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  3. Posted

    https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/c64-reloaded-mk2.html

     

    If you were thinking of getting one, the preorder is now open. The price with shipping for me (and PayPal fee) was about $228 at the time of my purchase and conversion to the Euro.

     

    I already have a MK1 Reloaded, but this one doesn't require a separate PLA (since it's now built-in) and also doesn't require setting jumpers! You can just find a donor 64 or 128 and insert the specific chips without worry of the wrong configuration of the board for voltage etc.

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  4. Posted

    When I try to run the APE trial version (when I click the ICON), nothing happens and I hesitate to purchase the real thing when the trial version doesn't work.

     

    One thing to note, you should be using the icon that has USB in the name. I believe the software installs 3 icons.

     

    Also, you might have to run the configuration or setup program once to choose USB, I believe it defaults to RS-232. I also had to associate the USB drivers with my SIO2PC, they didn't install correctly or associate with my device for some reason.

  6. Posted

    Doing more research, it looks like there were to versions for the 800. I was a daughter board for the OS card. And that is the instructions link above. The second version was a chip only that would go to a OS replacement card call a "RAMROD MMOS" by Newell Industries. This is the version I think I have. So I think I need install instructions for this ramrod card. hopefully there I can find info about this switch.

    Oh the switch connected to the MB I think has to be a cold-restart button. This way you can keep data in memory, but still to a cold start without cycling power and losing everything.Perhaps best used after a lockup.

     

    Here is the manual for the Ramrod MMOS: http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Newell_Industries_Ramrod_MMOS_Custom_OS_Board.pdf

     

    You are lucky, I've been looking for the Fastchip and Newell OSN for my Ramrod for a while now ;)

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  7. Posted

    Sorry, I should have been more specific. This is for the TRS-80 Color Computer.

     

    OK sorry! I don't have much experience with the Color Computer yet. TRStools can also do an instant disassembly of a CMD file too, which is pretty cool. Maybe there is something equal to it out there. It does show there is (read only) support for Color Computer: RSDOS (read-only) (Color Computer)

     

    But that may not be of use to you.

  8. Posted

    I'm trying to remove a single .BIN program from a .DSK disk image however I can't find any utilities that will work properly.

     

    Can anyone lend a hand?

     

    At the end of the day I want to take said image and disassemble it on the PC.

     

    If you mean for a non Color Computer TRS-80, Matthew Reed's TRStools will do the trick: http://www.trs-80emulators.com/trstools/

     

    It will allow you to examine the contents of disk images, add/remove files etc..

     

    It will even fix the date issue on an LDOS/LS-DOS disk image.

  9. Posted

    I don't want to waste their time as they are probably pricy but has anyone checked out Cloud 9 for refurbed CoCo 3's?

     

    Hi, while I can't answer your question about the price, I used the "Contact Us" a while back and they no longer had any in stock. They supposedly put me on a list in case some became available, but I heard nothing since then. I just assumed none are available ;)

     

    I ended up getting mine from eBay after that.

  10. Posted

    sm3, the books lead back here for some reason. dead link?

     

    It works for me. Unfortunately, it does take a while to download a book after you click the link for it, so you just have to wait. He probably has some limits on the bandwidth for the website or something.

     

    http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books.htm

     

    The book I linked was "Assembly Language for Kids Commodore 64". It covers the Merlin assembler, as well as 2 others. I have a real copy of this book myself, although the updated version for the 128.

     

    Here is another link to it at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/Assembly_Language_for_Kids_1985_Microcomscribe

     

    You should be able to download it as a PDF there as well.

  15. Posted

    You should get a DE1 and try the CoCo3 FPGA. It's coming along nicely! A little bit of learning curve to get it going though.

     

    I'm not much of a CoCo user, but jumped on a NOS CoCo3 a while back myself. It's been sitting in the box unfortunately since discovering the FPGA.

     

    I just have too many computers to keep them all out at one time, but I'm sure that's like many of us here.

