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Tag Archives: IECHost
IECHost boards shipped
The printed circuit boards for IECHost I had ordered a few days back were manufactured and shipped today. Yay! Stay tuned for more news on the subject 🙂
Posted in Retrocomputing, Technical
Tagged Commodore 64, disks, dumping, games, IECHost, preservation, retrocomputing, software
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Codebase64 on the Kernal behaviour
I found out that codebase64 mentions the issue I reported about reading the error channel/status info from devices that are not on the IEC bus. The author of the article refers to the issue as a deadlock. An interesting thing … Continue reading
Posted in Retrocomputing, Technical
Tagged Commodore 64, IEC, IECHost, retrocomputing
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Kernal “patch” in the IECHost firmware
This evening I was contemplating the idea of adding a “disk certification” option in IECHost, as per Inside Commodore DOSÂ – program on page 91, which uses direct access programming, including job execution. I was admiring how beautifully error checking is … Continue reading
Posted in Retrocomputing, Technical, Uncategorized
Tagged Commodore 64, Firmware, IEC, IECHost, retrocomputing
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D64 Browser update
As the IECHost client might not be provided with some low level features required to e.g. set all 5 bytes of the disk ID, I decided to also update my “D64 Browser” application in order to add a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Retrocomputing, Technical
Tagged Commodore 64, D64 Browser, disks, games, IECHost, retrocomputing, software
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IECHost PCB design sent to manufacturing
Motivated by the manufacturing of a few more DC2N5-LC PCBs, I decided to also submit an order for IECHost PCBs. It would be great to get access to a 3D printer to print ad-hoc cases for these new PCBs 🙂
Posted in Retrocomputing, Technical
Tagged Commodore 64, disks, dumping, games, IEC, IECHost, preservation, software
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IECHost: D64 image warp-save to disk officially completed!
After a few changes to the IECHost client, I was finally able to make it stable to write D64 images back to physical disks. Have a look 🙂 The disk was also imaged to D64 afterwards and compared to its … Continue reading
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Tagged Commodore 64, disks, dumping, games, IEC, IECHost, retrocomputing, software
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