Heaven/TQA Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 @ all i have rediscovered my love to 8bit machines... so yesterday i bought this... thanks emkay, TMR, sack... (but tell me how to connect the c64 like my atari to my laptop as server... ) in near future i want to have some own code running on this one... i'll still thinking to have a car registration number with "xx-xx 6502" hve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Stella Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 check out 64hdd and star-commander. http://www.64hdd.com/index_en.html http://sta.c64.org/sc.html cables are easy to make, or can be purchased through ebay.de all the time (XE 1541 kabel). i'd also recommend http://www.lemon64.com for forums and info -- kinda the commodore equiv of atariage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Ooh, nice toy. =-) Yup, C64HDD is the best bet - there are a couple of other similar tools like Server64 but they're just not up to the same standard. It still has a lot to be desired (custom fastloaders, in particular IRQ loaders, don't work) but it's being constantly developed. StarCommander is my transfer tool of choice too and another source of X*1541 cables is Joe Forster/STA himself, when my home-made X1541 died i got my two XE cables from him. Lemon's a good site, although it's not particularly scene/demo oriented - a couple of other more scene oriented sites are www.c64.sk (open news portal, similar to atari.sk) and the C64 Scene Database at noname.c64.org/csdb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted November 25, 2003 Author Share Posted November 25, 2003 xe1541 cable ordered... for € 8 thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sack-c0s Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 and if you come across an action replay on ebay I strongly recommend you grab it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted November 25, 2003 Author Share Posted November 25, 2003 this nice toy looks similar to my amiga... TMR any other dev tools you prefer? i prefer not coding on c64 directly but on PC... hve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted November 25, 2003 Author Share Posted November 25, 2003 hope to get on ebay AR mk6... what is an right price for that? hve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 Hmm, lessee; agree with Sack totally about the AR6 because it's fantastic for debugging, the freeze monitor alone is excellent and the disk fastload pulls about 25 times faster than stock (even my CCS64 starts up with a cartridge image of it loaded! =-) As far as development tools go, i think most of the Cosine team are using what i am; C64Asm and a Windows based text editor - we seem to be favouring Crimson Editor mostly, since it integrates nicely with external tools like C64Asm, XAsm, NESAsm and so forth. http://tothb.ehc.hu/software www.crimsoneditor.com For graphics, there's no decent bitmap editor for Windows yet although Fairlight and DLoC are working on a couple. There are a few converters including my own ImageWire, Congo and XRay64 (which i haven't tried yet but it looks interesting). For sprites, there is SpritePad and for characters there are Cuneiform, CharPad and eventually i'll get my own finished. =-) www.cosine.org.uk/utilities_imagewire.html www.editorix.org/congo/ http://xray64.webpark.pl/ www.coder.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk http://scrapdog.freeservers.com/cunei.html Sound is a one horse race, GoatTracker and for compression there are two options in the form of Pucruncher or Exomizer. Exo and Goat are both on the Covert Bitops site. http://covertbitops.cjb.net/ www.cs.tut.fi/~albert/Dev/pucrunch One other thing you'll probably need is a copy of the C64 Programmers Reference Guide which can be grabbed from Project 64. http://project64.c64.org/ Did i miss anything? =-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted November 26, 2003 Author Share Posted November 26, 2003 thanks TMR... can't wait to get the "slow" c64 in my hands... hve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 Heaven How much did you pay for this ? The funny thing is that you can buy a 1040 ST with a Monitor for 3€ and in average a C64 + 1541 is worthy 80€ without a monitor...on EBAY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted November 26, 2003 Author Share Posted November 26, 2003 € 43 without shipping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 Rats, i did forget something! Email me if you want a sample raster interrupt in source. =-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dracon Posted November 28, 2003 Share Posted November 28, 2003 so yesterday i bought this... thanks emkay, TMR, sack... (but tell me how to connect the c64 like my atari to my laptop as server... )in near future i want to have some own code running on this one... Hey, what's up dude?? I'm afraid you'll lost your interest for Atari 8-bit coding... C64 is a "little" different machine (as particurarly regards its hardware). Don't go too far into C64, we need your atari coding (4PAC, etc.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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