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#41
News, views, help & info / Re: Scheduled down time - 25th...
Last post by Blacklord - November 26, 2024, 05:20 AM
Quote from: BigDumbDinosaur on November 26, 2024, 01:16 AMWhich OS version are you running?

Windows Server 2022
#42
News, views, help & info / Re: Scheduled down time - 25th...
Last post by BigDumbDinosaur - November 26, 2024, 01:16 AM
Which OS version are you running?
#43
News, views, help & info / Re: Scheduled down time - 25th...
Last post by Blacklord - November 23, 2024, 04:25 PM
Upgrade completed.

I also took the opportunity to update Apache, PHP and the underlying server OS.
#44
News, views, help & info / Scheduled down time - 27th Nov...
Last post by Blacklord - November 22, 2024, 12:03 PM
There will be an outage between midnight and 6am (Australian Eastern Summer Time) on Wednesday 27th of November while the NBN connection is being upgraded.
#45
Herdware / Re: Idun for the Commodore 128
Last post by Blacklord - November 22, 2024, 06:57 AM
Quote from: RobertB on November 21, 2024, 06:50 PMHeh, I knew about the idun, but I don't prefer that it needs a pi zero for a person to use it.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

Pi Zero is deprecated and getting harder to find, we can hope that the author updates eventually.
#46
Herdware / Re: Idun for the Commodore 128
Last post by RobertB - November 21, 2024, 06:50 PM
Heh, I knew about the idun, but I don't prefer that it needs a pi zero for a person to use it.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
#47
Herdware / Idun for the Commodore 128
Last post by Blacklord - November 21, 2024, 01:25 PM
From the homepage at https://github.com/idun-project/idun-cartridge

This is the home of the idun-cartridge for the C128. Here you will find the latest software, along with source code, sample applications, and other content.

What does it do? Hopefully a demo is worth a thousand words. 

Hardware
The idun-cartridge uses a Propeller 1 micro-controller to provide a fast hardware interface between the C128 and a Raspberry Pi ("RPi") that runs a customized Linux OS. The cartridge is designed to work and fit best with the Raspberry Pi Zero 2. However, any recent Raspberry Pi can be made to work.

The first set of photos show the idun-cartridge with RPi Zero 2 fitted. As you can see, a standard-sized C64/128 cartridge case can be hacked to cover the board, but leave the RPi, ports, and button accessible.

Partial Support for original Pi Zero
The original Pi Zero is nearing end-of-life, being phased out by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in favor of the more powerful Pi Zero 2. Because of this, some ARM Linux disributions are discontinuing support, making it difficult for the idun-cartridge to continue supporting the Pi Zero. However, the current state of affairs is that the Pi Zero is widely available and very inexpensive, and this could remain the case for the next year-or-so.

In light of the above, the Pi Zero is partially supported. You can download a compatible image file that includes v1.2 of the software. All features are present on this image except for the idunSID remote SID player software (it requires a newer glibc library) and the Z80 programming support.




#48
News, views, help & info / Scheduled down time - 25th Nov...
Last post by Blacklord - November 17, 2024, 05:56 AM
There will be scheduled down time on the 25th of November from 8am - 12 noon (Australian Eastern Summer Time) to replace a mechanical hard drive in the server with an SSD.
#49
Herdware / C128 and 8 MHz Z80
Last post by RobertB - November 16, 2024, 10:29 AM
On this page, there is a method to hack a faster Z80 in order to run CP/M faster.  See

https://github.com/ytmytm/c128-z80-8mhz

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
#50
General chat / Pics and videos of the Bay Are...
Last post by RobertB - November 16, 2024, 09:51 AM
Check out the Commodore, Amiga, and other computers at the Bay Area Maker Faire 2024.  Go to

Commodore, Amiga et al at Bay Area Maker Faire 2024
http://blog.retro-link.com/2024/11/commodore-amiga-et-al-at-bay-area-maker.html

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan