Commodore & Compression Page

Commodore & Compression Projects

• puzip 20.12.2004 - V1.13 of a ZIP file archiver/compressor w/ sources
• gunzip 3.7.2001 - V1.9 of a .gz and .zip file decompressor w/ sources
• geoZIP / GunZip GEOS 0.9 14.10.2003 - ZIP handling for the Wheels (GEOS)
• PuCrunch - A lossless hybrid LZ77/RLE data compression program for a low-resource system (self-extracting C64,VIC20,C16/+4,C128 executables) 8.3.2002
• A data compression introduction - appeared in C=Hacking Magazine Issue 16.
• The Tale of Pu-239 - Our C64 and Vic-20 demo group history documented
• C64Gfx - A graphics conversion package (Amiga executables, sources in C)
• C1581 - A 1581 disk handler/filesystem for Amiga (1541 GCR and 1581 MFM disk format explained) version 1.4 (24.4.99)
• Burst Fastloader for C64 - appeared in C=Hacking Magazine Issue 19.

VIC20-Only Projects

• VICUAL MMIX - Seven years in the making - with commentary track - 26.4.2009
• VIMMII - The VIC20 demo 2002 - with commentary track - 9.6.2002
• VIMM - The VIC20 demo 2000 - Now with Pictures - 29.12.2000
• How to turn your PAL VIC20 to NTSC VIC20 - appeared in C=Hacking Magazine Issue 16.
• A graphics viewer for VIC20 - 100(w) x 160(h) multicolor resolution (examples: fullpic.pal.bin fullpic.ntsc.bin)

Commodore Links

• http://www.c64.sk/ - C64 Scene News
• http://www.funet.fi/pub/cbm/ - FUNET's CBM File Server
• Commodore 8-bit Server - Marko Mäkelä's Commodore pages
• CoCoS - Commodore Computer Sitelist
• The Fridge - The re-source for C64 and 6502 programmers
• The C= Knowledge Base - Commodore articles with a search engine
• Strobe's C64 Stuff - Errol Smith's UnZip64 and stuff
• Raymond Carlsen's Commodore Repair Page
• 2002 MiniGame (1kB) Competition
• Pouet.net

• Bill Herd speaks at Louisville Commodore Expo 2001 -- see BilMP3.html
• The Rest in Pieces pages

VIC20 Links

• Anders Carlsson's VIC20 Page
• Aleksi Eeben / CNCD
• Creators
• Dekadence
• Viznut/PWP

Amiga-related

• Amiga History
  3rd Anniversary Conference of Ami Expo, Chicago, Illinois, 1988
  -- R.J. Mical - The Making of the Amiga, The Glory Years
  Total length over 100 minutes. (24kbit/s 16kHz mono)
  • TheGloryYears1.mp3 (4970kB)
  • TheGloryYears2.mp3 (4503kB)
  • TheGloryYears3.mp3 (4908kB)
  • TheGloryYears4.mp3 (4942kB)

• AXsh - Unix-lookalike 'BBS' system for remote access
• AXsh Usershell - A replacement shell for Amiga AXshUsh.lha.bin
• Stroke Commodity - generate events with mouse Stroke.lha.bin version 1.2 (12.6.1998).
• A flicker fixer for A500 - How to build a video slot