEST YOU STUDY THEM FOR YOURSELF, THE ATTACHED 2 THOUGH WERE WORTHY OF A REPRINT HERE ARE ALWAYS QUESTIONS ASKED REGARDING THE VARIOUS FILE FORMATS WHICH ARE COMMONLY USED ON EITHER THE EMULATORS OR THE REAL 64. OST OFTEN THE UESTION ESE DOCUMENTS WERE COMPILED AND WRITTEN IN AN ATTEMPT TO UNIFY ALL THE OTHER SMALLER FILES DEALING WITH OMMODORE FILE TYPES THAT ARE FLOATING ABOUT THE NET, OR THAT EXIST WITH OTHER PROGRAMS. HEY ARE BY NO MEANS EXHAUSTIVE (EVEN THOUGH THEY LOOK LIKE S CONTAINED LATER IN THIS DOCUMENT. OME OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THESE DOCUMENTS MAY NOT BE ACCURATE AS IT COULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM INACCURATE SOURCES, AND HAVE NO FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE WITH SAID FORMAT. OWEVER, USE THESE, PASS THEM BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS DOCUMENT. LSO, PLENTY OF GOOD INFORMATION CAN BE GLEANED FROM THE SOURCE CODE CONTAINED IN THE ARCHIVE ONVERT, WHICH IS ON THE .. 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HE STANDARD IS A 7-BIT CODE COVERING CONTROL CODES, PUNCTUATION,N ACRONYM FOR "LOCK VAILABILITY AP". ERE IS WHERE THE DISK OPERATING SYSTEM KEEPS TRACK OF WHAT SECTORS ARE ALLOCATED (OR AVAILABLE) FOR EACH TRACK. - HIS REFERS TO SECTORS WHICH ON A LOGICAL LEVEL ARE GROUPED TOGETHER. N A 154KS. - GROUP OF 8 BITS, THE CONTENTS OF A MEMORY LOCATION. - SERIES OF SECTORS LINKED TOGETHER. NE SECTOR WILL HAVE A POINTER TO ANOTHER, AND THAT SECTOR WILL POINT TO ANOTHER, UNTIL THE CHAIN HAS NO MORE FORWARD POINTERS. FIL 64, 00, , , . - N THE OMMODORE WORLD, THIS WOULD BE THE KIND OF FILE, BE IT , , , , ETC. N THE WORLD, THIS WOULD POSSIBLY BE THE FILE EXTENSION, BE IT , , . T TELLS THE USER WHAT FILE IT ISEQUENCE (2 5-BIT NYBBLES) SO THAT LONG REPEATED SEQUENCES OF 1'S OR 0'S ARE AVOIDED. HESE MUST BE AVOIDED SO THAT THE TIMING OF READING/WRITING TO THE DISK WON'T BECOME "OUT OF SYNC". S A USER, YOU WOULD NOT NORMALLY SEE THE INFORMATION SINCE THPHYSICAL OMMODORE MEDIA. 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OME EXAMPLES ARE, MAKING USAGE EASIER. - N ACRONYM FOR "ROUP ODE ECORDING". HIS IS THE ENCODING METHOD OMMODORE USES TO PHYSICALLY STORE THE INFORMATION ON MOST OF THE 5.25" DISKS (I.E. 1541). T ENCODES AN 8 BIT SEQUENCE (2 4-BIT NYBBLES) INTO A 10 BIT SE DRIVE DOES ALL THE CONVERSION TO NORMAL DATA BEFORE IT GIVES IT TO YOU. / - HE BYTES HERE ARE STORED BACKWARDS COMPARED TO THE / METHOD. EE / FOR MORE INFORMATION. - FILE FORMAT WHICH IS A EQUIVALENT OF A  SERIES OF THESE LINKS COMPRISE A "CHAIN" OF SECTORS. / - HIS IS HOW VALUES ARE STORED WHEN THEY EXCEED ONE BYTE. GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS IS THE SECTOR COUNT OF A 64 FILE. O CALCULATE THE ACTUAL VALUE, TAKE THE SECOND VALUE, MULTIPLY IT BY  U HE HREDZ64 ROJECT Y ONI ESTBROOK 1 HE HREDZ64 PROJECT IS AN ATTEMPT TO BUILD AN INTERFACE TO CONNECT THE LAYSTATION UITAR ERO CONTROLLER (AND ANY OTHER CONTROLLER) TO THE OMMODORE 64 COMPUTER, THEN CREATE A UITA LAST BYTE IS STORED. T ALSO REPRESENTS THE BYTE COUNT + 1, SINCE A VALUE OF 255 WOULD ACTUALLY MEAN ONLY 254 BYTES OF FILE DATA EXISTS (FULL SECTOR LESS THE 2 BYTES FOR T/SCHAIN). ITHOUT REASONABLE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DISK LAYOUT, THIS BYTE CAN BE CONFUS AND THE BOTTOM 4 BITS. HESE ARE REFERRED TO AS THE UPPER AND LOWER NYBBLE RESPECTIVELY, AND ARE REPRESENTED BY TWO HEXADECIMAL DIGITS IN BASE 16. - (OR ) HIS IS OMMODORE'S VERSION OF (THE PART OF THE NAME COMES FROM THE  RCASE CHARACTERS, HAS LOWER CASE ONES, AND VICE VERSA. LSO, THE TOP 128 CHARACTERS (128 TO 255) ARE QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THE "STANDARD". - N ACRONYM FOR "UN ENGTH NCODING". HIS IS A SIMPLE COMPRESSION METHOD, EMPLOYED BY MOST COMLE SMALLER THAN THE ORIGINAL. HIS IS THE SIMPLEST FORM OF FILE COMPRESSION. - T IS BEST DESCRIBED AS THE METHOD THAT THE DRIVE USES TO STORE THE SMALLEST GROUP OF BYTES PHYSICALLY ON THE DISK. N THE 1541 THIS REFERS TO A GROUP OF 256 BYTES S"64FILE" CONTAINED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FILE. - N ACRONYM FOR "APE CHIVER", A APPLICATION, AND METHOD OF BACKING UP INFORMATION. OMMODORE REE EPRINTED WITH THE PERMISSION OF ETER CHEPERS HTTP://WWW.UNUSEDINO.DE/EC64/TECHNICAL /E). OT ONLY ARE ALL GUITAR FUNCTIONS MAPPED OVER SUCCESSFULLY, BUT IT WORKS GREAT FOR PLAYING 64 GAMES WITH A NORMAL DUAL SHOCK CONTROLLER. HAT'S MORE, SINCE THE SAME 9 PORT IS USED, THE 64 CAN BE USED ON THE MIGA, TARI AND EGA ASTER YSTEM (RY DEDICATED TO THIS PROJECT, SO IT WILL PROGRESS, IF ONLY JUST SLOWLY. HREDZ64 EWS 4/6/07 OTS OF VERY PROMISING PROGRESS TONIGHT (AND A FEW NIGHTS AGO). IRST OFF, IMPLEMENTED CODE THAT WILL READ BOTH NOTE DATA FOR FRET BUTTONS AND MUSIC DATA FROMHE -> HREDZ64 CONVERTER TONIGHT - THIS SOUNDS MUCH FANCIER THAN IT ACTUALLY IS. HE ISSUE IS NORMAL FILES ARE BIG BLOCKS OF 6502 MACHINE CODE THAT HAVE BEEN RIPPED (OR CREATED), BUT THEY CONTAIN CODE FOR MANIPULATING THE PROCESSOR, MEMORY, ETC AERCEPT ANY MEMORY WRITES TO THE VIRTUAL CHIP (0X4) AND DUMP THE ADDRESS AND THE VALUE TO A BINARY FILE, ALONG WITH THE RELATIVE TIME THE MEMORY WRITE WAS MADE. .G. PLAY A FILE ON MY COMPUTER, AND IN ADDITION TO PLAYING IT IT DUMPS ALL THE R ERO LIKE GAME ON THE 64 UTILIZING THE GUITAR CONTROLLER. O FAR THE PROJECT HAS BEEN GOING WELL! S YOU CAN SEE, THE INTERFACE, WHICH CALL THE "64", IS 98% FUNCTIONAL (HERE ARE SOME TINY BUGS WHICH DON'T REALLY IMPACT FUNCTIONALITY ON THE WHOLING, AND HARD TO EXPLAIN. - GROUPING OF 4 BITS (HALF A BYTE), EITHER THE FIRST OR LAST 4BITS OF AN 8-BIT BINARY NUMBER, OR ONE HALF OF A TWO-DIGIT HEXADECIMAL NUMBER. YPICALLY, A BYTE WILL BE BROKEN DOWN INTO TWO PARTS, THE TOP 4 BITS FIRST COMPUTER TO USE THE CODE, THE OR ERSONAL LECTRONIC RANSACTOR).OST OF THE CODES FROM 0-127 ARE THE SAME AS , BUT THERE ARE DIFFERENCES, ESPECIALLY NOTICIBLE WHEN CONVERTING TEXT FROM A 64 TO A MACHINE. HERE HAS UPPEPRESSION PROGRAMS, AND ALSO USED BY SOME FILE FORMATS (IPODE, ). T ENCODES SEQUENCES (OR "RUNS", HENCE THE NAME " LENGTH...") OF THE SAME BYTE (I.E. 00 00 00 00 00 00) INTO A SMALLER STRING USING A SHORTER CODE SEQUENCE, MAKINGTHE RESULTANT FITORED TOGETHER IN A SINGLE SECTOR. N A DISK, THIS IS TYPICALLY 512 BYTES. - GROUP OF BYTES, USUALLY NEAR OR AT THE FRONT OF THE FILE, WHICH ARE USED TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF FILE. .E. A 64 FILE WILL ALWAYS HAVE THE SIGNATURE STRING 7FORMATS/INTRO.HTML ...END... WWW.COMMOOREFREE.COM - N ACRONYM FOR "APE CHIVER", A APPLICATION, AND METHOD OF BACKING UP INFORMATION. OMMODORE REE EPRINTED WITH THE PERMISSION OF ETER CHEPERS HTTP://WWW.UNUSEDINO.DE/EC64/TECHNICAL /LL TESTED EXCEPT ).. HE HREDZ64 GAME ITSELF IS STILL IN ITS INFANCY, BUT PROGRESSING NICELY. OST IMPORTANTLY, MY JOURNAL OF LATEST UPDATES CAN BE FOUND ON THE "EWS PDATES" PAGE, FOR THOSE INTERESTED. DON'T HAVE A TON OF FREE TIME, BUT 'M VE FILES OFF OF FLOPPY DISK. ALSO WROTE SOME QUICK UTILITIES ON MY INUX BOX TO GENERATE NOTE FILES FOR TESTING. O ALL THE STATIC VALUES ARE OUT OF THE PROGRAM AND ITS READING OFF FILES NOW. ORE IMPORTANTLY THOUGH, IMPLEMENTED A GOOD PORTION OF T S OPPOSED TO JUST BEING MUSIC DATA. OT ONLY DOES THIS WASTE TIME, BUT ITS ALSO DIFFICULT TO SWITCH BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN EXECUTING HREDZ64 CODE AND EXECUTING CODE. Y SOLUTION FOR NOW WAS TO HACK THE LIBSIDPLAY LIBRARY ON MY INUX BOX, AND INT CHIP DATA TO A FILE. HREDZ64 THEN USES THAT FILE AS ITS MUSIC DATA. CTUALLY, DIDN'T IMPLEMENT THE TIMING TONIGHT, BUT DID MANUALLY SET THE TIMING INSIDE THE GAME JUST TO TEST IT OUT, AND IT PLAYED THE MUSIC PRETTY ACCURATELY! ERY PROMISING FOR  ! 