DC2N5-LC interest

As the DC2N5-LC interest has been present for a while, I would be keen to understand whether anybody else is interested in a DC2N5-LC DIY kit (with the added bonus of having access to a 3D-printable case for it), other than those who have emailed me since May 2018.

If you’re interested, just leave a reply and, possibly, spread the word about this: the more people are interested, the more likely a new batch will be produced. However, at the moment, I would exclude the possibility of me carving cases for buyers: it would be just the DIY kit available.

IECHost beta firmware

I haven’t managed to get my hands on disks that exhibit the behavior as per issue 743566, however I can provide a beta version of the firmware to try and force a further seek to track #1.

If interested, just drop me a line/leave a comment below!

TAPClean updated

TAPClean v0.38-pre-2 now supports “Turbotape 526”, a.k.a. “Load ‘n’ Run”. This loader was used in a number of tapes distributed with the “Com 64” magazine, published in Italy by “Elettronica2000”, submitted by Walter. The loader itself is a slower clone of the “Turbotape 250” one, showing many similarities with a number of previously known clones, including Turrican’s tape loader.
In fact, the scanner code for “Turbotape 526” is almost verbatim the one used for “Turrican loader”, the only difference, structure-wise, being a longer sync sequence in the latter.

Enjoy!

New DC2N5-LC firmware update

A while back John W. suggested it would be handy to have an option in DC2N5-LC’s firmware to re-init a micro SD card after it’s been pulled out to copy files to a PC and put back in afterwards. Although I had suggested that pulling out the card in between tape dumps is not critical, as the firmware is very robust when it comes to saving data, I decided to add an option to re-init the micro SD card in use.

Version 1.8 of the firmware will incorporate such an option.

Stay tuned!

Updates

My EasyFlash version of “Last Ninja 2” was just published to CSDb here.

The Last Ninja 2: 30th Anniversary EasyFlash version

This release partially delivers what I had planned a while back.

Furthermore, the EasyFlash loading system I wrote to put together such release was published on GitHub here.

Enjoy!

Improvements to TAPClean’s documentation

In an attempt to rationalize the documentation efforts about TAPClean that I previously published in my blog and c64tapes.org’s Wiki, I decided to make such documentation available along TAPClean’s source code in Sourceforge.

The first documentation piece I made available is about designing new scanners for TAPClean.

Due clarification on TAPClean

I have been reading this from a few different sources lately, so I’d like to clarify that I am NOT the author of TAPClean as such sources claim!

TAPClean is a fork of Subchrist‘s FinalTAP. Currently I am the only active contributor to its code development, partly because I still have interest in it and partly because I opposed its destruction by contribution.

I am the author of such idiom, “destruction by contribution“: please feel free to quote me as such any time you want 🙂