The c64 keyboard
I have been involved in a few project where a PC keyboard was to be used for the c64. VICE emulator and Ultimate64 reimplementation on the c64. Let’s have a look at how the keyboard on a c64 works.. The …
The VICE monitor – Pro level breaking
VICE emulator is the leading tool for emulating the c64 on modern hardware. It works really fine, with the option of providing a near perfect emulation. For reversers like myself, the opportunity to be able to intercept the program with …
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Commodore 64 disk drive programming
The Commodore c64 is a computer where the Kernal (the OS if you will) supports load and store on tape and disk. The tape is a directly connected device where the Kernal provides all the code to steer the units …
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SIM cards – their role
SIM cards and communication A mobile phone/handset (or User Equipment, UE for short, as per the mobile standards) is a small computer, tailored to interact with you using touch on the screen as input. In order to be useful, the …
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Copy that floppy
After discussions in a Facebook group I thought I’d write something more on copy protections on disk. The general starting point is the disk is a sheet of magnetic media put into a mechanism to read it. The mechanism has …
Efficient packing on the c64
There were two different races you could compete in on the c64 cracking scene; the race for the first release or the fight over the best release (in Triad’s publication “Gamer’s Guide”). In the definition of best, size was the …
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Cracking c64 games in 2018
Making scene versions of games is something done also in 2018. New games are released, and people find old games to release. How to find games is beyond the scope of this text. As a basis for this text, I’m …
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Linux on Windows
Fiddling with installing Linux under Windows10. You need 64 bit Windows, which I guess we all have on computers bought the last few years. I started following this guide from Microsoft. After that you have a Ubuntu shell. Key is …
Professional PDS docs
Running into the issue of having source code in a binary format and having no clue of how the editor worked, made me look high and low on the web, with no luck. In the end Uwe and Jan helped …
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Preserve your Commodore64 media
Digital rot eats disks and tapes from the glory days of the Commodore64. If you sit on the only copy of something, you are responsible to ensure that it’s not forever lost. This is what to do! A) Preservation tool …
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