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1. Stereo Audio Output For more information on any of our products Micro SD card interface for external programs or services please contact us at Mini USB Battery or external power supply support Arcade Retro Gaming Dimensions 140 x 130 x 40 mm Madison Alabama contact arcaderetrogaming com United States of America www arcaderetrogaming com l contact arcaderetrogaming com www arcadretrogaming com a a _ Ee es i ees Issue 42 July 2010 Editor Nigel Parker Spell Checking Peter Badrick Text amp HTML Conversion Paul Davis D64 Disk Image Al Jackson PDF Design Nigel Parker Nebsi www commodorefree com Email Address commodorefree commodorefree com Submissions Articles are always wanted for the magazine Contact us for details We can t pay you for your efforts but you are safe in the knowledge that you have passed on details that will interest other Commodore enthusiasts Notices All materials in this magazine are the property of Commodore Free unless otherwise stated All copyrights trademarks trade names internet domain names or other similar rights are acknowledged No part of this magazine may be reproduced without permission The appearance of an advert in the magazine does not necessarily mean that the goods services advertised are associated with or endorsed by Commodore Free Magazine Copyright Copyright 2010 Commodore Free Magazi
2. To enhance readability it supports syntax highlighting lines can be as long as 255 characters and won t be broken into multiple lines on screen but simply scroll out of the visible area If needed you can switch between big 16x16 and small 8x8 fonts the first one is the standard editing font the second one if you need more source on screen at once BasEdit has an integrated Syntax Checker which can be called at any time and checks the source against the Basic syntax rules and reports any error to the user To make life easier BasEdit implements an intelligent auto feature i e automatically numbering new lines in the source with respect of the surrounding line numbers Inserting a line between 10 and 20 will automatically generate a line 15 If necessary it renumbers the following lines to make space for the newly inserted line thereby adjusting all references to renumbered lines To follow gotos and gosubs you can right click on a jump destination to move the cursor to that line adding a jump back option to the context menu to return to where you come from With this function you can follow a chain of goto s and gosub s and go back step by step But BasEdit even goes one step further and enables a modern shell for old fashioned line number oriented Basic in the so called label mode You can at every time convert a standard Basic program with line numbers into a program without line numbers using labels as jump destinations A sp
3. JNMOGore Issue 42 July 2010 Free to download Commodore magazine Dedicated to Commodore Computers Available as PDF Text SEQ HTML and D64 image www commodorefree com Commodore Free Magazine CONTENTS Editorial Page 3 NEWS Page 5 PUBLIC RELEASE OF MORPHOS 2 5 amp INTRODUCTION OF EMAC SUPPORT SPECTACULAR COPY TURBO TO DISK The third Club Info issue of 2010 GENEALOGY NEWSLETTER AND C64 NEWS Page 6 MASS STORAGE DEVICE C64SD DS bi E Wk ALADDIN 4D FORUMS HAVE A NEW HOME ON AMIGA ORG i SS a E a ee i DIY ACTION REPLAY CARD Sa A NEWS Page7 EN N i BASEDIT EDIT BASIC PROGRAMS IN WINDOWS BE e T nne NEWS Page 8 ALPHA RELEASE OF TIMBERWOLF THE AMIGAOS PORT OF THE POPULAR FIRE FOX BROWSER NEW COMMODORE CLUB CHICAGO CREATIVE EXTREME EXPO NEWS Page 9 DESCENT FREESPACE 2 FOR AMIGAOS4 1 ARCADE RETRO GAMING UPDATE NEWS Page 10 X MOTO 0 5 3 NOW AVAILABLE FOR OS4 LOADSTAR UNOFFICIAL ISSUE 250 RELEASED AND LOADSTAR CLOSED NEWS Page 11 FORTIS GAME FOR MORPHOS RELEASED UPDATED MORPHOS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT 2 SD2IEC FIRMWARE GEOS JIFFYDOS for the VIC NEWS A EON TECHNOLOGY CVBA AND VARISYS LTD ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP THE NEW ADVENTURES OF ALFREDO A BINARY LEGENDS RETRO RELEASE FOR THE COMMODORE 64 NEWS Page 13 COMMANDER FILE MANAGER CLONE NTP COMMANDER NOW OPEN SOURCE MICROMARK U k RETRO SECTION THE EARLY DAYS OF ONLINE GENEALOGY Page 15 COMMODORE FREE INTERVIEW WITH Page 18 BJ
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5. APRS RE om a T T I E A 3 G 5 z Y EJ z T T oO T G 1 ri E E M 1 1 A z i D k 1 MH 1 I I A I 1 I I a x A D T T T MH 1 z if if i A wD a TTT TT EAA N Ha a fa a a a A A A A A A a ae e ee Df b Ie JMA O01 be CO eC 0 0 AA AE be A l ATS oS MMM DEAT a IRR oe Se eS Pa ace ee seee IM TNA WS SCT TI Te Il T H F zZ 1 H 6 1 H z Z I H 1 1 5 fi EQ a 2 t IMA j O Pe OD ATH Mod The Pct a AT 40 E es 1 IIMA i eee a T I 1AM B mie x I 1 Go Qo Se Kln n a os are a GE 1 c3 TO kA Px W 7 OSes asi da A DOT ORE IZA D i Il Aa Ie ae a Mi LPa Line 1 Column 1 Maybe to encourage others to do some retro programming and sharing their results with the community You never know where your project will end get a lot of interesting feedback and ideas and you will definitely learn a lot more about your beloved retro computer than by simply playing another round of Donkey Kong or whatever which by itself isn t bad just to keep any ramblings off I learned a lot about the Basic Interpreter during my development time for BasEdit did you know that a line like 10 A space X is totally valid will be listed with the space between A and S but nevertheless will assign the X to AS Or what strange things the PRINT command will do when mixing strings and numeric variables
6. Therefore we recommend using shortcuts ALT underlined letter to open menu cursor keys to select Some boxes on web pages do not show correctly They might even destroy some of the UI elements When launched for the fist time the window will be taller than the screen You ll have to resize it if you can t reach the size gadget use the ctrl alt key method to resize on any edge of the window Speed is currently much lower than it could be A con ceptual problem in the rendering code leading to mas sive overdraw sometimes 2 to 8 times and missing hardware acceleration is responsible for that Since we re updating to a newer release of the base source code Firefox 3 7 this will be addressed later It crashes a lot It might even crash when just looking at it Don t use it for home banking yet Reporting Bugs There is a support forum for Timberwolf at http www amigans net Please report any bugs that you find Note that we might not answer to all of the re ports but we will read and try to address all of them NEW COMMODORE CLUB I m starting up a Commodore computer club in the Vancouver WA and Port land OR metro area and looking for like minded people with an interest in Commodore computers mainly the Commodore 64 C64 SX 64 and Com modore 128 and all the various hardware that comes with that like 1541 disk drives modems 1702 monitors etc If there is enough interest we can dis cuss the Amiga
7. VIC 20 C16 Plus 4 or even the C64 Direct to TV C64DTV Things are still in the early planning stages My plan is to have monthly meet ings and discuss cool things that are still happening in the scene as well as share project ideas and inspire one another for new ideas or concepts We could also help each other out with various repairs and modifications to our Commodore computers Another cool thing would be a nice get together for us to buy sell or trade various Commodore hardware and software The sky is the limit here For a little background about myself I ve been involved with the Commodore 64 computer for over 27 years since December 1983 basically since was a little kid ran various BBS s and did a lot of programming for the Commodore 64 I m still plugging away on my original C64 and doing repairs for friends and family do plan on putting up a fully functioning website in the near future This is just a place holder to get some general interest from the surrounding area Anyway if this interests you please send me a message and lets talk more about it Email geekwithsocialskills at gmail dot com Thank you for your time and consideration EMAIL FROM Robert Bernardo TO Commodore Free SUBJECT Commodore clubs Earlier today got off the phone with Sean R who had given me more infor mation about two new Commodore clubs in the Pacific Northwest First is the Portland Commodore User Group PDXCUG PDX
8. jia Pen Dee doe Soe Gee Pes Boe 8S OS wom cn T 00 24a Dus pon eT Q ar a a saat ss We at ee ar ara m a eG ie oe a pa CI CAN gTS E cs 3 sant Bere 4s E A ao ea i LEST ro renep CH E Paii he q0 aF FE niini iari or CT HF i Ww E R P j am pnl al Teste r LEd jas Jan a rH D e LIN 4 Fa i C Y B h m h E i GLCTE i Commodore Free Magazine X MOTO 0 5 3 NOW AVAILABLE FOR OS4 X Moto is a motorcross stunts game using the Open Dynamics Engine for real istic physics It requires AmigaOS 4 1 Update 1 for MiniGL 2 2 and somewhere between 32MB and 64MB of graphics memory depending on the complexity of the lev els being played It can be downloaded from OS4Depot http os4depot net index php function showfile amp file same driving xmoto lha Network multiplayer is not functional with the official tuxfamily server but does work between two OS4 machines The game may crash if the person hosting the server closes it down before the client disconnects Since the pre vious port by spotUP Up Rough this version can run in a window has more levels updated graphics and music server synchronization and better physics with objects in many levels interacting with the bike LOADSTAR UNOFFICIAL ISSUE 250 RELEASED AND LOADSTAR CLOSED RINGSIDE BOXING SIDE 2 BY GHISLAIN DE BLOIS PUGALISTIC POWERHOUSES PUNCH IT OUT IN THIS SUPER SIMULATION Loadstar wa
9. s for Loadstar Both were published on Loadstar in 2000 Since Loadstar ceased putting out new issues in 2008 decided to update them and release them for the web The disk contains the Return of Alfredo and Alfredo s Perilous Pitfall This release is freeware http binarylegends 5gigs net p dl Commodore Free Magazine REFERED NEWS NORTON COMMANDER FILE MANAGER CLONE NTP COMMANDER NOW OPEN SOURCE Patrick Sucansky an author of the file manager NTP Commander Norton Commander clone for the Amiga Has released the applications free he has also re leased the source code for the never released 2 2 version including DICE development NTP Commander www amigaportal cz files public ntp commander ntp commander 1 1 dms Source code www amigaportal cz files public ntp commander ntp source zi DICE for NTP Commander use only www amigaportal cz files public ntp commander dice zi MICROMARK U k RETRO SECTION PS If there s any niche formats that I ve missed over the years Jupiter Ace Grundy NewBrain Texas etc now is the time to tell me rather than com COMMODORE FREE plaining and doing nothing about it Just to note though that the retro column Micromart is a U k publication mainly dealing with PC hardware and soft is not all about nostalgia there has to be a community and something hap ware however it does have a 1 page Amiga section Apple Mac section and of pening in it hardware or software
10. EON Technology and we believe our previous background and experience will prove vital in helping to make the AmigaOne X1000 a success Adam Barnes Varisys co founder added The Nemo motherboard design introduced some new and interesting technical challenges but we are extremely pleased with the results Revision 2 of the Nemo board has recently been completed and will form a solid foundation fo the A1 X1000 and beyond Visitors to the VCF Exhibition at Bletchley Park on Saturday June the 19th will be able to meet some of the Varisys team on the joint A EON Technology Hyperion Entertainment stand Further information via the linked PDF below http dev amigans net a eon NewsRelease 20100618 pdf About Varisys Ltd Varisys is a producer of Commercial Off The Shelf COTS products and provider of bespoke hardware design and manufacturing services for industrial and embedded computing applications The High Wycombe UK based company was founded in 2000 by Paul Gentle and Adam Barnes and since then has earned a reputation for delivering high quality products with 4 specialisation in PowerPC and FPGA hardware Varisys have customers in a wide range of industries including manufacturing military applications and telecommunications and are perhaps best known for their development of the PowerPC G4 motherboard used in the immensely popular WholeHog III lighting control console For more information see the Varisys website http www varis
11. MICK DB COMMANDS DEMO SIDE 3 BY DAVE MOORMAN WATCH NEW DOTCOMMANDS IN ACTION DB COMMANDS COPY SIDE 3 BY DAVE MOORMAN LOADSTAR 250 ARY DIK EASILY COPY OUR NEW DOTCOMMANDS TO YOUR DB Ll TABLE OF CONTENTS l LOADSTAR FILES CLASSIC WARE DISKOVERY scasaecantanvaiwaa SIDE 1 SNACK MAN SIDE 3 BY JOHN MCCARTHY HEAR SOME OF THE REAL STORY FROM MR JACK TRAMIEL HIMSELF RETURN WITH US NOW TO THOSE THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR AND THE CREDITS SIDE 1 ONCE UBIQUITOUS QUARTER EATING ARCADE GAMES MULTI MEDIA WARE LABEL 250 SIDE 1 SCAMMER SIDE 4 BY SHIVER METIMBERS ONE OF OUR MORE STICK TO ATIVE FEATURES READ AND WATCH HOW ONE SCAM BUSTER BRUISED A NOTORIOUS 419 LOADSTAR BY THE DOZEN SIDE 1 eyewear E ad ake a renee E a CHOPIN AWAY SIDE 4 BY HENRY CORKY COCHRAN UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS 2 SIDE 1 BY DAVE MOORMAN SO HOW SMART IS A LIGHT SWITCH PRELUDES AND ETUDES TO EXUDE YOUR GRATITUDE THE OOK Kicentisveecionens SIDE 1 BY JIM BUTTERFIELD AN EARLY ARTICLE FROM THE GUY WHO TAUGHT US EVERYTHING PHAMOUS PHILOSOPHIES SIDE 1 RIPPED FROM THE WEB NUGGETS OF GOLD FROM NAMES YOU KNOW LOoADPATAD HISTORY OF ADVENTUREB SIDE 1 BY PAUL PANKS AN IN DEPTH LOOK AT THE GENRE OF GET LAMP AND KILL DRAGON k FA _ FUN WARE BATTLESHIP SIDE 1 BY HIT PACK A WELL WROUGHT VERSION OF THE CLASSIC GAME SEE YOUR SLAVOS SAIL OVER THE HORIZON DIAL M FOR MARLO SIDE 1 BY
