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u Ebay Favourite Sellers Ebay the online auction, for anyone who has been hiding under a stone. Ebay is an online auction website, each country usually has its own section for example the United Kingdom is accessed via www.ebay.co.uk but the main website is www.ebay.com (America) To buy and sell on ebay you need to create an account, for that you supply your address and need a seller handle or name and a password to logon. Then buying is little more than searching for the item you require for example if you were looking for a 1581 disk drive you could simply goto the main site and type in the search string ?commodore 1581? hit return and sift through the results. You need to look on the site for fuller options of searching and syntax. Most payments are electronic using a system called pay pal, you give pay pal a credit cards or bank details and they perform the transaction for you an in- between for the banks. Once a trans- action is made Ebay ask you to leave feedback so you may for example say "excellent service goods as described arrived quickly" & leave positive feedback, as a result the seller gains a score ranking for each positive feedback rating, thus you can see how good a seller is by the number of positives and a percentage for happy customers. Ok so one of my favourite sellers is "the Commodore Store" you can access the store directly via this link: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/ The-Commodore-Store The seller has NO negative feedback whatsoever, is very friendly and always packs and despatches goods quickly and competently. So what does this seller sell and why a write up of just one seller? Well the Seller specialises in hard to find commodore items, most are NEW and or never opened. For example Never opened disk games and never mailed out magazines. Here is a small selection of items descriptions for you to view: 64 Diagnostic Cartridge ROMS for the C64 & 64C Professional Diagnostics by Commodore! Here is a great way to all three Commodore 64 Diagnostic ROMS in one package. The Commodore PCB is fitted with a socket, so you can quickly and easily switch between the three different diagnostic packages for your 64. Plus you can make your own cartridges - use any 8k ROM on the PCB. If you have any questions we will be pleased to answer them, this is a great way to get your hands on these professional diagnostic tools for the Commodore 64. C128 VIDEO RAM UPGRADE For 128 Owners Who Need Extra VDC RAM When Commodore first released the 128D we got one, opened it up, and took a good look. It didn't take long to discover one MAJOR difference. The standard C-128 has just 16K of video RAM, while the newer 128D has a full 64K. That's 400% more! We knew that there were tremendous advantages to the extra RAM. Like being able to scroll through video memory, of the potential for greatly enhanced colour resolution. And, since Commodore has seen fit to make it a standard feature on all the new 128D's, we knew it was only a matter of time before new software started taking advantage of the full 64K. That time arrived. Programs like Maverick, FasTrac 128, BASIC 8, the BASIC 8 Toolkit, Spectrum 128 and News Maker have all been coded to take advantage of the full 64K of video RAM found on the 128D's. So if you have a regular C-128 with only 16K of video RAM, you've got a big problem. And we've got the solution. You could upgrade on your own - but if thoughts of splattered solder and heat-damaged motherboards bother you, relax. We've developed a module that plugs right in to your C-128 - & doesn't fill that empty ROM socket, either. Just open the 128, remove the RF shield and the lid that covers the metal box on the motherboard, and pull the socketed 8563 chip. Plug our board in its place & plug the 8563 into our board. Replace the covers and you're done. That's it. No soldering, no hassles. Now your machine can have the same 64K of video RAM as the newer 128D machines. And you'll be ready for whatever the future holds. Plug In 64K Video RAM Upgrade, designed by Chip Level Designs Supplied with fitting instructions & test software on disk. New & Shrinkwrapped Deep Scan Burst Nibbler! Powerful Software - Innovative Hardware! The Burst Nibbler system is probably the most powerful disk copier available for the Commodore computer. It gains its power by using parallel data transfer. With standard nibblers the data is read from the disk and decoded into a standard format before being transferred to the host computer by the serial bus. This is all well until it comes across some non-standard data on the disk. Because it can't recognise the code it is unable to decode into the form needed for serial