Sounds a bit like the problem might be a connector that sits too lose on the S-Video out socket of the Reloaded board. I remember I had a cable once, where cutting some parts of the plastic covering of the S-Video connector was necessary to get good contact. Bad contact resulted in colours missing completely.
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Don't Panic. Please wash hands.
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Please make one more cross-test without your scaler, i.e. with a monitor that has a real S-Video or Composite input. I'd like to eliminate the av-adapter-thing as a source of the problem.
The A/V adaptor is obviously a design svenpetersen1965 created: https://github.com/svenpetersen1965/C64-A-V-Adaptor
I have several of them and they're working fine with all my C64 boards including Reloaded MK2.
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Now i demand a photo (and wonder what kind of artwork this would be)
Yes, please elaborate a bit more on that PaulSlocum . I can't spot a C64 on the picture already posted.
Edit: Oh, I got it wrong. It's about TC64 in a docking station, not about an original C64 setup. But still I'd like to hear more about this.
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This sounds great pwsoft !
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Just did a quick scan of the features, and found that the product in question doesn't even support any mouse wheel.
To be more precise so far as I understood this, mouSTer cannot use a mouse wheel as third mouse button. But it could be configured to make use of additional mouse buttons or a wheel to be mapped to any of the other mouse functions including an "auto fire mode" for each button.
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So is the purpose to have a Mega 65 to run C64 software and games
While there is a separate C64 core for the MEGA65 the team behind it actually is creating a new platform. Maybe the MEGA65 could in short be described as the development of a computer of what the Commodore 65 should have been, but on steroids. And there actually is some software already developed for MEGA65. But if you take a look at the MEGA65 specs you could surely argue, why don't they just use an Amiga?! The answer is simple. Some people just want a computer system that represents what the Commodore 65 should have been. But on steroids.
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Does that work with standard parallel cables like SpeedDos?
I guess so. My setup consists of two parallel cable modified 1541-II drives utilizing the 6502 RAM/ROM Expansion for SpeedDos and Dolphin Dos 2 (among others).
Looks like the parallel routines need to take care of switching using the PA2 signal.
Never heard of this being needed.
AFAIK for plain speeddos the two cables can just be wired in parallel (!)
I don't know if this is true for SpeedDos. When Dolphin Dos was introduced in 64'er 5/1986 (page 12) following was stated:
Dolphin-Dos verwendet auch das Standard-Parallelkabel, so daß diese Programme [wurden vorher im Artikel aufgezählt] auch mit diesem Speeder laufen. Der Nachteil dieses Kabels: Der User-Port geht verloren. Wer einen Centronics-Drucker am User-Port anschließen will, muß sich noch eine schaltbare User-Port-Weiche basteln oder kaufen. Die Weiche muß schaltbar sein, da sich Floppy und Drucker gleichzeitig am User-Port nicht vertragen. Das macht die in Dolphin-Dos integrierte Centromcs-Schnittstelle fast nutzlos.
Translating to:
Dolphin Dos also uses the standard parallel cable, so that these programs [listed earlier in the article] also run with this speeder. The disadvantage of this cable: The user port is lost. If you want to connect a Centronics printer to the user port, you have to build or buy a switchable user port expansion. The expansion must be switchable, because floppy and printer do not get along at the same time at the user port. This makes the Centromcs interface integrated in Dolphin Dos almost useless.
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That said, I'd be interested to see what a userport expander for two parallel port cables should look like (schematics?) [...]
I found a replica of the "Scanntronik Userportweiche" (and derivative work of it) to be well functioning. Please see here (also for schematics): https://allzu.net/en/tlpp/C64_Userport_Expander.html
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To be honest, I have never been successful connecting two real drives with two parallel cables, [...]
Would be nice to know why this was. Were you using a userport extender without driver IC?
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Thank you Tobias !
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Tobias has access to the PDFs and could upload them to the Wiki.
This would be nice as I also don't have a manual. I obtained my Keyrah many years ago second hand.
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[...] but realistically I don't think there's much hope of this core fitting the TC64.
Thanks anyways for checking this out.
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But do Paddles work?
Next to using an original SID, using ARMSID, SwinSID Ultimate, SIDKick and FPGASID you're on the safe side regarding A/D converters. But they're not working with SwinSID, SwinSID nano, XSID and other direct derivatives of SwinSID.
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There's a new and "unofficial" C128 core for the MiSTer hardware: https://github.com/eriks5/C128_MiSTer
The coder als created a little video demonstration of what is working yet atm: https://youtu.be/DoZKi4JNWWs
As this core is in an early stage, porting it to TC64 probably does not make sense now. But what are the odds that this core is portable to TC64 at all?
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That's great robinsonb5 ! Thank you. Alas I am not yet able to use this core myself (or any of the other ones you ported). But I'll hopefully be soon.
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Yes, works perfectly fine
What a surprise as the iComp Wiki is stating exactly this.
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That said, i think there exist some C64 tools that can do what you want - ie read the d64 from sd2iec as a file (not mounted d64 image) and write it out to a real 1541. I dont remember if those support 40 tracks though, for example dracopy can perhaps do this.
As the maintainer of DraCopy changed you can find the the latest version v1.0doj here now: https://github.com/doj/dracopy
Regarding to readme.md two features of the predecessor DraCopy 1.0e are missing though, namely moving files and copying SEQ and REL files. But copying a D64 file to a real disk and vice versa works. It's not clear about supporting 40 Tracks. Although a picture on GitHub of DraCopy in use insinuates 40 Tracks support, the readme file says it's still up for implementation.
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Yeah, this sounds great. Hopefully this makes TC64 working with a Sony KDL-20B4030 TV. This TV got some noticable mentions at Forum64.de for being a quite good display for Amiga and C64 and supplying a lot of input connectors. But with current firmware none of the TC64 VGA modes is compatible with this TV and alas this also applys to the Minimig core.
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c64@mp3
Please, the correct name is mp3@64.
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