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CSDb Entries: Release id #261163 : SIDdetector V1.4 /St0fF

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Published: April 29, 2026 03:53

Hey, cool release. Just bumped my Interest after finding out on my new C64U, that my 25yr old SID detectors false-positive on UltiSID. Well, what I did at that time was a simple extension of Quiss' method used in a lot of Reflex Demos, checking if the…

CSDb Entries: Group id #2789 : Squadron /Danzig

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Published: April 29, 2026 00:16

Adding some more spice to the receipt: Exorist/Squadron was also a member of The Golden Triangle - a group that released Lunatic and Lunatic II - while Depeh/Squadron later released the famous lunacy demos.. coincidence? :-D

CSDb Entries: Group id #2789 : Squadron /The MeatBall

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Published: April 28, 2026 21:25

Is this and Squadron the same group? I see Devils Meat is coded by G.SVR/Squadron(France) and 197/Squadron(Sweden) Or did 197 at some point join the "other" Squadron? If so, memberships and credits should be corrected.

CSDb Questions: Vote count decreases? /chatGPZ

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Published: April 28, 2026 13:50

I just choosed to not take the voting serious at all anymore, when some moderator approached me about my "wrong" votes (and yep, 9 is a "downvote")

CSDb Entries: Group id #2162 : Seven-up Crew /NthSt4r

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Published: April 28, 2026 11:21

@bugjam Maybe I'll get some information. Was among the first members of Alpha Flight 1970, was with Marc, MCH first in IX, then Marc built up AFL1970 in Germany. We are still in contact today. Maybe Jazzcat also knows something. Unfortunately, I can't…

Requests: THE MOVERS Treasure Chest VII /Earthshaker

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Published: April 28, 2026 10:16

I converted one file with Greaseweazle Tools, i also use the FluxGUI with it. It gave a working .d64 file. I don't have time to test some more because i'm going away for a few days. Edit: Tested some more and all worked for me.

Requests: THE MOVERS Treasure Chest VII /Acidchild

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Published: April 28, 2026 02:33

i have found this collection on archive.org, but these files are scp-files and i can't get them transfered to g64 or any other c64-format..can anyone help? https://archive.org/details/the_masters_collection_c64_202412

CSDb Entries: Group id #2162 : Seven-up Crew /TheRyk

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Published: April 27, 2026 19:49

Just btw hyphenated or not hyphenated (e.g. "Seven-Up" versus "Seven Up") also doesn't seem to mean/help a lot... Moreover, a lot of cleaning could be done thx to Fred about the Austrian https://csdb.dk/forums/?roomid=12&topicid=169933

CSDb Discussions: web based Dirmaster /Vai

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Published: April 27, 2026 16:35

@WVL: I've made the 16x16 char grid a separate keyboard. it will be shown when pressing all on the Petscii keyboard. Or if you have selected 'Show All Characters by Default', it will always pop up instead of thePetscii Keyboard. You can drag the title bar,…

CSDb Questions: Vote count decreases? /HCL

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Published: April 26, 2026 21:30

Users can also delete their votes of course, without deleting the whole account. It may happen that one gets tired of all the discussions around the voting system, being accused of "downvoting" when voting a 9 instead of a 10 etc.. Finding the remedy in…

C64 Coding: Looking for a certain SX-64 kernal checksum /Korbo

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Published: April 26, 2026 20:56

I've been working on a program that performs a CRC32 checksum on your kernal, and compares it to known kernal revisions and mods. However, multiple sources online make mention of an early kernal revision of the SX-64. I can't find the checksum (let alone a…

CSDb Questions: Vote count decreases? /Gordian

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Published: April 26, 2026 19:30

Quoting SmasherI don't know about CSdB, but it happens in North Korea. The number of votes/voters sometimes decreases. When that happens, Kim gets 99.993% instead of 99.992%. Propably the same reason - account deleted :)

CSDb Questions: Vote count decreases? /Smasher

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Published: April 26, 2026 19:14

I don't know about CSdB, but it happens in North Korea. The number of votes/voters sometimes decreases. When that happens, Kim gets 99.993% instead of 99.992%.

CSDb Questions: Vote count decreases? /tlr

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Published: April 26, 2026 17:19

Quoting GordianThank you for your replies. It's strange that deleting a user's account reduces votes...Perhaps not surprising from an implementation perspective, but UX-wise unintuitive.