3/26/07 ADDED THE APPLAUSE METER TONIGHT THAT SHOWS HOW WELL YOU'RE DOING OVERALL AND HOW CLOSE YOU ARE TO FAILING. S CAN BE SEEN, ITS A VERTICAL BAR SEPARATED INTO THREE SECTIONS, FILLING FROM BOTTOM TO TOP. HEN DOING WELL, THE BAR FILL IS GREEN, IZING CORRECT STRUMMING, AND SEPARATED THE CODE OUT INTO MULTIPLE FILES NOW THAT THINGS ARE GETTING BIGGER. EXT UP IS READING NOTE AND SONG DATA FROM FILES, AND THEN THE CONVERTER PLUGIN! 3/21/07 SNUCK SOME HOURS IN YESTERDAY BEFORE WENT TO THE ED AT 00:00:10, 00:00:20, AND 00:00:45, A RED BUTTON SHOULD BE PRESSED AT 00:00:10, 00:00:30, ETC, AND IT WILL CORRECTLY SHOW AND SCROLL THE SPRITES ON SCREEN. T WILL ALSO DETECT IF YOU STRUM THE CORRECT CHORDS AT THE CORRECT TIMES AND INCREASE YOUR SCOY LOOKING RIGHT NOW, 'LL BE THINNING OUT THE GRAPHICS. VERALL, THINGS ARE GOING REALLY WELL. HE FRAMEWORK OF ALL THE CONTROLS AND GRAPHICS ARE PRETTY MUCH DONE, THERE IS ONLY THE BIG PROJECT LEFT OF INCORPORATING S IN AS THE SOURCE OF THE MUSIC, ANERT IT OVER TO A DIFFERENT USABLE FORMAT. ORE ON THAT LATER AFTER SOME CODE HAS BEEN WRITTEN. 3/4/07 ELL, GOT A FEW MORE THINGS DONE. S MENTION ON THE HREDZ64 PAGE, GRAPHICS ARE SIMPLE AND CONFINED TO AND SPRITES RIGHT NOW, NO HIGH RES SROLLER NOW, SO IF YOU PRESS A BUTTON ON THE GUITAR IT WILL LIGHT UP ON THE SCREEN. HAVE THE STRUM BAR JUST PLAYING A BEEP OUT OF THE 64 RIGHT NOW TO LET ME KNOW ITS WORKING. S CAN BE SEEN, ALSO DID A SIMPLE SPRITE TO REPRESENT THE NOTE/BUTTON AS IT SUCCESSFULLY READ/WRITE FILES/DISK IMAGES TO MY 64 FROM MY , READ/WRITE MEMORY, REMOTELY EXECUTE PROGRAMS, RUN DISK COMMANDS, ETC. HE REASON THIS IS RELATED TO HREDZ64 IS NOW CAN ACTUALLY TEST IT ON A REAL 64 WITH THE CONTROLLER AS OPPOSED TO ON GE A BIT. OTHING TOO FANCY, BUT WANTED TO CLEAN IT UP A BIT SO SOME SECTIONS WERE SEPARATED OUT. HIS PAGE WILL STILL SERVE AS A LOG OF THINGS 'M DOING. N TECHNICAL NEWS, 'VE GOT SOME GRAPHICAL ROUTINES DONE AND HAVE A FRETBOARD ON THE SCREEN WITH SCROLLING BUTTONS. CREENSHOTS LATER WHEN HAVE SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE TO SHOW. 2/21/07 OTS OF GOOD WORK AND NEWS GOING ON WITH THIS PROJECT, FIGURED IT WAS ABOUT TIME TO ACTUALLY UPDATE THIS PAGE WITH WHAT'S GOING ON.HE SOLDERED PROTOTYPE FOR THFIRST TRY. DO NEED TO COMPRESS THE FILES SOMEHOW, AT LEAST LOOK FOR REPEATING SEQUENCES, SINCE THEY GET PRETTY BIG. OPEFULLY FILESIZE WON'T END UP BEING AN IMPOSSIBLE ISSUE. UT HEARING MUSIC OUT OF THE GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME TONIGHT SURE WAS AWESOME WHEN OKAY ITS YELLOW, AND WHEN BAD ITS RED. HEN EMPTY ITS GAME OVER! (HOUGH DON'T HAVE A GAME OVER YET). OUR APPLAUSE INCREASES WHEN YOU CORRECTLY STRUM A NOTE, AND DECREASES IF YOU MISS A NOTE OR INCORRECTLY STRUM. ALSO FIXED UP SOME BUGS RECOGN DENTIST AND WORKED ON THINGS. HREDZ64 CAN NOW TAKE A (STATIC) LIST OF BUTTON DATA (E.G. BUTTONS TO BE PRESSED AT WHAT TIME AND IN WHAT ORDER) AND CORRECTLY SHOW IT ON THE SCREEN. OR INSTANCE, CAN ENCODE DATA THAT SAYS " GREEN BUTTON SHOULD BE PRESSRE UPON SUCCESS. 'VE ALSO ADDED A "HREDOCITY" METER THAT MIRRORS THE FUNCTIONALITY OF TAR OWER IN UITAR ERO FOR THE LAYSTATION. WILL SOON BE ADDING A CROWD METER THAT WILL DETERMINE HOW WELL YOU'RE PLAYING.. HE HREDOCITY METER IS A BIT CHUNKD THE SMALLER TASK OF READING THE SONG DATA FROM FILES ON DISK. MUSIC IS IRONICALLY INCREDIBLY HARD TO WORK WITH ON A 64 SINCE ITS JUST MACHINE CODE THAT WAS RIPPED FROM SOME OTHER PROGRAM, BUT HAVE PLANS INCORPORATING PLUGINS FOR TO CONVTUFF. WANT TO SAVE ALL THE PROCESSING POWER CAN FOR GOOD RESPONSE AND MUSIC. 'LL TWEAK UP THE SPRITES LATER ON, BUT FOR NOW THIS IS FINE. NYWAY - HAVE THE FRET BOARD SHOWING, AND BUTTON INDICATORS AT THE BOTTOM. HEY DO RESPOND TO THE GUITAR CONT SLIDES DOWN THE FRET BOARD. 3/2/07 HAD A DAY OFF FROM WORK TODAY, THOUGH ENDED UP SLEEPING PRETTY LATE AND NOT GETTING EVERYTHING DONE WANTED TO. DID, HOWEVER, BUILD A 64 CABLE AND GET CBMLINK INSTALLED AND RUNNING ON MY EBIAN BOX. OW CANLY THE EMULATOR WITH NO CONTROLLER. HE CABLE ISN'T TOO EXCITING LOOKING TO NO PICTURES, BUT IT DOES OPERATE ON A 4-BIT PARALLEL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE USER PORT AND THE PARALLEL PORT, AS OPPOSED TO A SERIAL CONNECTION. 2/27/07 ELL, UPDATED THE WEBPA E -> 64 ADAPTER IS NOW DONE, AS CAN BE SEEN HERE: HE CONVERTER NOW DOES THE FOLLOWING: 1. ETERMINES WHETHER A NORMAL CONTROLLER IS PLUGGED IN OR A GUITAR CONTROLLER, AND MAPS BUTTONS ACCORDINGLY 2. URNS ON ANALOG MODE FOR GUITAR CONTROLLER AND R (EXCEPT START AND SELECT BUTTON) 4. LLOWS BUTTON MACROS TO BE PROGRAMMED ONTO THE 1/2/1/2 BUTTONS IN CONTROLLER MODE, UP TO 127 BUTTON SEQUENCES MACRO 5. F THE USER SELECTS ANALOG MODE ON A NORMAL CONTROLLER, IT WILL MAP THE LEFT ANALOG STI U NTERVIEW WITH ONI ESTBROOK HREDZ64 REATOR - LEASE CAN YOU TELL OUR READER A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF 'M A 26 YEAR OLD DATABASE DEVELOPER LIVING IN A GREAT LITTLE CITY ON THE SEACOAST OF EW AMPSHIRE. 'VE BEEN A OMMODORE (AND  ICT - (ONCORD IS EW AMPSHIRE'S STATE CAPITAL). ENJOY IT AS IT ALLOWS METO WORK ON A WIDE RANGE OF PROJECTS. ALSO RUN A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY CALLED YNTHETIC REAMS IN MY OFF HOURS WHICH SPECIALIZES INDATABASE DEVELOPMENT AND NEURAL NETWONLY COMPUTER HAD UNTIL AGE 12, AND DID EVERYTHING COULD WITH IT. HAT LITTLE MACHINE WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE IN MY HEART, AS CORNY AS IT SOUNDS - EVEN THOUGH PARTS ARE FAILING NOW, 'LL ALWAYS KEEP IT. - HE HREDZ64 ROJECT WHAT IS HREDZ64, ACHINES 'VE NAMED THE 64, AND THE UITAR ERO LIKE GAME 'VE NAMED HREDZ64. HE ADAPTER IS GREAT, AS IN ADDITION TO HAVING EXTRA FUNCTIONALITY SPECIFIC TO THE UITAR ERO CONTROLLER, IT ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO USE NORMAL DUAL SHOCK CONTROLLERS WITH ANY  RELEASED THE SOURCE CODE OR SCHEMATICS FOR THE 64 ADAPTER YET - 'M WAITING FOR THE WHOLE PROJECT TO BE DONE AND ALL THELITTLE BUGS TO BE WORKED OUT. 