12. RG STOJALOWSKI CREATOR OF BASICEDITOR INTERVIEW WITH ROSS MYERS Page 22 CREATOR OF CASSADAPT BASICEDIT A QUICK LOOK AT Page 24 Windows tool to edit Basic files in windows and more OSU EnD AUE NEXT GeG 3 Commodore Free Magazine Commodore 16 plus 4 version of Commodore Free disk magazine It would be a nice addition would anyone like to volunteer to create such an item SOLD started a For sale section at the request of many reader however haven t had ANYONE send any information to me about things for sale Of course if no one has anything to sell can t print anything Still it s there if you feel the need to sell your stuff to likeminded people and don t want to eBay your items selling via the magazine is more community friendly but of course auction sites do offer more money HELP personally am looking for a set of books called STEP BY STEP they dealt with specific items so step by step sound step by step graphics think they were all written by the same guy P Cornes Step by step Programming for the Commodore 64 Step by Step Programming Commodore 64 Graphics Book Four Step by step programming Commodore 64 Book two Step by step programming Commodore 64 Book one Step by Step Programming Commodore 64 Graphics Book Three And a book called Step by Step Interactive programming course in BASIC Commodore 64 You can guess from the titles they cover Commodore 64 BASIC programming they c
13. TOSS TEP 1 POKEQ 4 J POKEQ J 15 NEXT RETURN Pe PORE Ot 254 PORJSATOSSTEP 4 RND CLI 72 POKEG 4 J HEMT Po FORH A 7TO1 POKEQ S 236 H S FOR J 15 2 4H TORS TEP 4 POKEQ 4 J MEXTI H POKEQ 3 4 RETURN 75 POKEG 4 15 POKEQ 254 FORJ 1102 NEXT PORKEG RETURN SA IFGSMOTHENMO G B1 PRINT BERRGAME T D TOP MO PRINT E BET FA COINS G I RETURN S2 POKE214 21 PRINT FETURN cant print the codes out to a printer PLEASE can this be implemented somehow Good request This is not as easy at it may seem though as the complete editor is graphic based and there is not complete and usable PETSCII TTF font with ALL PETSCII characters There are some fonts which support the basic alphanumeric and Commodore Free Magazine some special characters like etc but could not find a TTF with all graphical characters and the complete inverse set So each character in BasEdit is drawn with Draw Image onto the screen simplified explanation will have to do the same thing for printer output but providing page and line breaks Nevertheless can understand the desire to print the sources so will give my very best to implement a print feature in the future How did the project start and what prompted you to write such an application Since my first computer was a VIC and I try to relive that feeling do most of my 8 bit programming on the VIC Being honest have to admit that coding Basic in 22 columns in 23 lines isn t as exciting a
14. U2 T64 is not supported PRG POO etc support limited REL support Subdirectory support CMD command syntax Support for Turbo Disk AKA Fast Load AKA Speeddisk fastloader Supports the JiffyDOS fast serial bus protocol the Final Cartridge 3 fastloader fastsaver DreamLoad Exos Supports an external disk change button Supports FAT long file names Supports FAT12 FAT16 FAT32 formatted SD and SDHC cards Supports sector access of SD cards from C64 side Good standard IEC compatibility Supports most typical IEC functions LOAD SAVE OPEN GET PUT CLOSE 1571 ROM has been taken as reference for implementation Many non fastloader games run see znarF s M21 list http c64sd roxer com ALADDIN 4D FORUMS HAVE A NEW HOME ON AMIGA ORG FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June O8th 2010 Contact DiscreetFX Chicago Illinois June 8th 2010 In order to help streamline and simplify log in accounts Aladdin 4D forums now have a new home on Amiga org This should make them easier to access for those interested in Aladdin 4D and current owners of the 3D package If you have no interest in 3D animation software or Aladdin 4D you can ignore the new forums and not comment in them New versions of Aladdin 4D are still in development Over 3000 hours of development have gone into Aladdin 4D 6 0 to make it multi platform and modern The new version will showcase that fast native 3D animation software can scream o
15. and keeping track of changes merging versions testing other changes etc simply isn t the fun I want to get out of BasEdit For the records BasEdit consists of 29 files with more than 12 500 lines of code in 224 subs and 91 functions so even if release the sources that does not mean that anyone beside me will ever understand what is going on inside it presume this project is amended and a current one how long will you support the application As long as I m having fun with retro computing think won t promise anything What software was used to write the application originally and then in the conversion Commodore Free Magazine My first BasEdit started out think in 2006 was written in VB 6 0 and used DirectX as output This was ok for my own machine but proved to be difficult with others they could simply not get it to run on their machines So decided it would be best to redo from start as Basic V2 would call it and base it on a more modern development environment It took a while but earlier this year started BasEdit NET from scratch using VB2008 and the NET framework 3 5 This seems to be a good solution as did not get any complaints about not being able to run BasEdit on other machines Why was the software converted to net framework most people don t like this Microsoft extension can you explain to our readers what net is ina Commodore style reference would say NET is some sort of standardized ke
16. as used in the Compute issues and some other magazines And last but not least you can use BasEdit to copy amp paste sources from other electronical means like text versions of the Programmers Reference Guide or sources in Wikis etc So the program supports all versions of Commodore Basic VIC c64 c128 16 and plus4 can it support other versions of basics if so how BasEdit is for the most part driven by configuration files made token files for the most common Basic dialects and even for some personally never heard of before but these files can be extended by users with their own token files These token files consist of some required and some optional information for each token as the token byte or bytes it s PETSCII form which sort of line numbers can follow and a syntactical description for the syntax checker looking at the TokenList_BasicV2 txt as a starter should explain all these features The program displays all the petscii codes on screen however I notice you A Q 26o7T4 Poreut A FREINER so FORI 116 PETIA 1 PRINT SeEEEEEEEETMISCHLOWSET amp BORAY 2606 GoSUBE 6 SUBS4 GOTOAs 2 g G FAa D pt GOSUBSa IFASETHENC a GOSUBEE 3 GOSUBZS FORTS1105 GOSUBT GOSUBS2 NEXT GOSUB45 FORI 17T05 0 13 0 NEXT 4 F YtIN TC RND C1 42 E FORTH1TOS He TI PEEKCE T ASHe CT GOSUBTT GOSUBSS GOSUB4G NEXT E SOSUBSe PRINT tg 1 5 TOG6LE SPC DEALE POKE198 4 7 GE TAS IFAS THENT 6 GOSUBTS IFAg THENA2 S H VA
17. computer monitor to explore enhanced sound Different versions for PAL and NTSC regions allow seamless usage and compatibility All this paired with the newest available hardware and new interface like USB micro SD Card S Video improve the picture quality and the openness of the systems An internal memory enables the permanent storage of favorite games and applications the menu overlay allows for easy selection of the application or game and the desired Classic Computer 2 a Items included in shipment Multiple Classic Computer MCC Se ee Mini USB Power supply 110 240 V gt ane S Video Cable allows download and upgrade of application software User Manual APPLICATION SUPPORT Micro SD Card with C 64 core Special application needs and designs in C64 Forever CD with 100 games hardware and software can be realized in Competition Pro Joystick close cooperation with Arcade Retro Gaming engineers Technical Specification Reconfigurable hardware core including main CPU graphic engine sound engine and interfaces Integrated SDR Memory 16 MBytes Integrated non volatile memory 2MByte for different classic computer platform realization programs and games enable up to 150 and more games in a closed system Support of external keyboard and mouse PS 2 CONTACT S Video output
18. course the amazing Retro section Of course my suggestion is to extend the http www micromart co uk retro section to cover 2 pages rather than 1 Of course finding new ideas for a magazine week after week is difficult Here is a message from Shaun Beb bington Retro columnist ae Tre tube iiil The Pama TE ay ag Hi folks Firstly I d like to thank the few people who have over the years provided me with feedback comments and suggestions though you are a very few it seems amongst many It s really great when actually hear from real people Anyway for the first time in a long time it seems that I ve had some sponta neous feedback from issue 1111 on the Micro Mart forums and elsewhere and to be honest some of the more recent efforts have been a little on the poor side whether it be content grammar or both Anyway there s obvious interest in the more techie or geeky aspects of 8 bit computing like pro gramming It basically all started out as a mix of hardware modifications and games and other types of software i e applications and utilities drifted to wards it being mostly about new software and less about everything else be cause it seemed that the publicity fed on itself and because was previewing and reviewing new games more started appearing Even some other maga zines took note of new 8 bit software Understanding Motherboa rd Anyway things definitely need freshe
19. for up down clr etc BasText PetCat Tok64 support for host file system directories on PC disk images read amp write D64 D71 D81 no partitions attach existing or create empty disk images diskmanager tool integrated copy files from to diskimage delete files rename files change order of files in directory copy and paste ASCII blocks via clipboard using the above translations supports different Basic dialects Basic V2 Basic V3 5 Basic V4 Basic V4 C64 Basic V7 Basic V10 Basic Exbasic Level II Wimbasic Speech Basic Turtle Basic Waterloo Structured Basic Super Expander supports different fonts VIC 20 C64 change load address of PRG file Save amp Run file in editor with emulator via F5 file will be automatically converted from label to line mode if necessary org file will be saved host file system or diskimage wherever it was load ed from depending on the start address of the PRG file special emulators will be automatically selected gt VIC 3K PET CBM series gt C64 gt VIC unexp VIC SuperExpander Plus 4 C16 gt VIC 8K and more gt C128 gt CBM II series and a setting for a standard emulator if none of the above will be selected two different edit modes a line mode the classic editing mode with line Renumber feature for the whole program or blocks of line s Auto mode with intelligent numberin
20. the right job doing the tedious tasks of user input or string handling in Basic and maybe outsourcing some time critical parts to assembler And doing it on a PC is something along the same lines using the right tool for the right job If want to get some retro feeling code on the real machine but if want to concentrate on the source and algorithms use BasEdit and let the result run in an emulator When finished and satisfied with the solution in the emulator it s time to test on the real machine as this often simply feels different due to screen resolution keyboard etc and sometimes the real machine simply behaves differently to emulated one For example the program Videopoker which is part of the BasEdit distribution as a sample file was written in BasEdit the old one It s for the unexpanded VIC and can be viewed in BasEdit in total within one screen on the PC on the Vic it s about 10 pages with basic lines spawning up to 4 screen lines which makes it at least very difficult to edit and understand on the real machine The feature lists are quite extensive but have you any new features you want to add Lots would like to enhance BasEdit to a full fledged development environment including character editor screen builder sprite editor etc Another nice feature would be an integrated assembler to generate hybrid programs with Basic and Assembler parts or even complete assembler programs could take this any further there i
