In this episode, The Retro Shack reviews the latest revision of the greatest cartridge ever made for the Commodore 64, The Ultimate II+L.
Ultimate II+ Lattice Features:
- Full, cycle accurate emulation of two real Commodore 1541, 1571 and 1581 diskdrives.
- Uses .D64, .D71, .D81 and .G64, .G71 files stored on USB stick
- Supports .G64 / .G71 files as well (Read/Write)
- Configurable bus IDs
- Configurable ROM
- Memory expansion
- Built-in Speaker; outputs drive and floppy sounds
- Support for USB storage devices (stick, card reader, and even HD)
- 100 Mbps Ethernet port (for use with Telnet or FTP)
- FAT/FAT32/exFAT support, with sub-directories and long filenames
- ISO9660 support with Joliet, for reading .ISO files and access external CD/DVD drives through USB
- Battery backed up Real Time Clock
- Command Interface module with UltimateDOS
- Accessible module through I/O space that allows direct commands to Ultimate-II
- Ultimate-DOS, I/O space driven direct file access to SD/USB
- Dual SID implementation
- Ultimate Audio module
- Up to 7 voices of sampled audio simultaneously
- Accessible through I/O space
- 8- or 16–bit samples
- up to 48 kHz sample rate
- Built-in SID player; plays SID files on either ‘real’ SID or emulated SID.
- C64 cartridge emulation, with support for many CRT files:
- Final Cartridge III
- Action Replay
- Retro Replay
- Super Snapshot
- Epyx Fastloader
- Custom Ocean / System3 carts (up to 512K)
- Easy Flash
- … and many more
- Commodore 1750/1764 REU
- REU Compatible
- Size selectable from 128K up to 16 MB
- Can be combined with compatible cartridge roms
- Flexible freezer menu
- select, mount, create disk images, browse disk images
- create new directories, delete files
- Ultra fast DMA load of single file programs (.PRG files on USB, inside .D64 or .T64)
- Configuration screen, with resident settings
- Tape emulation, through special USB3.0 cable to tape port of C64*
- Load .TAP files to C64
- Capture tape data from C64 to .TAP file
- Capture tape data from a datasette and store it as .TAP file
- Write .TAP files back to tape, using a Commodore tape deck
Hardware Specifications:
- Board size: 62 x 90 mm
- Sturdy ABS plastic case
- Lattice FPGA with 25K LUTs
- Full size 6-pin DIN connector (IEC)
- 8 MB Flash ROM
- 128 MB DDR2 SDRAM
- Three USB host ports
- One 100 Mbps Ethernet port
- Stereo audio output
- Stereo audio input
- Specialty USB 3.0 port with USB 2.0 signals for storage device OR cable to tape adapter board (for C2N emulation), or other future features.