'M NOT AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER BY ANY MEANS, HAVE MODERATE KNOWLEDGE OF MICROCONTROLLER PROGRAMMI 99% DONE; HAVE A TARGET DATE OF BEING DONE WITH EVEYTHING BY CTOBER/OVEMBER. - OUR READER MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF THE PLAYSTATION CAN YOU ENLIGTEN HIM ABOUT THE MACHINE HE LAYSTATION (R MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE 2/3) IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULA REDZ64 ROJECT OK ? WENT TO A OMMODORE CONFERENCE ('S ORLD OF OMMMODORE) IN ORONTO LAST ECEMBER AND REALIZED FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THERE WERE STILL A LOT OF PEOPLE INTERESTED IN USING OMMODORE MACHINES, EVEN TO THIS DAY. HERE WERE JUST A LOT OF IMAGINATIVE THINGS BEING DONE, NETWORK GAMES AND MIDI ADAPTERS AND JUST REALLY COOL NEW USES AND WAYS OF PUSHING THE64 TO ITS LIMITS. ROUND THE SAME TIME HAD READ ABOUT ERI LLSWORTH'S AMAZING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD, AND JUST GOT ( SUCCESSFULLY READS WHAMMY BAR. (PDATES LATER ABOUT GETTING THIS WORKING FOR ALL THOSE INTERESTED) 3. APS TRUM UP, TRUM DOWN, AND GUITAR LIFT UP TO STATIC VALUES ON ONE OF THE LINES, WHICH ALLOWS THE 64 TO RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM THE GUITAtCK TO THE NORMAL DIGITAL DIRECTIONS 6. ND CONVERTS ALL BUTTONS SUCCESSFULLY OF COURSE. ONTINUED IN 2 LLER MODE, UP TO 127 BUTTON SEQUENCES MACRO 5. F THE USER SELECTS ANALOG MODE ON A NORMAL CONTROLLER, IT WILL MAP THE LEFT ANALOG STICLASSIC COMPUTERS IN GENERAL) FANATIC SINCE MY FIRST 64. 'M A PRETTY BIG FAN OF LIFE IN GENERAL, AND "GEEKING OUT" WHENEVER POSSIBLE. - LEASE TELL OUR READER ABOUT YOUR FULL TIME JOB PROGRAM DATABASE AND WEB APPLICATIONS FOR ONCORD CHOOL ISTRRK SIMULATIONS. 'M PRETTY BUSY IN GENERAL, BUT ITS FUN STUFF. - OW DID YOU BECOME INVOLVED WITH THE OMMODORE 64 Y FAMILY PURCHASED A 64 WHEN WAS ABOUT 4, AND IT (AND COMPUTING IN GENERAL) PRETTY MUCH BECAME THE FOCUS OF MY LIFE. T WAS THE O HE HREDZ64 PROJECT IS A (SUCCESSFUL NOW) ATTEMPT TO CONNECT THE LAYSTATION UITAR ERO CONTROLLER TO A OMMODORE 64, AS WELL AS WRITE A UITAR ERO LIKE GAME USING THE CONTROLLER. HE ADAPTER BUILT TO CONNECT PLAYSTATION CONTROLLERS TO OMMODORE M64 (R MIGA, TARI, OR EGA ASTER YSTEM) GAME, AND ALLOWS PROGRAMMABLE MACROS AND SOME OTHER NEAT STUFF. T'S GREAT TO PLAY OLD GAMES WITH THE NEW PRECISION OF A GAME PAD. - HAT WOULD OUR READER NEED TO TRY OUT YOUR PROJECT URRENTLY HAVEN'TNG AND DIGITAL ELECTRONICS, SO EVEN THOUGH EVERYTHING WORKS, 'D LIKE TO CLEAN SOME THINGS UP PRIOR TO PUBLIC CONSUMPTION, MAYBE GET A FEW OPINIONS OF SOME PEOPLE MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE THAN MYSELF. IGHT NOW 'M FOCUSING ON THE GAME SINCE THE ADAPTER ISR CONSOLES ON THE MARKET, ALONG WITH ICROSOFT'S -OX LINE AND INTENDO'S AMEUBE / II SYSTEMS. HE LINE IS GREAT FUN, AS IMAGINATIVE ACCESSORIES LIKE THE UITAR ERO CONTROLLER, OR PADS, R OTHER DEVICES ARE ABUNDANT ON THE SYSTEM. - HE H AND STILL AM) REALLY EXCITED THAT WASN'T THE ONLY PERSON WHO STILL LOVED HIS/HER OMMODORE, AND DECIDED THAT WANTED TO ACTIVELY WORK ON SOMETHING LIKE THESE OTHER BRIGHT PEOPLE WERE. THINK UITAR ERO IS AN AWESOMELY FUN GAME, SO FIGURED THERE W THE 98% FUNCTIONAL PART DESCRIBES THE 64 ADAPTER. T CURRENTLY DETECTS IF YOU PLUG IN A NORMAL DUAL SHOCK CONTROLLER OR A GUITAR HERO CONTROLLER, AND OPERATES DIFFERENTLY ACCORDINGLY. F YOU PLUG IN A UAL SHOCK, IT ALLOWS YOU TO ASSIGN BUTTON MACRO BUTTONS OVER, AND ALSO ENCODES STRUM UP, STRUM DOWN, LIFT UP, AND THE WHAMMY BAR INTO THE TWO ANALOG POT LINES OF 9 PORT, WHICH HREDZ64 READS. EALLY, THE ONLY THING WANT TO CHANGE ABOUT THE ADAPTER IS PROTECTING THE - RIGHT NOW DUE TO A SMALL GAME JUST NEEDS TO BE FINISHED. URRENTLY, IT DRAWS THE FRET BOARD, READS NOTE DATA OFF FLOPPY DISK, GLIDES THE BUTTONS DOWN THE FRET BOARD AT THE RIGHT TIMES, READS IN BUTTONS BEING PRESSED ON THE GUITARCONTROLLER, INCREASES YOUR SCORE AND CROWD METER FE HREDOCITY METER (LIKE STAR POWER), MENUS, GENERAL CLEANUP - ADD BETTER GRAPHICS IF THERE IS ANY PROCESSING POWER LEFT. TS COMING ALONG REALLY NICELY IN GENERAL THOUGH. 'VE BEEN PROGRAMMING IT IN A MIX OF AND 6502 ASSEMBLY USING THE 65 COMPILERING TO DO SOME GRAPHICS, THAT'S ALWAYS NICE TOO. ONESTLY, UNTIL IT'S IN THE END PHASES, THERE WON'T BE TOO MUCH NEED OF EXTRA STUFF, BUT UNTIL THEN LIKE TO GET NOTES JUST TO KNOW PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED. - ILL THIS PROJECT BE "MASS PRODUCED" OR IS U'D NEED AN TMEL TMEGA PROGRAMMER, WHICH SOME PEOPLE HAVE, BUT IMAGINE MANY PEOPLE DON'T. O THOSE THAT DO COULD BUILD THE INTERFACE AND DOWNLOAD THE HEX/SOURCE FOR THE AND BURN IT ON, AND THOSE WHO DIDN'T COULD PURCHASE IT FROM ME. ONESTLYERING SO YEAH, FOR THESE PEOPLE ASSEMBLING THE 64 FOR A FEE WOULD WORK OUT. - AS THIS AN EASY PROJECT OR DID YOU ENCOUNTER SOME UNFORESEEN PROBLEMS ARTS WERE EASIER THAN THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO BE, AND OTHER PARTS WERE VERY DIFFICULT.  (EG FORCING IT INTO ANALOGUE MODE OR READING CURRENT MODE, VIBRATION, ETC), SEARCHED LONG AND HARD UNTIL FOUND IT. ONVERTING FILES TO SOMETHING USABLE IN A VERY CONTROLLED APPLICATION SUCH AS THIS ONE HAS BEEN VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY THE LEAST TOO. - LEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT THE DESIGN PROJECT - OW DOES SOMEONE START TO CREATE SUCH A PIECE OF ARDWARE HENEVER WORK ON PROJECTS LIKE THESE, JUST TAKE LITTLE STEPS. ITH THIS ONE, FIRST CREATED A LITTLE CIRCUIT AND FIRMWARE TO SEEAS NO REASON COULDN'T COMBINE THE TWO. HEN REALIZED HOW FREAKING COOL IT WOULD BE TO PLAY TUNES WITH A UITAR ERO CONTROLLER, AND WAS OFF AND RUNNING. ;) - THE WEBSITE SAYS ITS ABOUT 98% FUNCTIONLAL CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT THIS MEANS EAH, S TO THE 1/2/1/2 BUTTONS USING THE START BUTTON, AND CONVERTS /// AND OVER TO /// AND IRE, RESPECTIVELY. T ALSO CONVERTS THE LEFT ANALOG STICK OVER TO /// WHEN IN ANALOG MODE. F YOU PLUG A GUITAR HERO CONTROLLER IN, IT MAPS ALL THE DESIGN GLITCH, IF YOU PLUG IT INTO THE COMPUTER WITHOUT POWERING IT FROM THE WALL, IT TENDS TO ERASE THE PROGRAMMING ON THE . T JUST NEEDS A FEW DIODES AND ALL WILL BE "PERFECT". - HAT OTHER DEVELOPMENTS ARE THERE TO BE MADE TO THE PROJECT HE OR CORRECTLY PLAYING NOTES, DECREASES YOUR CROWD METER FOR INCORRECTLY PLAYED NOTES, AND READS MUSIC () DATA FROM DISK. T CURRENTLY PLAYS THE MUSIC TOO, BUT THE TIMING IS OFF AS ITS NOT DONE. NEED TO COMPLETE THE CONVERTER/PLAYER, AND THEN TH ON MY EBIAN INUX BOX AND A 64 CABLE. - F OUR READER IS WANTING TO BECOME INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT WHAT WOULD HE NEED TO DO TO HELP OUT UST FRIENDLY WORDS OF SUPPORT ARE GREAT! 