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Stick a Final Cartridge III or Action Replay MK VI on it and there are no slow floppies any more. But there are now solutions like SD2IEC or Ultimate II, so tha

• rbanffy 5y ago
  > The mini and maxi aren't really the real thing. The Maxi can fool most people (I find the C64 profile keycaps with PET-like Microgramma labels a bit incongruous for the VIC-20 themed one I have, and the non-locking Caps Lock key is a dead giveaway it's not a real unit). The composite video output (color distortion, scanlines, etc) is well simulated on a modern screen, if you want to - I prefer to run it on 1x1 pixel mode. Someday someone will sell a monitor based on a flexible screen that pretends it's a Trinitron tube, but that day isn't today (I'd buy it without thinking once). The emulation is close enough, however, and I wouldn't let my 9yo daughter's friends play with a Sacred Relic the way they can with the Maxi. The physical keyboard is very important to maintain the illusion - the VIC-20/64/128 use a TTY layout (" on top of 2) - and using it with a PC keyboard is a jarring experience. I just wish the it could also emulate PET's and the C128 (not that I like the 128 that much - it's a kludge - but the completeness would be cool). The compute power in that little thing is more than enough.