As 2008 comes to a close, the staff at TCTD takes time to take stock and acknowledge the best and brightest achievers in the International Chip Community. TCTD is pleased to announce that we are accepting nominations for the following Categories.
Please email all one paragraph or less nominations to:
2008@truechiptilldeath.com
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Since the dawn of XP, older pc to c64 transfers tools like the x1541series cables can be very tricky to get running properly. Now a new device named C64TPC is out, and it looks really nice.
From the website:
The C64TPC connects your Commodore 64 to your PC through their respective serial ports. This enables the C64 to use the PC as it’s disk drive. This includes the: Hard disk, CD/DVD, Flash Memory, MMC, and any other type of storage device attached to your PC. C64TPC also allows you to save your .d64 images back to the PC.
C64TPC consists of two components: an hardware device and the PC software. The hardware device conducts low level communication between; the C64 and the PC. Thus, the user does not need to struggle with complex settings or processes. The C64TPC software is a program with a graphical user interface, which provides a simple method of interacting with the hardware.
C64TPC only supports C64 diskette images, .d64 files. It can both read and write these files. The user does not need to extract the individual programs from these images to use them.
The Device is currently only $24 from ebay.
In a followup to our previous post, got the following tip from b00Daw:
Pwners of the “A8b” — Atari 8-bit — scene, XXL and other Poles, have made demonstation of the GTIA’s abilities to play music from its normal ‘clicky’ nature. By porting over some Z80 ZX Spectrum routines, the team was able to create a music disk cheekily named “Beep’em All” for the A8b which utilizes the POKEY and GTIA sound chips while still managing display through the ANTIC chip. GTIA “clicker” sounds almost exactly like Speccy’s beeper with this late innovation.
MP3s:
And TCTD will be there day by day, live blogging the audio bacchanalia. More after the jump!
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Those who have been in lascivious expectation of the release date of this super hyped C64 music software, wait no more: Today, the MSSIAH software is available for purchase from the MSSIAH website in exchange for 49.95 hard earned Euros.
Pay attention, though:
“Incoming orders that are preordered are prioritized. Cartridge availability for non-preorder customers is extremely limited!
Unfortunately we need to restrict orders to
1 Cartridge per customer! (even for preorders!)”
So if you didn’t pre-order, you best hurry before they are sold out.
This is a good choice for those who want to use a C64 in their MIDI rig, however, I hope they fixed the serious issues from P64, since besides a quite useless Wave Player module (plays 4-bit samples, why not 8-bit samples after code for such a thing is widely available?), this is pretty much Prophet64 with a MIDI IN plug bolted on.