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Issue 17 March 2008
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Commodore Free Magazine March 2008
Editor
Some of you reading this may wonder why I decided
to include an interview with “Bread Box Computer
systems” as they are nothing to do with Commodore
Related items. Well because some questions have
raised recently about Geos and who owns the rights
copyright; I thought it would be good to include the
information about the company.
The interview does raise and answer some questions
about Geos and maybe not in the way many people
would think; Also they do create a great product
granted it is for the PC system, and if you would
rather not read it you can skip out the interview. I
don’t intent to include none Commodore items but felt
the need to include this interview.
Another competition this month the chance to win 1
of 3 CD roms kindly donated by PRESS PLAY ON
TAPE commodore tribute band. The competition was
missed out of issue 16 mainly due to time, and the
lack of! I apologise for this. Goto page 3 and get your
entries in.
Thanks also for the readers who sent in comments
they are all welcome and shows that as well as
downloading the magazine people are actually taking
the time to read the issues as well. I thought the
CMD item would have generated more readers
comments but I guess you are all shy.
We also have an interview with an orchestra this
month who play Commodore sid tunes, you cant say
the magazine isn’t diverse
Thanks
Nigel
Website
www.commodorefree.com
E-mail
Commodorefree@commodorefree.com
Contents
Contents
Editorial / Contents
Page 2
Interviews
Ahmet Zeki Eymou C64tcp
Mano Scherpbier c=64 orchestra
Jason Kelk Cosine
Frank Fischer Breadbox systems Geos
Gaelyne Gasson VCSWEB.com
Page 18
Page 19-20
Page 21-23
Page 24-25
Page 26-29
NEWS
General news items
C64tcp
Page 9-10
Page 17
Readers Comments
Readers Comments
Page 5 -6
Guides
1541 Cable amendment
Upgrading Geos
In the beginning PART 2
Page 4
Page 7-8
Page 11-14
Page 3
Page 15-16
Competition
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
Poster competition Winning entry
HOW CAN I HELP COMMODORE FREE
Ok the best way to help would be “write something
about Commodore” (yes for the observant I spelled
the company correctly this time) _grin seriously
though articles are always welcome,
WHAT ARTICLES DO YOU NEED
Well they vary contact me if you have an idea but I
am looking for
Tutorials – (beginners and Expert)
Experiences with Commodore
Why I love Commodore machines
Interviews – maybe you have access to a power user
Page 2
Competition
“PRESS PLAY ON TAPE”
Your chance to win 1 of 3 copies of the fabulous PRESS PLAY ON TAPE CDROM. “PRESS PLAY ON TAPE” are a
Commodore 64 revival band playing classic commodore Music files or SID`s on real instruments, guitars, drums,
keyboards with an added bonus of vocals.
To win one of these 3 Cd roms and have the disk sent directly to your address Free of all postal charges you just
need to answer this question
“I love Commodore computer music because”
And your entry will be placed with the others for reading, the best 3 stories will be selected and you will receive one of
the cd roms.
Closing date for the competition will be 30
th
April 2008
Commodore Free would like to thanks “PRESS PLAY ON TAPE” for donating the 3 cd roms for the competition
Commodore Free Magazine March 2008
1541 cable AMENDMENT
Hello Nigel...
First of all, thanks for your continued hard work at
making Commodore Free, and thank you for your
"plugs" of my BBS and the C64/128 BBS
List that I maintain. :)
I just got finished reading the latest issue, and I
wanted to point out a few things in reference to your
X1541 article. First, the .lnx file extension is for the
Lynx program, written by Will Corley. The first
version was simply called Lynx. The second
version was Lynx II. The third version was Lynx III,
and so on... Through the final version he released,
Lynx XVII. I happen to have a collection of every
version of Lynx that Will Corley ever released,
and I also was one of the few people that sent Will
Corley a contribution for his work.
The program you talk about in your article, Ultimate
Lynx, was a hacked version made by another author
that was supposed to support different disk drives
(Lynx was written solely for the 1541), such as the
1581 and SFD-1001.
I haven't had good
experiences with Ultimate Lynx. In my opinion, the
best version ever written was Lynx XVII. Not only did
it link and unlink files with the .lnx file extension, it
also included a very good directory editor, sector
editor, file copier, and more. I have one of Will
Corley's disks of utilities, which he called U-1541. It
includes LynxXVII, and his short description for the
program says, "You name it, itdoes it!"
Anyway... I just thought that if you were going to talk
about the .lnx files, you really should give credit to
the original program and the original author, and not
only mention the later "hacked" version.
As long as you're going to talk about .lnx files, you
might as well also talk about other file-linking
programs. There were several that were commonly
used for file transfers to and from BBS's and Q-Link
back in the late 80's and early 90's... Lynx, as
discussed, linked files without compression and had
the .lnx file extension. Arc was another popular
program. Although not fast and not very user
friendly, the great thing about Arc was that it actually
compressed files in addition to linking them.
