Board:   [DoveNet] Internet Discussion
Subject: Well this is fun
From:    Chickenhead
Date:    Sun Jan 04, 2026 18:13

  Re: Well this is fun
  By: Nightfox to Chickenhead on Sat Jan 03 2026 10:10 am

 > I've thought about buying one, as it looksinteresting.  I never did use the
 > original Commodore 64, but it may be interesting to buy one to experience
 > sort of what it may have been like to have one back in the day.
 >
 > Nightfox

It does a lot to ease the pain of retrocomputing...has all the modern amenities like a nice HDMI out.  And if you still have that old hardware, you can still use it as well..it will do thatchroma/luma output for video, you can still plug in a 1541 drive or any of the old cartridges (I have two, they still work muchto my surprise).  Heck even my old "Koalapad" that has been growing mould in a bin for over 35 years still works.

The only fault I give it is that it does nothing to speed up the abysimal performance of the 1541 drive...emulates it to a T in all of it's legendary slowness.  But fastloader ROMs are readily available to fix that...I just wish they had included it by default.

[Yourblood pressure just went up.]
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