21. CARD http projekt64 filety net index php dir GEOACTION here you can find all the information you should need to make a working Commodore 64 Action Replay Clone the project is called GEOACTION see the item in action with this AVI http projekt64 filety net index hp dir GEOACTION amp file How 20it 20works avi m E pmm am me E EE mE amr men E Commodore Free Magazine NEWS BASEDIT EDIT BASIC PROGRAMS IN WINDOWS finally after some years managed to convert upgrade my old BasEdit to the NET platform Switching from DirectX graphics to GDI should help all those people who had difficulties to use BasEdit until now It s written with VB Ex press 2008 and uses NET 3 5 Purpose Edit Commodore Basic files on the PC with syntax highlighting and support of the full PETSCII character set Features full featured editor unlimited lines syntax highlighting cut amp paste search amp replace insert and overwrite mode switch font size small big switch font upper graphics lower upper supports special characters for cursor movement and colours in strings character window with all 256 PETSCII characters double click to insert characters at actual position right click on a line number to jump to that line load and save tokenized BASIC PRG files load and save PETSCII untokenized files load and save ASCII files with support of different translations
22. CUG meets at 7 p m every second Thursday of the month It s at the Sunset Lanes bowling alley in Beaverton west Portland OR area And it s in a private meeting room there Ah Commodore and bowl ing a match made in heaven The website is http pdxcug org Then there is the Commodore Computer Club a k a the C64 Club in Vancou ver Washington across the river from Portland Right now meetings are ev ery Friday evening at Sean s house but as things settle down a once a month meeting on Friday will be held at a pizza parlour which is being constructed right now Hmm another club another pizza parlour For more information go to http www c64club com For a personal re sponse about either club contact Sean at the e mail address listed at c64club com Truly Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http videocam net au fcug July 24 25 Commodore Vegas Expo 2010 http www portcommodore com commvex CHICAGO CREATIVE EXTREME EXPO FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact DiscreetFX Chicago Illinois June 14th 2010 In order to help expand the use of NewTek products Amiga OS 4 x MorphOS AROS and other creative software Dis creetFX will be hosting the very first Chicago Creative Extreme Expo some time in February or March of 2011 This will be a weekend show and happen once per year if turn out is successful in 2011 amp 2012 This is still in the very early planning stages but we thought it would be be
23. H T H IFO CH 6THENGOSUBZ3 GOS 11 G60SUB32 60T9O7 12 E E 6 FORI 1TOS IFO 1 gt 14 THENH I gt PEEK E gt E E 14 13 NEXT GOSUB4S FORT 1TOS IF Ox T gt 1 THENA H CT GOSUB7 14 NEXT GOSUB47 GOSUB493 IFWO THENC 2 GOSUB74 P W 1 18 SOSUBS2 PRINT EI nA T ITI Y 4L POKE198 0 a ayes 17 GETAS IFAS THENI7 18 GOSUB79 IFFACSANDGSFATHENIFAS THENFA FA 1 GOSUB 19 ON CAS GOTOZ2 ON CASCD GOTOL 221 2 IFWSBTH 56 GOSUBZ6 IFWSO THENC 2 GosuBb es 21 G60TO17 22 IFGSETHEN2 23 ead SOSUBZS PRINT W Te i SUB76 END 24 IFWOOTHENFORG 6 TOGtP W 0 FA GOSUBSEH NEXT G G 1 25 FA 1 GOSUBS6 RETUR 26 POKE214 12 PRINT FORT 1T0O9 2 PRIN T e OT GH T sir ULATAS lPY T 755 Si NEYT 13 ms Line 28 Colunn 23 iret mode graphic characters are displayed just like you were looking at a real Commodore machine Now what we want to do is save this file so we could email it to a friend lets say for checking or place it on a website for people to type in maybe to learn programming or syntax However we have a problem petscii is a Commodore proprietary standard and as such the characters will not display with windows fonts or any other systems fonts for that matter am guessing you know what I am about to say so queue up the Drum roll Ok Drum roll Trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr The solution as am sure you have seen would be to use standard text othe
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25. LEASE OF TIMBERWOLF THE AMIGAOS PORT OF THE POPULAR FIREFOX BROWSER We re happy to announce the availability of the first Alpha release of Timber wolf the AmigaOS port of the popular Firefox browser Timberwolf needs AmigaOS 4 1 Update 2 installed Please read the documen tation for information about usage and limitations This is an alpha release meaning it will have a lot of problems still and be slower than it should be We are releasing it as a small Thank you to all those that have donated in the past to show that de velopment is still going on Timberwolf is available on os4depot net http os4depot net index php function sho wfile amp file network browser timberwolf insta ll lha For further information and feedback check the Timberwolf support forum on amigans net http www amigans ne Welcome to the Timberwolf Alpha 1 release Introduction First of all please know that this is an Alpha release This means that some functionality is not in yet or not working and the program still contains many bugs Launching Timberwolf Timberwolf is launched by double clicking on it s icon If you run it for the first time it will take considerably longer than on subsequent runs Since there is no splash screen yet it will look as if nothing is happening Known Problems There is a number of known problems with this release Menus display correctly mostly but selecting items with the mouse isn t working
26. RE PHILCORNES 6 ES BS Page 3 L COMPILAT FEATURING FOUR SUPERS RELEASES COMMODOr Soro TACINIE T o A A E ee http www binaryzone org retrostore They Didn t Quite Sell A Million C64 Tape 9 99 They Didn t Quite Sell A Million Premium C64 Disk Edition 12 99 NOW IN STOCK Psytronik Software is very pleased to present They Didn t Quite Sell A Million a brand new compilation for the Commodore 64 The compilation contains FOUR complete Psytronik re leases Sceptre of Baghdad Archetype amp Cops 3 The Shoot Em Up Destruction Set and Psykozone Here s your chance to own FOUR Psytronik releases in one excellent pack The full colour glossy packaging is based on the famous They Sold A Million compilations released back in the 80 s This tape version of the compilation contains two tapes presented in a dual cassette case and includes a full colour instruction sheet SCEPTRE OF BAGHDAD CYCLOPS the one eyed giant MEDUSA who will turn you to stone with just a glance A burning desert a shark infested river All these things and more must be passed before the Caliph of Baghdad can recover the sacred sceptre and prove his right to rule his beloved country Po Tea Adis O_O PRESENTS SCEPTRE OF BALHOAD PRPOGFPAM oH TONATHAN WELLS MUSIC H PARUL HANNA ARCHETYPE amp COPS III Two challenging games from the shoot em up MASTER Alf Yngve In ARCHETYPE you must make t
27. RICKY DEROCHER LOADSTAR S FAVORITE DETECTIVE DESIRES YOUR HELP IN THIS QUEST AD VENTURE PIRATE SOLUTION SIDE 1 BY RICKY DEROCHER IF YOU GOT STUCK ON LAST ISSUE S QUEST HERE IS A STEP BY STEP SOLU TION TO YOUR PROBLEMS Commodore Free Magazine NEWS FORTIS GAME FOR MORPHOS RELEASED Fortis game for MorphOS has been finished and released It is old school shooter wrapped in flashy 3D art and FX More details about the Fortis for MorphOS screenshots and video trailer see on YouTube or download AVI XviD available on Encore Games website As we promised price of the Fortis for MorphOS has been very reduced Ev eryone can download the final FULL version of the game from Encore Games website and use it without any limitations However if you would like to legal ly own it you need to either buy full version of the Fortis for iPhone iPod touch or iPad in future on AppStore or recommend the game to another us er of iPhone iPod touch or iPad Please inform us once you do it so we could update our statistics Fortis for MorphOS is available on http www encore games com data Fortis MorphOS lha Follow Encore Games news on Twitter encoregames on website www encore games com See you in next better projects Encore Games UPDATED MORPHOS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT 2 The MorphOS development team would like to announce that the MorphOS Software Development Kit 2 has le
28. Stephan Senz used to transfer programs from a datassette to a disk drive Features Transfer Turbo tape programs from datassette to disk drive Auto transfer mode Rename file name Device number configuration Load error detection File size maximum is 230 blocks Check on blocks free Time to go through them old shoeboxes with Turbo250 tapes Then this is the tool for you Perhaps you remember the good old to handle rough weather at sea All info you might need is provided in the program http noname c64 orq csdb getinternalfile php 89033 SCT2D TRIAD ZIP Spectacular Copy Tape To Disk tool Well this is Sailor s version improved Written By Stephan Senz Improved By Sailor of Triad The third Club Info issue of 2010 The third Club Info issue of 2010 is here to quench your thirst of summer releases Erich Ultd has packed two disk sides with a load of goodies the German language articles have reviews and tips for some of the latest games e g Adventures in Time and Olticrun jokes and other info Side B has some new stuff Dir Druck 2spalt Potenzrechner Supermind a previously missing game Tower of Evil 4 Tuerme Von Pompeji and others Fire up that old Plus 4 or an em ulator and dig in http plus4world powweb com software Club Info 117 GENEALOGY NEWSLETTER AND C64 FROM Ernie Chorny SUBJECT Genealogy newsletter AND C64 this history of the early days of telecomputing at h
29. ailable at 300 baud although high speed 1200 baud connections soon became available Higher speeds became available as modem technology improved In 1994 GEnie claimed around 350 000 users The service closed on December 30 1999 without finding a buyer The Source was a commercial network started in 1979 and owned by Readers Digest It had a similar business plan to Genie offering services to businesses during the day at higher prices and to consumers nights and weekends The Source was a popular business service although do not recall a genealogy service ever being started on The Source Readers Digest sold The Source to competitor CompuServe in 1989 CompuServe then dismantled The Source CompuServe was founded in 1969 as Compu Serv Network Inc although its networking service was originally called MicroNet CompuServe was one of many computer timeshare services of the 1970s initially running on a single dial up line in Cleveland connected to a DEC PDP 8 computer The system soon grew into a network of PDP 8 and PDP 11 computers eventually replaced by DEC PDP 10 systems The PDP 10 was the machine that made time sharing common The CompuServe dial up network also expanded to become one of the largest such networks in the world When was an active CompuServe user was able to dial into local CompuServe numbers when travelled to London Rotterdam Hong Kong and Aruba CompuServe originally was a subsidiary of Golden United Life I
30. al up BBSs The FidoNet Bulletin Board Systems usually contained multiple message boards or forums with topics typically based upon the BBS owner s interests Local users could read messages and post new messages as they wished Users could also send and receive email messages to each other outside of the forums public message boards During the early morning hours FidoNet systems would dial out connect to other FidoNet systems and exchange email messages and forum messages While crude by today s standards the system worked quite well For instance a genealogist on the East Coast might enter a looking for the parents of message on Monday the message would travel over the next few days through the affiliated network of genealogy specific FidoNet systems a user on the West Coast might answer the query on Thursday and the reply would travel back to the originating system over the next few days arriving by Sunday or Monday Later versions of FidoNet improved the speed of delivery The FidoNet genealogy message boards were active through the mid 1980s and into the 1990s often featuring messages by Richard Pence Don Wilson Howard Nurse and others In fact if you were active on FidoNet in the mid 1980s you may have seen occasional messages from me At the same time that UseNet and FidoNet were becoming established several commercial companies saw an opportunity in providing online services to individuals Early players
31. and constants Or even dropping the final Or that a line like 10 GOTO 20 anygarbagecanfollow will work it jumps to line 20 and the rest of the line will be simply ignored But most important Have fun with what you are doing Disk Image units 71a me Alea MIP Zb r m oO Mio e A Bom mA DND m D oo Wwe e re e Cea 4 eC mM ZCZI 7 ee P ows T DMs 2 Mosh X Te MM AT Z I m Al m lt E Mii ODP OSIL AHI HSCODPAMALDPHTTS b O CAG 20 eoD CONS PaAOSeAM e DOs SOM SNe S2HeTSPO43 OM MM Ia A Z P20 OS MCOSSROOAM 45D Pode MOSM mM ry W TITI ITITITT IITTI TITT AAAAAAADAAAAADADAAAAADAAA A AAA AAT AAA HOGG Gas MUS DOOM T BOE Lo bOI WOON INOW 00 OH Oe 0 OAL WEIN ONION bOI Moh ey D ANS Meo CDAD Oe IOS Mos 4 4 1 E 5 5 3 4 A 3 4 Fi 4 4 4 Hi 3 3 OANA AGDDPVDOHMMZZANHEDEDEZ IM gt Pag H Z he A a Moe WN Return to attach or ESC to cancel Pe BEE Q PRI NHEST G0 GOS B6S GOSUBS4 60T015 Character Set CO A 2m Poke 6 ASCII 70 DbiChick to insert 1 YANDI IZT s30 0R CRAND LST 3 THENAH6 GOTOES line mode Commodore Free Magazine o INTERVIEW WITH ROSS MYERS Please introduce yourself to our readers Hi my name is Ross Myers aka VimFuego on Lemon64 I m 38 and married with 3 kids under 8 and living in Australia work in the automotive in
32. any UseNet message boards are more popular today than ever before with most Internet Service Providers ISPs now hosting local copies of UseNet message boards You can access genealogy UseNet groups at alt genealogy soc genealogy computing soc genealogy britain soc genealogy surnames usa alt hipclone genealogy jewish and elsewhere You can find more information about today s UseNet groups at http www newsdemon com genealogy newsgroups ph FidoNet was originally founded as a non commercial affiliation of independent PCs in 1984 by Tom Jennings of San Francisco California as a means to network independent dial up Bulletin Board Systems BBSs that used his own Fido BBS software Each BBS ran on a single PC typically installed in someone s home as a hobby The BBSs were more democratic than UseNet That is they were available to anyone who owned a home computer and a modem You didn t need a mainframe user name and password in order to use FidoNet Many BBSs were available free of charge while a few charged fees for access Most BBSs had one telephone line connected You dialled the number and if someone else was already using the BBS s single phone line you received a busy signal Then you waited and waited until the other user finished A few commercial systems did use as many as eight or even 16 phone lines The World Wide Web had not yet been invented and even the Internet was in its infancy and was not used by the majority of di
33. as still in its infancy with many users clinging to MS DOS in those days There was no Macintosh version A genealogy forum was implemented on Wow with myself as forum manager The best description can think of for the Genealogy Forum on Wow is sleepy Nothing much ever happened there WOW was never successful CompuServe s traditional customers were not enthusiastic about the new user interface Competition from the new World Wide Web proved to be overpowering CompuServe shut down the service on January 31 1997 less than a year after it went online Other commercial providers began to suffer growth problems by the mid to late 1990s The reasons can be summed up in three words World Wide Web By 1995 or so the World Wide Web was in hypergrowth mode The old fashioned commercial providers stood like deer staring into headlights on the side of the Information Superhighway AOL performed better than most of its competitors having a successful run into the early 2000s by integrating the Web into the other online offerings However by 2005 even this business model began to fall apart AOL has since laid off most of its employees but is still an online service offering only a fraction of the services it offered fifteen years ago All of these early online services were fun to use They produced a camaraderie amongst users that is difficult to find amongst the millions of online genealogists today Indeed we were all pioneers The on
34. candidates come forward Commodore Bounty will consult it s technical advisers to chose who will be assigned the bounty Current bounty update S2diec Geos 1073 48 JiffyDOS Vic20 23 47 Commodore Free Magazine NEWS A EON TECHNOLOGY CVBA AND VARISYS LTD ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP A EON Technology CVBA and Varisys Ltd are pleased to announce their partnership in the development of the AmigaOne X1000 hardware platform for AmigaOS Varisys Ltd were identified as the ideal hardware partner for the ambitious project to create a new genuinely modern computer system to run AmigaOS4 x in late 2008 even before the formal creation of A EON Technology In early 2009 Varisys Ltd began work on developing a new PowerPC based motherboard codenamed Nemo which would form the heart of the new AmigaOne X1000 computer After months of design and testing Varisys delivered the first Nemo prototypes in late 2009 and have now completed a Revision 2 design which will be supplied to beta testers under the recently announced Extended Beta Test Program A EON Technology director Trevor Dickinson said We are very pleased to reveal Varisys as our AmigaOne X1000 hardware partner They have a proven extensive experience with PowerPC and parallel processing solutions makes them our ideal technical partners and with their help we can revitalise the AmigaOne platform Varisys Managing Director Paul Gentle said We are equally pleased to be working with A
35. dustry as a programmer on PowerPC based embedded systems a vastly different beast to the 6510 CPU in our humble Commodore computers l m a very musical person unfortunately wasn t blessed with the talent to play music beyond some guitar riffs of my favourite songs but whenever am working am always listening to music anything from Pink Floyd to Slayer my musical tastes are very wide Another of my interests outside of computers is old cars my daily driver is a 1967 Cadillac quite a contrast considering my work is with cars full of computers and the latest technology Can you give our readers a little of your computing history Well am happy to say it all began with a C64 back when was in primary school I m not actually sure why my parents bought it because they certainly weren t in to computers and they cost a bunch of money My two older sisters used it for a few weeks then lost interest so it pretty much defaulted to being mine For many years all had was a Datassette and a Comp Pro joystick but the C64 was very popular at my school so there was never a shortage of new games to try remember used that C64 every spare moment had At some point got a 1541 and an Action Replay cart this set up did me for many years but the Amiga had also been out for about a year and wanted one so eventually my C64 set up was sold to fund an A500 The A500 did me well for a while before making way for an A1200 As you can see was a loya
36. early every configuration starting from 286 AT with 8 MHz and 512KB to a Core2Duo at the moment Beside the 6502 have another faible for the 68000 processor as it seems to be the logical step after the 6502 As high level languages have experiences with a lot of procedural and object oriented languages like C C Pascal Basic DBase FoxPro etc With this history in computers it was unavoidable to go to the university to study computer science Unfortunately for me this has nearly nothing to do with programming and fiddling with my beloved computer but is mathematics and theory and some very obscure courses After 2 years decided to quit and make a more practical education and made a 2 year training to become something with a very long name which prefer to shorten as programmer From 1992 until today work as a programmer and could not even imagine what would do for a living if we would not have computers Can you explain what COMMODORE BASIC EDITOR was created for Simply stated it s a WYSIWYG text editor on the PC which uses a special graphical font to show the complete PETSCII character set as found on Commodores 8bit computers a more modern editing environment for Commodore Basic With BasEdit you can edit your Basic sources on the PC using standard editing controls like pg up pg dn home end search amp replace cut amp paste insert and overwrite mode scroll through the code with the mouse wheel up and down etc
37. ecial form of REM with a simple apostrophe allows for comments which will be ignored when translating back to line number mode So you can have as much comments as you want without wasting precious space for the resulting PRG file 10 GET AS IF AS THEN 10 20 PRINT AS 30 IF AS lt gt E GOTO 10 will become LBL10 GET AS IF AS THEN LBL10 PRINT AS IF AS lt gt E THEN LBL10 And to take that even further BasEdit supports as simple Project mode in which a PRG file for running on the real machine or an emulator and a label mode source PETSCII file will be kept together and in sync In this mode you program without line numbers and can even use variables of any length which will be shortened automatically when converting back to line number mode Keeping my small example from above it would maybe look like this WAIT FOR USER TO MAKE SELECTION E ENDS LOOP INPUTLOOP GET KEYS IF KEYS THEN INPUTLOOP PRINT KEYS IF KEYS lt gt E THEN INPUTLOOP When saving or starting the program with F5 it will be converted in background to this by default BasEdit tries to squeeze as much commands in one line as possible without compromising the logic 10 GETTAS IFTAS THEN10 20 PRINTTAS IFTAS lt gt E THEN10 of course if the variable TAS would already exist in our source BasEdit would generate another variable trying TSS TTS TES and then AOS until ZZS And while was at that feature implemented some extensions
38. ft the beta state All developers who are interested to upgrade their existing MorphOS development infrastructure will need a computer running the recently finished MorphOS 2 5 and at least 300 MB of free disk space The latest release of the MorphOS SDK 2 includes the following changes Improved MorphEd compatibility when invzeropage is enabled Added minor improvements to the documentation Added a convenient update mode to the installer Increased the amount of example source code You can download the MorphOS SDK 2 in our files section http www morphos team net downloads html SD2IEC FIRMWARE GEOS _JIFFYDOS for the VIC Commodore Bounty Mission Written by redrumloa Commodore Bounty was started in 2010 with the idea of giving incentives to programmers to create software that Commodore 8bit end users want the most Users may vote with their wallet on what is most important and pro grammers have an incentive to do a project they may otherwise not be inter ested in If you would like to be assigned this bounty please use contact form on right Current Bounty 150 00 The Goal 1 Document the GEOS DiskTurbo Protocol and it s various implementations 1541 1571 1581 FD HD RAMLink and various versions if different versions exist for Wheels64 128 and GEOS 64 128 2 Implement at least the 1541 and HD variations in the sd2iec firmware Success will be defined as 1 Booting a GEOS Disk image any image type 2 R
39. g to compile for both NTSC and PAL VIC 20 systems 4 Adding the required conditional JiffyDOS portions to the combined VIC 20 Kernal ROM source 5 Cleaning up JiffyDOS VIC 20 portions to accommodate smaller screen of VIC 20 and differences between 6522 6526 SJLOAD 679 amp sid ee65a2071ad64ca96a7d092812017ae0 could be used to develop the 6522 based Jiffy code 6 Verifying that the assembled VIC 20 source runs on both PAL and NTSC VIC 20s in both JiffyDOS equipped and non JiffyDOS equipped drives 7 The non JiffyDOS portions of the source listings released under a suitable FLOSS license Bounty Length This is a 120 day bounty Once assigned the developer will have 120 days to finish the project or the bounty will be moved back to unassigned There will be a 30 day probation period after bounty has been assigned The developer must demonstrate reasonable progress has been achieved or bounty will be returned to unassigned status IMPORTANT JiffyDOS for Vic 20 will not be free software after bounty completion Over lays available for sale at Retro Innovations after bounty completion Interested in accepting the challenge of this bounty Please use the Contact Us link in the Main Menu to express your interest Af ter the first capable candidate comes forward the status will change to pend ing The status will stay as pending for approximately 48 hours If no other candidates come forward the bounty will be assigned If multiple
40. g when inserting lines between existing lines Compact source to squeeze as much commands in one line as possible Cross reference to show all jumps and all usages of variables Syntax Check Proof reader support for Compute 83 and 86 versions import binary data with conversion to data lines and an optional POKE loop b label mode enhanced editing mode without line like in modern Basics one command per line indentation of loops special comments with single apostrophe will be ignored when converting to line programs can be converted from to both modes at any time substitution of line labels will be done automatically project mode keeps both edit modes in sync providing a line PRG file and a label mode PETSCII file for editing when using label mode variables can be of any length and will be short ened automatically when transforming into line mode shortening of variables keeps track of used variables to avoid double us age CHECK and CHECK1 will be transformed to CH and CE for example drag and drop files onto BasEdit icon or onto edit area in running BasEdit will load that file free definable keyboard layout Basic tokens ASCII tokenizer different emulators colours fonts etc can be changed via BasEdit Ini or special files F1 pops up a little help dialog with short command summary Code movement cursor keys move around home start of line end end of line pgup one page up pgdow
41. he journey to the OTHERWORLD To once again restore the harmony be tween TARA and UISNECH COPS 3 A city in CHAOS criminals on the RAMPAGE dinosaurs on the LOOSE just another day on the beat for the COPS nea j ARC PRODL CEDO BE ALF Salle rita EDO eS Miah fel iti ie Le F m ee ee a SF T AFE Oe THE SHOOT EM UP DESTRUCTION SET Fight in the air and on the ground in the slick sideways scrolling shooter SILVERFISH de liver critical medical supplies in your cargo plane in FLIGHT OF THE ALBATROSS battle in feudal Japan with sword and shuriken in NUKENIN AND THE RONIN and rid your home of an invasion of pesky insects in the splatter em up INSECTOPHOBIA PSYKOZONE In the twenty first century the United States have collapsed into a myriad of independent regions These are connected by a net of lethal expressways known as the PSYKOZONE You must battle through gangs of road warriors and genetically enhanced psycho bikers in order to reach the safety of the pacific ocean Can you survive the PSYKOZONE Commodore Free Magazine www commodorefree com NEWS PUBLIC RELEASE OF MORPHOS 2 5 amp INTRODUCTION OF EMAC SUPPORT The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOsS 2 5 the fifth new OS version since the debut of MorphOS 2 0 in the same month two years ago MorphOS 2 5 finally adds the Apple eMac to its list of officially supported platforms In addit
