       COMMODORE FREE

     Free Fanzine Magazine
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For Commodore machines mainly c= 64

Editorial
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Because no one decided to subscribe to 
Commodore Scene magazine Alan has 
ceased production! I dont blame him.

I have decided to write my own 
magazine, basically for just something 
to do while looking after my 4 month 
old son. Also as something to read; 
while having a good soak in the bath, 
and now realise producing a magazine 
isn?t easy.

I missed having the Commodore Scene 
magazine to read because it was so 
well produces and covered such a large 
rage of items for Commodore 
Machines. Dont think I can do justice 
to Alan with this Free effort but lets 
hope someone enjoys the read.

So here you are a FREE version! 
Admittedly its rough around the edges 
and in the centre but it gave me 
something to read. I couldn?t see the 
magazine just die, why wont people 
pay for hard work.

If you enjoy the magazine then please 
send me a donation. Alan has done 
marvellous work for our machines 
keeping a U.k. Presence and pushing 
new technologies please don?t sit 
around doing nothing, this is how 
machines and groups die a death. Do 
something, anything! 


Thanks 
Free Commodore Magazine  2006


Visit Commodore scene
www.commodorescene.org.uk

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In This FREE! Issue

Editorial 		Page 2
64HDD updated		Page 3
Prophet 64 news		Page 4
Postscript from GEOS	Page 6
News			Page 11
DVD?s from America	Page 17
Website Lookout		Page 21
Music Mods		Page 22
When a Commodore	Page 24
Reference Guide		Page 25

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Do you have any news you would like 
to share or an article you have written 
tat you feel the Commodore readers 
would appreciate if so then please let 
me know, feedback is always welcome 
good or bad anything is better than 
silence.

It would be nice to offer a prize for the 
best article but as this if a FREE 
publication that will never happen. 
You will see your name in print though 
and have a healthy glow from knowing 
you have informed users of some 
activity, application or hardware they 
would otherwise be unaware of.

You can contact me via email at
Nigelp2k    AT    yahoo.co.uk

I also collect Commodore music 
applications and hardware if you have 
something interesting you would like 
to sell or even better donate, rest 
assured it will be fully documented in 
the magazine and put to good use.

If you use any material from the 
magazine please send me an email and 
acknowledge where the information 
came from 

Thanks 
 
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New update for 64HDD a system 
allowing the Commodore to connect to 
a P.C. utilising the P.C. as a hard disk 
system capable of emulating 
Commodore drives 1541, 1581, can 
read D64 and D81 images and load 
files for more information visit 
http://www.64hdd.com/64hdd/professi
onal.html 

64HDD Professional has some special 
features for everyone, regardless of the 
type of Commodore user you are. 
For the Gamer...
.Faster file loads using your 
X1541 or XE1541 cable

.Special partition naming and 
multi-disk handling features to make 
finding and starting that favourite 
game in your collection easier 

.Easier set-up of the Short-Cut 
tables using 64GUI 

.Device-Swap and built-in Disk-
Transfer routines so you can either 
boot more multi-part apps or copy any 
games which don't to 1541 format 
For the Application User or 
Programmer...

.Improved 1541 emulation 
within the MSD/LFN file system lets 
you run many more programs without 
the limitations of a real 1541 disk drive 

.Special GEOS64 features such 
as larger disk sizes, Pwr-Loader 
compatibility, faster disk writes, and 
powerful ShortCut+ and PreConfig 
utilities 

.Improved CMD emulation 
mode lets you use more of those 
applications and tools 

.Greater flexibility in assigning 
device numbers and  switching these 
on/off on-the-fly 

.User interface with detailed 
run-time statistics such as track, sector 
and error information 

.Keyboard actions to toggle 
LFN and CMD modes, reset 64HDD 
or the C64 

.Time and date stamping on disk 
images to keep track of changes 

.New command-channel 
features, including file locking and 
unlocking commands 
For the CMD User...

.Use FCOPY, FCOPY+, 
MENUETTE64 and your other CMD 
software 

.Even GEOS tools like 
CMD_MOVER will work 

.Use 64HDD to back-up your 
CMD devices 
For the C128 User...
Yes, there's even a version of 64HDD 
Professional which gives C128 users 
all the above features, plus these 
exclusive features:

.Z-Loader - a serial fastloader 
for the native C128 mode 

.Pwr-Loader Support - the 
fastest 64HDD loading system is now 
available for the C128 

.GEOS128 Kernal - including 
the new Xtra Performance (XP) 
features 

.Native mode BOOTing - use 
the C128 BOOT feature to 
automatically LOAD/RUN 
applications 
 
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Aug 18: Prophet64 Cartridge sold out!
New ones expected to arrive in mid 
September. 
 
Modern music applications for your 
80s computer!

Prophet64 is a suite of very user 
friendly music applications for the 
Commodore 64 platform.
Designed to hook up to modern MIDI 
equipment with either DIN-sync or 
third party MIDI interfaces, it makes 
your old computer become a highly 
useful music tool.
 
The software is distributed on a 
hardware cartridge that plugs right in
to the back of your C64.
No disk or tape loading, just plug and 
play!

The Cartridge contains the whole suite 
of applications.
You can read more about them in the 
links on the right side bar.

With an array of music software that 
mimics modern and classic sequencing 
devices through versatile user 
interfaces, Prophet64 opens the door 
for everyone who wishes to explore the 
world of the legendary audio circuit 
(the "SID") in the Commodore 
computers.

Instead of collecting dust in the closet, 
you can put your C64 at work right 
beside the synthesizer rig in your 
studio today! Add some in-fashion 
bleeps and blops to your latest track, 
an extra bass flavor, an additional lead 
sound or why not an 8-bar break with 
Rob Hubbard drums?

The possibilities are endless.
The cartridge is only 39 EUR
(worldwide shipping and handling fees 
included!)

http://www.prophet64.com/

Other good news is that the item has 
gained good press and appeared in 
various Music related magazines, one 
in the U.K. Future-music that had a full 
page article about the device. 

