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Progress really smacked me in the face when I bought a C64 emulator a couple of years ago. What used to require a large keyboard with extra room for the comput
by jvdh 16y ago
Progress really smacked me in the face when I bought a C64 emulator a couple of years ago.
What used to require a large keyboard with extra room for the computer, a large diskdrive, an expansion slot and a drawer full of floppies now completely fits into the size of one of those original joysticks. You hook up the joystick directly to the TV and it contains about 100 games.
- code_duck 16y agoI'm just as impressed, or more, that an iPhone is more powerful than the Pentium II desktop I bought for $2,000 in 1998.
- Luyt 16y agoI have one of those too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV . You can even solder a PS2 keyboard connector to it and hook up a keyboard, then use it as a C64 and do a POKE 53280,0 or write a basic program ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth designed it. An interesting talk by her is at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1053309060448851979# http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1053309060448851979... in which she also tells about how she got interested in electronics.