Arc files have a .arc file extension. Library and
Arkive were two other programs which, like Lynx,
only linked files without compressing them. Library
files have a .lbr file extension, and Arkive files have a
.ark file extension. Arc files of around 200 blocks or
less can be converted to Self-Dissolving Arc files,
with the file extension .sda. Likewise, Will Corley
wrote a program to convert .lnx files of around 200
blocks or less to Self-Dissolving Lynx files. The
program converts "filename.lnx" to "[filename]". Most
people, myself included, would rename the bracketed
file to "filename.sdl". There is a great program that
was released on Q-Link called Omega-Q. The final
version of that was Omega-Q 2.1. This program had
many useful disk utilities in it. The best part was that
it would dissolve .arc, .ark, .lbr, and .lnx... all from
one program! It would only dissolve them, however.
To create them, you still needed to use the original
program.
Anyway, I just wanted to elaborate a bit on what I
read in your X1541
article... :)
Keep up the great work!
-Andrew
COMMODORE FREE
Andrew Glad you are still reading the magazine I
have to point out that credit for the idiots guide to the
1541 should go entirely to
Rio Baan
The article was kindly reprinted from his website
Here is his Website URL
http://www.geocities.com/cdsixfour/x1541.htm
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Commodore Free Magazine March 2008
Readers comments
Hi Nigel,
Just
a
note
regarding
your
CMD
comments. Firstly, there are a few
enthusiasts who are working on devices
that should supercede CMD devices -
such as the 1541 Ultimate here:
http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.
php?t=25622
indeed, the Lemon64 forums have become
a hotbed of discussion on this very
topic. For instance, general feelings
towards Maurice can be found at
http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.
php?t=25371
and FD2000 cloning is currently being
discussed over at
http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.
php?t=26098
For my own part, I'd be willing to loan
out my spare SuperCPU 128 + SuperRAM
card to anyone with the relevant
knowledge and skill set to reverse
engineer
it
for
the
purposes
of
creating a clone. Obviously, I'll need
the unit back once finished. I could,
of course sell the spare, but that way
no one will benefit.
People may contact me by email to
retrobytespr@mail.com
which is also my
MSN Live Messenger address. Perhaps the
future isn't so bleak after all?
Regards,
Shaun.
COMMODORE FREE
Hi Shaun yes I know there are some projects being
looked at, I was hoping to generate some emails and
comments and it seemed to work, many users have
contacted me to tell me about projects, I still feel we
need to pool resources together rather than people
going off designing hardware we need to have some
sort of central system so people know what is being
worked on and don’t go an redesign the same or
similar thing
to make copies and sell them. This is
NOT the same as a copy right.
Your local Coke-a-Cola bottler has the
RIGHT to produce the softdrink, but NO
right to sell the formula to others.
Maurice likes to TELL people the he is
the copyright owner. But what he
purchased was the right to distribute
that CMD had. However, the ORIGINAL
COPYRIGHT never changed hands.
Here are my proofs:
1) This link is the search at the US
Copyright office for "GEOS"
http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi
bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=geos&S
earch_Code=TALL&PID=23966&SEQ=200802261
31716&CNT=25&HIST=1
You'll
not
ClickHereSoftware
copyright.
find
listed
CMD
on
or
ANY
2) Here is the link for businesses
registered in the state of Michigan:
http://www.dleg.state.mi.us/bcs_corp/sr
_corp.asp
You will NOT find any business listing
for "Click Here Software" or "cmdrkey."
Try it your self, here are the links:
http://www.dleg.state.mi.us/bcs_corp/rs
_corp.asp?s_button=sname&v_search=cmdrk
ey&hiddenField=&search=Search
http://www.dleg.state.mi.us/bcs_corp/rs
_corp.asp?s_button=sname&v_search=Click
+Here+Software&hiddenField=&search=Sear
ch
3) IF Maurice has a copyright, all he
needs to do is file it with the
copyright office and pay $45. You'd
think that a guy would spend that much
to secure his rights. But that would
mean that he would have to prove to the
copyright office that the copyright was
transferred to him. But I think he has
NO DOCUMENTATION to prove any such
transfer.
4) On Wikipedia I found this:
"The Apple II version of GEOS was
released as freeware in August 2003.
The Commodore 64/128 versions followed
in February 2004."
Copyright law makes it clear, that once
a copyright is given to another party,
that the new party has the same rights
as the originator. That is, once the
Apple
version
was
released
into
freeware, so to was the Commodore
versions because they share the same
codebase, screens and even logic.
5) On eBay, I was selling the C128 Geos
boot rom. Maurice tried to block that
sale, by claiming that he was the
Hi,
In issue 16 you state an untruth,
"Maurice owns the rights to Geos."
Well, he does NOT. He just tells people
this. I live in Michigan and so does
Maurice. There I filed a COPYRIGHT
lawsuit
against
Maurice,
and
his
company (Click Here Software Co). He
lost that suit by way of failing to
respond.
So let's get this right for all C64
readers.
Berkeley
Software
(the
publishers
of
GEOS
and
copyright
holder) NEVER gave up their copyrights
to CMD. What CMD got from Berkeley was
a right to DISTRIBUTE. That is, a right
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