Ab ca. Mitte Juni soll der MEGA 65 wieder verfügbar sein. Verdammt, 800 Euro sind echt nicht ohne. Aber ich grübele, ob das nicht vielleicht der bessere Schritt für #retrogaming ist. Zumal da alles dabei ist, was man sich wünscht und bei einem C64 erst noch dazu kaufen müsste. Was natürlich die Investitionssumme ebenfalls in die Höhe treibt ...
I brought my #Mega65 to Heidelberg to prepare an own #BreakOut#BASIC implementation (as a kind of quintessence from my latest research). I will exhibit that at next year's #VCFe in Munich.
I'm really enjoying the outpouring of generosity and feedback in the survey responses. I can't wait to write up the results! #mega65https://tally.so/r/mDk4pZ
🚨Please take the #mega65 survey! This survey is for anyone even a little bit interested in the MEGA65, whether or not you have one. We're shooting for 400 responses. Thank you!
It is 3AM and I can’t sleep because my mind is gripped with an idea it can’t leave alone so I need to think out loud to make it go away.
Part of me is sick of the current state of computing and wants to go live under a rock but it has to be a rock with a minimal amount of computing power to do something practical and productive.
There are a number of single-board / nu-retro computers out there and I’m wondering what would be my ideal OS / environment for one of these
The #MEGA65 and #spectrumNext are limited production runs AND expensive. The Commander X16 will also fall into this category when it arrrives. The #Foenix256 is much of the same IIUC.
The #AgonLight is cheap, always available and does just enough to be useful and whilst there are other SBCs the #eZ80 in the Agon solves the problem of having 8-bit simplicity without a 64KB limit or painful memory banking. A native 24-bit address-space greatly simplifies OS/app development.
Successful first test of a new variant of hydroxyperoxide (H2O2) Retr0briting that I have recently read about. Instead of submerging the object into a H202-water solution it is to be suspended it in the air above. All contained in a transparent storage box and set in the sun for two afternoons.
The idea is, that the process is more gentle because there is no direct contact to the water solvent but still oxydation from the enriched O2 atmoshpere as well as from UV-Light happens. In any case it worked great for this Commodore 1541.
The drive itself is functioning without problems after 40 years (built in 1983!). But I still have to clean its innards and upgrade it to 240 V from its original 220. Then it should be good for another 40 years, connected to the Mega65 pictured next to it.
The #Mega65 is probably the closest anyone can get to owning a #commodore#C65.
The original C65 prototype never had a badge, but imo this grey badge is probably the most timeline-correct. @martin_piper correct me if I'm wrong.😉
I'm glad retrobadgeman.com made these. #retrogaming#retrocomputing#C64