'VE HAD A COUPLE PEOPLE WRITE WITH SOME HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS, OR WILLIT JUST ESIGNED TO BE A EFFORT HAVEN'T REALLY DECIDED ABOUT THIS YET. WILL PROBABLY RELEASE EVERYTHING AS PUBLIC DOMAIN, AND THEN OFFER TO BUILD THE 64 ADAPTER FOR A FEE. T'S ROUGH WITH THE 64 ADAPTER, AS IF YOU WANTED TO BUILD ONE, YO, 'M NOT SURE YET, BUT WILL GET EVERYTHING OUT THERE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER! :) - UR READER MAY BE THINKING "I HAVE ALL THE PARTS NEEDED BUT CANT SOLDER" CAN YOU PROVIDE HIM WITH AN INTERFACE HATS THE OTHER THING, SOME PEOPLE AREN'T BIG FANS OF SOLDHAD A HARD TIME FINDING DOCUMENTATION ABOUT THE PROTOCOL THE CONTROLLER'S USE. HERE ARE LOTS OF SITES WITH GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PINS AND BASIC CONTROL CODES FOR READING IN DIRECTIONS, BUT WHEN IT CAME TO SENDING COMMANDS TO THE CONTROLLER,  IF COULD READ THE BUTTONS BEING PRESSED ON A CONTROLLER. HEN ADDED TO READ THE UITAR ERO CONTROLLER. HEN MADE IT PLAY NOTES ON A SMALL SPEAKER. HEN IT BASICALLY JUST GREW AND GREW UNTIL THE ADAPTER WAS FULLY FUNCTIONAL, THEN STARTED  'M WORKING ON A NUMBER OF NON-OMMODORE PROJECTS, BUT THEY AREN'T AS FUN - MOSTLY DATABASE RELATED. HAVE AN ONGOING PROJECT OF BUILDING N ACCURATE BIOLOGICAL NEURAL NETWORK EMULATOR WHICH IS ONE OF THOSE LIFELONG THINGS, 'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR ABO 64, AS WELL AS ANOTHER 64 AND A NEWER 64. HAVE A IC-20, A -128, AND A -64 (GREAT MACHINE). N THE MIGA LINE, HAVE A 1000, 500, 2000, 2500, AND AN 1200. ALSO HAVE A OMMODORE 286 PECIAL DITION. HAVE A RANGE OF PPLES, TARIS AND  TO DAY ACTIVITIES, BUT CAN'T GO TOO LONG WITHOUT TURNING THEM ON AND PLAYING SOME GAMES OR JUST MESSING AROUND. - K ALWAYS LIKE TO ASK "WHY DID YOU THINK OMMODORE WENT WRONG" THINK THIS IS A VERY COMPLICATED QUESTION, AND ONLY KNOW WHAT 'VMARKET, AND THE PEOPLE WHO CONTROLLED THE MONEY JUST KEPT MAKING ABSOLUTELY BIZARRE AND ESTRUCTIVE DECISIONS. ERE WAS A BUSINESS THAT HAD ITS OWN CHIP MAKING FACILITY, HAD THE #1 SELLING COMPUTER (OF ALL TIME, TO THIS DAY), AND COULD HAVE KEPT GOING MACHINE, IF THEY THINK OF IT AT ALL. WOULD LOVE TO SEE A WORLD WHERE OMMODORE MADE IT. - ND " WHAT WOULD YOU DO I YOU WON 1 MILLIONPOUNDS" IRST THING 'D CONVERT IT TO MERICAN CURRENCY, RUN MY BUSINESS FULL TIME, AND HOPEFULLY MAKE AS BIG OF ANU OMMODORE 2 HE 2 DEVICE T HAS ALWAYS BEEN TRICKY TO TRANSFER DATA BETWEEN A AND A OMMODORE 64. S THE OLD MACHINE LACKS ANY EVEN REMOTELY MODERN INTERFACES, TRICKS OF SOME SORT ARE ALWAYS REQUIRED TO DO THE TRANSFER. H2 IS BOTH GREATLY LIMITED AND GREATLY EXTENDED IN FEATURES WHEN COMPARING TO THE ORIGINAL 1541: EATURES: UPPORTS 64 KERNEL AND FUNCTIONS. UPPORTS WILDCARDS. UPPORTS ALL? AND CARDS. P TO 1 TESTED. HOROUGH 16 AND 32  TING. IMITATIONS: O FAST LOADER SUPPORT. ONE OF THE OMMODORE FUNCTIONS BESIDE AND WORKS. EW, IF ANY, 64 GAMES WITH LOADERS WORK. O LONG FILENAMES. CARD WRITE PROTECT SWITCH NOT (YET) IMPLEMENTED... ACKGROUND AND CREDITS HE IDEA OF TRANSFERRING DATA TO THE 64 FROM A FLASH MEDIA WAS CONCEIVED LONG AGO AS DID AN UNIVERSITY PROJECT. N COOPERATION WITH OTHER STUDENTS WE CREATED A DATA LOGGER INTERFACING A -CARD USING AN . HE -CARD DATA ACCESS AND DRIVER MODULES WERON THE GAME. TS EASY TO GET OVERWHELMED, BUT ITS FUN WHEN YOU SPLIT IT INTO SMALLER PROJECTS, AND EASIER TO DEAL WITH THE FRUSTRATION WHEN THINGS DON'T WORK SOMETIMES (OFTEN TIMES). - RE YOU WORKING IN ANY OTHER PROJECTS OMMODORE OR NONE OMMODOREUT 10-12 YEARS. IS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE AREAS THAT'S ALWAYS INTERESTED ME. - O YOU OWN ANY OTHER OMMODORE OMPUTERS APART FROM THE OMMODORE 64 USED IN THE PROJECT H GOODNESS YEAH - COLLECT CLASSIC COMPUTERS. OR OMMODORES, HAVE MY FIRST-80S, BUT THE OMMODORES ARE MY FAVOURITES BY FAR. - O YOU ACTIVELY USE OMMODORE MACHINES N MY WORK AREA, HAVE MY 64 AND MY MIGA 1200 RIGHT NEXT TO MY EBIAN AND IN2003 ERVER USE FOR MY BUSINESS. DON'T NECESSARILY USE THEM IN MY DAY E READ, BUT A LOT OF IT HAD TO DO WITH PEOPLE IN POWER LIKE RVING OULD AND EVEN ACK RAMIEL IN THE EARLY DAYS TO A CERTAIN EXTENT. T JUST SEEMS LIKE OMMODORE HAD ALL THESE BRILLIANT MINDS, AMAZING POTENTIAL, THE POWER TO ABSOLUTELY RULE THE ENTIRE WITH THE MIGA - A MACHINE THAT WAS YEARS AHEAD OF ITS TIME. T'S REALLY SAD, AND WHAT'S EVEN MORE SAD IS THE REVISIONIST HISTORY OF PPLE BEING THESE VISIONARIES AND ALL THE REST OF THE GARBAGE YOU HEAR. OST PEOPLE TODAY THINK OF OMMODORE AS A GAMING M IMPACT ON THE WORLD AS OMMODORE DID. :) ...END.. WWW.COMMODREFREE.COM DORE MADE IT. - ND " WHAT WOULD YOU DO I YOU WON 1 MILLIONPOUNDS" IRST THING 'D CONVERT IT TO MERICAN CURRENCY, RUN MY BUSINESS FULL TIME, AND HOPEFULLY MAKE AS BIG OF ANE 2 DEVICE CAN BE SEEN AS YET ANOTHER ONE OF THESE TRICKS, BUT IT DOES SO MUCH MORE. ESCRIPTION HE 2 DEVICE TRIES TO SIMULATE A 1541 DISK DRIVE CONNECTED TO THE 64 USING THE BUS AND ACCESSING DATA FROM A / FLASH MEMORY CARD. HE SUPPORT. IRECTORY LISTING AND CHANGING SUPPORTED THROUGH COMMANDS. FILE LOAD AND SAVE. 64 IMAGE READONLY SUPPORT. "$" PRODUCES A REALISTIC LISTING WHEN A 64 IMAGE IS ACTIVE. 64 IMAGE READONLY SUPPORT. "$" PRODUCES A TAPE CONTENTS LIS E CREATED BACK THEN AND THEY WERE THOROUGHLY TESTED. HE DRIVER IS NOT COMPLETELY MY OWN INVENTION, IT IS A PARTIAL REWRITE OF WORK DONE BY NGELO ANNACK AND IORDANO RUNO OLANIUK WHO USED WORK DONE BY ASCAL TANG. EE FAT.C FOR DETAILS. T SOME N ATTEMPT TO PORT EROGEE'S 1541- FROM TO THE TMEL ARCHITECTURE SUCH THAT COULD COMBINE IT WITH MY AND -CARD MODULES. OON ENOUGH GAVE UP THE PORTING AND IMPLEMENTED THE AND 1541SIMULATION FROM SCRATCH, BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IM S PROJECT IS OPEN SOURCE UNDER THE LICENSE. SAGE GUIDE HE 2 DEVICE IMPLEMENTS ACCESSING 16/32 FILESYSTEMS ON OR FLASH MEDIA. HE PROTOCOL IS IMPLEMENTED AND THE KERNEL LOAD AND SAVE ROUTINES ON THE 64 WORKS, LOADING FROM E II BACK-ARROW. "<<",8 ESET CARD STATE. O THIS IF THE CARD IS EXCHANGED. N MODE: (THE DEFAULT MODE) "$",8 ETS DIRECTORY LISTING, EQUIVALENT TO ".",8 "GAMESDIR",8 NTER THE "GAMESDIR" DIRECTORY, AND GET LISTING. "..",8S THE TAPE.T64 IMAGE AND ENTERS 64 MODE. N 64 MODE: OAD "$", "*", WILDCARDS, FILENAMES WORKS (ALMOST) AS ESPECTED ON A 1541. "<",8 (BACK-ARROW). SCAPE 64 MODE, AND BACK TO MODE. "ABC",8 OOLS THE , BUT HAS NO EFFECT. AVES IN 64 ILED INFORMATION ABOUT MY 2 DEVICE IS ALSO TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO MAKE THEIR OWN DEVICES. WOULD BE HAPPY IF OTHERS BENEFIT FROM MY WORK ON THE 2 PROJECT. LL REQUIRE IS THAT PROPER CREDITS ARE GIVEN. F YOU BUILD A 2 DEVICE OR JUST U NTERVIEW WITH HAUN EBBINGTON ETRO PROMOTER AND RITER 2 ) ERE YOU UPSET AND BITTER ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE AT IVE UBLISHING? ) T SEEMS POPULAR TO HATE IVE UBLISHING TO BE HONEST, AND ALTHOUGH THERE WAS ONE OR TWO PEOPLE WO ARTYN TRYING TO KEEP THE PEACE AS MUCH AS ANYTHING ELSE. UT OF COURSE LOOSING YOUR JOB IS ALWAYS UPSETTING; HOWEVER THERE WAS SIMPLY NO MORE COULD DO THERE. HAD WRITTEN ALL OF THE FEATURES THAT WANTED TO, AND DIDN'T LIKE PENNING ANYTHING ABOVE 3 WRITTEN ALL OF THE FEATURES ON MY WISH LIST, SO THERE IS NOTHING ELSE BUT ICRO ART. T IS TIME FOR OTHERS TO SHINE. ) RE YOU STILL OWED ANY MONEY, AND DID IT ALL FINISH ON FRIENDLY TERMS? ) 'M OWED MONEY FROM IVE AND ARAGON, NOT THAT CARE MUCH ABOUT THAT NOW OR EVEN THEN. OTHING CAN OR COULD DO, YOU SEE. HOUGH WASN'T HAPPY AT FIRST WHEN MAGINE PURCHASED G AS THEY PRINTED MY WORK WITHOUT CREDITING ME. HEY'VE REPRINTED STUFF SINCE WITHOUT ANY CREDIT TO ME, BUT THIS WORKS OUT FOR T POINT DISCOVERED AN EROGEE'S 1541- DEVICE WHICH WAS A MAJOR INSPIRATION. EFORE THAT CONSIDERED CREATING A 64 DATASETTE SIMULATOR, BUT THE 1541- MADE ME REALISE THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE TO SIMULATE A 1541. HE 2 PROJECT THUS STARTED AS APOSSIBLE WITHOUT REFERRING TO EROGEE'S