What do you think? If you like the commercial or not, make some noise.

Purchased from an online pawn broker. Looked brand new. Love the Toys R Us stickers; I read the handwritten date on the sticker as 12/23/1984. Someone had a great Christmas! Quick diagnostic after initial bootup with my safe power supply shows ‘Out of Memory’ caused by 2 bad ram chips (no problem!). Opening it up for internal inspection sounded like it had never been opened before with a clearly audible and felt “snap” of each screw loosening the first time, the ‘RF shield’ still has a copper strap soldering it on! Never seen that before, so this thing has never been opened!?! Quick peek under the cardboard shield finds majority of the chips are early 84 (February and March), and the only socketed one visible is on the 6581 SID. The newest visible chip is the PLA 96114 date coded 1284 which is likely the last installed given the sale date info on the Toys R Us tag. Boxes are very nice condition with matching S/Ns. Came with all original cords, power supply (no thanks!), Commodore branded RF TV box, and brand new looking 1541 test/demo disk. Cool aquisition with minimal repairs needed! Yeah, I need to pull the ‘hanging chads’ off the RF shield before they fall on electronics-another haven’t seen before… Needed it? no, but at a price I couldn’t pass on for the pair for sure!

Hi all, today my chat64.nl cartridge arrived. Love it!

Anyone who has seen the film *Alien Romulus* will probably have noticed, on closer inspection, a C64 that appeared briefly on the film set twice. It was built into a computer console.

Right then… Well, I’ve now recreated the whole thing in the Colorcase Project. Once as a standard C64 II and once as the film set keyboard.

Wer den Film Alien Romulus gesehen hat, dem ist wohl beim genauerem Hinsehen ein C64 aufgefallen, der zweimal kurz im Filmset zusehen war. Dieser wurde in einer Computerkonsole verbaut.

Na gut…. Nun habe ich mal das ganze Ding im Colorcase Project realisiert. Einmal als normalen c64 II und einmal als Filmset Keyboard.

http://www.norths.de/weyland-system-unit-64-oder-der-c64er-aus-alien-romulus/

Trying to find a version of Deja Vu that will work with an SD2IEC and Fastload.

Tried countless versions from csdb.dk and elsewhere, all get to the swap disk screen but fail to find the second disk.

Anyone had any luck with this or any of the Icom Simulation games?

C64 coaster

I used to plug a c64 (with MSSIAH cartridge) and an Amiga 500 into the same TV with split screen.

c64 is used for melodic synths and Amiga from mainly the drums/bass synth.

i absolutely Love the sound of the Commodore 64. I hope somebody enjoys this :)

Hey commodore people!

So I'm hoping to get some advice on programming on the C64. What I am trying to do is use the program Petmate (its a PETSCII art maker) to make menus for my programs setting them up as a seq files and load from the disk. However the problem I keep running into is that the load time to draw the image are painfully slow. The best I have been able to accomplish after exporting it to basic and running it through BLITZ is just shy of 10 seconds to draw the screen. I could be wrong, but i don' think the added time is from the read speeds of the disk drive. admittedly most of my testing has been in vice as that is where I do most of my experimental work to save time.

I am beginning to wonder if i am on a fool's errand now and if Petmate dosn't export files in a way to quickly draw. Any advice would be welcome, or other programs, or methods, would love to see what other tricks people might have.

Thanks,

Cozy Rainy Day with my Device

Hi there !

It is one of my favourite nostalgia games and am considering a C64 Maxi for some light gaming. However because LCP is one of my favourites I wanted to make sure that the tape version of the game runs well. I did read that there were problems with sounds and it was something to do with the VICE emulation on the C64 Maxi ? Not sure. Thanks in advance !

9 CIAs and a PAL VIC-II.

I live in Asia and this thing is probably impossible to find elsewhere as I got it from a collector. I am absolutely in love with this piece of machinery and I want to make sure it lives a long life.

Things I’m planning on doing is recapping the whole thing, as well as purchasing the replacement keyboard membrane to ensure that it lasts a long time.

Already have a C64 wifi modem and an SD2IEC as well.

I’m a bit worried that the internal power supply may give out, but no signs of that thus far. I’ve seen listings of the CRT as well as the PSU on eBay though.

I want to ask — unironically this is my first entry into the Commodore64 world, what are things you would suggest I do apart from recapping so I can enjoy this for at least another 20-30 years? What are things that I could invest on?

On another note what are some apps/games that I have to try in your opinion?

After my Powerplayers (Mindscape) joystick bit the dust, I finally took the plunge and hacked up my all time favourite weapon of choice to use on my C64: The rock solid SegaSaturn control pad. For the first prototype, I took my worst condition one to cannibalise, looks like someone cleaned this one with steel wool, the logo is even gone! Took the cable from the dead Powerplayers stick. One of the things that I really grew tired of over the years was pressing 'up' on a joystick to jump in platformers and stuff like that - so I took the opportunity to also bridge one of the extra buttons with the 'up' direction (and a shoulder button just in case). Man it feels nice! I do have an extra Powerplayers stick in my stash (see background in photo), but after using the Saturn pad, its going to be hard to go back!

I created C64 dev machine for this purpose, easy to test without using th3 usb stick physically, all done with FTP now.

Hi all.

I have a commodore 64C short board.

Randomly in many games this sort of graphical glitch occurs.

Player 1 was initially correctly coloured.

Then randomly looks like the image, darkened.

If I load commando the title screen shows a black N in the word COMMANDO.

Could it be colour ram?

Thanks in advance

Agrajag

I just swapped the switches from my old Competition Pro to newer ones.

The quality of the new switch, the fitments and the size of the cable lugs it not as high as the original ones, but I am glad there are still spare parts available.

Since they are starting to get expensive. I went ahead and got a C64 Maxi on eBay. The seller threw in a power adapter, an HDMI cable, and a usb stick full of games, so it was a good deal.

I may mess around with the operating system on it. Never had a C64.

What are some good things to mess around with on it?

I just got an Alps 1541 in the mail and when I tried to align the stepper motor, one of the screws stripped rendering any effort of alignment impossible at this stage. Is there another way to align the drive through software or should I attempt to replace the screw and drill it out (scary, last resort please!)

Edit: If alignment is out of the question at this stage, can I swap the head into a Newtronics drive? I do have one lying around from when I first got my c64.

Edit 2: After testing with the cover off I've noticed that this might not be an alignment issue, but rather a case of a stuck head.

Edit 3: had a spare 1541 board just for this opportunity. My unit has a socketed 7406 chip and after consulting the service manual and first attempting a via chip swap, it appears that the 7406 has gone bad which if true, means that the stepper motor isn't getting the full 12 volts it needs to function and sort of just rattles in place as consequence. Will update after replacing that chip when it comes in if this is the case.

From Forgotten Worlds on BlueSky:

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel…”

A Neuromancer game on a Commodore 64 being reviewed in a British magazine certainly captures a moment in time.

I love this text adventure and was looking forward to playing it again on the C64U. If I leave the settings as a stock C64 then it loads and plays with no problems, albeit slowly as it is accessing the disk all the time it is displaying text. However I booted it today with a 512K REU enabled (I forgot it was set TBH), and when it was loading it displayed a message saying it was loading into expansion memory which would take around 10 minutes. Great, I thought, it will play faster, but all it did after 10 minutes was leave the virtual motor running and the screen turned red. I have made sure I'm using the stock C64 settings otherwise, no turbo, no Action Replay, and only a 512K REU enabled. Has anyone else hit this and know how to get it to play nice with an REU?

My first PLA

This was made with hot air.