Also it seems Fire starter is well on the 
way to make a Commodore midi 
interface for the system, read more 
here http://www.firestarter-music.de/ 
also planned is a ps2 mouse converter 
allowing ps2 (P.c.) mice to connect to 
the joystick port

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PROPHET64-Midi-Interface V1.0
I take no responsibility for any bugs or 
damage caused by building or using 
the PROPHET64-Midi-Interface.

(c) 2005 Thomas Margolf aka 
firestARTer
http://www.firestarter-
music.de/prophet

Introduction

The PROPHET64-Midi-Interface is a 
simple Midi-Interface that makes it 
possible to syncronize your 
Prophet64 software on your 
Commodore64 with every Midi-Clock-
Capable device such as a sequencer or 
a drum-machine.

Do It Yourself

It's very easy to built your own 
PROPHET64-Midi-Interface with the 
provided schematics from the 
project-page (http://www.firestarter-
music.de/prophet/).
You don't need any power-supply as 
the circuit uses your Commodore64 as 
power-source.

*************************************
Take care that you check your circuit 
twice and also that your connection 
to the userport is 100% ok, as the 
internal fuse of the Commodore64 could 
get damaged if there'ssomething wrong 
*************************************

The view of the userport-connector in 
the provided schematics is to the 
soldering side of the userport-
connector (looking at the C64).

Function

When turning your C64 on, the LED 
should flash twice and turns off.After 
Receiving a Midi-Start or Midi-
Continue commando 
the LED should turn on and your 
interface should syncronize the 
PROPHET64 software to your Midi-
Source. After receiving a Midi-Stop, 
it should stop syncronizing and the 
LED should also turn off.

All other Midi-Data is filtered.

For information about how to set-up 
your commodore with prophet, check 
the official Prophet64 Page:
http://www.prophet64.com

You can get the Part-list, circuit and 
needed software at the project page: 
http://www.firestarter-
music.de/prophet/

Feel free to send any comments and 
critics to 
firestarter*at*sidsyn*dot*com or use 
the official Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prophet
64

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Postscript output from GEOS

Clear professional printed output is a 
requirement for any computer systems; 
especially one supporting a word 
processor. There is a way using just the 
standard version 2 of the Commodore 
Geos operating system to print to any 
Postscript laser printers, the process 
has been available for some time, but 
the cost of a postscript printer may 
have deterred some from trying. 

Quickly looking on ebay, many of 
these postscript printers are being 
disposed of very cheaply by there 
owners, eager to upgrade to the latest 
standard, or better models. If you are 
looking for a printer ensure its not a 
winprinter and works from dos and 
linux 
Expect to pay anything from a few 
pounds to 50punds I managed to save an 
old laserjet 4v ps and all it cost me was 
a car drive to collect. (this must be the 
only stroke of luck I ever had) 

POSTSCRIPT PRINTERS
Of course if you don?t want to go to 
the expense of buying a postscript 
printer we can use the one connected to 
your P.C. any printer will work with 
this method. True the process is a little 
more complicated and needs a copy of 
the geos postscript file (created in the 
DISK section) copying to a ?foreign? 
computer platform. Once copied to the 
foreign platform we can then print the 
file using whatever printer we have, 
postscript or none postscript, inkjet, 
laser almost anything..

GEOS
If you don?t have a copy of Geos 
already you need to buy or even 
download the free Geos version files 
from www.cmdrkey.com, this version 
cant use any of the commercial add on 
software but does allow the use of 
public domain applications and has a 
built in wordprocessor. At the time of 
writing the full download link was 
http://cmdrkey.com/cbm/geos/geos1.ht
ml select the version best for you, both 
the 128 and 64 versions can be 
downloaded as individual parts or disk 
images in d64 or d81 disk formats. For 
the tutorial I have downloaded the full 
version as a 1581 disk image.
  
Once the files are downloaded use 
whatever method you are comfortable 
with to extract the D64 or d81 image to 
floppy disk or disks (depending on the 
version selected).
While we are in the download mode I 
suggest you should also head over to 
http://members.shaw.ca/cue64/ and 
download ?Jim Collette GEOS 
software? this has been given out as 
Public Domain, and again at the time 
of writing the direct link was 
http://members.shaw.ca/cue64/collutil.
html you should find two disk images, 
while the software is free I suggest 
downloading both files, again they will 
need extracting from d64 images to 
real disks. Of course you can use these 
on an emulator if required but nothing 
is as good as real hardware.

SETTING UP 
Using Geos is quite painful with 1 disk 
drive so my system has 2 drives 
connected, although its possible to run 
from 1 disk I would suggest a 
minimum specification be 2 disks.
If you are out shopping a mouse would 
also be an advantage, although Geos 
will work with a joystick, but you may 
find most of the time you will be 
pulling out your hair out  trying to 
navigate with a joystick. 

So here is my suggested minimum 
setup 
Drive 1 1581 Drive
Drive 2 1541 Drive
Mouse 1 commodore mouse 

First thing is to load Geos and set the 
relevant preferences, so tell the system 
you have a mouse and what size and 
number of disk drives you will be 
working with. This isn?t a Geos tutorial 
but C= + I  (commodore key and I ) 
will bring up the input preferences use 
the cursors to move around and return 
to OK. You also need to look in the 
Configure and select the number and 
type of drive, ensure you save the 
settings.
. 
You can purchase a geo cable from 
www.cmdrkey.com directly. 
On the Geos disks are some fonts 
named LW_fontname  these need to be 
used in place of the standard GEOS 
fonts as they are apple laserwriter fonts 
(scalable fonts built into all postscript 
printers, these will produce the crisp 
output we need)
The other (none LW) fonts are bitmaps 
see the diagrams below the fonts 
supplies with Geos are 

LW_roma
LW_cal
LW_greek
LW_Barrows.

The BSW font below is a bitmap 
notice how blocky this is compared to 
the other postscript fonts .
 
The Lw fonts are substituted for the 
printers own internal scalable 
postscript fonts. 
Some more LW fonts are 
downloadable from 
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/c
bm/geos/graphics/fonts/postscript/inde
x.html
Also I found some from here
http://cmdrkey.com/cbm/genie/GEOSF
ontsListing.html  find the files named 
13369 and 13368 
Geos also contains some LW fonts, but 
remember only the first 8 fonts are 
available so you will need to rearrange 
or delete some of the bitmap fonts for 
Geos to be able to use the LW fonts.

