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The Internet for Commodore C64/128
Users by Gaelyne Gasson is now
available as a PDF download from the
Commodore Central Market, which now is
part of our online store. We actually
have two PDF versions available. One
is an exact page-for page copy of the
3rd edition for those who want the
book completely as it was written and
formatted. The other PDF version has
been edited to include 'PDF bookmarks'
for chapters and subheadings, and
references to other chapters have been
made into clickable links. Also URLs
that are still valid have also been
made into links.
TIFCU is not just for Commodore users
these days. Several years ago we moved
our servers to Linux, and for the
first few months we found TIFCU to be
invaluable for looking up how to do
basic things on our system. We've
heard from several other people who've
found it useful for use with their
Linux machines as well. The price is
$10.00 Australian (about $8.50 US) and
once payment is received you can
download the PDF file immediately from
the store. We're running a special
offer on the TIFCU book and Homestead
Plus Membership. If you purchase a
Homestead Plus Membership ($35 AU or
about $29 US), you can receive the
book at half price. Homestead Plus is
the name of our Telnet memberships as
it better reflects the fact it's used
by members of the Homestead mailing
list. It's also quite OK to have a
membership without actually using the
Telnet services. Some folks have done
this as a way to donate to our cause
of supporting Commodore computing and
naturally we are pleased with all our
Homestead Plus Members whether they
make use of it or not. :-)
The special offer for TIFCU at half
price also applies to Homestead Plus
Membership renewals paid for via our
online store. We've moved the
Commodore Central Market into the same
shopping cart system that we use for
other items we have for sale (gameboy
items, phone covers, webcams, breath
testers and other various items). The
C= Central Market has it's own area
which can be found at:
http://shop.vcsweb.com/index.php?main
Dpage=index&cPath=24
One of the features of our new online
store is that people can write reviews
of products, and we're looking to add
more reviews to our various C= Central
Market items. If you've purchased
something from the market in the past
and write a review of it, we'll give
you 10% off your next purchase. Just
visit any item in the store, click on
the 'Reviews'link and the next page
will have a link to submit your review
It will ask you to login or to sign up
as astore member before you can submit
your review - this will make it faster
to place an order and allow us to give
you the 10% discount.
Please come have a look at the new
C= Central Market today! The link is:
http://shop.vcsweb.com/index.php?main
Dpage=index&cPath=24
All the Very Best, Gaelyne & Rod
Gasson
---
High Voltage SID
Collection Update #47
Date: June 07, 2007
Resulting Version: 47
Previous Version: 46
As usual, the update and the all-in
one packages are available from
http://www.hvsc.c64.org After this
update, the collection should contain
34,127 SID files!
update features (all approximates)
1127 new SIDs
19 fixed/better rips
8 fixes of PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific
SIDs
8 repeats/bad rips eliminated
773 SID credit fixes 700 tunes
assigned a sidmodel flag 15 UNKNOWN
demo tunes identified 29 UNKNOWN game
tunes identified Main Composers
featured in this update: (Artists
marked with NEW are either completely
new to the HVSC or they get their own
directory in this update)
# A-Man - venturing into
Pollytracker domain now!
# Bart
# Richard Bayliss
# Bernhard Burgstaller (NEW)
# Chantal Goret (NEW)
# CRD - kindly donated his complete
collection to us
# Dexter (NEW)
# Eco
# Fanta - listen to his Desert Dream
conversion!
# Fox
# Gop
# Greg
# Gregfeel
# Harlequin
# Heinmuck
# Hukka
# Image
# MAC2
# Mac / Radical
# Merman
# Moogle Charm (NEW)
# Nastiness Inc.
# Omoroca (NEW)
# Pernet
# Q-Man
# Raze
# Rio
# Sax
# SharpSkam (NEW)
#.SlayerSTP Sound SystemTonid (NEW)
#.TopazVintaqueZeta (NEW)
HVSC News Motion joined the HVSC Crew
Steppe retired from the HVSC admin
post. Rambones will take over, good
luck!
The new directory structure requires
a new update tool. It got updated for
Linux and Windows, so we feel the
majority of users won't have a problem
For the exotic platform users: The
source code of update tool 2.8.4 ison
the HVSC website in the Downloads
section. If you manage to compile it
on your specific platform, feel free
to send it over! And by the way: You
can still run update #47 with update
tool 2.8.3.It will complain heavily
that the /HubbardDRob/ directory is
not where it expects it to be, thus
assuming you did something
fundamentally wrong. Just ignore the
warning, nod away the next "y/n are
you sure you're sure?" question and it
will work anyway. SID related news
bulletin STIL Bonus released For all
you STIL junkies out there curious
about some of the module tunes
mentioned in the STIL, the HVSC team
now offers the STIL Bonus:
http://www.prg.dtu.dk/HVSC/STILDBon
us/
The STIL Bonus is a collection of
MODs, XMs, MP3s, and other assorted
tunes referenced in the STIL. This
collection was previously available
under a different name (MCOT 64) but
on a much smaller scale. The
collection is now 63MBs compressed,
and offers some very memorable game
and scene tunes from the Amiga, PC,
and other sources.