42. ie A PT an j s y METAL DUST 4 ER i thee it LH L i Pi Taci Bray Hall Taake street corer OLD 4502 A astaha Hall is about 5 minutes walk from Petrie train station Commodore Free Magazine ince COR THE EARLY DAYS OF ONLINE GENEALOGY THE EARLY DAYS OF ONLINE GENEALOGY To Commodorefree From Dick Eastman COMMODORE FREE Subject Reprint article request If you view the site with Internet explorer 8 you receive an error this is fixed using compatibility mode here is what the website says also contacted the Certainly I d be honoured page author and have permission to reprint the article without the readers Please feel free to republish that article as you specified comments if you have internet access its worth reading the comments here is God luck with the magazine the email response Dick Eastman recommend the Firefox and Chrome web browsers for this site Having problems reading this site in Internet Explorer 8 That s because IE8 has a The memories started flowing stopped to think how much the technologies compatibility problem To fix it click on IE8 s Compatibility Mode icon or else have changed since first started using home computers in the late 1970s and read the article at http www eogn com ie8_bug html how much has changed since started using CompuServe in 1984 Most of those computers used television sets as the monitor used to access Reprint of article w
43. included CompuServe The Source Genie Prodigy and a quirky service called QuantumLink NOTE QuantumLink was a dedicated online service only for use with Commodore 64 and 128 computers Its user interface featured low resolution video and its initial services were limited looked at QuantumLink around 1985 and said to myself This online service won t ever amount to anything it s too limited However QuantumLink soon expanded its services opened up its service to other brands of computers and changed its name to America OnLine So much for my prognostications believe that Genie General Electric Network for Information Exchange was the first commercial online service to successfully offer an online genealogy forum starting around 1985 The Genealogy RoundTable was managed by Rhonda McClure for several years Genie was a wholly owned subsidiary of General Electric The company had built a financially successful online network by selling stock market and other information to other companies However most of the usage of this network was done during normal business hours The network was almost idle during nights and weekends General Electric decided to offer online services to consumers with two tier pricing very expensive during business hours but at the bargain price of 5 per hour nights and weekends Prices later dropped to 4 95 month for a set of unlimited use features but other services cost extra Access was initially av
44. ion of Rest in peace CompuServe CompuServe corporate headquarters The building is now empty with a Space Available sign on the lawn first started installing and repairing mainframe computers in the mid 1960s but didn t start researching my family tree until about ten years later My first was inside that building many times in the 1980s and 1990s In fact was at genealogy database was recorded in my employer s mainframe computers CompuServe headquarters the day the company announced that parent didn t have an opportunity to go online and compare notes with other company H amp R Block had sold CompuServe to its biggest competitor America genealogists until the early 1980s Of course online genealogy databases were Online There were some long faces in the building that day unheard of in those days Online genealogy got its start in the message boards or forums simultaneously on commercial services as well as on FidoNet and UseNet Although quite different from each other FidoNet and UseNet evolved as separate systems at about the same time Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea of UseNet in 1979 and established the first online UseNet system in 1980 Usenet was a communications system installed on college and some commercial mainframe computers that were tied together via the Internet Keep in mind this was more than ten years before the invention of the World Wide Web NOTE Many pe
45. ion to the extended hardware support existing users will benefit from various bug fixes and a few new fea tures For an overview of the included changes please read our release notes http www morphos team net releasenotes 2 5 html We strongly urge owners of eMac computers carefully read our installation http www morphos team net installation html and troubleshoot guides http www morphos team net fag html before they attempt to install Mor phOS for the first time Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well MorphOS 2 5 is available for download in our files section http www morphosteam net downloads html What is MorphOS MorphOS is a lightweight highly efficient and flexible desktop operating sys tem It includes primarily proprietary as well as open source components most notably the Ambient desktop environment Its many features range utilize 3D hardware acceleration to a high performance Just in Time compil er which emulates the 68k family of processors and thereby allows to trans parently execute legacy applications developed for the Commodore Ax00 series of computers Parts of MorphOS are based on work made by the AROS project from a modern exceptionally customizable graphical user interface which can SPECTACULAR COPY TURBO TO DISK Sailor has released an improved version of the transfer program Spectacular Copy The originally creator
46. ith authors permission originally found at this URL link CompuServe by using a 300 baud modem with rubber cups had to pick up http blog eogn com eastmans online genealogy 2010 06 the early days a normal telephone dial the CompuServe access telephone number wait until of online genealogy html heard the modem tones and then place the handset in the rubber cups on The text was originally created by Dick Eastman the top of the modem The Early Days of Online Genealogy In contrast in 2010 am able to access far more online information from a shirt pocket sized cell phone using an always on Internet connection with no wired connection at all don t know the speed of the 3G wireless connection but it certainly is much faster than 300 baud travel around guided by another shirt pocket sized device a GPS That technology wasn t A few weeks ago was in Columbus Ohio went out to dinner seeking a particular barbecue restaurant that found highly recommended by an online restaurant database service on the World Wide Web found the restaurant listing by searching the web using my Apple iPhone and then was guided to the restaurant by the GPS in the rental car As approached the restaurant realized that the neighbourhood looked available on my previous trips to Columbus familiar It seemed to be d ja vu Soon recognized an office building that passed at 5000 Arlington Centre Boulevard It was the former locat
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48. l Commodore guy was also in a local Commodore computer club during these years Though back then never got in to programming beyond the odd type in from a magazine did they ever work was more a gamer than a programmer Eventually caved in to progress plus the fact that Commodore was no more and moved on to Windows 95 and a Playstation for gaming A few years ago started using Vice on the PC and eventually found myself on EBay buying up a Commodore collection again I ve got a number of 64 s a C16 Vic20 C128 an A1200 plus a few floppy drives datassettes joysticks etc think I ll stop buying now I ve covered most of the machines ever wanted as a kid or need for product development You have designed a product called Cassadapt can you describe the product A quick summary Cassadapt is a product used to transfer a prg or tap file from your PC via the sound card to a Commodore computer via the datassette port Obviously you can t feed audio signals in to the datassette input so Cassadapt converts the audio signals from the PC to a digital 0 5V digital signal the Commodore will recognise It also has a Play button that simulates the play button on a datassette This means you can actually load a tape game direct off the PC to the Commodore computer with actually having a datassette connected How long did the product take to design and then produce Not too long the smarts behind it is an Atmel AVR micro I ve been playi
49. like WHILE WEND REPEAT UNTIL DO LOOP and IF THEN ELSE ENDIF which will be converted to standard Basic V2 command sequences when saved as PRG and or started Commodore Free Magazine So finally the above sample could look like this REPEAT GET KEYS IF KEYS lt gt THEN PRINT KEYS ENDIF UNTIL KEYS E So this runs on a standard PC and can produce basic Code as a PRG file Yes it can load and save files from PC disk and since some time you can even attach or create disk images and load and save directly from and in these images The disk manager allows to create disk images D64 D71 and D81 and copy files from and to those disk images from the PC hard drive delete files out of disk images as also as rename or move files in the directory up and down And as a nice add on you can with one key save your source and run it in an emulator with F5 from hard drive or out of a disk image What else can BasEdit be used for You re not limited to PRG files in fact you can load and save PETSCIl files as you can see in my samples or even ASCIl files with translations for the printable control codes like home clr etc PETSCII and ASCII files can be with or without line numbers so you could even use BasEdit as a full screen text editor for a diskmag or something like that Some users take BasEdit to re type Basic programs from magazines using the built in proof reader function which shows the checksums for Basic lines
50. line services of the eighties and nineties tended to be user unfriendly by today s standards and were horribly expensive They also taught us a lot about online communications and about genealogy It was a great experience and am glad that was around to participate When did you first go online What computer hardware did you use Posted by Dick Eastman on June 02 2010 in History Permalink Commodore Free Magazine COMMODORE FREE INTERVIEW WITH BJORG STOJALOWSKI CREATOR OF BASICEDITOR Please introduce yourself to our readers My name is Bj rg Stojalowski I m 43 years old live in Germany and I m totally addicted to Commodore 8Bit computers Can you give some brief history about yourself and computing started my programming career in 1980 on a PET 2001 at our school the real early ones with chicklet keyboard and integrated tape recorder After my first program 10 PRINT HALLO 20 GOTO10 was hooked bought my first Commodore in 1981 a VIC 20 and started programming it in Basic but after a while got my hands on a book about 6502 assembler programming and changed over to assembler This started another tradition for me as programmed every computer got in my life first in Basic and afterwards in assembler Speaking of computers managed to own and use the following computers VIC 20 C64 Apple il Atari ST 260 Amiga 500 Atari Mega ST2 Acorn Archimedes and then PC s in n
51. loobasic Regards Commodore Free CLASSIC COMPUTER SUPPORT One hardware design which can emulate multiple different classic computers e g C 64 and Amiga Easy to reconfigure for different emulations All emulation done in real HW design and not Software based This ensures the original behavior and reaction time for games and applications EXPANDABLE DESIGN Allows user to add keyboard mouse DB 9 Joysticks and has USB micro SD card interface ENHANCED FEATURES ONGTOP TOF THE ORIGINAL DESIGN Q New algorithms improve the sound and picture quality This Multiple Classic Computer Platform lets dreams come true The Classic Computer and Classic Arcade fans are waiting for a device which allows them to go back to the good and easy operation and gaming experience from the past Many people still have unique software and programs which are still unbeatable when it comes to user friendliness The reconfigurable and generic design will allow an easy switch between multiple different realizations and representations of classic computers The MCC support Commodore C 64 emulation The Commodore Amiga emulation will follow soon with a simple Software upgrade Easy selection of platform games and application software with enhanced human machine interface Old Joystick interfaces allow the usage of classic input devices A stereo audio output allows the connection to each TV set amplifier or