Most magazines just use 4 fonts for the 
entire publication so I will go out on a 
limb and suggest 4 fonts is enough for 
anyone, remember you can use bold, 
italic, outlined and underline sub and 
superscript to enhance the document as 
well as font sizes. Using too many font 
variations make a publication look 
tired and amateurish.

PATCHING
This procedure will outline how to 
patch GEOS so you can create 
postscript file to transfer them to 
another system and print files from the 
?foreign? system. Also how to Patch 
geos to print directly using a Geo 
cable.

Are we sitting comfortably, good then 
we can begin!
Start Geos, now from the disk B of our 
collete utilities you need to run the file 
?ps.patch (disk)? as shown below, If 
using the Geocable you need to run the 
PS_PATCH (GC) the process is more 
or less identical for both of the 
versions.
 
The application will then start to run 
and display a splash screen 
 

Once the utility has initialised itself 
(here we are using the print to disk 
PS.Patch (disk) )you need to go to the 
patch menu and click to drag down the 
menu.
 
This gives 2 options one is to patch 
Geo publisher printer output and the 
other is for Geo-laser, as we are using 
the Free download of Geos we cant use 
Geo-publish  so we must use the Geo-
laser option, this will allow printing to 
a postscript file from the standard Geos 
applications, the postscript file will be 
saved on the disk from where the 
original document is loaded, so ensure 
you have a disk with enough room.

Select the Disk where the Geos system 
files are to patch

The system will run and after a few 
seconds, you should see the complete 
diaglogue box appear . Now we just 
need to test the patch to ensure 
everything worked ok. 

One thing for the disk version is that 
we need to download a copy of 
Ghostscript (or similar) to allow 
viewing of postscript files check out 
the link. Versions of Ghostscript are 
available for a variety of machines 
Apple-mac, Amiga ,linux, os2 and 
Windows pc amongst others. Ensure 
you download a copy of Ghost View 
this is needed to view the files on 
screen, and makes the process easier 
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ once 
downloaded read the Documentation 
and get to know the programme. 

I am working on a Windows PC so I 
would do the following after the 
installation of ghostscript and 
ghostview

Testing Geolaser patch disk output
Start the geo write application and 
write something inspirational to print 
out 

Save the text and close GEOwrite we 
don?t print from this we have to use 
Geolaser, Run GEOlaser application it 
will initialise and provide us with an 
options box 

Don?t change the settings as we are 
printing to a file and not a Serial 
printer so they don?t make any 
difference. Then click ok

Work begins formatting the original 
document to a postscript file, this is 
quite a lengthy process even for a few 
lines of text, if your working on 
something a page in length I suggest 
making a good cup of strong tea. 

The postscript printed files now need 
Extracting from commodore disks to a 
pc compatible format so use whatever 
process you are comfortable with to do 
this procedure.

Start the Ghostview application and 
drag the geos postscript file onto the 
ghostview screen as shown below a 
preview will appear of the text 

From the File menu you can even 
convert the file to a PDF for 
distribution on the internet. Of course 
clicking File and print will print the 
Text to your PC`s attached printer, 
whatever make or model you have, that 
is of course assuming you have 
installed the required printer driver for 
the model.

Geo cable users 

GEO CABLE
Of course you will need a special cable 
for this option called a Geo cable they 
are available from Maurice Randel 
www.cmdrkey.com , the cable 
connects the Commodore 64 to any 
standard Centronics printer interface.

The process is simpler as your file will 
be sent directly to the printer as a 
postscript document. The printers 
processor will interpret the commands 
and format the page, then print out a 
sharp quality document direct to your 
postscript connected printer that could 
have been produced from any machine.


Another other useful website

Foreign characters output from Geos 
http://web.mit.edu/randy/www/antigra
v/laserpatch.html


Reviewer	Nigel Parker
Written originally for Commodore 
Scene magazine ¸ 2006
 
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1581 Disk Reader
fdrawcmd.sys

 Introduction

fdrawcmd.sys is floppy filter driver for 
Windows 2000/XP/2003.

The driver exposes command-level 
access to the uPD765a floppy disk 
controller, making it possible to 
read/write many non-standard and 
copy-protected disk formats.

The driver is free for use by any non-
commercial project, as long as the 
original driver installer is used. Please 
contact me for further details.
Features

Traditionally DOS-only features 
include:

.Custom track formatting 

.Mixed-sector sizes 

.Zero-based sector numbers 

.Non-standard ID header values 

.Track layout scanning ordered 
from index hole 

Advanced features unique to this 
driver:

.Writing CRC errors with 
specific sector contents 

.Writing sectors with missing 
data fields 

.Writing truncated sectors (e.g. 
8K sectors on double-density tracks)
 
.Weak or partially weak sectors
 
.Duplicate sector numbers on 
the same track 

.Mixed-mode track formatting 

.Multi-pass track formatting for 
tighter formats 

.2-drive raw track reading of 
Amiga disks (Disk2FDI method)


For more information and to download 
the file visit 
http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/


Editor Notes:

I have to confess this is untested by me 
mainly due to lack of time.
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VST instrument

Another Commodore 64 VST 
instrument! 
VST instruments are virtual 
instruments used on PC and Apple 
computers, they are for a better 
description emulation of music 
hardware recreated entirely in software 
and used in music applications such as 
Cubase.

One such VST instruments that I 
recently found is available from here 

http://hometown.aol.de/rekcat/vsti2.ht
m

The website is in German but if you 
cant speak the language (like me) you 
can easily make out the DOWNLOAD 
button and the TESTDEMO that 
downloads an MP3 Prievew of the 
instrument in use ? 

Although I can play manually by 
clicking on the keys I cant play the 
instrument from Cubase although I am 
not fully conversant with Cubase so 
this could be my lack of Knowledge 

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Music Blog
Blog sites become ever popular one 
such site I recently stumbled on while 
looking for VST instruments was this 
http://c64music.blogspot.com/ 

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The C64 Take-away podcast
Commodore 64 remixes and original 
SID sounds to go!