PROJECT ALL THE TIME. T A LATER POINT REALISED THAT THE 2 WAS PERFECTLY SUITED FOR EMBEDDING IN A 64- MOD. ND SO FAR HAVE ONLY TESTED THE 2 ON A IN CONJUNCTION WITH MY OODEN MOD. HIITHER , 64 OR 64 FILES, AND SAVING ONLY TO TYPE FILES IN . ELECTING DIRECTORIES AND IMAGES IS POSSIBLE THROUGH "XXX" COMMANDS ISSUED ON THE . HIS IS A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE COMMANDS, SAY 2 IS DEVICE 8: EAD < AS THE PETSC P ONE DIRECTORY AND GET DIRECTORY LISTING. "TETRIS.PRG",8 OADS THE "TETRIS.PRG" PROGRAM FILE. "EXAMPLE.PRG",8 AVE INTO "EXAMPLE.PRG" WHICH IS A FILE. "DISK.D64",8 OADS THE DISK.D64 IMAGE AND ENTERS 64 MODE. "TAPE.T64",8 OADARE NOT IMPLEMENTED N 64 MODE: OAD "$", "*", WILDCARDS, FILENAMES WORKS AS IF IT WAS A 64. "<",8 (BACK-ARROW). SCAPE 64 MODE, AND BACK TO MODE. "ABC",8 OOLS THE , BUT HAS NO EFFECT. AKE YOUR OWN 2? ELEASING ALL THIS DETAUSE SOME OF THE CODE MODULES, PLEASE EMAIL ME WITH YOUR EXPERIENCES. WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU IMPROVE THE CODE. APPY ACKING! Y ARS ONTOPPIDAN EB 2007 HTTP://PONTOPPIDAN.INFO/LARS/INDEX.PHP ?PROJ=MMC2IEC ...END... WWW.COMMODOREFREE.COM ULDN'T WANT TO SPEAK TO AGAIN, THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE STAFF THERE WERE FRIENDLY, CREATIVE AND JUST GOOD PEOPLE. WAS MORE FRUSTRATED WITH THE JOB THAN ANYTHING ELSE IF TRUTH BE KNOWN. HE FREELANCERS HAD TOO MUCH POWER IN MY OPINION, HOWEVER THAT WAS,000 WORDS ANYWAY AS WOULD LOOSE INTEREST QUICKLY. IVE LIKED LONG FEATURES AND THAT WAS THAT. HE G WORD LIMITS AND HOUSE STYLE ARE MORE LIKE WHAT SUITES ME, AS PROVED WITH THE -20 AND 81 FEATURES THAT WROTE FOR THEM. UT NOW REALLY HAVE HE BEST ANYWAY. EOPLE ASK QUESTIONS WHEN MY NAME APPEARS IN OTHER PLACES APART FROM ICRO ART, AND ONLY INTEND TO WRITE NEW WORK FOR ICRO ART THESE DAYS AS FEEL MUCH FREER THAT WAY. ) OU PROMOTE ALL RETRO MACHINES. HAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE MACH PECCY, BUT THEN PREFER MERICAN MACHINES WITH REAL HARDWARE SUCH AS SOUND AND GRAPHIC CHIPS. NYWAY, THAT'S NOT SAYING THAT HATE THE PECCY. O THERE YOU GO, DON'T HAVE A DEFINITIVE ANSWER, WHICH SAYS A LOT. S LONG AS THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON,  SPECIFICALLY, BUT A LOT OF HIS WORK SEEMS TO BE THE SAME IDEA AGAIN AND AGAIN WITH VERY LITTLE THOUGHT PUT INTO THE WHOLE THING. OVE A SPRITE AND COLLECT DIAMONDS, THAT SORT OF THING. ROTOVISION AT LEAST TRY TO THINK OF WHAT TO DO NEXT. OUR-PLAYER  REW. AKE INBALL REAMS 64, THIS WOULDN'T HAVE EVEN BEEN POSSIBLE 15 YEARS AGO, OR WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTED AT LEAST. UT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DEMO YOU CAN SEE IT'S GOING TO BE GOOD. O QUALITY IS VARIED, BUT THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE FOR AS LONGND ULTIMATELY GROW THAT NICHE, WHICH WILL IN TURN BRING ABOUT MORE NEW SOFTWARE, SO EVERYONE'S A WINNER. S FOR ROOM FOR OTHERS, OF COURSE THERE IS. RONOSOFT SELL OMMODORE SOFTWARE TOO. ) HAT OTHER CURRENT SOFTWARE CREATORS DO YOU RATE FOR OMMODORTHINK OF MANY GAMES THAT ARE AS ORIGINAL AS SOMETHING THAT HAS PRODUCED FOR THE PECCY WITH ITS NON-EXISTENT SUPPORT HARDWARE. -20 FANS SHOULD ALSO CHECK OUT STRO ELL FROM RONOSOFT, WHICH IS AMAZING. HERE'S ALSO OVERTITPS ETAL ARRIOR GAMEBUY, WHICH IS WHY REVIEWS ARE SO IMPORTANT. O TELL ME IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ANY REVIEW THAT WRITE PLEASE, EITHER BY EMAILING IN OR USING THE ICRO ART FORUMS. ) HAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE GAME? ) KAY, MY FIVE FAVOURITES FOR 8-BITS WOULD READ SOMETH SEMI-REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR, YES. T WAS A DARK DAY WHEN LLAN CLOSED OMMODORE CENE, BUT WHO COULD BLAME HIM WHEN NO ONE WANTED TO SUPPORT IT? OT . ) LLAN SAID HE EMAILED OVER 300 USERS BUT ONLY 12 TOOK SUBSCRIPTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO COMMENT? )  L THE MAGAZINE HAS PROGRESSED? ND HOW COULD IMPROVE THE MAGAZINE? ) OMMODORE REE IS PROGRESSING REALLY WELL. T LACKS THE POLISH OF A PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTION, WHICH IS WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT TO BE HONEST, BUT IT HAS BAGS OF ENTHUSIASM AND INTERESTING FEATURES. S FOR IMPROVING, WELL JUST LET THINGS FLOW AND IF IN FOUR OR FIVE ISSUES TIME YOU FEEL YOU'VE MADE LITTLE OR NO PROGRESS, THEN WE CAN TALK. ) O YOU READ OMMODORE REE MAGAZINE? KNOW YOU ARE PRESSED FOR TIME WITH OTHER PROJECTS. )INE? ) ANY FOR DIFFERENT REASONS. HAVE A REAL SOFT SPOT FOR THE / AND ESPECIALLY THE -20. HE IS MY FAVOURITE OMMODORE MACHINE THINK, CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY THE 128. 'M PROBABLY MORE OF A FAN OF ONATHAN AULDWELL'S WORK THAN OF THE 'M INTERESTED. ) HAT DO YOU THINK OF THE CURRENT RETRO SCENE, FOR EXAMPLE, NEW RELEASES FROM ROTOVISION? ND HOW DO YOU RATE THE QUALITY OF SUCH SOFTWARE? ) LOVE NEW SOFTWARE AS LONG AS IT'S WORTHWHILE. DON'T WANT TO PICK ON ICHARD AYLISS -, FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE GAME AT LEAST IT'S NOT JUST ANOTHER BASIC - CLONE. UT THEN SUPPOSE SOMETHING IS WORTH DOING AS LONG AS YOU GET THE IMPORTANT GAME MECHANIC RIGHT, WHICH HAPPENS MORE OFTEN THAN NOT WITH REGARD TO HOME-B AS THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE. ) ROTOVISIONS GAMES ARE OF A VERY HIGH STANDARD. O YOU THINK THEY HAVE A GOOD MARKET OR A NICHE, ARE THERE ROOM FOR OTHER SOFTWARE PRODUCERS? ) T'S A NICHE, BUT WANT TO HELP TO SPREAD THE WORD AE? AYBE OUR READER HAS MISSED SOME PRODUCTS. ) LIKE ASON ELK'S WORK. IOLUMN WAS EXCELLENT FOR THE -20, AND HE SEEMS TO GET IT RIGHT MORE OFTEN THAN NOT EVEN IF THEY'RE NOT QUITE AS ORIGINAL AS SAY A AULDWELL PRODUCTION. O BE FAIR, CAN'T S EVERY 64 FAN SHOULD PLAY THESE, AND IT FEELS LIKE EVERYONE IS AWAITING INBALL REAMS 64. ERIOUSLY, LOOK AROUND AND GET DOWNLOADING. F YOU DOWNLOAD SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T LIKE THEN YOU HAVEN'T LOST ANYTHING. T'S A BIT DIFFERENT IF YOU PLAN TO ING LIKE URRICAN (64), AME HE AMES XCHANGE ( PECTRUM), STRO ELL (-20), TUNT AR ACER (64) AND ELTA (64). ) OU WERE A STAFF WRITER FOR OMMODORE CENE, ARE YOU SAD NOW THE MAGAZINE CLOSED? ) TAFF WRITER IS A BIT RICH. WAS AN ADVERTISING TERMS, THAT'S A GOOD RETURN, BUT UNFORTUNATELY NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR LLAN TO CONTINUE, WHICH IS SAD. ) KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN PUSHING OMMODORE REE MAGAZINE, AND SUSPECT THIS IS WHY HAVE HAD SO MANY LETTERS AND READERS. OW DO YOU FEE NSIDER NONE RETRO FOR EXAMPLE OMB AIDER. KNOW GETTING REVENUE IS IMPORTANT BUT THE MAGAZINE SEEMS TO SPEND A LOT OF PAGES COVERING REMAKES AND "NEW GAMES". DON'T MIND NEW GAMES FOR RETRO MACHINES BUT COVERING LAYTATION 2 AND BOX GAMES ARE THESE  T THE MOMENT, WORK SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, BUT DO READ IT. OT COVER TO COVER, 'D HAVE TO ADMIT. IME WON'T ALLOW UNFORTUNATELY. LIKE WHAT SEE THOUGH. ) RE YOU STILL ACTIVE AS A CODER AND MUSICIAN? HAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU WORKED ON? )  THAN TO PRE-EMPT AND THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE A GRAND PLAN FOR THE MAGAZINE. OT THAT THERE EVER WAS, BUT WHEN ARTYN WAS IN THE EDITORS CHAIR, HE WOULD EDIT STUFF TO DEATH SO THAT THE MAGAZINE HAD A CERTAIN FLOW TO IT, WHICH IS PERHAPS WHAT IS MISSING. SOON. ) AN YOU TELL OUR READER ABOUT SOME OF YOUR CODING AND MUSIC WORK? ) HAVE A FEW SCRAPS OF CODE KNOCKING ABOUT. ONCE WROTE A NOTER FOR MY OWN PURPOSES BUT 'VE NEVER REALLY DONE ANYTHING GOOD. EAL LIFE TAKES OVER UNFORTUNATELY. S FOR MYARKET, SO WHY IGNORE NICHE PARTS OF THAT NICHE MARKET? HAT TO ME DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. ) OU WERE TRYING TO PUBLISH A RETRO MAGAZINE, BUT THE BACKING WAS PULLED. AN YOU TELL OUR READERS ABOUT THE PROJECT? LSO THERE WAS A SAMPLE ISSUE 1 THAT WAS A REAECE OF MUSIC THAT HAVE WRITTEN. ) O HAVE A HANDLE OUR READER WOULD RECOGNISE? ) O. ) HY DO PEOPLE USE A ANDLE AND NOT JUST YOUR REAL NAME, WHAT IS THE POINT? ) OMETHING TO DO WITH THE HERITAGE OF THE SCENE. DON'T BOTHER BECAUSE 'VEE, BUT TO COVER AS MANY NICHES AS POSSIBLE, INCLUDING DEMO CODING AND REMAKES, EVEN THOUGH 'M NOT A BIG FAN OF EITHER. HE IDEA WAS TO THEME EACH ISSUE AROUND A FEW MAIN SUBJECTS AND TO HAVE REGULAR NEWS AND SUCH LIKE. HE SAMPLE ISSUE SHOULD STILL BE AMAYBE YOU COULD USE THIS FOR YOUR ANDLE? ) NTERESTING, 'M CURRENTLY CLEANLY SHAVEN WITH STRAIGHT HAIR. ERHAPS PEOPLE WILL START CALLING ME THAT NOW. ) ACK TO ETRO GAMING, ETRO AMER MAGAZINE SEEMS TO COVER PLATFORMS AND GAMES THAT WOULD CO F PROJECT LIKE THE AME VER(VIEW) REESTYLE AMING AM, AS IN OFFER MONEY FOR THE BEST GAME(S) OVER DIFFERENT FORMATS. OR ME, HOME-BREW GAMING IS THE FUTURE AT LEAST FOR PEOPLE WHO CHOOSE TO USE THEIR OLD COMPUTERS RATHER THAN JUST SELL/COLLECT/TRADE T HEM. ) OMMODORE CENE'S OOM CHALLENGE HAS NOW ENDED BECAUSE OF LACK OF INTEREST FROM DEVELOPERS, BUT DO YOU STILL FEEL IT IS A VALID PROJECT DO YOU THINK WE WILL EVER SEE OOM RUNNING ON THE OMMODORE 64? ) VERY PROJECT OR CHALLENGE IS VALID. MREALLY RETRO - WOULD YOU LIKE TO COMMENT? ) HE BEST PERIOD OF IN TERMS OF BALANCE WAS THE "OL 2" ERA BETWEEN ISSUES 12 AND 18 IF REMEMBER CORRECTLY. HE CURRENT MAGAZINE IS DOING A LOT RIGHT, BUT ALSO MISSING SOMETHING. T SEEMS TO REACT RATHERCAN CODE A LITTLE, AND WOULD LIKE TO FINALLY WRITE SOMETHING DECENT. UT NEED FIRST MY OWN PLACE AND THINK THINGS COULD HAPPEN FROM THERE. S FOR MY MUSIC, HAVEN'T PICKED UP A GUITAR OR BASS FOR A GOOD WHILE. GAIN, SOMETHING HOPE TO PUT RIGHT  ) STILL WISH THEY WOULD CHANGE THE MAGAZINE TO RETRO COMPUTING AND COVER RETRO MACHINES AND NEW HARDWARE AND OPERATING SYSTEMS. HAT DO YOU THINK? ) HERE SHOULD BE SPACE FOR EVERYTHING IN THE MAGAZINE AT SOME POINT. ETRO IS IN ITSELF A NICHE M MUSIC, DID COMPOSE SOME TUNES A LONG TIME AGO 14 YEARS TO BE EXACT. DON'T KNOW IF THEY WERE ANY GOOD, BUT KNOW THAT THEY HAVE BEEN LOST FOREVER AT LEAST IN THEIR BINARY FORM. CAN REMEMBER THE COMPOSITION THOUGH. DON'T TEND TO FORGET A PILLY GOOD READ. S THIS STILL AVAILABLE AND WILL THERE BE OTHERS? ) HE PROJECT WAS CALLED ETRO:YTES. WAS TRYING TO ACHIEVE A PUBLICATION THAT HAD WELL BALANCED CONTENT, NOT NECESSARILY TO PLEASE EVERYONE ALL OF THE TIME AS THIS IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBL NOT ACTUALLY DONE ANYTHING WORTHWHILE BUT WRITE FOR SOME MAGAZINES. ) Y WIFE THINKS YOUR HANDLE SHOULD BE "UZZY EAR" AS YOU REMIND HER OF THE UPPET CHARACTER BECAUSE YOU HAD A STUBBLY BEARD AND LONG CURLY HAIR. THINK IT WAS MEANT IN GOOD JEST; VAILABLE FROM LICK AMER, BUT WAS PRODUCED SIMPLY AS A STOP-GAP. S FOR THE FUTURE OF THE PROJECT, 'M UNABLE TO COMMENT AT THE MOMENT. ) F YOU WERE GIVEN 1 MILLION POUNDS WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH THE MONEY? ) LEAR DEBTS AND LOOK TO DO SOME SORT O ESE PAST YEARS. HOPE TO CONTINUE FOR A LITTLE WHILE YET. ) HAUN THANK YOU, READERS SUGGEST YOU EMAIL EDITOR@MICROMART.CO.UK AND ASK WHY IS THERE ONLY 1 PAGE DEDICATED TO RETRO COMPUTING. OU MAY BE INTERESTED TO LEARN WROTE AN ARTICLE FOR IC AGINE IF AVE ACLEOD HAD NOT BOTHERED WITH HIS LITTLE -11 PROJECT, FOR INSTANCE. HE WORLD OF CLIMBING WOULD BE A WORSE PLACE FOR IT. UT HE DID IT IN THE END, AND NOW THE MOST DIFFICULT TRADITIONAL ROCK CLIMB IN THE WORLD IS OFFICIALLY IN COTLAND THA A6C8-F5 67007946DE&FEATUREID=1421 EVALUATED THE CURRENT STATE OF COMPUTER GAMES WITH THE TITLE "IGEL ARKER EVALUATES RETRO GAMING FOR THE OMMODORE 64 AND PONDERS THE FUTURE OF THE TECHNOLOGY." HEN IT ALL WENT DOWNHILL AND STARTED PRODUCING OM U ENLIGHTEN THEM? ) HE CODING COMPETITION WAS AIMED AT SIMPLY PROMOTING DEVELOPMENT FOR A PIECE OF OMMODORE 64 AND 128 HARDWARE CALLED THE UPER. HIS ADDS A 20HZ 65C816S PROCESSOR TO THE MACHINE AND GIVES ANY CODER A LITTLE BIT MORE PROCESSOR T U NTERVIEW WITH EKAN UNDELL OMPUTERBRAINS SS64 HTTP://WWW.COMPUTERBRAINS.COM/ - LEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO OUR READER ORN 1968, FAMILY FATHER, BOTH PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC CARRIER (H), CURRENTLY WORKS AS A SENIOR LECTURE U HAVE ANY FINAL THINGS TO SAY? ) ES, IF YOU OWN A PIECE OF HARDWARE THEN USE IT. F YOU LIKE PLAYING RETRO GAMES ON YOUR OMMODORE, WHY NOT TRY SOME OF THE GAMES AVAILABLE FROM ROTOVISION OR RONOSOFT? OU MIGHT BE SURPRISED. ND DON'T MOAN WHEN TH TELY WAS BY FAR TOO EXPENSIVE. N 1982, WE BORROWED A IC20 OVER THE SUMMER, WHICH WAS REALLY FASCINATED WITH AND USED 24/7. - O YOU OWN ANY EAL OMMODORE HARDWARE AND DO YOU STILL ACTIVELY USE IT, AND WHAT FOR OWN A LOT, LIKE A IC20, SEVERAL HARDWARE THEN? OU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE GOT UNTIL IT'S GONE, NEVER A TRUER SAYING THAT. ANTING ASIDE FOR A MINUTE, 'D LIKE TO SAY THANK-YOU ALL FOR PUTTING UP WITH MY RAMBLINGS HERE, AND THANK-YOU TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE READ AND ENJOYED MY WORK TH FIND ONE O, THAT WOULDN'T BE VERY LIKELY. OWEVER, THERE COULD PROBABLY STILL BE SOME 64 OUT THERE STILL CONTROLLING SOME CONNECTED MACHINE OR EQUIPMENT. - LEASE ELL OUR READER ABOUT OMPUTERBRAINS, WHO ARE YOU ALL AND IS THE 64 EMULATOR THE O!NLY PROJECT YOU FOCUS ON OMPUTERBRAINS WAS BASICALLY ABOUT THE SCENE IN THE PAST. OWADAYS, 64 IS THE ONLY PROJECT IN FOCUS. - WHEN WAS THE SOFTWARE FIRST DEVELOPED N 1995. - HE 64 SOFTWARE, SOME READERS MAY NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH IT CAN Y ROMART MAGAZINE, HAUN DECIDED THE ARTICLE WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO PUBLISH AND SO WAS FAMED IN PRINT IN A REAL MAGAZINE. F YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ THE ARTICLE IT CAN BE VIEWED FROM HERE HTTP://WWW.MICROMART.CO.UK/DEFAULT.ASP X?CONTENTID=0A437AF8-B1F5-4FFC- NKS TO HIS MAGNANIMOUS EFFORTS. O, OOM IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DO ON A 64 WITH A UPER; IS THERE DEFINITIVE PROOF FOR THIS? ) OU WERE PROMOTING A CODING COMPETITION WHAT HAPPENED HAS THIS ENDED? OME USERS MAY NEED REMINDING WHAT IS COULD YO:MODORE REE MAGAZINE ...END... WWW.COMMODOREFREE.COM T STATE OF COMPUTER GAMES WITH THE TITLE "IGEL ARKER EVALUATES RETRO GAMING FOR THE OMMODORE 64 AND PONDERS THE FUTURE