52. n one page down ctrl pgup got first line ctrl pgdown goto last line ctrl home goto first char ctrl end goto last char mouse click move cursor to mouse position block commands blocks can be either some chars in gt one lt line or multiple gt complete lt lines shift cursor keys mark text shift del cut block copy to blockbuffer ctrl del copy block to blockbuffer shift ins insert blockbuffer other commands num lock switch between 16x16 standard and 8x8 small font ins switch between insert and overwrite mode ctrl shift switch between fonts upper graphics upper lower right mouse click opens context menu for loading and saving files Keyboard mapping can be controlled by Keymap txt for all those of you not using German QWERTZ keyboards Getting the special commodore symbols on PC keyboards can be tough spe cial mappings are made for ctrl and letter keys graphic symbols alt and numbers colour codes and reverse on off alt and cursor keys up down left right alt and home home alt and shift and home shift home Or just open the charset window F2 and double click on the desired symbol Edit BasEdit Ini for further options like tab indent which tokenfile to use colours etc www stojalowski de files BasEdit net zip always latest release No installation needed just unzip to some folder and have fun Commodore Free Magazine NEWS ALPHA RE
53. n Amiga OS 4 x MorphOS 2 x and AROS Many exciting 3D animation programs had their start on the Amiga platform but abandoned it for greener pastures long ago Aladdin 4D will show that multi platform quality software can be achieved without leaving out Amiga OS MorphOS amp AROS If you have created an account on Aladdin4d com you will have to recreate it here unless serving the Amiga of course you already have an account on Amiga org like many Aladdin 4D owners The forums on Aladdin4d com will remain there during the transition but will eventually be copied and included on Amiga org Aladdin4d com will cease to be a forum in the future and will instead be a full website with details about the 3D package Forum posting has already been disabled on Aladdin4d com If you have any questions we will be glad to help you and answer them Alad din 4D 6 0 is not vaporware a feature incomplete beta for Mac OS X was giv en to Rich at AmiZed Studios on May 18th 2010 and he can verify that it is real The current 5 x version of Aladdin 4D is still available and runs great on MorphOS Amiga OS 4 x and Amiga virtual machines like Amiga Forever 2010 A fix was included in MorphOS 2 5 that allows the Aladdin 4D installer to complete without problems You can access the Amiga org Aladdin 4D Forums via the link below forums forumdisplay php f 57 http www amiga or Best regards DiscreetFX Labs community since 1994 DIY ACTION REPLAY
54. n Bosch formed the Neo Terra Front a true alliance of an ideal considered hostile by the Galactic Ter ran Vasudan Alliance Both sides have been at war with each other for eigh teen months now Deneb Alpha Centauri and Epsilon Pegasi are the focus points in this war Admiral Bosch s rebellion seems to be winning Features Enhanced graphics A completely new and alien environment The nebula fog Be assigned to up to six fighter squadrons from the Vasudan 203rd Scorpi ons to the elite 70th Blue Lions Fly for the SOC Special Operations Command Over 20 weapons of mass destruction A thirty mission single player campaign and even more multiplayer mis sions Encounter deadly new capital ship weapons the Flak guns and Beam can nons Attack up to 8 players via LAN or TCP IP Over 70 new ships ranging from Super Capital ships to stealth fighters FRED the easy to use mission editor Reasonable modability Installation Be sure you have the three CD version of Freespace 2 Simply click on Install icon and follow the instructions You need approx 1 8GB of free space on Disk The installation could take some time depends from your system speed and CD ROM reader and Media Copy ALL libraries in SOBJS directory into SOBJS dir backup the originals first KNOWN BUGS Audio output has some ticks that depends from OpenAL library At exit you will have a problem on OpenAL library The in game message wind
55. nager on AOL and ran a successful service there for many years At one time AOL claimed several million members However the bookkeeping was a bit flawed and AOL executives eventually admitted that former customers were still claimed as users for a year or more after cancelling their accounts Internally previous customers were referred to as inactive users and were still counted PRODIGY Interactive Personal Service In recent years AOL has suffered from a decline in customers and the dot com bust of the early twenty first century Like most other commercial online services AOL was unable to match the rapidly expanding World Wide Web Parent company Time Warner spun AOL off as a separate independent company in 2009 AOL still operates with many customers today but is not nearly as big as it once was You can access AOL today at http www aol com Numerous other commercial online services have appeared and disappeared although not all of them offered genealogy services Delphi was the first commercial service to offer Internet access to consumers with FTP Telnet Usenet text based Web access November 1992 MUDs Finger and Gopher While it was possible to access genealogy UseNet message boards on the Internet through Delphi do not remember any genealogy services ever hosted on Delphi itself Prodigy Communications Corporation was an online service that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of
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57. networked services including an active genealogy section Prodigy was founded on February 13 1984 as Trintex a joint venture between CBS computer manufacturer IBM and retailer Sears Roebuck and Company The new online service gathered very few customers until the name was changed to Prodigy in 1988 and an aggressive advertising Campaign was begun At its peak Prodigy claimed 465 000 subscribers Prodigy then slowly faded away Senior executives were replaced two or three times in an effort to turn the company around but with little success Today accessing the domain www prodigy net redirects to my att net which appears to be a Yahoo based content and search portal linking mostly to other online services And who can ever forget Wow Well it seems that lots of people forgot it In 1996 CompuServe felt the need to face lower cost competitors by introducing a second online service to be called Wow Wow was the first online service to be offered with a monthly unlimited rate 17 95 and stood out because of its brightly coloured seemingly hand drawn pages The Wow service would also implement a parental control technology so that parents could limit and monitor the online activities of their children Wow was marketed primarily as a family friendly service easy for anyone to use and a place where parents could feel safe allowing their children to surf online even without parental supervision Wow only worked with Windows which w
58. ng around with those for many years so the coding side was done over a few late nights This being a hobby it s not like work on it 9 to 5 every day but overall between a prototype board a second PCB revision to add a couple more features guess it was a weeks work but spread over 2 or 3 months so with Cassadapt you basically record the sound from the Commodore tape deck the strange screeching and wailing noise s and record them via the device to a computer audio input Then you can load the file basically a sound sample of the cassettes screaming wailing back into the commodore machine the commodore thinking that its just a cassette is that the theory Actually that is one small function of what it can do in fact only added the ability to record back on to the PC on the 2nd PCB revision It s not actually the best way to transfer a tape to the PC but sometimes it works ok The main idea behind Cassadapt is you transfer a prg or tap file from a PC via the audio out socket to the C64 either as a direct input simulating a datassette playing back a tape or you can record it to a datassette If you want to play games on a real Commodore computer this is a really quick way to do it Using a program on the PC like WAV PRG you can be playing a game on a real C64 as an example in under a minute without needing to copy it to floppy or record it to cassette Multipart loading games would be required to be recorded to a real datasette though Wha
59. ng that the AVR microprocessor in Cassadapt is actually cheaper to buy than some of the connectors have to use on it More information on the product ordering and any future product releases can be found here http c8d cbm8bit com The Cassadapt is professionally produced did you think about offering the item as a DIY project designed it using through hole parts for ease of assembly for anyone but at this stage enjoy soldering up the odd one or two here and there it s therapeutic to put on some headphones and solder away so at this stage no have access to a very expensive Hakko soldering station so they look like they were machine assembled not handmade I d like to keep it that way Do you have any final comments you would like to add Thanks to those who have already ordered Cassadapt and thanks to the very active and helpful Lemon64 community Thanks also to Shane at www c64web com for hosting my website And of course finally thanks to Commodore Free for publishing a magazine each month it s always a great read Commodore Free Magazine BASICEDIT A QUICK LOOK AT A Windows tool to edit Basic files in windows and more will attempt to show some of the functions of this program in the hope it will excite you enough to download and start using it The application itself has been designed for BASIC programmers and overcomes some of the problems of writing Basic on Commodore systems notably like
60. ning up and I m open to any sugges tions One is to cover the demo scene perhaps have a demo of the week bit at the end of my column in each issue Another is to focus on computing rather than gaming with games being the exception rather than the rule Per haps could provide information on where to buy parts for restoration of ma chines Or any tips I ve picked up over the years One thing want to avoid is the what s this worth angle because that s more than well served elsewhere and to be honest I m not very good at writing price guides anyway If anyone wants to know search on eBay and take an average of what you have with comparable items Over to you any feedback comments and suggestions are most welcome Many thanks 4th September 2010 6 00pm 11 00pm At Perie im Lon Brisbanes north side yil 19 ome along and kiyi a C64 piak of fun and meet other 64er s The only one you anne to in bring 1s om ma cover a f If you leave created anything for the C 64 or shee C Sbit please feel free to bring it along and show it off lso bring any cool or rare hardware you have even bring your favorite game or piece of software along There will be plenty of room to set up your own system ry te a oat gre ga p eat isbit com has visit c Vimfuego lindly donated a Cassadapt as a door prize l im eedd dete DEUST 7 ii aul x k F i h
61. nsurance then was acquired by H amp R Block for 20 million dollars H amp R Block used CompuServe s network and mainframes to transfer income tax information and stock market information during business hours then to provide consumer computer services during nights and weekends By the late 1980s CompuServe was the largest commercial online service offering a variety of services In 1987 sent a business proposal to CompuServe to start an online genealogy forum with myself as Forum Manager After some negotiations CompuServe s Genealogy Forum went live on April 7 1988 In my proposal had predicted that we would receive 200 visitors a week or so in a genealogy offering on CompuServe was wrong We received more than 2 000 visitors the first day and the numbers increased daily after that for several years peaking in 1996 At one time the Genealogy Forum on CompuServe had 60 000 visitors per day with a total visitor database of nearly 150 000 users The CompuServe Genealogy Forum provided message boards text files and even downloadable programs for IBM Apple Commodore Amiga TRS 80 and other computers AMERICA ar Commodore Free Magazine The CompuServe Genealogy Forum flourished for several years until competition from the Internet specifically the World Wide Web as well as competition from AOL Genie and others began to take their toll When started with CompuServe as a user in 1985 the hourly charge was 18 hou
62. ople do not realize that the Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing The Internet was invented first in the 1970s The World Wide Web was invented in 1993 as a service that runs on the Internet The World Wide Web WWW is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet English engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners Lee wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web By Christmas 1990 Berners Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web On August 6 1991 he posted a short Commodore Free Magazine summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt hypertext newsgroup and made it available to others However a functional Web requires multiple computers The second computer in the Web did not become available until December 1992 On April 30 1993 CERN the European Organization for Nuclear Research announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone with no fees due Some accounts claim that the World Wide Web was born on August 6 1991 and other accounts claim December of 1992 while still other accounts use the date of the CERN announcement April 30 1993 UseNet soon became popular in the early 1980s amongst college students and many employees of companies that had Internet connected computers Thousands of people became active on UseNet message boards However UseNet required access to mainframe computers which was an impediment for m