Your regular fix of Commodore 64 
tunes, remixes, news and whatever 
takes our fancy.
Produced and presented by Jan Lund 
Thomsen of Remix.Kwed.Org fame

http://c64takeaway.com/ 

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Consoles, handheld & home computers 
1972-2005

33 years of onscreen fun and 
interaction: This book presents almost 
every game computer and console ever 
created, from Japan, USA and Europe, 
along with classic software in its 
authentic, pixellated glory, and 
background information as well as key 
technical facts.

More than 400 dream machines and 
million sellers, bizarre slip-ups and 
exotic variants are celebrated in full 
colour chapters with extensive 
appendixes. From Atari to Xbox, from 
the C64 to Nintendo DS: 
Game.Machines is the reference point 
for members of the PlayStation 
generation; whether they?re gamers or 
collectors.

Originally published in Germany, 
Game.Machines has been recognized 
as a `suitable referenceï and 
`recommended readingï (by Germany's 
premier micro monthly C?t), as `very 
entertainingï (Gamestar) and 
`compulsory readingï (PlayZone) or 
simply as `Aceï (ComputerBILD). 
Two years in the making, this greatly 
enhanced and revised edition invites 
you to a time journey across the video 
game era: From the 4-bit beginnings to 
the broadband future.

The first Game.Machines samples have 
been shipped to the UK press. That's 
what the editors had to say, after taking 
a look:

http://www.gameplan-
books.com/gameplan_01.5_NA/index.
php

$32.00 U.S.
$39.80 Canada
ISBN: 3-00-015359-4 
Feedback: lit@gameplan-books.com

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PSP Console 
Playstation Commodore 64 Emulator

c64psp v0.3 ? 270 days ago by urchin
Team c64psp would like to wish PSP 
users a Merry Christmas with a new 
version of c64psp! .

New features

.Multiple screen modes (with 
vsync on firmware v1.5)

.Full speed, stable C64 
emulation (no need for PSP 
overclocking) 

.Excellent SID emulation

.Quit key combination for 
firmware v2.0 user

.Memory snapshot quickload 
and save

.Increased game compatibility
 
.Credits

.urchin: code, graphics, blood, 
sweat, tears

.MagicRuss: v1.5 testing, 
graphics, inspiration, enthusiasm

.grasstust: v2.0 testing, patience

And of course, ps2dev.org for the PSP 
dev kit and Christian Bauer for 
creating Frodo.

History
20/12/2005: v0.3 :- Video overhaul 
with multiple screen modes. Better 
SID emulation. More stable emulation 
core with better game support. 
Snapshot quickload and save.

09/10/2005: v0.2 :- Added support for 
analog stick, virtual keyboard, joystick 
swapping and ability to load T64 and 
D64 image files. Video is now centred. 
USB disabled for this version. 

26/09/2005: Initial version, v0.1 :- It 
boots! It displays stuff! It makes 
noises!

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http://urch.in/c64psp

USB Keyboard

http://symlink.dk/electro/c64key/
how to build a USB-keyboard in the 
form-factor of an old C64 breadbox. 
Actually, with little modification it can 
be used for any kind of keyboard, since 
the source code is available, and all 
that needs to be done is to modify the 
key-to-scancode mapping.
The c64key is based on Objective 
Development's AVR-USB firmware 
only USB stack for Atmel AVR 
microcontrollers, and the simple 
HIDkeys example they provide. The 
implementation presented here has a 
more elaborate keyboard scanning 
routine, and allows multiple keys to be 
pressed (and detected) simlutaneously.
 

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VICE updated
 (2 Sep 2006) Version 1.20
 
The Commodore 64, Pet, Vic, Plus 4 
and 128 Emulator for operating 
systems including Microsoft Windows, 
Unix, Apple, Be-os, Amiga O.S 
Microsoft D.O.S and others has 
received another update, taking the 
application to a very stable version 
1.20 
For more information visit the home 
page
http://www.viceteam.org/#vice
Obsolete computer hampers kidnap 
probe
 
September 5, 2006 3:50 PM PD 
Efforts by police in Austria to learn 
more about a communications 
technician who held a girl captive for 
more than eight years are being 
complicated by his choice to use an 
obsolete computer. 
Wolfgang Priklopil, who committed 
suicide the same day the girl escaped 
in August, relied exclusively on a 
Commodore 64--a computer that was 
popular some 20 years ago but now 
largely considered an antique. 
Maj. Gen. Gerhard Lang of the Federal 
Criminal Investigations Bureau told 
the Associated Press that the outdated 
computer would hamper the 
investigation by making it difficult ''to 
transmit the data to a modern computer 
without loss.'' 
The Commodore 64, one of the best-
selling computers ever, was launched 
in the early 1980s. Today the brand is 
kept alive by some 6 million 
enthusiasts in a vibrant online 
community. 
Yeahronimo Media Ventures, a Dutch 
company with office in Los Angeles, 
acquired the rights to the Commodore 
name in 2004 in a deal worth just more 
than $32.7 million. In 1995, it took on 
Commodore as its own corporate 
moniker.
Taken from the website
http://news.com.com/2061-10786_3-
6112505.html
 
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IDE64 V4
The development of the new IDE64 
card V4 is still in progress, but we 
decided to uncover the picture of the 
new card prototype board together with 
some technical information. So what to 
expect from the IDE64 V4?
Because of surface mount technology, 
the shape of the card has changed and 
the length has shorten to 11 cm. The 
ShortBUS connector for external 
peripherals has remain, but also 
"Amiga Clock" port has appear, so 
RR-Net users could connect their 
Ethernet cards directly onto the IDE64. 
Not only the mount technology, but 
also whole architecture has changed 
which enables us to increase the access 
speed performance so the card should 
be up to 20% faster when accessing the 
HDD or Compact Flash than IDE64 
V3.4+. The IDE64 contain two IDE 
controllers for plugging up to three 
IDE peripherals (Compact Flash and 
two other on IDE flat cable). USB 
device (in the picture without the 
connector) will enable users to 
interconnect IDE64 with PC host and 
make file transfer between C64 and PC 
even more easy without building 
PCLink cable. The IDE64 will contain 
IDEDOS V.90 which offer great 
performance (e.g. 80KB/sec loading 
speed), very reasonable compatibility 
and many advanced features including 
support of partitions, relative files or 
large capacity media. 
IDE64 V4 technical parameters: 

,Size 7x11cm

.RAM 28KB

.PEROM 128KB (flash EPROM)

.RTC (Real time static clock with 31 
bytes RAM)

.Full speed USB 1.1 / USB 2.0 device

.ShortBUS

.Amiga Clock Port

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DOOM 64?
Well the project may be finished but 
one developer is still hard at work!

