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It would be fun to set up another c64. Not a fan of the 1541 drive though, any suggestions for a substitute?

• adam12 10y ago
  I just found this on google. http://store.go4retro.com/uiec-sd/ http://store.go4retro.com/uiec-sd/
  • jerf 10y ago
    There's something that tickles me about hooking up an SD card, a GigE network connection, a modern monitor, and modern USB keyboards and such... to a literal Commodore 64 to function as the CPU. I mean, "component mismatch" like the modern mismatch between RAM and CPU is one thing, and then there's "every peripheral in the system is orders of magnitude more powerful than my CPU". (Yes, I am aware of how powerful the 1541 was.)
• gaius 10y ago
  It would have to be usable as a co-pro too...
  • vidarh 10y ago
    Did anything actually make any "sensible" use of that other than fast loaders? In any case the Turbo Chameleon cartridge I linked to above emulates the 1541 entirely including the 6502, so should allow for that in theory at least (though you won't be able to have the satisfaction of banging the drive head)
    • ZenoArrow 10y ago
      I wonder if the Turbo Chameleon can support SuperCPU software. I don't know how much was released for it, but I think Metal Dust looks decent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCPU https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCPU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie79hicxteg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie79hicxteg
• Syssiphus 10y ago
  1541 Ultimate cartridge: http://www.1541ultimate.net/content/index.php http://www.1541ultimate.net/content/index.php
• vidarh 10y ago
  Actually, Individual Computers who this article is about also sells the Turbo Chameleon [1] - an FPGA computer that can either run standalone, or plug into the cartridge port of a real C64, and offers SD card support, as well as 20MB RAM expansion, USB support, support or ethernet expansions, and more. It support cores to emulate Amiga's, Atari XL, Spectrum and Vic-20 as well. [1] https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/de/shop/product/Turbo_Chameleon_64.html https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/de/shop/product/Turbo_Chameleon_... EDIT: English link: https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/Turbo_Chameleon_64.html https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/Turbo_Chameleon_...
• asimuvPR 10y ago
  Why not the 1541?
  • vidarh 10y ago
    Because it's huge, heavier than the C64 (after all it contains a full 6502 computer and a big PSU and the drive mechanism), noisy, loses alignment easily, and is ridiculously slow.
    • rasz_pl 10y ago
      welcome to the eighties computing, uphill, in the snow, both ways, and we liked it.
      • asimuvPR 10y ago
        Nostalgia helps soften it. I used to own a 1541 back in the 80s and it was OK back then. Either way, if available new, I will buy one no matter what. The noises it made transport me to a time when all I did was code without deadlines (good ole days) :)
        • vidarh 10y ago
          The 1541 emulation cartridge someone mentioned elsewhere in this thread actually has a speaker to emulate the 1541 sounds...
          • asimuvPR 10y ago
            Thanks for pointing that out, I had missed it.
• stan_rogers 10y ago
  The ultimate answer here, I suppose, would be to use some sort of miniature MP3 player/recorder as a cassette drive.