The X-Files
At X-2010 in Someren, Netherlands, we took the opportunity and asked the attendands of the party to bring along their obscure and undumped cartridges. We dumped all of them and while some were "known" cartridge dumps there quite a few new and interesting ROMs found. At X-2012 we only dumped one cartridge as we didn't really ask for new stuff this time, but it had a nice challenge included at least (Thanks to Wilfred Bos and Berry de Jager for RadarBasic).
So the following page shall list all kind of cartridge and ROM dumps which were dumped at an X-party OR don't fit somewhere else, but contribute to the wiki as we feel it. We have to draw a line somewhere and things that don't quite fit will likely not show up here. On the other hand we'll try to bundle some things which belong together either due to their company origin or due to their purpose.
Thanks to all the people who brought their stuff and had us partially let rip apart their 30 year old shiny cartridges so we had access to the internals. All should properly be credited below and additional thanks to Hedning, Ignorance, Nucleus and Bugjam for dumps missing on other packages of the wiki.
In The Works
- Robcom cartridges
- KCS Cartridges
- Assembler-Monitor Carts (yieks)
- Cartridges with copiers and backup programs (ouch)
- Other obscure utility, speeder and weird things
The X-Files
Black Box (V2 - V9)
| Name | Black Box |  |
|---|---|---|
| Company/Author | Rombit, Atrax (and other companies?) | |
| Year | ? | |
| ROM | V2 - 8kb V3 - 8kb | |
| Type | Basic Extension, Monitor, Tape Fast Loader | |
| CRT ID | 0 and 3 (51 for v6) | |
| Note | This cartridge series is quite unknown outside of Poland but seems quite spread within. Naturally most on screen texts and the manuals are polish giving us a hard time to explore it much further. Appears to be a usable cartridge when being capable of the language. Modified versions of v4 and V8 work as Final Cartridge III in VICE while V4 doesn't even need modification, but care needs to be taken when using it on real FC3 hardware as the upper and lower eprom banks need to be swapped for it to work. c64.com.pl contains much more info and also lists quite some missing ROMs. | |
| Supplied by | V3 at CSDb, V8 at CSDb, V3.2 by Bugjam | |
| Downloads | ||
| Packaged: | Black Box v2, v3, v4, v6, v8 and v9 .bin and .crt files Manuals for v3, v4 and v8 | |
| File | Black_Box_all_rr.c64.org_2024-08.rar | |
| Wanted | Missing ROMs (v7, v8.1, v12?) | |
| External Links | Stuff at c64power.com (polish language) | |
Business Basic / S'more Basic
| Name | Business Basic / S'more Basic |  |
|---|---|---|
| Company/Author | Kingsoft / Cardco | |
| Year | 1985 | |
| ROM | 24 kbyte | |
| Type | Basic Extension, DOS Wedge, Tape Fast Loader | |
| CRT ID | 54 | |
| Note | This 24k Cartridge extends the usable BASIC V2 space to 60k and adds quite a few commands. The cartridge was originally created and sold by Kingsoft in Europe and by Cardco in the USA. The manual mentions an S'more Basic Compiler which we are unforturately missing :( The packaging was interesting though :) | |
| Downloads | ||
| Packaged: | Business Basic and S'more Basic .bin and .crt files Business Basic Instruction Manual german.pdf | |
| File | Business_S'more_Basic_all_rr.c64.org_2022-03.rar | |
| Wanted | S'more Basic Compiler | |
Courbois Disk-Turbo
| Name | Courbois Disk-Turbo |  |
|---|---|---|
| Company/Author | Courbois Software | |
| Year | July 1984 | |
| ROM | 8 kbyte | |
| Type | Basic Extension, DOS Wedge, Tape Fast Loader | |
| CRT ID | 0 | |
| Note | This 8 kbyte cartridge copies a fast loader to RAM and that's it. Will only load up to $CC00. Added here for archival and historical reasons. | |
| Downloads | ||
| Packaged: | Courbois Disk-Turbo .bin and .crt Top and bottom cartridge photos | |
| File | Courbois_Disk-Turbo_all_rr.c64.org_2012-12.rar | |
MB Turbomodul / MB Multimodul
| Name | MB Turbomodul / MB Multimodul |  |
|---|---|---|
| Company/Author | MB (Martin Bugge) | |
| Year | 1986-1990 | |
| ROM | V1.2 to V1.9 - 8kb | |
| Type | Disc Copy, Disk Speeder, Tape Speeder | |
| CRT ID | <normal> | |
| Note | This 8k cartridge comes with a menu allowing to choose one of three programs. The menu is kept simple and the code also just copies and executes the programs from ROM.