Commodore Scene has ended the 
Doom challenge due to lack of interest, 
strange then that someone has brought 
out an update, the very good MOOD 
Below a section from WWW.c64.sk 
website 

19. SEPTEMBER 2006

 M.O.O.D. preview 2.5 dev	21:11 

The fast playable MOOD preview of a 
Doom clone is now available for 
download at CSDb. Credits go to Perff 
of No Name, who is also one of the 
founders of CSDb.
You may also have a look at an older 
entry of MOOD at pouet.net. 
The file can be downloaded from here 
http://noname.c64.org/mood/

well you could have knocked me over 
with a feather when I saw this, due to 
the age of the program (last update was 
August 1998 
Press key o to bring up the options 

The main keys (configurable)

        forward         	@
        back            	;
        turn left       	:
        turn right     	 	=
        fire            	space
        move left       	a
        move right     		s
        gun1            	1
        gun2            	2
        gun3            	3
        gun4            	4
        run             	l.shift
        force sidestep  	c=
        look back       	d
        map             	m
        options         	o

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History of Commodore Computers 
Poster

I have finally finished!

I have for sale "The History of 
Commodore Computers" poster which 
is the culmination of three years of 
work and research. The Commodore 
systems have been professionally 
photographed specifically for this 
poster and the photos appear nowhere 
else. 

This poster is ideal for any vintage 
computer fan, Commodore Computer 
collector, classic or vintage 
memorabilia display. This is a limited 
edition poster and will not be re-
printed!

Poster includes hi-resolution images of 
rare and hard-to-find systems including 
the KIM 1, PET 2001, PET 4016, PET 
8032, VIC-20, C-64, C-64C, SX-64, 
C-128, C-128D, B-128, CBM 256-80, 
P-500, Plus/4, C-16, C-116, VC-20, 
Amiga 500, and selected diskette 
drives. 
 
$19.99 USA Ship $3.00
  
$19.99 Canada Ship $5.99

$19.99 International Ship $7.99
 
"Vintagecomputer.net" watermark 
does not appear on actual poster.

http://www.vintagecomputer.net/ 

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WWW.YOUTUBE.com

You will either love them or hate them 
but youtube is full of home made 
videos ?  and looks set to remain so. 

Some are great others are not so great. 
Search for ?Commodore Animals? 
reveals these 2 entries 
Searching for Commodore 64 reveals 
hundreds of remixed videos tutorials 


C128 Animals 2005 User Group Video
35:40 
Former Commodore engineers Bil 
Herd and Dave Haynie (two of the 
original "C128 Animals") give an 
informal chat for user groups and other 
Commodore fans. Includes are shots of 
rare hardware and stories to go with. 
Tags:
Commodore   Amiga   Haynie   Herd   
C128   C64   Retrocomputing
Added: 1 month ago   in Category: 
Science & Technology
From: hazydave
Views: 499 
     

C128 Animals 2006 User Group Video
18:44 
Former Commodore engineers Bil 
Herd and Dave Haynie (two of the 
original "C128 Animals") are joined by 
VIC-20 era engineer Bob Russell to 
give the 2006 installment of their video 
chat for Commodore fans. 
Tags:
Commodore   Haynie   Herd   Russell   
C64   VIC-20 Retrocomputing
Added: 1 month ago   in Category: 
Science & Technology
From: hazydave
Views: 236

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C-One Computer
News
 
september-25-2006: 
C64 PAL core leaves alpha state, first 
1541 emulation

Peter Wendrich has published the first 
C64 PAL core that is not considered to 
be alpha any more. The CPU registers 
$0000 and $0001 are fixed now, CIA 
timers are fixed (including TOD 
registers), the IRQ/NMI timing was 
too fast under certain circumstances 
(fixed), and the VIC<->CPU timing 
has been improved so even the 
sideborders can be opened now. Peter 
is now accepting bugreports under the 
eMail address mentioned in the readme 
file.

Tobias Gubener has released a new 
system flash that can now emulate a 
1541 drive. The 1k30 FPGA can be fed 
with a new rom file containing the 
drive emulation code. Every core that 
uses the IEC port can make use of the 
emulation, including Jeri's NTSC core, 
Peter's PAL/NTSC core and Tobias' 
VIC-20 core. Just hit F8 to get to 
choose the D64/PRG file, change the 
device address (default: 9), or 
deactivate the emulation. Many thanks 
must to Tobias, the recent updates are 
giving another demonstration of the 
true power of re-configurable 
computing.

The new core and system flash can be 
downloaded from the download page 
of this website. The sourcecode to the 
C64 core as a full Quartus project is 
included.

C-One 
We know this is now the Configurable 
one and not the Commodore one, so 
new mailing lists have been setup to 
reflect this. 

Try subscribing to 
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/co
=ne_cores/

This group covers all cores produced 
for the configurable on not just 
Commodore ones ?

Information taken from: 
http://c64upgra.de/c-one/

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What happened to Geos

Read the Full story from this link at the 
time of writing I couldn?t obtain 
permission to print the article, its an 
interesting read from the initial Idea 
through to the Commodore 64 version 
then the sale of the software. 

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?ne
ws_id=15223

Amazingly GEOS is still being sold ?

