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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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Floppy disks and the internet.

    [the publish date is retroactively published] When I was 14, I got the Commodore format magazine. Aside from the ‘free games and demos’ on the Powerpack tape, it came with game reviews, articles on what your C64 could do and adverts for peripherals. One peripheral I wanted was a floppy disk drive. Here is that […]

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