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mainboard

Also started texturing the keys, right now the characters are too big and bold, also the graphic chars on the front of the keys needs to be lower.

c64

]]> Default Default http://solidstate.110mb.com/index.php?entryid=144 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:05:53 -0300 http://solidstate.110mb.com/index.php?entryid=144 SD2IEC http://solidstate.110mb.com/index.php?entryid=143
The SD2IEC is a SD card reader for 8-bit Commodore computers, sucessor of the MMC2IEC, it connects to the computer via it's serial IEC connector.
This allow Commodore users to have a huge software collection on a single SD card, either as individual files or as .D64 disk images.
The only drawback of this device is that it cannot emulate the CPU present on real Commodore Drives, making it incompatible with most diskturbos.
I bought this kit from Retrocomputacion.com user MarcosJL, who issued a limited edition run of SD2IEC boards.

This is the board assembled:



Then I made a box for it with MDF:


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]]> Default Default http://solidstate.110mb.com/index.php?entryid=142 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:11:30 -0300 http://solidstate.110mb.com/index.php?entryid=142 Drean Commodore and Argentinian cracking scene in the '80s http://solidstate.110mb.com/index.php?entryid=141 C&A fan Polish magazine features two articles written by me.

The first, "The cracking scene in Argentina" briefly describes theapparition of the first Argentinean 'Crackers', but only the ones thatreleased C-64 software.
The second, "Drean: Commodore in PAL-N land" explores the history of Drean parternship with Commodore in the mid to late 1980s.


You can download C&A Fan #4here (pdf, Polish), or read the articles online here and here (spanish)

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From the challenge description:

Imagine you have been comissioned to do video games based on the aviation world of the 1930

A world of danger advanture, air pirates,zepellins and crazy air machines... (similar to the Indiana Jonesuniverse, but where Jet packs, giant air machines and robot hechmen area reality)


Join us as the Queen of the Rocketmen and her band of merry men fight the evil air pirates in the air above the South Pacific.

Despite being fairly new to Maya, I decided to enter the challenge since it's a theme I really like.

And so I started working on a model collection for the challenge and entitled my entry "The Pirate airfleet".

The finished collection includes 4 models, an Airship Carrier, a 3m tall Robot Trooper, a giant Transport Seaplane and a Combat Autogyro.

I't been a great learning experience both modelling my entry, and watch the evolution of the other participants entries.

See all the final renders after the jump...



The Airship Carrier (click images to enlarge):







Robot Trooper:







Giant Transport Seaplane:





Combat Autogyro:




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One of the reasons was the ads inserted by my webhosting provider until a few days ago, it was only a test on the profitability of the sites they host and they have announced it with plenty of anticipation. But the ads broke the page layout and that pissed me off.

Another reason is the increasing difficulty to find a demo to feature on the only semi-constant column on my blog, the Sunday Demo Show.
I have been thinking of discontinue the column entirelly, or transform it into a general retro-Scene related column, featuring not only demos but graphics and music too. Haven't decided yet which path to follow.

About the 3D projects I was posting about, the 3D Commodore 64 is canned at the moment. I've enter the current Hardcore Modeller Challenge on CGTalk, you can follow my progress here.

The announcement I talked about is the 'new' URL address for this site:

WWW.SOLID-STATE.COM.AR


And I say 'new' because the site has this address since 1 year ago, just that I never annonced it :P


I hope to return to 'regular' posting next month, once the CGTalk challenge ends. I have a lot of things to post about, ranging from 3D to electronic projects so stay tuned!


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Expansión port


DIN connectors, from left to right: Power, Serial and A/V ports




Ceramic capacitor


Main oscilator crystal

To be continued...

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More updates for the Commodore 64 3D model, keyboard done:






Some bits and pieces from the interior:










More to come...
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Bottom half:



underside...



Top half interior:




I have now begun to model the keyboard, individual keys already done:



More to come... :)

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]]> Default Default http://solidstate.110mb.com/index.php?entryid=133 Sun, 31 May 2009 23:44:22 -0300 http://solidstate.110mb.com/index.php?entryid=133 3D: Commodore 64 http://solidstate.110mb.com/index.php?entryid=132 Supermarine S.6B model on hold until I get more experience with hypershade, wasn't able to get an aceptable chrome material, and the bump maps just looked horrible...

I'll do a model with more simple materials, a Commodore 64 computer.




My goal is to made a highly detailed and accurate model, including the circuit board.





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]]> Default Default http://solidstate.110mb.com/index.php?entryid=130 Sun, 17 May 2009 23:59:17 -0300 http://solidstate.110mb.com/index.php?entryid=130 SDS#82: Syntax Infinity http://solidstate.110mb.com/index.php?entryid=129 Syntax Infinity by Tulou & Traktor for MSX2 machines, 5th place wild demo compo at Breakpoint 2009





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