Subj : Re: C-128 Weekend!
To   : paulie420
From : Lightman
Date : Tue Jun 01 2021 16:13:17

Hi Paulie420,

 pa> I've had some fun with a C-128 system this weekend. First, big thanks to 
 pa> Commodore C-128 System w/ S-Video/RGB out currently. [HDMI in the
 pa> future..]
 pa> 

I just looked at the c128 box in my closet and had the thought of pulling it
and setting it up. Problem was / is, I don't know what I want to do with
it... lol.

 pa> JiffyDOS chips w/ phyiscal switch to go back/forth from JiffyDOS to  pa>
stock. JiffyDOS allows for disk loading up to 10x faster than stock,  pa> with
easier command-line commands.
 pa> uEIC/SDCard solution from RETRO Innovations. Its nice, you can sauder
 pa> inside of
 pa> 

A friend of mine and I built a similar SD interface for my C64 a while back
(he did the design, I only did the fun part - testing). Man, that was soo
much nicer than swapping floppies, and actually made it much simpler to run a
C-NET board or something. 

If you get bored, it would be nice to document / keep track of your setup,
especially on some of the newer stuff that is prevalent now. I am sure I can
do most of the same stuff with FPGA, but since I have several commodore
computers, it would be a nice reference. 

I've been using an Amiga a ton recently to do some old gaming and call boards
(which never display properly - and most Amiga boards that advertise seem to
be offline when I call). Still its been fun. What do you plan to do with your
128?

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