63. own the Restore key for about 2 seconds and it will toggle the Reset line in the C64 To select the Kernal ROM you press either F1 F3 F5 or F7 within the first few seconds of the C64 running and it will select the appropriate ROM lines then reset the C64 It remembers what ROM you want selected at each start up The idea behind this product is didn t want to drill any holes in to my mint breadbox 64 but still wanted switchable ROM s and a reset switch hope to get back on to this project shortly I ve got the prototypes in all my 64 s it s pretty neat For those that want to keep their 64 s looking original yet have a reset switch and switching ROM s it s ideal Do you have any projects currently still in the design stage or shall we say on paper awaiting further developments Nothing more in immediate planning stage but I ll come up with something no doubt combining new technology with these old Commodore computers is fun Is the Cassadapt now for sale if so how much and where can our user obtain the device Yes it is currently for sale the cost is 32 USD plus shipping this is a fully assembled and tested unit My aim was not to make a substantial profit from my products do it more for fun but I can t do it for free either the Cassette port connector alone is nearly 5 USD guess that is one problem with products like this you are buying parts in low volume so you pay significantly more for them because of it It seems wro
64. ows has a white background well this is not a real bug ARCADE RETRO GAMING UPDATE Dear all We have new additional items in our Online store for a real classic computer and gaming experience http s318412817 e shop info Please check out the C64 Keyboard stickers Convert now your PS 2 keyboard for the MCC into a real C64 keyboard We have a couple of limited edition MCC 216 left HURRY UP They sell fast In addition we like to make you aware that we released today a new C64_NTSC core for the MCC 216 It starts per default in NTSC mode and is intended for US customers Please check out our download section for the MCC http www mcc home com 3 html Simply download the core on a PC copy it to the SD card and follow the up date process from the MCC It s that easy to upgrade your MCC with new a new released core We launched in addition two new YouTube videos 1 TOP C64 games on the MCC C64 is back http www youtube com watch Pv ow 7q2m32N6A 2 Top 11 Game Music played back on the MCC 216 SID http www youtube com watch ev ulXwarMsglVI ENJOY Thanks Dirk Dudenbostel Kind regards Mit freundliche Gruessen Bien amicalement Dirk Dudenbostel CEO Arcade Retro Gaming Mail contact arcaderetrogaming com Online http www arcaderetrogaming com http www mcc home com Online Shops http s318412817 e shop info http shop ebay com merchant arcaderetrogamin s Ek t Se
65. r during business hours but fell to only 12 50 hour nights and weekends Competitive forces kept driving those prices lower and lower ending at 1 95 an hour in 1995 America OnLine AOL however introduced a far cheaper flat rate unlimited time advertisement supported price plan in the U S to compete with CompuServe s hourly charges This caused a significant loss of customers until CompuServe responded with a similar plan of its own at 24 95 per month in late 1997 In 1998 CompuServe was sold to AOL for 1 2 billion That was a lucrative deal for H amp R Block which had only paid 20 million for the company eighteen years earlier AOL has continued to operate CompuServe as a separate but shrinking service A newer version of CompuServe known as CompuServe 2000 is still in operation The Genealogy Forum on CompuServe is now operated by Betty Clay and is available at http community compuserve com n pfx forum aspx nav start amp webtag ws genealogy You can access CompuServe 2000 at http webcenters netscape compuserve com menu AOL has had a long and somewhat erratic history After all who hasn t heard of AOL Originally called QuantumLink the online service was renamed to America Online and floppy disks containing sign up kits were mailed to nearly every household in America The floppies were later replaced by CD ROM disks and thousands of jokes sprung forth about the AOL CDs George Ferguson emerged as the Genealogy Forum Ma
66. rnal for the PC so that programs can run on virtually any PC The same could be said about a standard Basic V2 program without specialized POKEs for sound or graphics of course which can run on any Commodore 8bit computer Do you have any other projects you could tell our readers about Nothing as fancy as BasEdit maybe my XAsm a 6502 2 pass macro cross assembler for the PC with some nice features like generating a complete Basic program out of assembler source with DATA and the required FOR NEXT loop to POKE that data into the destination Which reminds me to mention that BasEdit can insert a binary file into the source which will be converted to DATAs with the required FOR NEXT loop to POKE that data into the destination And extracted the disk image manipulation part into a standalone command line Disk Tool which can be used to create Disk Images and add remove or extract files from them within batches makefiles command line What sort of Feedback have you had about the project A lot of very positive feedback mostly of the sort Great tool great features but may ask for this one additional feature as everybody seems to use BasEdit for a different purpose Sometimes even had feature requests which where already implemented unfortunately BasEdit is missing any form of Readme How to Documentation Do you have any other comments you would like to make Commodore Basic Editor 1 3 8 Edit File Diskimage Pro
67. rop up from time to time on eBay however they are as you would expect very expensive and don t have the funds for this route will happily pay post age maybe you are reading this and have the set would be interested if you could contact me FOOTBALL Football is well and truly over for England s rather dismal display and whether it was the wrong shaped ball or 1 goal that the ref missed we still lost 4 1 even 4 2 would be a loss or if the grass had become just the wrong shade of green or the tea wasn t warm enough or the sun was to hot or bright am glad don t really follow the game enough to comment any further however while the match was on did the monthly shop with my good lady wife and must say it was quiet We saw a couple of sad sorry soles who had been forced into a shop by there wives but it was quiet no queues also absent was a total lack of traffic on the read knew when we arrived home something was wrong as no one was chanting and cheering Oh well suppose all the Saint George memorabilia will be half price cant help thinking though that having a manager that speaks English would actually aid in the training of the team still am no expert on football RSS have been working to create an RSS Feed for Commodore Free with some help as many readers wanted some notification of when an issue was ready also wanted was a one click download for the magazine in various formats This is currently being te
68. rwise knows as ASCII to convey the Commodore petscii characters this would be used for things like down cursor and the colour red and reverse text etc so when the user is retyping the program he would know to substitute this text for a real cursor down or red colour or reverse text Select File Select SAVE as ASCII Saving the file and then opening it up in Windows Notepad or your favourite text editor we see the first line of the text is converted to 0 q 36874 pokeq 5 30 print blu rvon fort 1to22 print next The standard file without converting would look like this 0 Q 36874 POKEQ 5 30 PRINT FORT 1TO22 PRINT NEXT Notice after the print we have strange characters as ASCII text cant display or rather doesn t have a character for this well not a Commodore character any way Look closely again at the first line its all lower case And also note the none displayable characters petscii are converted to blu rvon so our cursor down example would be displayed as down so on a real machine we would look at the word down and convert that to cursor down when we retype following me No Oh well tried my best to explain it RENUMBER Another use for the program and a real time and life saver is the renumber how many times have you started numbering in tens then realised you missed something or wanted to add more code but you only have 9 lines ok there are utilities for the C64 to do thi
69. s but then you have to save the file load up a utility run it against the saved file select edit then select RENUMBER Here we can select the line to start renumbering from the last line we want to renumber to and the increments the program also changes the goto statements to ensure the whole application will still run Another option is to Save the text out as a prg file ready to run in an emulator or copy to a real machine and similar we could open a prg file for re editing As it s a windows application you can stretch the screen so no more hunting though lines to find the error you can maximize the screen and work to the full resolution of your pc monitor Renumber x gt s 100 w carea You can load and even create a disk image all within the application Heck you can even load a PRG file from with in a disk image or even save one back If this was all the program could do it would be great however in this text have just about scratched the surface of what can be done would suggest downloading the application and playing around From first line to be renumbered To last line to be renumbered Start new lined for Fran Step increment for following line s The program covers a large number of basics including ATbasic e Basicv3 5 Basic 4 Commodore 64 e Basic v10 e SpeechBasic V2 7 TurtleBasic e Wimbasic Basic v2 Basic v4 BAsci v7 EXbasiclevel 2 SuperExpander Water
70. s it was nearly 30 years ago felt hopelessly confused by the crowded screen with up to 4 screen lines belonging to one Basic line Trying to edit a program with more than a few lines on the VIC proved to be a nightmare for me So developed the idea to use the PC for editing the sources having a big screen and all the possibilities a PC can give Some readers will shun the idea of 1 writing Basic programs and 2 using a pc to do so what are the advantages of writing software in Basic over a lower language and using a pc rather than a real machine I think that s a common misunderstanding about Basic being slow and ugly and leading to unreadable code etc Basic itself isn t a bad language indeed it does a good job with string handling just trying to be as versatile in self Coonan Basie Editor 1 3 7 II a T I Im DOA Wes Oe Sole I as pee m HDN EDK zaoni I AmA ZADA Re oe Wc st Ee pe oo RST Oo ECTE Ca Gae I oa ll T t Goce a 440 4 See A Minin Mc H E Gs Z B 17 MAN a ee I I Il Il l l L GG T A E a a Il 1 BE OP 0 J A Be Oo 0 J A e aa a Il rE Lira L jenin programmed assembler routines as Basic is with strings can be a coding nightmare Of course it s slow compared to assembler but taking my above sample of an input loop there is no need to be faster anyway Basic does the job as good as required So for me it s always the right tool for
71. s lots of room for enhancements Would you welcome suggestions from readers Yes of course lots if not most of the features BasEdit has are directly or indirectly triggered by user requests That started with syntax highlighting continues over syntax check proof reader ASCll tokenizer variable shortening jump trace start address changer and even support for disk images and FE3 loader files could never came up with all these great ideas for myself as am more concerned about programming BasEdit right now then using it Anders Persson for example requested an interface to start BasEdit directly from his PRG Starter which resulted in some nice discussions about how to translate filenames between PRG files inside disk images and the PC file system as PETSCII lt gt ASCII During that time learned a lot about PETSCII and the work the VICE team made things would have not came across without user suggestions Is the software free to download and will you include the source code Caneda Basie Editor 1 3 7 ANN ea Sd a A D LLA Zmd C 8 G05UB LEL66 Thiet oer SOT eT IR ee OT ce A I A Cao Co Mala la lina 1 Caium 1 Yes and no BasEdit is free to download but the sources are kept by me Maybe if I am satisfied with what BasEdit is one day will release the sources but as long as l m actively developing would like to be the only one who changes anything in the sources Setting up some sort of source repository
