PS64 1.0.5

PS64 1.0.5: a VIC-20.

New

• VIC-20: a second built-in emulator on the home screen, with its own games folder (/data/ps64/vic20).

Other

• Enhancements to the UI.

PS64 1.0.4

PS64 1.0.4: cartridges such as fast loaders, music on the home screen, and the SID player plays the C64 Ultimate's tunes.

New

• Cartridge option: put a cartridge such as Epyx FastLoad (your own .crt) in the emulator's port, or set the C64 Ultimate's.
• Home music: a random SID plays on the home screen (Square for another, Triangle to turn it off; its volume, 0 to 10, is in the home screen's settings).
• SID player: with a C64 Ultimate connected, a C64 Ultimate list browses its storage and plays its .sid files (on PS64 or on the Ultimate).

Other

• Enhancements to the UI.

PS64 1.0.3

PS64 1.0.3: a SID player.

New

• SID player: play C64 music from the SID folder (/data/ps64/sids) or from Assembly64, on the built-in reSIDfp emulation or on a C64 Ultimate's SID chips. Subtunes, playlist with shuffle and repeat, song lengths from HVSC, and a visualiser.
• Games and SID tunes on a USB drive: plug it into the PS5 and it's the USB0 folder in the emulator's games folder and the SID player (and in Search games folder).

Fixes

• Fixed a bug with Assembly64 connectivity.
• Fixed rare random crashes on the PS5.
• The games folder can be filled over FTP again (PS64 made it read-only to other users).
• Browsing folders on the PS5 (the emulator's games folder) works.

Other

• Enhancements to the UI.

PS64 1.0.2

PS64 1.0.2: a new home screen, and audio level.

New

• A new home screen: choose Vice (the built-in emulator), Stream (the C64 Ultimate, shown live once PS64 finds it) or SID (a SID player, coming soon). Options > Home goes back to it, and the emulator carries on where it was.
• Options > Audio sets the sound level: left and right step from 0 dB down to -30 dB, then Off; Cross turns the sound off and on. The C64 Ultimate stream and the emulator each keep their own level.
• The C64 Ultimate stream and the emulator now start at -12 dB: C64 sound was much louder than other PS5 apps.

Other

• Enhancements to the UI.

PS64 1.0.1

PS64 1.0.1: latest releases and screenshots in Search Assembly64, and fixes.

New

• Search Assembly64: press R1 to see the 25 latest releases, newest first with their release dates. It shows the category chosen with L2, or games when none is chosen.
• Search results use the whole screen: 20 rows instead of 10 once you're in the list (Search files and Search Assembly64).
• Search Assembly64 shows a screenshot of the highlighted release beside the results, for releases from CSDb; releases with several pictures cycle through them, as on CSDb (thanks to csdb.dk).

Fixes

• Starting a disk on a C64 Ultimate now loads from whatever device number the Ultimate's Drive A is set to (not always 8), so it also works when a real disk drive uses 8.
• Assembly64 names with special characters show properly ("Hello <3" instead of "Hello <3").

PS64 1.0.0

First release of PS64: the Commodore 64 on your PS5.

Two ways to play

• With a Commodore 64 Ultimate: see and hear your C64 Ultimate on the PS5, and control it with the controller.
• Without one: PS64 has a built-in C64 emulator (VICE). Joystick and keyboard work in games, disks load at full speed, and multi-disk games can swap disks.

Finding games

• Browse and search the C64 Ultimate's storage.
• Copy your own games into PS64's games folder (/data/ps64/games) for the emulator.
• Search the online Assembly64 database and start a game straight away (needs an Assembly64 client ID).
• Mark favourites, and get back to the last 25 things you started.

Controls

• D-pad or left stick: joystick (emulator) or cursor keys. Cross: fire or RETURN.
• Square, Triangle, Circle: SPACE, RETURN, RUN/STOP. L1, R1, L2, R2: F1, F3, F5, F7.
• Touchpad: on-screen C64 keyboard. Options: menu. L3: file browser. R3: C64 Ultimate menu.
• Options > About PS64 lists everything.

Good to know

• The C64 Ultimate needs Web Remote Control turned on (and FTP for browsing).
• On C64 Ultimate firmware 1.1.0, keys are typed into the C64's keyboard buffer: they work in BASIC and menus, but not inside games, and there's no joystick. The emulator has neither limit.
• SID and MOD music plays on a C64 Ultimate only.
• Tested on PS5 firmware 13.42 with ShadowMountPlus.

Thanks to the VICE team and to the Assembly64 team at hackerswithstyle.se.