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• Doing ‘Real Work’

  [the publish date is retroactively published] I knew my trusty Commodore 64 was a ‘real computer’ (as in I could buy disk drives and printers) and always wanted to do ‘real work’ on it. So, I looked at buying a mouse for my C64. As the original ones are a tad pricey (in the UK, […]

  Saturday, August 31, 2024

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• BMC64 Breadbin

  As mentioned in an earlier post, I kept hold of my Raspberry Pi and the breakout board of my BMC64 so that I could put it into a Breadbin case. So, off to eBay I went, as I knew there was a seller there that sells complete C64s and parts called phil6581. I bought an […]

  Monday, July 22, 2024

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• Furniture and Feripherals

  [the publish date is retroactively published] So, the BMC64 and C64C both have had the same issue. They are displayed under the TV, but to use them, meant moving the computer, connecting it to power, connecting the peripherals and then playing. When I finished, I did the whole thing in reverse. If I kept this […]

  Saturday, June 15, 2024

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• Emulated expansion devices

  [the publish date is retroactively published] One of the main issues with the C64 when it comes to emulation is when you look for “ROMS”, you are technically not looking for “ROMS’ but images of the storage they came from. For example, “TAP” files are the recordings of original tapes, “d64”, “d71”, and “d81” are […]

  Saturday, June 1, 2024

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• Keeping It Real

  [the publish date is retroactively published] As my C64C started (with me, anyway) as a case and keyboard, when I bought the motherboard, it came with a nano SwinSID. This is a modern take on the original SID chip, emulated on a tiny chip. The original SID chip was both analogue and digital; it was […]

  Tuesday, May 14, 2024

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