There is now a special web page for the 1541 Ultimate. There is an introduction about the 1541 Ultimate and forum where you can chat or ask questions. Also you can order your 1541 Ultimate on this web page.

Jan Derogee released an update of his 1541-III firmware. This version supports longfilenames and subdirectories. Also the directory listing for a VIC20 user is much nicer. The 1541-III is a replacement for the IEC-bus diskdrive used on the VIC20, C64, C128 and Plus/4. The files are stored on a MMC/SD card as D64-files (or normal .PRG files). You can put the MCC/SD card in your PC and fill it with d64's downloaded from the internet and than use these files on your real Commodore with the 1541-III.

With the Mediator it is possible to expand a Amiga with: Graphic, Sound, Network, USB and other PCI cards. Hardware needed is a Amiga 1200 in tower case with a 4MB RAM expansion card. Features: 6 PCI slots. 66/33MHz PCI clock. 32-bit PCI datapatch. 4GB PCI memory space. SDRAM/SGRAM of PCI gfx card as a DMA buffer. Interrupt controller. AT and ATX connectors. Power Management Interface. Look at the Elbox web page for more details.

The HardSID 4U is the most powerful SID synthesizer since the legendary C64! A few of the features are: Two CPUs and main memory. USB connection. VSTi interface. Superior sound quality. Supports 6581, 8580 and 6582. Updateable firmware over USB. Cycle-accurate playback of your favorite SID tunes. Take a look at the web page for more information.

Matthias Münch build two new hardware projects. The first is a Amiga 1000 Kickstart adapter that will give the Amiga 1000 the kickstart at startup without loading it from a disk. The other project is a adapter for the Amiga 3000. This adapter makes it possible to use 72-pin SIMM RAM memory in a Amiga 3000 Desktop.

Peter Wendrich has released a new core for the C-One. Some of the improvements are: Partial support for the cartridge port on the C-One. (This needs a small modification of the PCB.) Rewritten large parts of the VIC-II code. Now it properly supports delayed-dma tricks. Sprite-stretching is correct. 9th sprite is displayed on correct position in the Krestage 3 demo. Timing between $D020 and screen pixels is cycle correct. Fixed bug in keyboard matrix and merged Mark McDougall's keyboard extensions. Lots of small fixes to the CPU.

George Braun started a project to build a improved Amiga 1000. He made a complete new PCB that will even fit inside the original case. The Amiga 1000 has been improved with the following items: 68030 processor on 50 Mhz, 68882/50, 8 Mb Fast, 2 MB Chip, 1 Mb Flash, IDE controller, Flicker-Fixer, Clock and a Zorro-II slot.

Luigi Di Fraia is coming to the next meeting of the Dutch Commodore User Group to demonstrate his DC2N. The DC2N can be used as a datasette replacement, connected to the tape port of a Commodore computer. The DC2N can play files that are stored on the SD card. Or record files on the SD card. The SD card can be used to swap data between an Commodore emulator on a PC and the real thing.

The 1541 Ultimate goes into production. The 1541 Ultimate developed by Gideon Zweijtzer has the following features: 512kB SRAM, 4MB Flash Rom, 32MB SDRAM, SD card, AR and FC3 cartridge emulation, fully compatible 1541 and 16 MB REU emulation. The price is Euro 99 for the standard version and Euro 119 for the 1541 Ultimate plus version.

The successful MMC64 and the Retro Replay are now combined into one cartridge. And all improvements of the last six years are implemented in MMC Replay. A few of the features are: 512KB Ram, 512KB Flash Rom, Clockport for RR-Net, SD/MMC card Interface, Freezer. The new product will be available in the new year.

Cube Systems is going to sell fully assembled MiniMigs motherboards. The MiniMig features an FPGA re-implementation of the A500 chipset with a real 68000 processor on-board and was developed by Dennis van Weeren.

dtv2ser is a small hardware device that bridges TLR's dtvtrans protocol used to communicate with a DTV via a RS232 interface to your Mac or PC. By using a serial-to-USB adapter the dtv2ser provides dtvtrans access for all modern PCs. The new dtv2ser+usb board directly integrates the USB adapter and realizes the full dtv2ser functionality on a USB-stick-like device.

