Here are lots of useful utilities for your Commodore 64, some of them written by me. The STA disk is actually two disk images with a compilation of my favorite utilities.
The STA disk, side 1 (1995-02-08) [stadisk1.zip, 142.045 bytes]
Menu Load, loads the directory of a disk and then fastloads the software selected
USAGE: Load with "...,8,1" and it will autostart.
ALTERNATE: Use Menu Load.NTSC and Menu Load.DTV1 (on side 2) instead on NTSC and C64-DTV version 1 machines, respectively.
Read Me, notes about the software in the compilation
LANGUAGE: Hungarian.
Star Turbo.32000, disk turbo that speeds up LOAD/VERIFY and SAVE to 6-8 times the original speed
USAGE: Start with SYS 32000.
ALTERNATE: Use Star Turbo.NTSC and Star Turbo.DTV1 instead on NTSC and C64-DTV version 1 machines, respectively.
Star Turbo.52992, Star Turbo
USAGE: Start with SYS 52992.
Star Turbo Relocator
USAGE: Start with SYS 2064,xxxx and you'll get a runnable version of Star Turbo to be started with SYS ($xxxx + $0500).
Star Cruncher, a simple RLE-packer with fast load and save
NOTE: Sorry for the name "cruncher", but, when I wrote it, I didn't know the difference between packers and crunchers.
Level Loader, loads a file compressed with Star Cruncher
Cruel Cruncher, a slightly modified and more user-friendly version of 2.0++
WARNING: Compressed files have difficulties with running under Action Replay.
Beeftrucker, a simple RLE-packer
WARNING: The depacker routine messes up zero page and so locks up the BASIC interpreter.
Time Cruncher V5, very good for levelpacking
Digital Packer, a more intelligent packer
Mini Compactor, another packer
Disk-Demon, the best disk editor ever
Dir Master, an excellent directory editor
WARNING: The software does not allocate the new sectors used for storing data, when you save the changed directory, so a BAM copier will ignore those sectors.
Disk Wizard, good for editing the directory or unformatting a disk
Duplicator, an excellent file copier
USAGE: Load with "...,8,1" through the boot software and it will autostart.
File Copier, a very fast file copier
WARNING: The software does not check sectors while reading, so bad sectors will not be re-tried but copied without any warning.
File Master, another file copier
Copy 236, copies files between floppy disk and tape
WARNING: The software can load and save in turbo format only.
Copy 235, another disk-tape file copier
NOTE: The software can load and save in normal and turbo format, as well.
1 Minute Copy, copies a whole disk in a bit more than one minute, in three passes
60 Second Copy, copies a whole disk in one minute, in three passes and a little
Hack'em Copies, disk copiers and nibble copiers all in one
USAGE: Load with "...,8,1" and it will autostart.
Nybble Master, a nibble copier
Fast Validate, validates a disk fast
Unscratch, undeletes deleted files
Autoboot, prepends a 3 block autobooter to a program file
Gigaload, a very fast disk turbo, distributed with GEOS
WARNING: The software cannot load files longer than about 190 blocks.
Most Access 2, another very fast disk turbo with track cache
ABC Turbo, loads and saves files in turbo format from/to tape
Tape Master 2, another tape turbo
Head Tester, a simple graphical aid to adjust the head of the datasette
REL File Copy, copies a relative file from one disk to another
LANGUAGE: German.
DOS Wedge, adds some simple disk commands to BASIC
Star Verify, compares two binary files on disk
The STA disk, side 2 (1995-02-08) [stadisk2.zip, 138.104 bytes]
The Last Ninja 2 Musics, a music compilation of my all-times-favorite game
USAGE: Load with "...,8,1" and it will autostart.
WARNING: Do not rename the file, otherwise it won't be able to load the musics and background screens.
Help Plus, a very good multi-purpose aid for programmers
Graphics BASIC, a graphical BASIC extension
Simons's BASIC, a multi-purpose BASIC extension
Profi Assembler Plus, the full version
USAGE: Start with SYS 32768.
Profi Assembler, small version
NOTE: The assembler of Help Plus can be overlaid with this one.
Profi Mon, a simple monitor
Hash Mon, an excellent monitor
USAGE: Load with "...,8,1", it will autostart and relocate itself to the memory address entered.
Future Composer, a music editor for beginners
Wizzine Sinus, a good sinus editor
1x1 Char Editor, 2x2 Char Editor and 3x3 Char Editor, character editors for different character sizes
Joystick Check, a simple software to check your joysticks in both ports
All the software on this page is assumed to be freeware, public domain or abadonware. (Abandonware: commercial software whose development stopped long ago, therefore, its public distribution does not cause financial loss to the copyright holder anymore).
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