The P.C. Version is now named 
Breadbox Ensamble 

http://www.breadbox.com/

Whether you use our Industry Standard 
UI , or our multi-tasking Motif UI, all 
of the essential programs are combined 
into one easy to use package. Breadbox 
Ensemble contains a complete suite of 
integrated software applications, 
designed to make you and your 
students productive.......fast! Breadbox 
provides all the Productivity and 
Internet applications you'll need in one 
easy to use package. 
Add Breadbox educational software 
applications to Ensemble and your 
school, or entire school district, will 
have a powerful and low-cost 
alternative to anything else on the 
market today. All Breadbox software 
runs well even on a 386! Don't snub 
those donated computers because they 
won't run the expensive software any 
longer. Put a computer on every desk 
with Breadbox Ensemble! 
With simple point and click interfaces, 
laser quality output (even on dot 
matrix printers), and clear video modes 
up to 1280 x 1024 x 16.7 million 
colors Breadbox is the easy way to 
transform a 386, 486, or Pentium PC 
into a very powerful graphical, state-
of-the-art package. Breadbox 
Ensemble even runs on computers with 
as little as 640K RAM and 20 MB of 
free Hard Disk space!

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DVD`s From America

Arriving through the post from a very 
busy Robert Barnado were 2 x 
Commvex 2005 Dvd`s,  3 x Dvd`s 
Containing the lucky expo 2005 and 1 
final disk contained Jeris Ellsworhts 
talk at Stansford University 

Inserting disk 1 from the from the 
Commvex set, hands quivering with 
excitement and anticipation, also from 
wondering if the money I had spent 
would be wasted as these disks are 
DVD-R and in NTSC format. 

I don?t want to list every last item on 
these disk because that would mean 
you wont buy them, so I will quickly 
sketch out some of the highlights.

Commvex seemed to be a big event 
with around 50 people the disk 
contained talks about Where we were 
with hardware today for the 
commodore and the vast amounts of 
new software that is currently being 
created. The disk moved on to talks 
about hyperlink and the internet, then 
moved on to a look at the demo scene. 

Disk 2 contained some more demos 
and information about what the demo 
coders used, then a talk about disk 
transference between various systems, 
then came the prize raffle. Rolf gave a 
demo on transferring text to and from 
the Commodore with star commander 
and the write stuff. Rolf said the write 
stuff was the best word processor ever, 
then a look at metal dust.

Now moving on to Jeris talk at 
Stanford University, the camera moves 
across the street we ender the building 
and finally find our seat. There is a 
quick hand count on the number of 
people who remember the 64 and then 
another on the number of people still 
using the machine. Jeri is introduced, 
she goes into great depth about her lif 
and upbringing and her fascination 
with electronics and old computers.

Jeri then talks about the dtv64 the 30 in 
1 games machine that plugs into the 
T.v about its history and how she came 
to work for mammoth toys. Jeri then 
says she had various solder points on 
the boards for keyboards and serial 
ports, she said hackers could make a 
full machine by connecting these 
points.

Next I moved to Lucky expo disk set 
and watched a demo about Mule, Jim 
Brain gave a demo on connecting to 
BBs systems via the Commodore 64.

Next I was treated to a connectivity 
how to on connecting the Commodore 
64 to the internet.  Rolf gave his talk 
again on transferring text to and from 
the Commodore with Star commander 
and the write stuff. Bruce then 
explained about connecting removable 
optical disks to commodore and CMD 
devices.

Jim Butterfield amused the crowd with 
some old footage of him and various 
electronic contraptions, then it seemed 
all over to quickly with the remaining 
user talking about setting up Steering 
committees for the Commodore, talks 
to Maurice Randel of CMD about why 
its taking so long for him to produce 
hardware.

Jeri goes all technical about the DTV 
and C- one with various drawings and 
starts to loose me on the system. 

Jim Brain shows of some of his 
projects, like the ps2 adaptor to use 
playstation controllers on the 
Commodore, he even has something 
that makes the vibration work on the 
newer controllers. Then shows of a 
compact flash card adaptor that works 
on the Commodore 64 without need of 
drivers its true plug and play.

Jeri was named Commodian of the 
year and went very embarrassed about 
the whole thing. Jeri was asked about 
the C- one and confirmed it was still 
ongoing but other projects had held 
back her development of the system. 

Dale asked if others were interested in 
voice control for the commodore, 
others seemed less enthusiastic about 
such a system.

Maurice finds a pirate jiffy dos chip in 
one of Jim Brains SX64`s and Jim 
explains he only just bought the system 
from someone and didn?t know it had 
jiffy dos in!

Excellent I fully enjoyed them and sent 
of for some disks for 2006 ? More next 
time. 
  
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01.07.2006: New products, RoHS 
compliance, vacation until july 26th 

New products
The Catweasel design will be ten years 
old this year. At the moment, only a 
version for the PCI slot of modern 
computers and the ISA version are 
available. During the past few months, 
a lot of requests for a Catweasel 
controller for classic Amiga computers 
came in. This demand is now met with 
the Catweasel MK2 "anniversary 
edition": We have revised the design 
from 1997, and made another 
production run. The Catweasel MK2 
works on the clockport fo the Amiga 
1200, the IDE-port of the Amiga 4000, 
and on the clockports of our Zorro-
cards. It even works on the clockport 
of the Amiga 600 memory expansion 
that starts shipping next week, so the 
controller covers the complete line of 
classic Amigas.


Production of Amiga 600 accelerator 
completed
It took more than two years, but 
waiting was worthwhile: Our 
accelerator for the Amiga 600 is 
completed. The technical details:

.68030-33 processor clocked at 
40MHz 

.128MByte RAM option, 
selectable speed 

.512K flash-memory 

.PCMCIA-friendly 

.low-heat design 

Since heat is the main problem in the 
small case of the Amiga 600, we have 
skipped on an FPU, and designed large 
parts of the logic in 3.3V technology. 
The 68030 processor is in a socket not 
just on this picture - every card has a 
socket, so the user can increase the 
performance with a faster processor 
and crystal oscillator. Such a 
modification might need active cooling 
parts! 
As opposed to other Amiga 600 
accelerators, we have found a good 
solution for mounting the card in the 
computer: Two screws hold the board 
safely in place. A distance sleeve keeps 
the card from bending.