The collection was put together in
order for the HVSC team to verify
several STIL entries for correctness.
We then thought it would be a nice
collection that the public may also
enjoy. For some of you, you may have
never heard these tunes. For others,
it may be a trip down nostalgia lane.
You may even find that you actually
prefer some of the SID versions while
for other cases the modules/MP3 will
be preferable.
---
PSID64 v0.8 is out!
The popular .sid->.prg converter saw
another update. New features include:
* Built-in support for Exomizer.
* Added support for a joystick in
port two to control the player.
* Added clock to indicated running
time.
* Added -i option to override the
initial song to play. * Added support
for SID tunes written in BASIC. Grab
it here:
http://psid64.sourceforge.net/
---
Ebay News Commodore
FREE I managed to find this on ebay
Commodore 64 Disk-Rob Hubbard
and Martin Galway Music You are
bidding for a Commodore 64/128 disk
comprising of VERY RARE music demos by
two of the leading artists from the
eighties, Rob Hubbard and Martin
Galway. Side A is a very very rare
music collection of Rob Hubbards most
famous tunes. You will be hard pressed
to find this demo disk anywhere
nowadays, very rare and highly
collectable, I doubt you will find
this on any rom collection, this demo
is not even included on the TOSEC
Commodore set which includes 1000's of
games, demos, compilations etc.
Simply load the disk into your drive
and press keys A-Y, some of the tunes
on this disk include: Crazy Comets
Monty on the Run One Man and His Droid
Thing On A Spring Zoids Bump Set Spike
and much much more
Side B includes a great collection
of Martin Galway tunes from
yesteryear, again this demo disk is
very hard to come by. Again, simply
load in to your Commodore and press
keys A-O , Some of the tunes include:
Highlander Ccean Loaders 1-3 Parallax
Comic Bakery Hyper Sports Wizball
Rambo Loader and much much more.
This disk is in full 100% working
order. Bid with confidence from a
trusted eBayer! Keep an eye on my
auctions for more of this type of
material in the future. Postage will
be free if purchased with buy it now!
(UK ONLY)
Commodore Free Selling price was c4.80
+ 1.50 postage costs for what looked
like a new disk with colour picture of
rob and Martin on the Cover, but it
looked like it was just produced,
couldnrt you just download the sid
files Free. Expect a large amount of
these disks to appear soon. To the
buyer it must have been worth it, but
I remember years ago downloading some
of these compilations, and somewhere I
must still have around 10 disks with
music files on, with a nice front end
press A for XXX B for YYY etc.
---
QVC
Qvc in the Uk is a shopping channel,
it featured a pc special with
Commodore, the program started with an
about Commodore brand (of old) and
theCommodore 64 and Amiga machines,
The presenter confessed to owning an
Amiga Then the presenter and Commodore
Representative went thorough the
machines specifications and different
cases, the unit was available with
monitor keyboard and speakers or just
as a base unit, They have a retro
design that looks like a Commodore 64,
very neat looking case, Maybe they
should sell just the case with no
internals.
---
IDE64 V4 Prototype
As you can see in the picture the
IDE64 V4 prototype is ready. Although
there are still some work need to be
done before it will be finished, we
would like to present one of the major
improvement which is increased
performance. The IDE64 V4 is faster
by 16% than IDE64 V3.x and even 37%
faster than RamLink while loading the
same amount of data.We would like to
thanks to all C64 users (who asked us
about IDE64 availability) for the
patience. We are sorry IDE64 is not
available at the moment.
posted by Josef at 5/21/2007
---
Commodore Scene
VGA project terminated
known as C=VGA
www.commodorescene.org.uk Alan has
recently informed me he has
terminating the Commodore VGA project.
The project was to design a self
contained unit to connect Commodore 64
and 128 to standard VGA monitors, the
unit would also allow the use of 80
columns and all colours on LCD and CRT
monitors Alan released a statement to
me I didn't get anything although I
did see the working prototype many
years ago. I've closed the project on
my web site so its common knowledge,
so please pass on this information.
BUT, I am still going to try this new
device(s) as a matter of urgency and I
am ordering the parts today so I
would appreciate any mention of the
C=VGA closing also mentions that I am
actively sorting out an alternative
which I hope to have completed by the
end of July. Well the meeting in
Florida didn't take place and so I
have had to make the decision to
close this project. All money will be
refunded. However, that is not the
end of the Commodore /VGA story just
yet. Please pop along to
http://home.comcast.net/^kkrausnick/
c 128-vga/c128-vga.html and see what
is happening there. I am ordering the
components to make the same set up
myself and if all is well I will post
a components list and installation
instructions up here during July
So closes another project, Alan has
said to watch this space though Alan
has said will be refunded. Lets hope
Alan can arrange another suitable
alternative
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