, is going to ported to MiST
FPGA (unofficial news)

The website says

A cycle exact FPGA core for the MOS 7360/8360 TED chip written in verilog.

The final goal is to have an fpga core that could be used as a drop in replacement for the MOS 8360 chip which is the heart of the Commodore 264 series 8 bit computers, namely the Commodore 16, Commodore Plus 4 and
Commodore 116. This core can be the basis of a complete C16 or Plus 4 SoC implementation

MIST FPGA

More news from Chris Syntichakis

Hi commodorefree

core only can load/run .PRG files, no support for D64/tape images

github.com/mist-devel/mist-board/tree/master/cores/c16

cheers
chris

The dev site says:

FPGATED is a cycle exact FPGA core for the MOS 7360/8360 TED chip written
in verilog language. MOS 7360/8360 is complex chip providing graphic,
sound, bus and memory control for the Commodore 264 series 8 bit computers, namely the Commodore Plus4, Commodore 16 and Commodore 116.



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PET NEWS
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SPACE CHASE
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From: Christian Krenner
To: Commodore Free

Hi Nigel,

just a quick update. You can see the latest reincarnation of Space Chase
here (played on a real CBM II machine): youtu.be/Ixvac1yw_5M

There are only a few bugs left, I am still planning to release 1.0 in a few weeks.

Regards
Christian

COMMODORE FREE: Indeed the website is here www.spacechase.de/ And this
issue of Commodore Free sees a full game review as Christian agreed the
game was "releasable"



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AMIGA NEWS
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AMICAST ISSUE 013
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AMIcast is an English and Polish podcast about the Amiga range of
computers.

In this episode: interview with Daniel Mn#ener / Daytona, known from Wings Battelfield, Tower 57 and Wings Remastered.

www.amigapodcast.com/


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FLASHTRO AMIGA
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Flashtro.com shows various crack intro's but with your browser. There are original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation.
These have been converted to various formats mainly Flash and HTML5 . The
most recent flashtro's are: Flashtro - Ghosts 'n' Goblins, Ackerlight -
Audio Master II, Ackerlight - Action Service, Thrust - Ottifanten, Anthrox
- Fire and Ice, Paradox - Vroom, Wizzcat - California Games II, M.A.D -
Chrono, Ministry - KGB, Alpha Flight - KGB, Razor 1911 - Medieval Warriors, Paranoimia - Another Crack and Razor 1911 - Classic - Betrayal.

www.flashtro.com/


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AMIGOS
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Amigos has added some new articles, recent updates include: Trivai Night, Amigo Scour, Mouse Trap, James Pond, Flood, Gurus meditating, The Great
Giana Sisters, Buggy Boy, Pac-Mania, Rambo III, Boat and Flack talk Retro Gaming, Flashback, 8 piracy killers that weren't, Street Fighter II, A
bundle of dreams and Mortal Kombat II.

www.amigospodcast.com/


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BOINGSWORLD ISSUE 77
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A new episode of BoingsWorld (the German language) podcast is now
available, with the following articles: Amiga Meeting Bad Bramstedt,
AmigaTec Birthday, Mediator PCI 3 Volt version, Startpage for Amigafans, Commodora Amiga in pixels, Wings and Daniel Mn#ener.

boingsworld.de/


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ZX-LIVE - AMIGA
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Dmitriy Zhivilov released a new version of the ZX-Spectrum 48/128k and
Pentagon 128k emulator for the Amiga.

YOU WILL NEED:

* CPU: 68020 or better;
* Chipset: OCS/AGA;
* RAM: ~8Mb of free fastRAM at least;
* OS: AmigaOS 3.x;

FEATURES:

* Full emulation of ZX-Spectrum 48/128k and Pentagon 128k (all Z80
instructions, include undocumented; all Z80 flags; all Z80 registers,
include MemPTR; interrupts; ROM write protection; command timings
and all ports: keyboard, kempston joystick, border, sound & port #FF).

* Support kempston mouse.

* 1818VG93 (TR-DOS controller) emulation.

* Partial support of .TZX file format.

* Partial AY chip emulation (all AY registers and digital sound only).

* Support hard AY.

* The following formats supported:

* .TZX (Tape images, not complete) .TAP
* .TAP & .BLK (Tape images) .TRD
* .TRD (TR-DOS disks images) .ZLS
* .SCL (TR-DOS compact images) .SCR (6912)
* .$ (TR-DOS HoBeta files)
* .Z80 (all versions)
* .SLT (not complete)
* .SNA (48k & 128k)(.MIRAGE)
* .SNP
* .SNX (Specci extended snapshot)
* .ZX (KGB snapshot 49486 bytes)
* .SP (Spanish snapshot)
* .ACH (Archimedes snapshot)
* .PRG (SpecEm snapshot)
* .SEM (SpecEmu(German) snapshot)
* .SIT (Sinclair snapshot)
* .FRZ (CBSpeccy snapshot)
* .ZLS (ZX-Live Snapshot 48/128k)
* .SCR (6144 & 6912)
* .POK (files created by SGD)

* Emulation of ZX keyboard by amiga joystick. (JKeys option)

* Emulation of kempston joystick by amiga keyboard. (KeysJ option)

* Auto LOAD "" feature.

* Command line support.

* Emulate 128k pages WITHOUT MMU!