transfer. With parallel transfer the data is read from the disk and transferred directly to the host computer without the need to decode it. This is achieved because the Burst Nibbler System is actually hardware and software package. The hardware consists of a parallel cable that plugs into the computers user port. The other end of the cable plugs into the VIA chip socket inside your disk drive. The software is a powerful Nibbler control program with various parameter settings to maximise results. How much power do you want? How about: > Only package to copy up to 41 tracks! > Will copy a whole disk in under 2 mins! > Full and half tracks copied - no problem! > Transfers raw GCR Code via cable! > Fitted in minutes usually no soldering! > Make a perfect copy every time! Fitting involves lifting the 6522 VIA chip inside the drive, inserting it into the socket on the cable and plugging the whole assembly back into the socket, the other end just plugs into the user port and has a through connector for your other hardware. Deep Scan Burst Nibbler - New Cable & software... Software Version v1.9. For the Commodore 64/128 & 128D and the 1541, 1570 & 1571 disk drives.. The RAMBOard The Essential Maverick Accessory for your 1541! Remember the 1970's. That's the decade that brought us the first afford- able home computers? The 1980's was the decade that saw the development of stunning software that finally took advantage of the available hardware. What do you think the 1990's will be remembered for? For our part, we're going to remember it as a decade of killer copy protection. No kidding. Our programming staff has just been flooded by the clever & crafty sophistication of some of the new breed of copy protection schemes. We?ve been writing parameters for years now, and yet with all that experience behind us we?re seeing things that even our famous Maverick archival utility system can?t handle. At least, not without a little help... The RAMBOard was designed from the beginning as an integrated component in the Maverick arsenal. It's a RAM chip mounted on a custom board that, in almost all cases, plugs right into your Commodore disk drive. This extra RAM creates a "virtual workspace" that gives Maverick enough elbow room to work some special magic. With RAMBOard installed, Maverick is able to back up programs that can?t be backed up by software alone. Current Maverick modules already contain advanced RAMBOard parameters. As future copy protection schemes become more radical, RAMBOard will be an indispensable part of the Maverick arsenal - and you can bet that our future parameters will reflect that. Parameters aren't the only reason for owning a RAMBOard. The advanced users amoung you will be interested in the fact that the Maverick sports a state of the art track editor that reaches its full potential only with the use of the RAMBOard. With the RAMBOard installed you can read, edit and write whole tracks at a time. Plus a dual GCR RAMBOard powered nibbler! This and other RAMBOard support utilities found in Maverick allow the experienced user to actually create custom copiers - a hacker's dream come true! Yet for all its capabilities, the RAMBOard itself is simple to install: just open your drive, plug in the RAMBOard, and close the drive. That's all there is to it. There's no soldering, no wire cutting, and no hassles. None and our illustrated instructions will make you feel like a pro before you even begin. Anybody who has tried to backup some of today's software knows that it's not as easy as it used to be. The good old days of ?Track 23? errors are gone forever. Welcome to the RAMBOard. The RAMBOard designed by Chip Level Designs Includes - Hardware, test software on disk & instructions.... New & Shrink-wrapped Requires Maverick v5 or later, for the Commodore 1541 or 1541C disk drive. Cartridge Backer 64 Feature Packed Utility Software! The Cartridge Backer v2 from the publishers of the CSM Program Protection Manuals. Cartridge Backer v2 allows you to quickly and easily transfer cartridge based programs to disk at the press of a button. A host of software utilities allow you to complete flexibility, you can save as an EPROM dump, a BASIC kernel version, ZAP version & many more options.... A settings manual gives you pages of dip switch settings and a comprehensive manual covers all the software functions. A powerful system for If you have any questions we will be pleased to answer them, this is a professional cartridge backup system and even allows you to repair defective/corrupt cartridges. Cartridge Backer 64 Includes - Hardware, software on disk, instructions manual & settings manual.... New & Shrink-wrapped No external RAM boards, ROMS or cartridges are required.