OF THE TECHNOLOGY." HEN IT ALL WENT DOWNHILL AND STARTED PRODUCING OM IME TO PLAY AROUND WITH. OU CAN ALSO ADD 16B'S OF , AND THERE'S A WHOLE NEW SET OF OP-CODES TO LEARN SHOULD YOU WANT TO. HE COMPETITION WAS HALTED DUE TO THE CHANGES IN MY LIFE, BUT IT MIGHT BE REOPENED WHEN EVERYTHING IS FINALLY SORTED. ) O YO R (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR) IN PROGRAMMING. AVE BEEN PROGRAMMING SINCE 1982, BASICALLY SELF-LEARNED, STARTED WITH ASSEMBLER. - AN YOU TELL OUR READER HOW YOU WERE FIRST INTRODUCED TO OMMODORE N THE BEGINNING OF THE 80'S SAW THE , WHICH UNFORTUNA INGS DISAPPEAR. EOPLE MOAN THAT THEY CAN'T BUY HARDWARE ANYMORE. AIR ENOUGH IF YOU'VE JUST RETURNED TO OMMODORE AND HAVE JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THE HARDWARE, BUT IF YOU WERE USING YOUR OMMODORE WHEN WERE STILL OPERATING, WHY DIDN'T YOU BUY THE  64'S AND SEVERAL MIGA'S, TOGETHER WITH A LOT OF RELATED STUFF. ASICALLY KEEP THEM FOR REFERENCE, AS WELL AS FOR NOSTALGIA PURPOSES. - I AM STILL TRYING TO FIND A COMPANY THAT OPERATES SOLELY BY USING OMMODORE MACHINES, DO YOU THINK WILL EVER ! UNNING THE SITE AND COMPUTER EQUIPMENT. - S THE 64 SOFTWARE STILL BEING DEVELOPED OR DO YOU THINK ITS NOW 100% COMPLETE HERE IS ALWAYS MORE TO DO. - AN SOFTWARE EMULATION EVER BE 100% FINISHED? O, THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING MORE TO DO, LIK! OU EXPLAIN WHAT IT DOES T MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO RUN OLD 64 SOFTWARE ON MODERN COMPUTERS, LIKE A MODERN . - AS 64 THE FIRST SOFTWARE EMULATION OF THE OMMODORE 64, O. THINK ONE OF THE FIRST CAME FOR THE MIGA, LIKE 64. HE LAY PROJECT ! DO. - READ SOMEONE SAYING THERE S A PLAN FOR 128, CAN YOU COMMENT ABOUT THIS HO KNOWS... - PART FROM RUNNING OMMODORE 64 GAMES AND APPLICATIONS WHAT PRACTICAL USE IS A OMMODORE EMULATOR EARNING TO PROGRAM. - RE THERE PLANS FOR OTH! ST A LOGO, NO SPECIAL THOUGHTS INVOLVED. AYBE LIKE C64 FOREVER. - AVE YOU TRIED OTHER OMMODORE EMULATION SOFTWARE? ES, PROBABLY MOST OF THEM. - HAT PLATFORMS DOES THE SOFTWARE RUN ON, AND DO YOU PLAN TO PORT THE SYSTEM TO OTHER OPERATING SYST! LAYER HE ONLY ADVANTAGE WITH IRECT IS THAT DON'T HAVE TO WRITE DRIVERS FOR PARTICULAR GRAPHIC/SOUND CARDS ETC. IRECT IS ALSO FASTER THAN THE OLD INDOWS IN32 FOR DRAWING. ITH THE VERSION HAD TO WRITE FOR EXAMPLE SPECIAL CODE FOR OUN!IS BASICALLY A MATTER OF TASTE, MAYBE RELATED TO THE USER INTERFACE AND SOME SPECIAL AND UNIQUE FEATURES THAT ARE OF INTEREST. N THE PAST IT WAS ALSO MUCH ABOUT COMPATIBILITY, WHICH THE OTHERS NOW HAVE NOW CAUGHT UP.. - OLLOWING ON CAN YOU GIVE OUR !OULD TRY TO REALIZE THE 9000 COMPUTER THAT WAS MENTIONED IN 2001 BY RTHUR LARKE. T IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL TO MAKE THE COMPUTERS THINK LIKE US OR EVEN BETTER... - F YOU WON 1MILLION POUNDS WHAT WOULD YOU SPEND THE MONEY ON WOULD BUY A HOUSE !WOULD REGISTRATION GIVE OUR READER URRENTLY THERE IS NOTHING LOCKED. HE BENEFITS IS BASICALLY MORE INFLUENCE AND INCREASED SPEED OF FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. - OW MUCH IS THE REGISTRATION FEE J30 . - HAT DO YOU SPEND THE REGISTRATION FEES ON YOURSELF AND DISCUSS WITH OTHER 64 USERS. HANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND SOFTWARE O PROBLEMS. EGARDS, EKAN UNDELL ...END... WWW.COMMODOREFREE.COM - INALLY USE WINVICE ON THE , WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO CONVINCE ME TO USE 64 INSTEAD RY IT "U NTERVIEW WITH RNO EBER OULDER ASH FAN : LEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO OUR READER AND GIVE A LITTLE BACKGROUND ABOUT YOURSELF. : I, 'M RNO, BORN IN 1981 IN TRECHT, HE ETHERLANDS. N DAILY LIFE 'M A STUDENT IN ATHEMATIC!E NICE EXTRA FEATURES ETC. - AVE YOU FOUND ANYTHING SURPRISING OUT ABOUT HE 64 WHILE MAKING THE SOFTWARE, THINGS LIKE UNDOCUMENTED BUGS OR INTRA MACHINE INCOMPATIBILITIES, LIKE PROBLEMS WITH THE VARIOUS C64 MODELS AND REVISIONS ES, A LOT. ND STILL!FROM 1989, WHICH DEVELOPED TOGETHER WITH ON IRK, ALSO KIND OF EMULATED THE 64, ALTHOUGH IN A MORE LIMITED WAY. - HE LOGO WITH 64 AND A COMMODORE 64 OVER WHAT LOOKS LIKE THE WORLD, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, OMMODORE 64 WORLD DOMINATION? T IS JU!ER EMULATION FOR EXAMPLE THE OMMODORE PLUS 4 AND 16 MACHINES HO KNOWS... - HE SOFTWARE USES IRECT X ON THE PC FOR WINDOWS WHAT ADVANTAGES DOES THIS GIVE YOU, AND DOES THIS CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR THE VERSION THAT DOESN'T HAVE DIRECT APPLICATION!EMS URRENTLY ONLY INDOWS IS SUPPORTED. T ACTUALLY DEPENDS OF WHAT SYSTEM AM USING, IF WILL MIGRATE TO ANOTHER PLATFORM THEN 64 WILL AS WELL. - AN YOU EXPLAIN WHY OUR READER SHOULD US 64 INSTEAD OF OTHER EMULATION SOFTWARE? OWADAYS IT !DBLASTER AND LTRASOUND WITH VARIOUS REVISIONS ETC. - F YOU HAD SOMEONE TO FUND A PROJECT AND THEY HAD UNLIMITED AMOUNTS OF MONEY TO INVEST, AND ALSO A MACHINE TO FREEZE TIME SO YOU HAD UNLIMITED TIME ON A PROJECT WHAT WOULD YOU CREATE AND WHY W!READER A LIST OF THE SOFTWARE'S STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES? HERE ARE A LOT OF COMPARISONS ALREADY ON THE NET, OR TRY IT YOURSELF. - HE SOFTWARE IS FREE TO DOWNLOAD, ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE FEATURES ARE LOCKED, YOU ASK READERS TO REGISTER, WHAT BENEFITS !SO THAT AND MY FAMILY COULD MOVE FROM OUR SMALL RENTED FLAT. ROBABLY ALSO A NICE BOAT. ND LASTLY (OF COURSE) ALSO A LOT OF NICE COMPUTER EQUIPMENT. - INALLY USE WINVICE ON THE , WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO CONVINCE ME TO USE 64 INSTEAD RY IT " EXPERIENCED PLAYERS. NOTHER REASON FOR THE SUCCESS IS THE EXISTENCE OF OULDER ASH EDITORS AND MANY OTHER TOOLS, WHICH ENABLE THE FANS TO CREATE THEIR OWN (STANDALONE!) OULDER ASH GAMES. HANKS TO THESE TOOLS A LOT OF FAN GAMES HAVE BEEN CREATED " S, BUT RIGHT NOW, IN ORDER TO FINISH THE STUDY, AM DOING MY MASTER THESIS AT SOME CONSULTANCY COMPANY. EXT TO THIS WORK HAVE SEVERAL HOBBIES. NE OF THEM IS RETRO GAMING, ESPECIALLY OULDER ASH! : HAT IS YOUR WEBSITE ALL ABOUT? : Y SITE IS " E CONVERSIONS FOR OMMODORE 64, MSTRAD , PECTRUM, AND OTHER PLATFORMS, WERE RELEASED A BIT LATER. 