DC2N is a digital replacement for the C2N and can be used with a SD card on a VIC20, C16, Plus/4, C64 and C128. Luigi developed a hardware real-time implementation of the FAT-16 filesystem driver. Support for fragmentation handling in write operations will be added at a later time. You can follow the development on his web page.

Peter Czidlina has made his own version of the MiniMig. Based on the work of Dennis van Weeren he improved the PCB. The PCB is now 170 x 170 mm what is compatible with Mini-ITX so it will fit in a standard computer case. Power supply is now between 8 to 40 Volts DC. There are S-Video and Composite video outputs.The VGA and audio outputs are buffered.

Joco has done a very nice DTV modding. He transformed a original C64c case into a DTV mod. Data storage is based on the MMC2IEC project. Also the original keyboard is used with the DTV. Take a look at Joco's web page for more details.

This web page is dedicated to documents for the peripherals connected to the Commodore 64. There are more than 50 documents available from the 1084 schematics to adding a fan to your Commodore devices. This web page is a part of Project 64.

Fotios is developing cartridges for the C64/C128. At the moment there is a Eprom cartridge for 8 x 8 kbyte, a RS-232 interface for the userport and a MIDI system. Other systems in development are a cartridge expander and a Stereo SID cartridge.

Only a few details are know about this new cartridge. The cartridge will be presented at the ECCC expo. Memory 512 kB Flash ROM and 128 kB RAM, CS8900A Ethernet Controller and a MicroSD slot.

TLR has released a updated version of his DTV flash tool. There are cosmetic changes, bug fixes. And also the full source code is included.

Jan Derogee has released a new firmware version for the 1541-III. With this update Jan worked on the stability of the 1541-III. If you want to know where the 1541-III is used for take a look at his promo video of the 1541-III.

The development of the DC2N is going strong. Luigi has now fully working PCBs. The DC2N is a digital replacement for the Datassette (C2N). The storage is done on a SD - card. With the proto type there are 250+ dumps made with excellent results.

The micro-KIM is a clone of the KIM-1 created by MOS technologies in 1975 as a development board for the 6502 CPU. The micro-KIM uses many of the same components as the KIM-1 to give it that authentic vintage feel. A total of 5K RAM is onboard with an expansion header for future expansion of memory or add-on boards.

Michael Sachse from cbmhardware.de has started on designing a co-processor for the C64. It will be a expansion port based device. The processor will be a Atmel Mega32 (16 Mips). Two extra 64kB memory banks will be added for the fast serial port and user memory for the co-processor. If you want to contribute to this project you can contact the web master.

The IEC-ATA-Interface V2 is a harddisk controller that connects a PC-harddisk (up to 128 GB) to a Commodore 64, VIC20, C128, DTV and other IEC Commodore computers. The interface is a DIY kit that comes with all components and PCB. It's fully compatible with the standard disk commands and all IDE64 fixed programs.

Luigi is working on his DC2N and has now a working prototype ready. You can get all the info (schematics PCB layouts, firmware) on this project on Luigi's homepage. DC2N stands for Digital C2N and it's basically intended to be a compact replacement to the tape unit used with Commodore home computers (C64, C16, VIC 20)

Oliver Achten has mad a bunch of new releases for the MMC64. It now supports FAT32 formatted MMC/SD cards. New software: MMC64 BIOS V1.10, MMC64 MP3 plugin V0.70, MMC64 Picture plugins V1.3, MMC64 AVF plugin V0.3, AVF Testvideo. AVF is the new "standard" for videos on C64 with MMC64. It's 25fps, 152x80pixels, 96kbps MP3 (with MP3@C64).

Lars Pontoppidan announced the MMC2IEC device. This simulates a 1541 drive and enables loading and saving programs to MMC or SD flash media. FAT16 and FAT32 is supported, and directory navigation is possible with LOAD"xxx",8 commands. The hardware is based on Atmel AVR, and is simple to make.

