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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. [Lucille S. Harper]


Note: If you've come here looking for Turbo Macro Pro and specifically the versions that run native on the DTV (NTSC stick) or the PTV (PAL stick and Hummer wheel), then be sure and download the “Turbo Macro Pro Sep'06” package as it contains TMP+DTV v1.2 and TMP+PTV v1.2 for the DTV v1 and DTV v2 models, respectively.

April 8, 2008: Deuce/Style! Congratulations to Voom/Style, who won the graphics compo at Blockparty 2008 this past weekend with his fantastic piece titled, 'Deuce'. Voom's artwork speaks from the streets and alleys of Chicago, where he developed his style. Extra thanks to Wrong Way/Style for travelling the distance to attend the event.


April 1, 2008: 2^8/Style! Ever on the hard line of innovation, we bring you today, the world's first 256b gfx collection on c64. As a format that requires a blend of *both* code and art efficiency, we feel that this medium represents another new frontier for c64... a new edge to push forward where the goal is simply: best art in smallest file! All artwork by saehn/Style, code by Elwix/Style.


March 17, 2008: Lilith/Style! Check out saehn/Style's C64 graphics competition entry for the 100% 8bit Forever 2008 party held in Slovakia this past weekend (14th-16th). A brilliant picture that took 1st place! Congratulations to saehn and greetings to all the sceners that attended Forever, with special thanks to CreaMD/DMagic for remote entry help!


Feb 29, 2008: DirMaster v2.0/Style! DirMaster is a Windows-based GUI tool useful for the management of common (and uncommon) emulator formats (such as .d64, .d81, .tap, etc) as well as native archival formats (such as .arc, .sda, .lnx, etc). DirMaster differentiates from and surpasses competing tools with its focus on usability - a perfect blend of familiar appearance (e.g. natural looking disk image contents using the CBM character set) with modern GUI functionality (e.g. drag and drop, working with multiple disk images at once).

At v1, DirMaster was already the best GUI-based disk image tool on Windows; v2 was in development for 18 months and under internal use for the past year, extending the lead and covering the bases:

All coding by The Wiz/Style, new graphics/icon design by saehn/Style.



Jan 31, 2008: Twist Of/Style! Intrigued by recent twist trysts, saehn inspires fellow members into a new project combining his artistic rendition; Six's code interpretation; Warnock's audial vibrations, and Elwix's obsessive toy-influence and presets. The result: Twist Of/Style.


Dec 31, 2007: Silver/Style! The latest demo presented to you on the eve of 2008, what we hope will be a more active and productive year than this just passed. In this demo we applaud the c64 for its 25 years of age: my god, look at it! Barely out of college and looking quite dapper... we also take this chance to tribute a true legend, no longer living.


Dec 29, 2007: Voom/Style provided the "hirez" graphics element of the Blockparty 2008 Invitation demo by our PC friends, Trailer Park Demos. See it in the demo here; a full size image will be up soon for direct download...


Sep 29, 2007: ECCC again, and this time Six, Elwix, dW, and Wrong Way represented the Style crew. Greetings to all the cool old sceners and other freaks we met there including Demonger, Jeri, Macbeth/PSW, Burning Horizon/FTA, Diskmaster/FTA, ShadowM, and so on and so forth....


Nov 8, 2006: DirMaster v1.0a is now out, which fixes all known bugs from v1.0, brings along Win98 compatibility, and adds the handy 'open in same instance' option. All of the many and significant new features are being worked on for v2.0 which will be out as soon as possible!


Sep 30, 2006: Style releases Turbo Macro Pro Sep'06, the complete package with the entire Turbo Macro Pro suite of assemblers, now at v1.2. Main features added in this package include IDE64 compatibility, illegal opcodes, PTV/Hummer opcodes, a status line switcher, and a new "TMPPREFS" utility that replaces the preferences (BA+p) menu in the assembler. The most significant bug erased in v1.2 is a proper fix for the infamous line zero block-kill crasher that dates back to the original Omikron assembler.


Sep 29-30, 2006: Style members participated at the ECCC 2006 event in Chicago. There we released the newest version of Turbo Macro Pro, and demonstrated both the current version of DirMaster as well as some of the new features of v2.0. Also revealed was the first working prototypes of our fully register-compatible and clockport-enabled Super Snapshot cartridge. Five Stylers made the trip, including Elwix, Wrong Way, dW, Six, and The Wiz.


Jun 10, 2006: TMPview v1.0 is a simple command line tool that allows you to input a binary source code file saved from just about any version of Turbo Assembler and view/save an ASCII version of the code. For Linux, MacOSX and FreeBSD binaries, see here


Jun 3, 2006: After some break we are back, bringing you the next advancement of CBM disk image manipulation tools... this time we call it DirMaster v1.0 - handling all your d64, d71, and d81 needs and offering the comforts of having literally hundreds of images open at once, with fully enabled drag and drop between images. Coded by The Wiz/Style!