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Season's greetings from individual
Computers
Team individual Computers is sending
"Merry Christmas" to all our customers
& business partners! In the past year,
we have been working hard on the giant
project "Clone-A", we finished our work
on the hardware design of a router that
can bundle several internet lines, & we
continued the development of drivers
for existing products.
For 2008, there will be a number of
improvements. First of all, we're happy
to announce that Helmut Schttner will
join our team in 2008. He will be in
charge of Amiga driver maintenance &
software programming of new micro-
controller-based products. Welcome to
our team!
We are already working on bringing
sold-out products back into the shops:
Catweasel MK4, Indivision & Kickflash
OS4 will experience small changes for
the next production runs.
A few months ago, we have bought the
"Micromys" design from Marko Herold. We
have continued development of the C64
mouse adapter, & we'll release it under
the name "Micromys V3" during the first
quarter of 2008. High compatibility
with PS2 mice will remain, & USB-mice
that support PS2 protocol are
automatically switched to that mode.
The new adapter can be configured for
different target systems by DIP
switches:
C64: 1351 proportional mouse emulation
with wheel-extension
C64: Joystick emulation
Amiga: 3-button mouse without drivers
Amiga: 3-button wheelmouse with
Freewheel-driver
Atari ST: 2-button mouse
Micromys V3 can of course be used on
other retro-systems that use a 9-pin
Sub-D connector for game controllers,
such as Atari 8-bit machines,
Schneider, Amstrad & MSX.
Competition PRO Retro still available
Although the USB-version of this
successful joystick is sold out at the
moment, the retro-version that we
produced together with Speedlink is
still in stock. Starting january 1st,
2008, the price will be raised to 14.99
EUR. If you want to secure the old
price for your order, please place your
order before the end of the year!
New product: MMC Replay
The demand for MMC64 continues to be
strong. With the Commodore Scene Award
that we got for the Retro Replay, the
demand for this product was also
boosted. We have to say thank you for
the trust in these products, which are
completely sold out now. We took the
chance to merge the two products into
one new, powerful cartridge, the MMC
Replay. Many requests for changes &
improvements have been collected over
the past six years, which have all been
implemented in MMC Replay. A complete
description of the features would go
beyond the scope of this news item, so
we're only listing the most important
data here:
512KB Ram
512KB Flash Rom
Clockport for RR-Net
SD/MMC card Interface (MMC64
compatible)
Freezer (Retro Replay compatible)
Extended freezer-mode
Support for native C128 cartridge
software
Freeze/activity LEDs
Existing software that was written for
MMC64, Retro Replay or the combination
of the two can be used without changes.
The new hardware features are activated
by the completely re-written file
browser of MMC Replay. You can now
create & mount *.d64 archives. Flashing
of cartridge software (for example
Action Replay, Retro Replay, Nordic
Power or Final Replay) is made a lot
easier with the built-in flash utility.
The extended freezer mode allows memory
configurations that make development of
new software a lot easier, but also
eases adapting existing software (for
example FC3) to this hardware.
Many customers reported difficulties
with special models of the C64 or the
C128. Up to this point, proper function
on these special machines was either
only possible after a long warmup-time,
or it was not possible at all because
the C128 is not 100% compatible to the
C64. We have made the necessary changes
& completed extensive tests with more
than 40 variants of the C64 & C128 -
even native C128 cartridge software is
supported by MMC Replay!
We have already changed the design of
RR-Net a few months ago. The new shape
might have looked strange to some
customers, but with the release of MMC
Replay, our plan should become obvious
now: You can now fit MMC64, Retro
Replay & RR-Net into one standard
cartridge case. Cartridge cases are
available separately. Holes for
buttons, LEDs, SD card & a networking
cable must be made by the user.
MMC Replay will be available from our
trade partners shortly. The price is
79 - EUR(*).
* recommended retail price incl 19% VAT