* Working 99.9% of ZX-Spectrum software.

aminet.net/package/misc/emu/ZXLive


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AISS 4.21 AVAILABLE
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The Amiga Image Storage System (AISS) offers a photo-illustrative icon
style for toolbar images - it approaches the realism of photography but
uses the features of illustrations to convey a lot of information in a
small image. AISS is an environment to store, access and maintain this
toolbar images. For more information about AISS please have a look at the documentation.

The new release features more than 8,700 images in the AmigaOS 4 icon
design and for compatibility reasons all pictures and animations of the previous releases.

Website
www.masonicons.info/6.html

OS4 Depot
os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=graphics/aiss/aiss.lha


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AMIGAKIT.COM PRODUCT NEWS
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KICKSTART SWITCHERS:

A500Flash Kickstart Switcher 1M for Amiga 500, 500+ and 2000. This comes
with 1MB of built-in Flash memory and can be used with 1MB and Extended
ROMs. Switching between available Kickstart images by holding down
CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds.

USB KEYBOARD ADAPTERS:

* Sum USB Keyboard Adapter for the Amiga 1200

* Sum USB Keyboard Adapter for the Amiga 600

* Sum USB Keyboard Adapter for the Amiga A2000/3000/4000 or CD32

also in stock the RYS MKII Amiga USB Adapter


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PUBLIC RELEASE OF MORPHOS
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT 3.10
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The MorphOS development team announce the immediate availability of the
MorphOS Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.10. The new SDK sports a bugfixed GCC5 compiler, updated ixemul and SSL libraries as well as improvements in
its documentation and include files.

The new software development kit is available for download from here

morphos-team.net/downloads


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ENHANCER SOFTWARE RETAIL BOX
AVAILABLE
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A-EON announcement

A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce that the new Enhancer Software retail boxed CD for OS4 is now available from selected retailers worldwide.

The Enhancer Software is a collection of utilities, commodities, classes, datatypes and libraries with the aim of enhancing the AmigaOS experience.
It is the result of about nine months worth of hard work by the AmigaDeveloper.com Team.

The package contains new developments of ClipViewer, Exchanger, MultiEdit, MultiViewer 2, TuneNet, X-Dock, AmiDVD, SmartFileSystem, PartitionWizard, Ringhio Notifications and much more!

The Enhancer Software contains the debut pre-release version of Warp3D Nova
and there will be free updates for Enhancer Software users as Nova gets
updated over the coming months.

The Enhancer Software is available in two editions: Standard and Plus.

Every retail box has a serial key code which can be entered into the
AMIStore website for customers to download free future updates.

www.a-eon.com/



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COMMODORE SID CHIP
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Although the SID chip itself doesn't need any sort of introduction, I will
do one anyway for the purpose of educating the people who don't know.

SID is an acronym for Sound Interface Device. The chip was Developed by
Bob Yannes, who worked for MOS Technology. He wanted to create a real subtractive synthesis chip, so it would stand out from the usual music
chips of the time. The chip is a combination of both analogue and digital circuitry, because of this, many people say the sound is impossible to
emulate with 100% accuracy The first Commodore 64 or breadbin uses the 6581 chip while The Commodore 64 mark II and Commodore 128 use the newer 8580
chip.

SID AT A GLANCE

* 3 voices,
* 4 waveforms (sawtooth, triangle, rectangle pulse width modulation, (white)
noise
* 3 amplitude modulator,
* 3 envelope generators
* Synchronization of the oscillators
* Ring modulation
* Programmable filters (low pass, bandpass, high pass)
* Master volume control
* 2 A/D-converter (8 bit, low frequency, used for reading paddle input)
* Random generator
* Audio input

There are a number of differences between the two versions one being the filters, many SID musicians prefer the errors in the original 6581 chip,
Yannes worked and corrected many of these for the newer 8580 chip. Speech sounds better on the first chip, while the second sounds muffled in
comparison.

EMULATIONS

Unfortunately for the SID chip, many of these devices produced between 1982
and 1993 reach the end of their life span. It is getting harder to get a replacement parts, although some seemed to find their way onto ebay they
were thought to be rejected by Commodore and someone returned them to the market, with faulty filters and even sound chalnnels. Thus, it was deemed
that we need a proper substitute. And as the website says this is what the FPGASID project is all about!

The project was started to overcome not only the shortage of replacement
chips, but try to produce a more stable substitute, and in the emulation
this is said to reach close to 100% emulation, or as the site states " it
aims for a better SID than any SID has ever been before..."

THE MISSION

* Create a pin compatible drop-in replacement for the MOS6581 device
as well as for its successor, the MOS8580.

THE TARGETS

* To-the-cycle exact reproduction of all digital parts including sound
and envelope generation and paddle readouts.

* Exact modeling of the analog parts leading to a result that is almost
indistinguishable from the original.

* Making it configurable to easily switch between various SID variants

* Adding extra features like wavetables, stereo sound, more
voices, etc., while keeping full compatibility.

THE MEANS

* Use of FPGA technology. It is more suitable than software related
emulation.

A FEW SID RELATED WEBSITES

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_SID
www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/SID www.waitingforfriday.com/index.php/Commodore_SID_6581_Datasheet



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INTERVIEW WITH ANDREAS BEERMANN
Creator of FPGASID
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www.fpgasid.de/

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COMMODORE FREE: Please introduce yourself to our readers.

Andreas Beermann: Hello, I'm Andreas Beermann. I live in Germany where I
work as an R&D engineer for a company that makes equipment for the semiconductor industry. In my daily job I deal with high-tech stuff,
always at the edge of what's technical feasible. But I kept my heart open
for retro technology

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