1985 WAS THE YEAR OF OULDER ASH AND 1986 THE YEAR OF THE ONSTRUCTION IT. UT EVEN BEFORE THAT TIME A LOT OF FAN GAMES WERE CREATED BECAUSE TH" Y CALLED OCKFORD THROUGH A SERIES OF CAVES. N ORDER TO COMPLETE A CAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DIAMONDS HAS TO BE COLLECTED. HEN THIS AMOUNT IS COLLECTED AN EXIT OPENS WHICH LEADS YOU TO THE NEXT CAVE. URING THE SEARCH FOR DIAMONDS YOU MEET DIFFERENT OB" CREATE STANDALONE GAMES OUT OF CAVES DESIGNED BY THE ONSTRUCTION IT. INCE THE RISE OF THE INTERNET IN THE LATE 90'S, OULDER ASH SEEMS MORE POPULAR THAN EVER BEFORE. ANY WEBSITES DEVOTED TO OULDER ASH WERE LAUNCHED, AND VIA THESE SITES THE TOOLS ": THINK IT IS SO POPULAR BECAUSE THE GAME IS BOTH SIMPLE AND COMPLEX. HE LEVELS OF THE ORIGINAL (ALSO CALLED "CAVES") ARE MADE UP OF ONLY 10 DIFFERENT ITEMS. TILL, BY COMBINING THESE ITEMS, IT IS POSSIBLE TO CREATE MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF CAVES. " FANS HAVE RELEASED THEIR FIRST GAMES ALL INSPIRED BY THE WEBSITES! S FOR NOW (2007) MORE THAN 1000 FAN GAMES ARE AVAILABLE. OR THOSE WHO WANT TO DOWNLOAD THEM: THE MOST COMPLETE COLLECTION CAN BE FOUND AT ARTIJN'S FAN SITE: HTTP://WWW.BD-FANS"Y, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THESE ANIMALS MUST BE USED TO GET BEHIND A WALL (BY EXPLOSION). LSO THE DIFFICULTY OF CAVES IS EXTREMELY VARYING. OME OF THEM ARE EASY ("JUST GET A FEW DIAMONDS AND FIND THE EXIT"). THER CAVES ARE A CHALLENGE FOR THE MOST " ARE SMALL "CAVES" IN WHICH YOU GAIN A FREE BONUS LIFE, AND MOSTLY GET MORE POINTS PER COLLECTED DIAMOND.) LL GAMES CAN BE FREELY DOWNLOADED AT THE "GAMES" SECTION. HE BIGGEST SERIES CONSISTS OF RNO ASH 1 TO 20. HESE GAMES USUALLY HAVE MEDIUM DIFFI#CULTY. WO OTHER GAMES ARE XPLODING ASH 1 AND 2. F YOU PLAY THESE YOU SHOULDN'T BE AFRAID OF FIREFLIES AND BUTTERFLIES SINCE THERE ARE MANY OF THEM! URTHERMORE HAVE CREATED 2 GAMES WITH A SPECIAL THEME. ANTA'S OULDER ASH ARTY IS A GAME WITH -M"OVER THE YEARS. : AN YOU TELL OUR READER A LITTLE ABOUT THE OULDER ASH HISTORY? : HE FIRST OULDER ASH GAME WAS BROUGHT OUT IN 1983 FOR THE TARI 800. ETER IEPA WROTE IT TOGETHER WITH HRIS RAY, AND IRST TAR OFTWARE RELEASED THE GAME. H"DEDICATED TO THE CLASSIC GAME OULDER ASH. LTHOUGH THE FOCUS IS ON THE OMMODORE 64 VERSION, WILL PROBABLY PAY SOME ATTENTION TO OTHER VERSIONS AND CLONES AS WELL. OR THOSE READERS WHO DON'T KNOW THE GAME, IT'S A PLATFORMER IN WHICH YOU CONTROL A GU"E AUTHORS SIMPLY COPIED THE OULDER ASH ENGINE AND EDITED THE CAVES. OST FAN GAMES WERE MADE FOR THE OMMODORE 64. LSO FOR THIS MACHINE A LOT OF USEFUL TOOLS WERE CREATED. Y THE LATE 80'S AND EARLY 90'S SOME TOOLS APPEARED THAT COULD BE USED TO"STACLES LIKE FALLING BOULDERS, WALLS, AND DEADLY FIREFLIES AND BUTTERFLIES. N THE OTHER HAND, YOU OFTEN NEED THESE ITEMS TO REACH THE DIAMONDS, OR TO CREATE NEW DIAMONDS. : O OULDER ASH WHAT IS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT, WHAT MAKES THIS A GREAT GAME? "WERE MORE SPREAD OUT THAN BEFORE THAT TIME. T HTTP://WWW.GRATISSAUGEN.DE/ERBSEN/ YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF AT THE SECTION "IGHLIGHTS AND FLOPS" (UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS ONLY IN ERMAN AT THE MOMENT, BUT VERY NICE TO READ). AST YEAR 4 NEW"ECAUSE EACH ELEMENT HAS ITS OWN SPECIFIC PROPERTIES, A OULDER ASH CAVE IS LIKE A PUZZLE THAT MUST BE SOLVED BY LOGIC/STRATEGIC REASONING. HIS MAKES THE GAME ADDICTIVE, WHICH IS PROBABLY THE BASIS OF THE SUCCESS. OR EXAMPLE, A FIREFLY IS A DEADLY ENEM".COM/ : NOTICE YOU DESIGN YOUR OWN OULDER ASH GAMES. AN YOU LET OUR READER KNOW MORE, ARE THEY FREELY AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD? : T THE MOMENT HAVE CREATED 24 OULDER ASH GAMES, EACH CONSISTING OF 16 CAVES AND 4 INTERMISSIONS. (NTERMISSIONS# .. APS WERE FASCINATING ME AT A YOUNG AGE ( WAS DRAWING MAPS OF ALL PLACES VISITED, AND ALSO DESIGNED MY OWN CITIES AND OTHER THINGS BY MAKING MAPS). O HAVING A MAP OF THE OULDER ASH GAME WOULD BE FANTASTIC! BIT LATER, IN 2004, NOTICED THAT # AS GRAPHICS. UTURE ASH CONTAINS LEVELS OF WHICH THE BORDER IS "OPEN". O IF YOU LEAVE THE SCREEN AT ONE SIDE YOU RETURN AT THE OTHER SIDE. HE AIM OF THIS GAME ORIGINALLY WAS TO SHOW HOW MANY POSSIBILITIES FOR NEW LEVELS ARISE WHEN JUST ONE NEW FEATUR# ME TOOLS THAT COULD READ FILES AND PRINT MAPS OF THE LEVELS ON SCREEN, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THESE TOOLS DID NOT USE THE ORIGINAL COLORS OF THE CAVES. HEREFORE STARTED IN 2006 TO WRITE A PROGRAM BY MYSELF: THE 2 CONVERTER. HE PROGRAM READS# AVE RELEASED ALTERNATIVE CONSTRUCTION KITS THAT FEATURE MORE ITEMS AND MORE EFFECTS. RECENT RELEASE IS THE RAZY IGHT ONSTRUCTION IT 3.0 BY AREK OTH. HIS KIT IS MOST COMPLETE WITH RESPECT TO THE AVAILABLE ITEMS, CAVE PROPERTIES AND EFFECTS. LTHO#OOK WAS EXACTLY WHAT WANTED TO HAVE WHEN WAS AN 8 YEARS OLD BOY... :) OW THE MAPS OF 190 DIFFERENT OULDER ASH GAMES CAN BE VIEWED AND DOWNLOADED AT MY SITE. HE HARDEST STEP IN THE CONVERSION PROCESS WAS ACTUALLY THE CREATION OF THE FILES. # RAZY IGHT OOLS PACKAGE CONTAINS A PROGRAM TO PACK THE CAVES DESIGNED WITH THE RAZY IGHT ONSTRUCTION IT. URTHERMORE THERE ARE TOOLS AVAILABLE TO DESIGN YOUR OWN GRAPHICS-SETS AND FONT-SETS. SING SUCH A TOOL YOU CAN CREATE A GAME WITH OCKFORD I#DIVIDUAL "TREATMENT" BEFORE THE CAN BE CREATED. : O YOU HAVE A OW-TO GUIDE THAT WALKS THE PLAYER THOUGHT EACH LEVEL? : URE, TWO PAGES ARE DEVOTED TO OULDER ASH AND , RESPECTIVELY. ACH PAGE CONTAINS A WALKTHROUGH OF ALL THE CAVES AND#AN CONVERT A 64 GAME TO THE FORMAT OF OULDER EMAKE. : NOTICE THE WEBSITE HAS MAPS FOR THE VARIOUS LEVELS. OW EASY WAS THE PROCESS OF CREATING THESE MAPS? : ELL, IN FACT WAS ALREADY DREAMING OF HAVING SUCH MAPS WHEN PLAYED AS A KID.# IS THE PUZZELS SEEM SO EASY WHEN THE LEVEL LOADS, SUSPECT THIS IS GOOD GAME DESIGN KEEPING THE PLAYER GUESSING AND GOING BACK FOR MORE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO COMMENT? : S SAID, IN OULDER ASH THERE ARE BOTH EXTREMELY EASY AND EXTREMELY HARD PUZZLES. ND IT'S TRUE THAT MANY CAVES CONTAIN ONE OR A FEW "SURPRISING EFFECTS", SUCH THAT IT TURNS OUT TO BE HARDER THAN IT LOOKED LIKE AT THE BEGINNING. CAN'T SAY WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS THE FEATURE THAT KEEPS THE PLAYERS IN FRONT OF THE SCREEN. O TAKE MYSE#OULDER ASH GAMES COULD BE CONVERTED TO SOME SPECIAL FORMAT, CALLED (OULDER ASH OMMON ILE ORMAT). HIS IS A TEXT FORMAT, WHICH DESCRIBES THE LEVELS OF A GAME BY ITS PROPERTIES AND THE RULES THAT GENERATE THE MAP OF EACH LEVEL. HERE WERE SO#E IS ADDED TO OULDER ASH! : HAT TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE FOR OULDER ASH? : OR 64 THERE EXIST SOME VERY IMPORTANT TOOLS. ET'S START WITH THE ONSTRUCTION IT. HIS TOOL CAN BE USED TO DESIGN YOUR OWN CAVES AND SAVE THEM ON DISK. OME AUTHORS H# A FILE, CREATES PICTURES OF THE MAPS AND PRODUCES AN FILE IN WHICH ALL THE MAPS CAN BE VIEWED TOGETHER WITH THE LEVEL PROPERTIES. FTER CREATING SOME THE MAPS USING THE CONVERTER, PRINTED OUT THESE FILES AND PUT THEM IN A "BOOK". HIS B#UGH IT IS STILL IN DEVELOPMENT IT'S CURRENTLY POSSIBLE TO USE IT TO CREATE GAMES. HERE ARE ALSO TOOLS TO MAKE A STANDALONE GAME OUT OF A SET OF CAVES; SO CALLED PACKERS. FAMOUS PACKER IS ELUXE ACKER, WHICH MOSTLY USE TO PACK MY GAMES. LSO THE#HIS HAPPENS TECHNICALLY BY USING A 64 MEMORY SNAPSHOT, WHICH IS TAKEN AFTER A GAME HAS BEEN LOADED. UT SINCE THE CAVES ARE GENERALLY NOT STORED IN A STANDARD WAY IN THE SNAPSHOT, IT IS NOT ALWAYS TRIVIAL TO MAKE A OUT OF IT. OME GAMES NEED AN IN#N SPACE, OR DRESSED LIKE A PIRATE, OR WHATEVER YOU CAN THINK OF! NOTHER USEFUL TOOL IS THE OULDER EMAKE CONVERTER. HIS TOOL BELONGS TO OULDER EMAKE, A VERY GOOD REMAKE FROM FOR PC (MORE INFO AT HTTP://HOME.DEDS.NL/BREMAKE/) ITH THIS TOOL YOU C# INTERMISSIONS, COMPLETE WITH SCREENSHOTS. N ADDITION, HAVE VIDEO RECORDINGS OF THE SOLUTIONS TO BOTH S. OU NEED A MEDIA PLAYER TO WATCH THE SOLUTIONS. : FIND EARLY LEVELS EASY THEN GET FRUSTRATED AS THE DIFFICULTY CURVE KICKS IN, THE PROBLEM