Archive for the ‘ RetroComputing ’ Category
I finally had the time to try out Spaceman Spiff's Color Fix on my DTV. So I took my DTV apart , heated my soldering iron and tried to focus my eyes on the teeny weeny resistors. First let me tell you this: Piggybacking Surface mounted resistors is NO PICNIC. You need completely steady hands, [ READ MORE ]
I got meself a PAL DTV recently. These things are pretty cool out of the box. But if you want to get more out of your DTV, there are many hacks around the net. Here is a checklist of the hacks I want to make for mine. It may prove useful to some people. I'll add [ READ MORE ]
Since 1200 schematics were so popular, I made A600 schematics into pdf format too. I have changed the layout of some pages, and joined hard to follow schematics that were scattered on multiple pages. Enjoy: Amiga 600 PDF Schematics @ Symbolengine [ READ MORE ]
Amigaguide is a hypertext document file format designed for the Amiga, files are stored in ASCII so it is possible to read and edit a file without the need for special software. However it's not pretty to read it with a text viewer, because links don't work and formatting clutters the text. This little tool [ READ MORE ]
I was looking for a1200 schematics and all I could find was IFF files in a zip on Aminet. I had to struggle to convert them so you dont have to. Here it is: Commodore Amiga 1200 Schematics in PDF format @ Symbolengine Amiga 600 Schematics also available. Note: WOW! 1000 downloads in a month. I'm impressed [ READ MORE ]
MMC64. Should you buy it? Here I have listed pros and cons of this cartridge after using it for longer than a year: Pros Inexpensive storageSD cards are really cheap nowadays and they are easy to find. A 1gb sandisk that costs about 15$ holds all the HVSC archive and all my games and still have 500mb [ READ MORE ]
Here is a C64 font editor I wrote in JAVA. It supports 1×1, 1×2 and 2×2 hires fonts. Download it here: Ascraeus Font Editor V1.2 [ READ MORE ]
ACME was the longstanding winner in crossassembling tools for c64, until now that is. Kick Assembler is a crossassembler with a truly original idea. Forget about switching to other tools and programming languages to precalculate your vectors, unrolling your loops, converting your data etc. Kick Assembler is a unique combination of a very good macro [ READ MORE ]
This should come in handy for programming the 1541 drive. It is fully commented and jmp's are crosslinked. Nice job by Frank Kontros. Here is the original: Commodore 1541 Floppy Drive ROM dissasembly Here is my local mirror: Commodore 1541 Floppy Drive ROM dissasembly @ Symbol Engine [ READ MORE ]
Recently i got meself my childhood dream. Amiga A1200! It has a smaller form factor than a500 but you can even fit a 2.5 harddrive inside. Actually some people did fit a laptop cdrom in there (Amiga 1200 Internal CDROM). Anyway, I carried it home, opened the case, put it together, switched it on. Aaaaand, [ READ MORE ]