72. s scheduled to run until Issue 256 The last published issue of Loadstar was Loadstar 249 Dave Moorman has stopped doing Loadstar BRAIN WARE since 2008 leaving the remaining issues undone helped with the beta test MONDO WORDO ll SIDE 2 BY LEE NOVAK ing of Loadstar 250 in 2008 It only got to the beta stage and was never re SCRABBLE MEETS TETRIS IN THIS JOYSTICK AND MIND BENDER leased decided to edit the beta to get the bugs out and to release this issue on the web So here it is sadly what is the last issue of Loadstar Issue 250 PROFESSOR CALHOON SIDE 2 BY BOB MARKLAND amp RICKY DEROCHER Enjoy it Four D64 images and a D81 image are included CLASS IS IN SESSION PUT DOWN YOUR BOOKS AND LAPTOPS LET S SEE Download it at WHAT YOU REALLY KNOW http www mediafire com niudn5wiyjz NOTE UTILITY WARE DB DESIGN 00008 SIDE 3 BY DAVE MOORMAN The Copy It feature does not work on this issue The Copy It program reads info from a text file called files on side X Since this issue was only in beta stage those files were not on the disks could not figure out how the files on side x text files were suppose to be written in order for the Copy It pro gram to read it and know what files to copy for a program So if you want to copy any program off from this issue just use any standard file copier pro gram CREATE PROFESSIONAL SCREENS EDIT FONTS AND DESIGN SCREEN OB JECTS WITH THIS SON OF MR
73. s to move around depending on how you intent to use the product will continue to update the manual as required based on feedback from users http www cbm8bit com c8d files cassadapt_ instructions pdf On the PC side is any special software required or can you use any recording software Any of the existing programs out there do the job well WAV PRG AudioTAP etc Once recorded does the final file need cleaning in someway before use or for better reliability if so what tools would you recommend for this process Yes it does require cleaning TAPClean is what I ve used during testing How did you think up this idea And Why did you go down the sampling recording the sound route rather than another route for extracting the data The idea behind Cassadapt was born from two things firstly don t particularly like using an emulator to play C64 games I m not saying they are bad far from it just like to use the real hardware So first started playing games on my C64 by transferring files from the PC to a 1541 this works ok but found it a little tedious after a while It didn t help that the software to do that didn t play nice with my desktop PC s LPT port so it crashed often then looked at getting a C2N232 adaptor except my laptop which is what was wanting to transfer files from has no real serial port Given there is a couple of PC based programs that will play tap or prg files out the sound card or convert to a wa
74. st to let everyone know so they can start making plans to attend now Amiga org will have a booth at the show and dealers developers usergroups and Amiga portal websites will also be encourage to have a booth Further information will be released on the DiscreetFX website soon Come to the Windy City and have some fun Best regards DiscreetFX Team Commodore Free Magazine NEWS DESCENT FREESPACE 2 FOR AMIGAOS4 1 The first beta version of Descent Freespace 2 for AmigaOS4 1 This version has some small bugs but it is playable also on slowest machines like SAM 533 You need the 3CD version of Descent Freespace 2 to run the game Simply click to Install script provided with game and follow the in structions You will find all information at Game page http www amigasoft net pages games fs2 as Download here http www amigasoft net pages games download Freespace2 lha Izh AND PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS If you found other bugs please send them to me at my usual email address General Thirty two years have passed since the end of the Great War we are now in the year of 2367 Ten years after the destruction of the SD Lucifer in the Sol system the Terran and Vasudan species forged a new alliance called the Ga lactic Terran Vasudan Alliance The Reconstruction period began in the galaxy as both races prepare their civilisations for the return of the Shivans Even though not everything goes very well Admiral Ake
75. sted and you can see how far have or haven t got through the process by loading this http www commodorefree com rss pdf feed xml with a compatible RSS reader or web browser Once think the file is ready will add a rss logo graphic to the website so people can subscribe at this current time it appears to be working without problems IN THIS ISSUE have in my possession a bought and paid for MCC Multiple Classic Comput er the device was held up in customs for some time but finally arrived and can tell you that it does work and the picture and sound quality seems better than the DTV however need to play more games erm mean do some more thought testing as was having some initial problems left a review out of this issue Hopefully as it seems am at the moment the only U k purchaser next month will have something in writing in way of a review about my finding www commodorefree com EDITORIAL BASICEDITOR seems to be an application that is coming on quite nicely and have an interview with its creator in this issue have also a quick tutorial or brief look at the application showing a small number of its functions If you program in BASIC it could be a very useful utility for you Regards Nigel Email mailto Commodrefree commodorefree com Website www commodorefree com Test RSS Feed http www commodorefree com rss df feed xml PROGRAMMING SERIES STEP BY STEP PROGRAMMING 1 COMMODO
76. t Commodore machines is this compatible with and are any workarounds needed I ve tested it on a C64 C16 and a Vic20 Each has it s own little quirks to deal with There is nothing tricky if you are recording a prg or tap to the datassette it only gets tricky if you are trying to play direct from the PC simulating a datassette The reason for this is the datassette is often paused during loads maybe whilst a loading screen is being shown or a decruncher running The PC has no way of knowing it s supposed to pause playing back the file whilst the Commodore is busy doing something else and things get out of sync On games that use turbo loaders you would be best to record it to a datassette The Vic20 is pretty good in this regard as there is no pause once it s found a file on the tape the C64 and C16 pause to tell you FOUND X program you have to quickly press the space bar to skip that so the PC stays in sync Unfortunately for the C16 Plus 4 because of the non standard datassette plug they used you will need to get a second datasette to remove the harness to use with Cassadapt imagine it would work with some of the PET series but don t have one of those to confirm that AUTO STOP REWIND a F FWO 5 Commodore Free Magazine Is there a manual for the device did do a pdf for it as there is a little bit of setup required by the user to account for variations in sound cards and a few jumper
77. the Vic 20 s display screen You also gain from the Windows clipboard so you can copy and paste text The application itself will even convert lowercase text to uppercase before pasting it For our brief look at some of the BASIC features First Start the application Hmm maybe you should download it and second start the application still you get the meaning Commodore Basic Editor 1 3 8 Fie Diskimage Projeck Edit Clipboard Sptions a ms Line 1 Column 1 line mode Once the Application is up and running you can see we have a fairly standard looking Application for a windows based system with all the usual menu options running across the top of the application For this brief look am going to open the basic file videopoker txt this comes with the download of the application First we need to load the file Select FILE Then select ASCII and then select the videopoker file Once loaded into the BASIC editor you notice that all the Commodore petscii Commodore Basic Editor 1 3 8 Fie ekma Frojd Edt Chobowd O Q 36874 POKEQ 5 Q FRINT tig FOR T 1TO22 PRINT 4 PRINT e JLT Om Ir j 2666 GosuBes 6d 5 G G FA D D 1 GOSUBSO IFW gt O THENC o GOSUBG66 3 GOSUBZS FORT 1TOS GOSUB77 GOSUB32 NEXT GOSUB4S FORI 4 E INTCRND 1 42 gt ENOTI ag TES FT ILS TESLL SBE URT Te SREYEE SS SETAE IFARA TRENS 8 GOSUB79 IFAS THEN12 5 H VAL A IF CH 0 OR HDS THEN 10 0 H 1 0 HD A HY C
78. ttp blog eogn com eastmans online genealo of online genealogy html 2010 06 the early days Don t be turned off by the genealogy reference as there is a lot of historical info here on computers and data providers and genealogy is the application Be sure to read the reader s comments at the end of the article and be sure to get to the posting near the end June 5 2010 4 59 PM from Ray Whid den in Edmonton Ray was a TPUG member and participated in the C128 group remember his big application for the 128 was his genealogy work using CP M think and he was a presenter a couple of times on that subject Scattered through the blog and comments are references to VIC 20 C64 C128 as well as Sinclair Apple Macintosh as well as IBM and MS DOS and others Ernie Editor see the article reprinted in this issue Page 5 Commodore Free Magazine www commodorefree com MASS STORAGE DEVICE C64SD What is the C64SD A Circuit board with Plug amp Play features that emulates the floppy drive of a Commodore You Just need an SD secure digital card where you uploaded my package of games Turn on your Commodore and LOAD your favourite games The device plugs into the Tape port on the Commodore 64 requires no floppy serial cable and does not need any external power source Technical information about the firmware D64 D71 D81 M2I support both reading and writing for Dxx even with di rect sector access using U1
79. unning a GEOS application 3 Writing a GEOS file on a disk image 4 Reading the file back 5 Documentation backing up the implementation including a description of the protocol Optional 1 Ability to change mounted images while running GEOS in a system friendly Way Bounty Length This is a 180 day bounty Once assigned the developer will have 180 days to finish the project or the bounty will be moved back to unassigned EXTRA Retro Innovations has pledged to match the first 250 in donations and may possibly match funds beyond that Retro Innovations has also offered a ulEC SD for 180 day testing use Contact Retro Innovations for more details Donate When donating please use Add special instructions to seller to indicate what name should be credited for the donation real name nickname etc e amp id 46 sd2iec geos amp catid 34 unassigned amp ltemid 37 JiffyDOS for Vic 20 Written by redrumloa Status Unassigned Current Bounty 23 47 after PayPal fees The Goal Re implement JiffyDOS to the VIC 20 KERNAL both PAL and NTSC Success will be defined as 1 Creating or obtaining a C64 KERNAL source listing 2 Using the listing at http hem passagen se harlekin jiffy1 doc and the original C64 KERNAL source to create a combined source listing that can be conditionally assembled as normal or JiffyDOS 3 Obtaining the VIC 20 Kernal ROM source code on http www classiccmp org cini systems htm and modifyin
80. v file thought it would be neat to be able to convert the audio signal from a PC to a signal like the datassette would produce Are you a Tape fan know its a format frowned on by many users but I like the loading screens and music think they add something to the game the suspense and anticipation waiting to play the game rather than just click click play game it seems to add something When first saw a loading screen with music couldn t believe that the machine was still loading the game while playing music mind blowing Tapes where all knew for many years so I m with you on the views on using tapes the loading screens the flashing turbo load boarders are part of the gaming experience As say with tapes there is something cool about something so uncool My 1541 is currently packed away in it s box solama tape person for sure Besides turbo tapes can load faster than a stock 1541 in many cases Do you have any other projects currently in progress or finished you would like to tell our readers about Yes in fact had another project almost completed before started Cassadapt put that on hold whilst made a major change to the design It s a board that that plugs in to the keyboard connector inside a C64 that serves two purposes Firstly to provide a way to reset the C64 without needing to fit a push button switch the second is it will select different Kernal ROM s on a multi ROM board How it works is you hold d
81. ys co uk About A EON Technology CVBA A EON Technology is a technology start up based in Belgium Founded in 2009 by Trevor Dickinson Anthony Moorley and Ben Hermans A EON works in very close cooperation with Hyperion Entertainment CVBA the developers of the AmigaOS Operating System to produce modern computer systems for AmigaOS About the AmigaOne X1000 The AmigaOne X1000 is a new high end AmigaOS hardware platform scheduled for release during the summer of 2010 By providing the AmigaOS platform with a high power dual processor CPU modern interface standards high end graphics and Xcore technology the X1000 will launch a new era of modern Amiga computing For further information email contact a eon com track record for delivering high quality products on time and to budget Theirim AEDH Technology and Hyperion Entertainment Hyperion Ent Timbe ArnigaQNe AIUUU Bie peg part Helge el ee ie THE NEW ADVENTURES OF ALFREDO A BINARY LEGENDS RETRO RELEASE FOR THE COMMODORE 64 Alfredo the lovable stickman was once the star of the Big Blue Disk Softdisk and Loadstar disk magazines in the 80 s The Alfredo adventures were non interactive computer cartoons Today they would be called demos but the term was not in use at the time Now in 2010 Alfredo returns in two new Alfredo adventures cartoons that created Back when did work for Loadstar made these two Alfredo

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