CSDb Discussions: web based Dirmaster /Vai

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Published: April 25, 2026 23:57

@WVL, do you use the the full petscii keyboard? That one is quite big, and default it renders under or above the input when there is space. if there isn't enough space it could happen the keyboard is rendered above the input. There is an option to stick…

CSDb Discussions: web based Dirmaster /WVL

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Published: April 25, 2026 22:01

@raistlin: just mentioning that for me part of the charpicker was is not visible because it's too low on the screen. Might be better to have it on the side?

CSDb Discussions: web based Dirmaster /Raistlin

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Published: April 25, 2026 19:23

WVL: not totally sure that I understand what you’re looking for … but perhaps https://dirquake.c64demo.com/ will give what you want?

CSDb Discussions: web based Dirmaster /WVL

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Published: April 25, 2026 19:21

Some thoughts. I needed some dirart and tried this after the xth Dirmaster crash. For me it didn't work too well : at 100% zoomlevel the char selection is (partly) hidden because it is too low on the page. If I decrease zoomlevel to 66% say, it fits, but…

CSDb Discussions: web based Dirmaster /zscs

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Published: April 25, 2026 17:35

This tool is super cool! <3 I've checked a few disk images from my old archive, right-click on my old disks, selecting Basic code view or gfx view, ASCII view on SEQ files and so on, helped me to find a few quite interesting files (memories, you know:-),…

CSDb Questions: Vote count decreases? /Burglar

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Published: April 25, 2026 11:13

what cjam said, I think also when an account becomes unactive the votes get deactivated, but I think the votes automatically return when the account is reactivated. I'm guessing here, only perff knows how it works for real :)

CSDb Discussions: Joy 2 on keyboard /Count Zero

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Published: April 24, 2026 22:17

With an original keyboard replacement in a C64U none of the combinations you mentioned works. As soon as you press "1" or "2" the common up/right directions are displayed on (the "simple") https://csdb.dk/release/?id=170175 I used for checking. (Yeah -…

C64 Coding: Best packers /Krill

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Published: April 24, 2026 10:20

Better run those comparisons on an entire corpus or two. For C-64 purposes, the Bitfire corpus seems quite close to what's coming with a real demo. (Contains fragments of some Coma Light or other, IIRC.)

C64 Coding: Best packers /Jetboy

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Published: April 23, 2026 21:39

Probably everybody wonders how good it is compared to other tools. Tested it on the demo part i'm working on right now. original: 63295 lzss packed: 45559 (71.9788%) dali: 40016 (63.2214%) exomizer: 38799 (61.2987%) There is little code, mostly bitmap…

C64 Coding: Best packers /Krill

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Published: April 23, 2026 16:18

Quoting ReposeBut then, how to identify which byte is opcode, operand, and data? It turns out it doesn't matter!Can you elaborate on that? IIRC, for Artefacts, it did matter whether there are 2 or 3 separate streams for opcodes and operands (and which…

C64 Coding: Best packers /ChristopherJam

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Published: April 23, 2026 15:16

Repose, there are a bunch of benchmarks over at https://codebase64.net/doku.php?id=base:compression_benchmarks though it's long overdue for an update. 60 cycles per output byte puts you right up there with bitfire and nucrunch for output speed; the only…

C64 Coding: Best packers /Repose

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Published: April 23, 2026 15:03

You're right, it was not ready and wasn't thoroughly tested. You know it always happens, works on the developer machine but not anyone else's. lzss_compressor.exe --prg cbm_basic_editor.prg Input: 27044 bytes Compressed: 10708 bytes Ratio: 39.5947% Output:…

C64 Coding: Best packers /tlr

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Published: April 23, 2026 14:41

I think the basic usage is pretty self explanatory from the help text. It does however fail in the way iAN states when using the --pack option to get an executable. $ wine ./lzss_compressor.exe --pack -o test.prg cbm_basic_editor.prg Error: Unable to…

C64 Coding: Best packers /iAN CooG

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Published: April 23, 2026 11:42

Repose: provide documentation, I can't figure out how to compress a prg lzss_compressor.exe --pack -e 0x1cf6 -o INTRO#01.lzss.prg --prg INTRO#01.1cf6 gives Error: Unable to locate compressor repository root It's not very professional to throw just an exe…

C64 Coding: Best packers /Repose

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Published: April 23, 2026 11:26

early release for you: https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=261266 try it on a few of your own files. Sounds like yours is better, not surprised, I'm not a compression expert. Every tool has a use though, depends if you want speed or compression, though…

C64 Coding: Best packers /tlr

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Published: April 23, 2026 10:43

So the source is: cbm_basic_editor.prg, 27046 bytes. A quick test with my Subsizer 0.6 gives 8519 bytes. With ALZ64 without any options you get 8246 bytes. (these are with the sfx stub included) I expect significantly shorter results with the more…

C64 Coding: Best packers /hedning

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Published: April 23, 2026 09:33

People seems to like Dali V0.3.5, Exomizer V3.1.2, PuCrunch, TSCrunch 1.3.1 etc. There should be a forum thread somewhere with different benchmarks, if I remember correctly.