Peter Wendrich released a new version of the C64 PAL/NTSC port for the C-one. Changes in version 0.18 are: Changed reset moment of an internal sprite flag. Now sprites can be displayed in right side border. CIA has flag_n input (cassette, rs232 and SRQ line). Peter also added files to port this core to other FPGA platforms.

The xu1541 is the modern way to connect CBM IEC bus devices to todays USB equipped PCs and it is meant to replace the printer port solutions based on the so-called original x1541 cable. The xu1541 interface allows you e.g. to attach a VC1541 disk drive to your desktop PC. This allows for easy transfer of disk images from and to the old units and helps you preserve your ancient data.

Jason Winters made a laptop version of the Commodore C64. The specifications are: Hummer DTV. Size: 16,5 cm x 15 cm x 4cm (closed). Power: 7.5v adapter or rechargeable batteries. Screen: 5" LCD. Keyboard: 69-key QWERTY. Sound: Amplified 1.5" 0.4W internal speaker. Connections: power, userport/joystick, serial disk drive, audio/video output, headphone jack, external PS/2 keyboard, SD card slot. Look at the web site for more details.

Luigi Di Fraia is developing a Digital replacement for the C2N (DC2N). This device will act as a real Datassette but instead of a Cassette there will be a SD memory card in the device. With this device you can copy any program from a real C2N to the SD card without a PC. You can also read write to the memory card using a real Commodore computer with a C2N port. Of course you can fill your SD card with TAP files using a modern PC. Luigi has build a working proto type. If you want to help with the project or want more info please contact Luigi. His e-mail address is on his web site.

Always wanted a 1581 but could not find one? The web shop C=64 reloaded sells a 1581 that is missing the drive. But you can install a PC 3,5" disk drive mechanism. After installing the drive you will have a complete 1581.

Dennis van Weeren has made his first production ready Minimig. It's called the Minimig rev 1.0. And... it works!!!! The specs are: Processor: 20Mhz MC68SEC000, RAM: 2Mbyte 70ns SRAM, FPGA: 400Kgate Spartan-3, Boot/system controller: PIC18LF252, Mass storage: MMC flash card, Power: +5VDC, I/O: dual PS/2 port (mouse/keyboard), dual 9-pin joystick port, VGA port, RS-232 port.

Jens Schönfeld and Oliver Achten have been working on a new project the last 12 months. They recreated the custom Amiga chips inside a FPGA. This means that you can replace broken chips with these FPGA's. But it could be possible to place the FPGA's on a PCI card. Then you could use the custom chips in any PPC system. Proto types were tested in a real Amiga 500 without problems.

Jens schoenfeld from Individual Computers announced that he's working on a new product. He made a FPGA card that will fit in the C-one but also will fit in the C64. With this card you can make you're own processor, ROM, extra memory and much more. The space in the FPGA is twice as big as the FPGA's in the C-one. Features are: Two interfaces: C-One PCI and C-64 cartridge slot (auto detect), 8Mbyte or 16Mbyte ram, 16 bits wide, SD-Ram option, 1 cyclone EP2C8 FPGA: 8256 logic elements, 18K ram on-chip, 18 embedded multipliers, 2 PLLs, 64-macrocell CPLD for initial configuration and additional IO, 512KByte flashrom for code and cores, optional interface: VGA / SPDIF-out. If everything works out it will be available in a couple of months.

Michael Sachse has made an update available for XLOAD. This program makes it possible to transfer data from a modern PC to the early PETs with Basic 2.0. The computers are connected with a User port - Printer port cable. The transfer rate is about 9,5 KB/Sec.

Peter Wendrich has published the first C64 PAL core that is not considered to be alpha any more. CPU registers $0000 and $0001 are fixed now, CIA timers / TOD registers fixed, IRQ/NMI timing fixed. Peter is now accepting bug reports 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. Just hit F8 to get to choose the D64/PRG file.

It's back ! Individual Computers and SPEED-LINK are going to re-produce the best joystick ever: The Competition Pro. After the re-release of the SPEED-LINK Competition Pro USB there were many requests for the original version with a plug for the systems of the eighties. The Competition Pro can be used by the following computers: Commodore / Amiga, Amstrad/Schneider CPC, Atari and MSX. It has six micro switches. You can get your Competition pro at Individual Computers. The price will be around 13 Euros.