Even with the mass-production already 
completed, the delivery cannot start 
before august of this year. The main 
cause for this is of course our vacation 
until july 26th, but we also have to 
adapt the Kickflash software to the 
flash memory of the card, and ensure 
proper operation with all versions of 
the Amiga 600 mainboard. After that, 
the quality control of the mass-
production can start. Please understand 
that we will first supply the customers 
who have signed up for the card by 
eMail. We want to prevent an artificial 
monopoly of someone buying out the 
complete production run of only 110 
units. This is the only way to ensure 
that every customer gets his card for 
129,- EUR incl. VAT, and not more 
due to artificial reduction of supply. 
We have seen too much overpriced 
Amiga-hardware in internet auctions 
lately! Please request the shipping cost 
to your country when you place your 
order. 


RoHS-compliance ensured
Starting today, the RoHS-directive of 
the European Union is in effect. The 
abbreviation stands for "Restriction of 
Hazardous Substances". This directive 
restricts the use of dangerous 
substances in electronics production. 
During the transition period, many 
articles were only talking about lead-
free electronics production, but lead is 
only one out of six substances that are 
banned by the EU directive. Two of 
them are substances used for fire 
protection in many plastic parts. This 
makes development of new production 
processes and the search for new 
plastics extremely difficult, because 
the use of pure tin instead of a tin-lead 
alloy requires soldering at higher 
temperatures.
Individual Computers, E3B and an 
assembly service house have already 
started collecting experience with the 
new production processes in 2004. 
According to these experiences, we 
can already say that the new EU-
directive will not affect the prices of 
our hardware, although it takes more 
energy and higher investments. The 
new soldering processes (phase 
conversion soldering for SMD, wave 
soldering under nitrogen atmosphere) 
increase production quality so much 
that manual re-work is almost 
eliminated. Our estimate is that the 
reduced cost of manual re-work will 
compensate the increased cost of the 
new production processes. 

Since our target market, the retro-
computing and Amiga-market, requires 
special electro-mechanical parts, even 
more investments had to be made, 
mainly into die-casting tooling for 
plastic parts of computer connectors 
(insulating bodies, often just called 
insulators). These were necessary 
because the new kinds of plastic can 
only be processed at higher 
temperatures and with higher pressure. 
We're happy to be able to deliver brand 
new RoHS-compliant connectors fort 
he userport of the Commodore 64, 
Commodore 128 and plus/4 computers. 
The die-casting tool can be adapted to 
any other numper of pins, so we can 
deliver any other edge card connector 
in 3.96mm raster. We're looking 
forward to your request! 

In the Amiga-market, attention has 
been drawn to the CPU-slot connector 
of the Amiga 1200 already a few 
months ago, because the vendor of the 
PowerPC-accelerator "PowerVixxen" 
has asked for help in a public message. 
At that time, the development of our 
new connector had already begun. The 
new connector shall solve all problems 
that the previously available 
connectors had. Our connector has a 
much stronger insulator that allows 
much higher spring forces. Contact 
problems between the A1200 
mainboard and an expansion board 
(such as an accelerator or a PCI bus 
board) are eliminated, increasing the 
overall stability of the system. During 
development, we have done 
measurements with the x-ray 
fluorescence (XRF) method, and it 
turned out that the black dye of the 
plastic is not RoHS compliant. The 
mass-production will therefore be done 
without any dye, so the connectors will 
be white. 

With availability of the new connectors 
in september of this year, individual 
Computers ensures the legal 
availability of Amiga 1200 hardware. 
Special thanks goes to ACK software 
controls Inc. from Canada, who have 
ordered a large quantity of these 
connectors for the first production run 
of the PowerVixxen accelerator. We 
also deliver small quantities at very 
competitive prices, because having our 
own tools means that we do not have 
to pay any dealers in between. 

08.06.2006: Memory expansion for 
Amiga 600 available soon 

To a special order from our trade 
partner AmigaKit, we have developed 
a memory expansion for the Amiga 
600. The technical data in detail: 

.1MB memory for expansioin to 
2MB chipmem total 

.battery-backed up realtime 
clock
 
.leak proof lithium battery made 
in Germany 

.clockport for A1200 
expansions like Silversurfer, Delfina or 
Subway 

.extremely small design 

The expansions will be shipped to 
AmigaKit starting July 3rd, all other 
trade partners will have the product 
starting july 17th, 2006. Contrary to 
announcements of other trade partners, 
there will be no expansions without a 
realtime clock. The recommended 
sales price is 39,90 EUR incl. 16% 
German VAT.  

For more information 

http://www.jschoenfeld.com 

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Website Highlight
Thought I would share this website for 
anyone who hasn?t seen it 
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/

CSDb:
CSDb (the Commodore 64 Scene 
Database) is an attempt to gather 
information about the Commodore 64 
(C64) scene throughout time and store 
it in an easily accessible and heavily 
cross referenced database.
Here you can find information about 
the sceners, groups, releases (demos, 
intros, tools etc.) and events (parties) 
that have a connection to the C64 
scene.

The Information:
All the information in CSDb is 
submitted and maintained by the 
registered users of the database.

The CSDb staff cannot manually check 
all the information coming into the 
database, so please report any form of 
abuse to us.
 
The Goal:
To gather as much information as 
possible about the C64 scene. The 
sceners, the groups, the releases and 
events, and as much information about 
these as possible.
 
What can you do?:
If you have any knowledge about the 
C64 scene which you want to share 
with the world, that would be 
information about yourself and what 
you have done on the Commodore 64, 
or information about others, you are 
welcome to sign up for an account and 
add the information to the database.
You can also support this site by 
making a donation to help pay for the 
costs of running this site.
 
Link to CSDb:
If you like CSDb and wish to link to 
us, you are of course more than 
welcome to do so. We have a few link-
buttons you can use when linking to 
us, which are free to use.
 
