Plugins pack 2012

The collection of recent IDE64 File Manager plugins in one archive can be downloaded from the following link.
To install all the plugins and configuration file man,usr , uncompress the archive to the root directory of the primary IDE64 disk device. Most plugins are associated with appropriate file extension e.g. picture,fli or picture.fli and are started when RETURN is pressed. More info in readme.txt and man_usr.txt text files.

One of the possibility how to install the plugins pack is to extract zip,prg from the zip archive and copy both the plugins2012.zip and zip,prg to your IDE64 primary disk device. From the File Manager, load "zip" by pressing SHIFT+RETURN and start program by SYS4096
At filename prompt type: plugins2012.zip and press RETURN.
Extract all the files and start File Manager by: MAN!
File Manager configuration file man,usr should be in the root directory and set of plugins in "plugins" subdirectory.

I hope you enjoy this collection. The plugins can be individually downloaded from warez.ide64.org
If you find any existing plugin missing in this collection, please let me know. To use vd64 advanced virtual filesystem on Idedos V.91, please rename vd64beta,prg to vd64,prg

josef@ide64.org

IDE64 V4.1 available

IDE64 V4.1 units are available for ordering.
The price of IDE64 V4.1 is 99,- EUR + registered priority air-mail shipping 6,- EUR. For more information about IDE64, please visit webpage: http://ide64.org/ide64v41.html
If you need any additional information, or would like to order, please do not hesitate to contact: josef@ide64.org

ZIP plugin V3

Updated version of the excellent ZIP plugin is available.
The new features makes it even more practical compared to v2:

- - stop now exists back to manager
- - faster decompression
- - can create directory structures (if the archive is proper)

The plugin is created by Soci/Singular and it is based on Pasi Ojala's GunZip.


Get is from: http://warez.ide64.org

Contiki 2.4 binary release

Oliver Schmidt has just released the 'Contiki 2.4 binary release for Retrocomputing'. It is available at
http://cbm8bit.com/contiki/ and at http://a2retrosystems.com/contiki.html

This release was built using cc65 2.13.2 from (modified) Contiki 2.4 http://cbm8bit.com/contiki/contiki-2.4-addon.zip

Contiki 2.4 is the first 2.x release to contain the following programs:
- dhcp client
- web server
- web browser
- wget
- smtp client
- irc client
- Twitter client

-includes fast IDE64 I/O support on the C64.

Beside lots of other improvement especially the following issues were fixed:
- Malfunctioning DNS lookup
- Missing PETSCII conversion for the smtp credentials
- Incorrect fixing of all disk I/O to drive 8

C64 XLFiles

C64 XLFiles is the new website that hosts a big collection of extra large archives with Commodore 64 games, demos and magazines for download. Every archive contains files that are directly usable on a C64, no need for futher file conversion or extraction.
You can extract these archvies on a bigger computer, and then copy to your CF/hard disk with fusecfs (on Linux), PCLink or simply burn a CD and put in your IDE64 CD drive. http://c64.rulez.org/xlfiles/

Updated virtual filesystem support in manager

In IDEDOS 0.90 it was already possible to enter image files (D64, D71, D81, T64) in the file manager like directories and start programs from them using the vd64 plugins.

Now in recent IDEDOS 0.91 betas this was extended to support DOS commands and copy operations, so that it's possible to read/write, rename, or delete files also in image files.

The vd64 0.05 plugins were updated now to support copy out. This can be tested with the IDEDOS 0.91 20100809 beta and vd64 0.05 from:

http://singularcrew.hu/ide64warez/site/Tools/Plugins/vd64-plugin-0.05.zip
http://singularcrew.hu/idedos/beta/

Later all other operations like copy in, rename, etc. are planned to be supported in the next versions.

If you have plans to support other image files as well, the API is documented in the updated IDE64 user's guide at "9.1.2 Virtual filesystem interface" around page 78:

http://singularcrew.hu/idedos/beta/IDE64_users_guide_beta.pdf

In theory the copy in interface should work as well however it was used yet.

Directory handling is not supported yet by the API, as probably there will be some tricks to support the recursive copy/delete operations. Anyway there's still a lot to explore without directories too ;)

Ideservd on OSX

Idesevd 0.24 has been compiled on OSX (10.6.4) by Jonno Downes, you can download a binary from:
http://www.jamtronix.com/blog/2010/06/26/ideservd-for-osx/