C64 Coding: Best packers /Repose

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Published: April 23, 2026 09:16

I'm pretty sure I discovered something significant. I have an LZSS based packer which is tuned to the 6502 opcodes. It turns out that the entropy is lowest for the 3rd byte, then 1st byte then 2nd byte of an opcode, so if you tune for each byte you can do…

C64 Composing: Using Soundmonitor tune "Being boiled" by Chris Hülsbeck in demo /TWW

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Published: April 23, 2026 08:48

Yes I tested this code and you should be able to assemble it directly and run it. It's only a framework though and now only increments some value on the screen (i.e. playing music) while displaying some dec/inc $d020 blob at the top of the screen to show…

C64 Coding: Cross development Sublime/KickAss->C64U /Martin Piper

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Published: April 23, 2026 02:56

curl --request POST --data-binary "@c:\temp\path.prg" http://c64u/v1/runners:run_prg Obviously change the "c:\temp\path.prg" to whatever path you want. And the "c64u" to your machine's name or IP.

C64 Coding: Cross development Sublime/KickAss->C64U /Slammer

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Published: April 22, 2026 22:41

I guess you could execute a cUrl command on succesfull assembling that uses the rest interface to run the prg: https://1541u-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/api_ca..

CSDb Discussions: Joy 2 on keyboard /Aleksi Eeben

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Published: April 22, 2026 20:59

Everyone knows the keys Ctrl, <-, 1, and 2 match with joystick port 1 directions, and Space is fire. As a kid I played games using joystick port 2 by holding down the keys 1 and 2 while pressing the other numbers for directions and fire. For example,…

C64 Coding: Cross development Sublime/KickAss->C64U /Angel of Death

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Published: April 22, 2026 20:57

If there is an equivalent of the U64 Streamer made for the Ultimate-64 board for the C64 Ultimate (not confusing at all!) you can just drag and drop. But I mostly use the FTP server in the Ultimate-64 to get the file onto the SD-card and then execute it…

CSDb Entries: Event id #3485 : X'2026 /Burglar

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Published: April 22, 2026 20:02

Hi all, we're getting closer and closer to the weekend of Friday June 5th, so, time for another X'2026 update :) Beds Almost Sold Out! We only have a few beds left for sale, so if you haven't bought your ticket yet, want to visit and want to sleep at X:…

C64 Coding: Cross development Sublime/KickAss->C64U /Rub_0201

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Published: April 22, 2026 19:43

Got my C64U today and wondering, if there is a way to send the assembled .prg from Sublime/KickAss to the machine with just a shortcut and run it? Maybe use Pre/post-build script? HTTP or FTP or USB?

C64 Composing: Using Soundmonitor tune "Being boiled" by Chris Hülsbeck in demo /Rub_0201

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Published: April 22, 2026 19:10

Uh, how shall this work with for example rasterbars? The 60 Hz calls are all over the screen, right? Could be interesting for a "multisync" music routine though and variable music speed! Did you test it?

C64 Coding: Webbased disassembler /DaTucker

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Published: April 22, 2026 13:10

Hi Darklord / Alex, As far I am concerned, the core is open source. After all I used various other open source projects to learn from, so it would be silly to be not willing to share it. It's just not in a Git-repo yet. I am happy to share the "engine"…

C64 Coding: Alt-history no-cost design changes with great value /ChristopherJam

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Published: April 22, 2026 09:59

Single cycle barrel shifter was one of the things that first got me excited about ARMs. But yes, SWAN would be cool. (also reiterating my vote for a read-modify-write AND :D)

C64 Coding: Alt-history no-cost design changes with great value /Krill

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Published: April 21, 2026 23:33

I meant nibble-swap/reverse-bits in 2 cycles, ofc. Quoting Skateone of my favorite opcodes in other CPUs are parametric bit shifters like "SHL al, <number_of_bits_to_shift>".Yeah... if it's a barrel shifter coming out at the same cyclecount no matter the…