Site credits:
Concept   Perff  Code   Perff Kilroy  
Database   Perff Kilroy  Design   
Kilroy 
Ideas & Support   KBS CyberBrain 
Ghostrider  Betatesting   KBS 
CyberBrain Ghostrider Celtic 
 
Contact CSDb:
If you have any questions about the 
usage of CSDb, bug reports or 
suggestions for improvements you 
should in general post it in the forum.
If you have something on your mind 
that you think is not of public interest 
you can also contact one of the 
administrators of CSDb at: 
admin@c64scene.net

PLEASE DO NOT send us mails 
regarding incorrect or missing 
information in CSDb and expect us to 
update the information. We expect 
you, the user of CSDb, to do this. We 
only maintain the workings of CSDb - 
not checking and adding every bit of 
information in it.
For more information read Usage of 
CSDb and/or the FAQ.  

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Musical Mods of the Commodore 64, 
from Traktor DJing to Knobs for 
Prophet64

By Peter Kirn 

Hard-core musical applications of 
antique Commodore 64 computers 
continue to spread. There are plenty of 
pristine C64s out there, so there?s 
something beautiful about seeing these 
heavily modified computers get a 
second life.
 
First up, the superb DIY and circuit 
bending blog Get LoFi has gotten their 
hands on the new Prophet64 music 
cartridge for the C64. ?Circuitmaster? 
set out to review the cartridge and 
wound up building modified hardware 
to make it easier to control, affixing 
knobs to the top of the computer. If 
that sounds appealing to you, you?ll 
find resources for how to duplicate the 
effort:
Knob Mod for Prophet64
(Check out his Radio Shack finds, too 
? affordable electronics supplies from 
Radio Shack, that aren?t wildly 
overpriced? Who knew?)
 
Make gets the scoop (via flickr) on a 
fantastic controller for Native 
Instruments? Traktor DJ software. 
Honestly, not only is it cool that this 
fellow stuck this in a C64 case, but I 
have to say this is one of the most 
logical looking DJ controllers I?ve 
seen. I miss the presence of some kind 
of scratch controller, but otherwise, 
Native Instruments, M-Audio, Roland, 
et al, take a good look at this one.
NI Traktor MIDI Controller, Via a C64 
Case

Both of these projects are based on the 
classic MIDIbox SID, which converts 
the C64?s beloved SID synth chip into 
a usable MIDI interface, complete with 
interface, friendly knobs, and lots of 
flashing lights. (Thanks to Wisefire for 
pointing this out. And, incidentally, 
MIDIbox is especially cool as it?s an 
entire community, not just a single 
project.)
MIDIbox SID
These are not projects for the feint-of-
heart, but they?re fun to look at even 
for the weak-hearted. I?ll be back with 
a report on the Prophet64 cartridge; I 
heard my cart has shipped. I?m anxious 
to use it with a 1351 mouse, but I?m 
having trouble tracking one down; if 
any of you are selling used C64 stuff 
or know good sources, let me know. In 
the meantime, back to scouring eBay. 

EDITOR NOTES
Link to Midibox sid	
http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid.ht
ml

Here you will find all manner of 
remanufactured Commodore 64`s 
Hackked beyond recognition 

Source of information taken directly 
from 
http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/c64/

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When Is a Commodore not a 
Commodore

So you own a nice Commodore 64 
You purchased a copy of GEOS and 
added a mouse 
Later on you finally managed to find a 
CMD FD 200 disk drive and moved 
GEOS from using 1541 disks to 3.5 
floppy disks.
Moving on you added a CMD Hard 
drive, so disk swapping wasn?t needed 
and created virtual disks with all your 
software installed on 1 single device.
Next you installed a SCPU accelerator 
with 16mb of memory and upgraded to 
wheels O.S. 
You added a CMD Ram-link with 
16mb of battery backed up memory 
    

QUESTION
Is this still a Commodore 64? or have 
you just turned your Commodore into 
another machine?
Upgrading is what all computer users 
do; I don?t want to say that I see 
anything wrong with upgrading we all 
have specific uses for our machines. I 
just have to as the question again is 
this still a Commodore 64?

Some users are still maxing out the 
1mhz machine, finding new and 
exciting ways to program and push the 
hardware further than ever, these users 
have added noting other than a disk 
drive and joystick.  Some users also 
add some form of memory upgrade the 
machine and the machine is mainly 
used for games writing Documents and 
learning programming.  

This I guess is about the limit 
commodore thought the machine 
would be used; I suppose we can safely 
say this is still a Commodore 64. But 
when you add a faster processor and 
16mb of memory hasn?t the machine 
now changed beyond all recognition, 
maybe we could call this an enhanced 
Commodore 64?

The P.C (IBM compatible) machine 
was designed as an upgradeable 
machine, there are slots for adding 
extra cards and users are encouraged to 
open up there prize and install the 
latest graphics card or sound card, lets 
face it the newer versions of Windows 
and Office need such updates to run. In 
fact anyone who hasn?t upgraded there 
P.C. is often looked upon as strange; 
why purchase an upgradeable machine 
and then not upgrade it?

Commodore engineers would never 
have envisioned there designs being 
used years later so the machines were 
designed to fulfil a purpose needed at 
the time. Maybe if something faster 
was required the user would upgrade, 
the Vic 20 was replaced by the 
Commodore 64 then the 64 was later 
replaced by the 128 the Amiga 
replaced the Commodore 128.

Still I come back to the question of 
when is a Commodore not a 
Commodore, you could say my laptop 
with no more software on it than Dos 
and a copy of Vice for Dos is a 
Commodore 64 that I can set into warp 
mode at the press of a button, or is it 
just a P.C Running a specific piece of 
software.

Lets look at another setup 
Commodore 64 and an IDE 64 
interface a 4mb memory card a large 
hard disk drive and a CD rom drive, Is 
this still a commodore 64? If the IDE 
accelerator card becomes available and 
is taken up by coders, and if you added 
this to your setup is this still a 
commodore 64?

If someone designed an add-on card 
using lets say an ATI graphics card for 
extra resolution and thousands of 
colours on screen would this still be a 
commodore 64?

I welcome your thoughts on this. 
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Commodore 64 Reference Guide
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
SEE separate Download file on website
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
THE END
Thats all, for the 1st issue; of course I 
welcome all feedback, and have 
already started issue 2 yes Maybe you 
found one or two spelling mistakes ?

Thanks
COMMODORE FREE
