Commodore

Toronto PET User's Group June 19th 2008
The next TPUG meeting will be held Thursday, June 19th 2008 at 7:30 PM. This month's meeting will be a general hardware repair night. Bring your non-functioning Commodore monitors, keyboards, drives, etc. and we'll see what we can do. If you're a techie type, please bring your tools and pitch in. Meetin... 19 Jun 2008 01:19

Trying to track something down.
MixedWDCrossAsmTools040307.exe Which is on http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=12044 and linked to http://www.oxidy.com/c64/pctools/MixedWDCrossAsmTools040307.exe Anybody got a copy knocking around, that version or a later release? Regards Paul. ... 19 Jun 2008 01:19

LOT'S OF TIME ON MY HANDS!!!!!
With these past few days being so slow, I've had LOTS OF TIME ON MY HANDS to "play around" with my C-128. With this having being the case, I was fooling around 2 days ago with the RR-NET/MMC64/Silversurfer/ Contiki Combo's and was wondering a few things. #1) Has anyone ever successfully logged into a h... 29 Jun 2008 06:02

Cleaning 128D keyboard
On Jun 11, 2:38 pm, "Riccardo Rubini" <rub...(a)despammed.com> wrote: Antti Pyykko wrote: On 2008-06-10, BigRed <REMOVETHISmcbig...(a)AT.ii.DOT.net.NOTRU> wrote: How difficult is it to clean the 128D keyboard? Some of the keys are becoming unresponsive unless slammed. [ google search ] T... 19 Jun 2008 01:19

Adding a SCSI CD-ROM BURNER to my C-128.
How exactly would I go about connecting a SCSI CD-ROM BURNER to my C-128 via the software aspect? Does it go through Wheels, The Wave, WINGS, or what? I realize that it HAS TO go through the CMD-Hard Drive, alas, it's the only hardware device that supports the Commodore SCSI bus. Just somewhat curious... 19 Jun 2008 01:19

WINGS Manual??
Does anyone out there have either a manual, detailed instructions, or dome other kinds of descriptive notes of some kind as to "HOW TO ACTUALLY USE" WINGS? I just decompressed it and installed it onto my CMD-HD, but can't for the life of me figure out how the heck to actually run it. Looolololol ... 27 Jun 2008 04:58

Fotios' C=128-RGBI-to-VGA hack with IBM-CGA color fix for brown
Wolfgang Moser wrote: Oh, by the way I updated my schematic a bit and also made a small DIY layout (one layer and some bridges): I just built up one of your adapters (on a Radio Shack proto-board) and it seems to work fine. I'm curious if there's a program floating around that simply displays all the co... 21 Jun 2008 02:35

[plus4] XeO3 Test Demo (Alpha1)
XeO3 Test Demo finally has seen the light! http://www.xeo3.org/prg/xeo3_test_demo.zip Download the pack right now, and you will able to play a complete test level, in order to have a look to the basics of gameplay: even though raw yet, and with advanceable plain shot only, you're gonna fight against hordes ... 19 Jun 2008 01:19

Archon: Evolution -
On Jun 12, 2:29 pm, la...(a)portcommodore.com wrote: There's xarchon for Linux and Windows, no Mac port yet.. http://xarchon.seul.org/ I tried Xarchon and it just didn't play well. It simply didn't feel like Archon (and I'm not talking about the rather poor graphics). Archon: Evolution's engine is apparentl... 21 Jun 2008 07:39

Shutting down the Usenet -- this one is for real
Golan Klinger wrote on 12. June 2008: No single person or entity can shut down the Usenet. ISPs can take their own news servers offline, inconveniencing the majority of their customers and saving themselves the cost of maintaining the servers and supporting those who use them. That is the reason the I... 5 Jul 2008 23:44