"MB Multimodul" (written on some pcbs) is also known as "MB Multimodul" (from its menu) or "3 i en/3 in 1" (also written on pcb). The interesting thing (and reason why the cart is not emulated properly in e.g. VICE) is that it with a push-button enables EXROM (to enable the cartridge). That means to start the cartridge you have to press and hold that button, then reset with the other button. The software will then be copied to RAM and releasing the (left) button will disable the cartridge. The copied software waits until the cart is disabled again and then continues. That also means that there is zero drawback in using the .prg instead of the cartridge, it will work the exact same (sys64738). The code got very little changes throughout the years but it is astonishing that in 1990 a complete new production run of those boards still happened. See the included images. | |
| Supplied by | v1.2 at CSDb, V1.7 at CSDb, V1.8 at CSDb, V1.9 by pokefinder.org | |
| Downloads | ||
| Packaged: | MB Multimodul v1.2, v1.7, v1.8 and v1.9 .bin, .crt and .prg files A Manual (for v1.7 likely) including photos and schematics by tomse for retro-commodore.eu | |
| File | MB_Multimodul_all_rr.c64.org_2024-08.rar | |
| Wanted | Missing ROMs (v1.3 - v1.6) | |
Packer & Cruncher (Eprom Cart based)
| Name | Packer & Cruncher (Eprom Cart based) |  |
|---|---|---|
| Company/Author | Several - Datel, 64'er, Happy Computer, Scene | |
| Year | 1986 - 1990 | |
| ROM | 8 kbyte | |
| Type | Packer / Cruncher | |
| CRT ID | 0 | |
| Note | These 8 kbyte cartridges all have just one purpose: packing, crunching and compressing programs. They are all supposed to be used for packing stand alone binaries and cannot be used for e.g. level packing. To pack programs exceeding $8000 in memory all of these packers will have to be burned to an eprom and used with an eprom cartridge to become useable on real hardware. Of course the package includes .crt files for emulator usage. | |
| Thanks to | Ian Cook for the Ultra Compander surprise. | |
| Downloads | ||
| Packaged: | Happy Packer, 64'er Packer, Kompressmaster by Peter Arndt (with german manual) Third Wave Bitimploder 2.0 and 3.7 | |
| File | Packer_Cruncher_all_rr.c64.org_2013-05.rar | |
Radarsoft 50K Basic
| Name | Radarsoft 50K Basic v2.0 |  |
|---|---|---|
| Company/Author | Radarsoft | |
| Year | 1985 | |
| ROM | 4 kbyte | |
| Type | Basic Extension, DOS Wedge, Tape Fast Loader | |
| Note | This 4k Cartridge extends the usable BASIC V2 space to 50k and adds some (currently undocumented) commands. The original cartridge contains circuitry which disables the hardware after about one second until the next reset. This basically means that no code is executed later on from the cartridge and no special CRT ID is required to run it in VICE. There is no need to especially emulate its hardware as the included software disables the cart by memory address $01. | |
| Supplied by | Wilfred Bos and Berry de Jager | |
| Downloads | ||
| Packaged: | v2.0 .bin and .crt Top and bottom cartridge photos | |
| File | Radarsoft_50K_Basic_binaries_rr.c64.org_2012-12.rar | |
| Wanted | v1.0 cartridge dump Manuals | |
Softchip-64
| Name | Softchip-64 (aka Whitby Computers Graphics Pack) |  |
|---|---|---|
| Company/Author | Whitby Computers Limited | |
| Year | 1984 | |
| ROM | 8 kbyte | |
| Type | Basic Extension | |
| Note | A BASIC extension coming with a lot of commands starting with BLOAD/BSAVE/BREAK and ending with WPEEK/WPOKE (16-bit) but stealing 8k of RAM in return. Check the manual for a complete list of commands. | |
| Supplied by | snerg | |
| Downloads | ||
| Packaged: | .bin, .crt, Cartridge photos and manual scan | |
| File | Softchip-64_all_rr.c64.org_2024-10.rar | |
Turbo-Macks System 64
| Name | Turbo-Macks System 64 |  |
|---|---|---|
| Company/Author | GSC (Gerald) | |
| Year | 1986 | |
| ROM | 8 kbyte | |
| Type | Basic Extension, DOS Wedge, Tape Fast Loader | |
| Note | This 8k Cartridge comes with a monitor, turbo tape and some copy/hold-a-key routines for reset to preserve memory. The poor mans' freezer in early times. :) | |
| Supplied by | peiselulli / tRSi | |
| Downloads | ||
| Packaged: | .prg, .bin, .crt, EasyFlash .crt and a Readme containing docs | |
| File | Turbo-Macks_System_64_all_rr.c64.org_2021-02.rar | |
Binaries
- Black_Box_all_rr.c64.org_2024-08.rar
- Business_S'More_Basic_all_rr.c64.org_2022-03.rar
- Courbois_Disk-Turbo_all_rr.c64.org_2012-12.rar
- MB_Multimodul_all_rr.c64.org_2024-08.rar
- Packer_Cruncher_all_rr.c64.org_2013-05.rar
- Radarsoft_50K_Basic_binaries_rr.c64.org_2012-12.rar
- Softchip-64_all_rr.c64.org_2024-10.rar
- Turbo-Macks_System_64_all_rr.c64.org_2021-02.rar