Simon Owen has written a program that can control the uPD765a floppy disk controller. This makes it possible to read or write normal PC floppy in a different way. The latest version of his program makes it possible to read and write a floppy in a normal PC and then use it in the 1581 3,5"disdrive from Commodore. This program can be used with Windows 2000, XP and 2003.

Peter Wendrich is pumping out PAL cores faster than you can test them. CPU, all normal opcodes work and some illegal opcodes too. VIC-II is cycle exact but still a few little problems with the side borders. ROM's and PLA are fully emulated. CIA is not complete yet. SID is improved in this version.

Leif Bloomquist has made a web page to show the possibility of connecting a Commodore 64 to an Ethernet network, and ultimately to the Internet. Why? Well, because it is there as a fun embedded - systems type project. There is lots of untapped potential for online network games, and games were one of the C64s strengths. This page is a brief summary of the "state of the art" of Ethernet on the C64 as of August 2006. It only looks at "true" Ethernet solutions.

A new update of the C64 PAL core by Peter Wendrich. Finally, games can be played! Sprites work, collisions between sprites and sprite/characters are properly recognized, and it should be cycle-exact now. The flickerfixer has been improved, and should work with all monitors now that support 50Hz vertical rate.

This is a special version of Sami Klemola's utility ROM that can be flashed into one of the FlashROM banks of an RR. This is the first real release. It has the known bugs fixed. You can also use this on VICE without needing to flash the actual cartridge, or even having to have an RR! Report any malfunction to Sami. All of the utilities included now work, as BASIC is now also initialized before starting them, with a bit of a hack though, abusing the keyboard buffer. There are no operating instructions, but simply press F1, F3 or F5 to launch one of the included utility programs. Press 2 or 3 to select disk and tape turbo, respectively, and then F7 to reset, or alternatively press space to reset without fast loaders. You can also hold down the left shift or right shift to bypass the menu into turbo or normal mode.

Dennis van Weeren is almost ready to get the Minimig (An Amiga 500 in a FPGA chip) manufactured. On his weblog he has made a picture available of the PCB. You can follow the progress on his weblog.

This is a project where a PC is used as an harddisk for the C64, C128 and VIC-20 and other IEC-computers using a 1541 as an interface. As a small bonus you can use the CD-ROM, 1.44 MB-drive and network - drives of the PC as well! Products: software, a cable and a modified 1541-board. Current version is 0.10, Beta.

Adfread will allow you to "create" ADF floppy disk images from regular Amiga disks using standard PC hardware. Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003, BIOS support for 2 floppy drives, Regular formatted Amiga disks without any copy-protection, A normal PC-formatted 1.44M floppy.

The 1541-III is a PIC microcontroller controlling an FAT16 MMC/SD card with .D64 files. It is connected to the Commodore via the standard IEC bus. The circuit as a whole behaves like a 1541 disk drive (therefore the name 1541-III). It has been successfully tested on the following machines: VIC 20, C64, C16, Plus4 and the DTV.

For the 264 series of Commodore that didn't have the 64K RAM as standard the www.commodore16.com website has now an plug-in expansion in their shop.

Peter Wendrich has finished the next Alpha version of his C64 core called FPGA64. The new core can now be switched between PAL and NTSC by pressing F12 on the PS2 keyboard. Also, there has been a change in the VGA display that should get rid of the "rolling picture" phenomenon. The MMU of his CPU has also been debugged, it now works as described in the docs. The core still has no correct sprite display, but Peter is getting close. As always, Peter is giving out his complete source. Follow this link to the download page, where we have prepared two archives for you; One with only the binary, and the other with binary and source files for the free Altera Quartus FPGA development software.

C= key is a project from Jim Brain. This is a interface between an original Commodore keyboard and a PS/2 connection on a PC. With this interface you can use a real commodore keyboard with an emulator such as VICE or put a DTV inside an real C64 and hook it up to the keyboard. If you want more info contact Jim.