Monthly Archives: October 2017

USB-Commander working with SDHost-64

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

As I am testing existing tools with my USBhost-64 low-cost replacement, SDHost-64, I thought to give USB-Commander a go too. Here’s the results:

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More testing of SDHost-64 with my Commodore 64

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

Here’s a video update showing SDHost-64 loading a larger binary file into my Commodore 64. Enjoy!

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Troubleshooting successful

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

After work today I was pondering again the presence of erroneous 0xFF values in the stream read by the Commodore 64 from my USBhost-64 replacement device. It turns out that I was quite right when I thought the erroneous reads … Continue reading →

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Some more troubleshooting

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

As part of the troubleshooting process for my USBhost-64 replacement, I decided to take the Commodore 64 out of the equation and test again with my mock-up circuit. I could not reproduce the issue there, but I was able to … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting some data transfer over the User Port

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

I am in the process of troubleshooting the alteration of some data in my USBhost-64 replacement. I thought to share the details of the data alteration in the hope that it might ring some bells with others while I give … Continue reading →

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Update on the replacement device for my USBhost-64 project

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

It was last August when I was getting back to the replacement device for my USBhost-64 project. At the time I was distracted by my work for the crack of Rubicon, for TAPClean, and for my IFFL code, among other things. … Continue reading →

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IECHost: all parts ordered

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

I managed to order all parts to deliver 10 IECHost DIY kits to those interested. If you’d like to get one, feel free to message me!

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Load and Decrunch with ByteBoozer 2

Posted on October 21, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

Having had quite some experience with disk loaders and decrunchers lately, I decided to publish an updated version of David Malmborg’s Byte Boozer 2.0 on GitHub, as a tribute to David’s excellent work. Along with a fix to the PC cruncher, … Continue reading →

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TAPClean Front End updated

Posted on October 13, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

TAPClean Front End packages were updated with the latest release of TAPClean, 0.36. Download links for Windows and Linux are available here. Also, the Linux 64-bit binary of TAPClean 0.36 was made available on sourceforge.net, here. Enjoy!

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TAPClean 0.36 released

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

Yesterday I had some time to also make the TAPClean code migration to Git in sourceforge.net so I thought it’d be interesting to actually try creating release 0.36 off the Git repository. It all went so smoothly that I think … Continue reading →

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