     

    https://beta.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CoCo3FPGA/info?referrer=TRS-80

     

    Zippster, who also sold the CoCo SDC, has produced an add on board for the FPGA to add joysticks, RTC etc:

     

    https://sites.google.com/site/thezippsterzone/coco-3-fpga

     

    Pretty cool stuff!

  16. Posted

    Have you tried Best Electronics? I purchased mine from them and it's basically new. Well, newly assembled from old stock components I guess.

     

    It came in a nice sealed Atari 1050 box and everything! Of course it's over $100+ so it's not necessarily cheap I guess. But you know it works and is ready to go when you buy something from them.

  18. Posted

    Thanks Thom and Kyle22, that is good news for the raid for the source code of AMAC. Just had contact to the MEDIT programmer, but he didn't know further.

    All about AMAC:

    https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atari%20Macro%20Assembler%20and%20Program-Text%20Editor%20CX8121

    including the 1.0C version rare to find

     

    Sorcim:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcim

    That's a good tip to start from, thanks.

     

    Thanks luckybuck for all the work you do as well! I've always wondered if there were newer versions of AMAC. I purchased an original from Best Electronics a while ago.

     

    Regarding 80 column editors or software, I've also been searching for the F-S Macro Assembler 40/80. It's supposed to support either 40 or 80 column as the name implies. I guess it's a disk based assembler produced from a partnership of Funsoft and S-C Software. I have not found a version online.

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  20. Posted

    So we have some way to go yet...unless there is an underground project happening that we do not know about. I guess looking into better s-vid to VGA adapters is the next thing. I tried some of the cheap ones on Amazon (that are "supposed" to work fine according to some youtube videos I saw) that just do not work right.

     

    I have one CRT Commodore display now so I am fine for the moment, but whenever it dies I no longer plan on purchasing old CRT displays. After this one goes it is flat screen all the way.

     

    I've been where you are. I still have some original Commodore CRTs and I also purchased a relatively recent (2005) NOS Sony PVM that I use with S-Video.

     

    Before I found the PVM, I hedged my bets by getting a Turbo Chameleon and an XRGB-Mini Framemeister. The XRGB has gone up quite a bit in price since I purchased it I'm afraid, but the good thing about it, is that you can use it for many different retro systems including an Amiga. It is worth the price. It works a lot better than those cheap converters from eBay.

     

    I know you said you are not considering the Chameleon, but again, it provides a lot more than just a VGA output, so for me, it was well worth the cost. And if by chance all my others systems fail, I can still use it standalone mode, but I have a long time before that happens I think.

  22. Posted

    So for just playing a c64 and carts a simple 35 dollar psu from Ray would sufficient?

     

    Correct! If that's all you will do, then yes. If you were going to use an REU then you'd have to get something that provides more current as needed.

     

    The supplies I have purchased from him have been the metal cased varieties, but I'm sure the bare bones versions he provides are up to the task. The original power brick supplied with the 64 (in the US anyway) was 1 AMP if I'm not mistaken.

     

    If you plan on adding anything else later like the 1541 Ultimate or Chameleon, you might want to just go ahead and get a power supply that supplies more current now or you will run into problems.

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  23. Posted

    You just email him and tell him what you are looking for. He accepts PayPal. A lot of times he will ship before you have even finished sending him the payment.

     

    I have purchased 2 power supplies from him so far, 1 being a 128/64 supply and I can vouch for the quality and great service with him.

     

    Even sent him a 3rd party old 64 power supply for repair and he fixed it and shipped it out the same day as he received it!

  24. Posted

    I would keep an eye out for the newer model of the C64 Reloaded from https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/c64-reloaded.html

     

    I believe the stock of his NOS chips has been depleted, but you can still get them from eBay and other sources. Plus now that he has purchased the molds for the C64C from that guy in Texas, we will soon have a new source of cases to use with *real* Commodore branding.

     

    I'm looking forward to getting the one with the brown color scheme of the original 64 myself. No word yet on dates for any of this of course.

     

    https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/33/items/commodore-back-in-germany.html

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