Sip Posted July 7, 2005 Report Share Posted July 7, 2005 I was just searching around the web and came accross the dtvhacking website that has a lot of cool info on how to hack the Commodore 64 joystick that's sold in the US through QVC (30 games with direct tv hookups). From the sounds of it, the "joystick" has a custom chip in there that does all of what the good'ol C64 used to do for about $30! How cool is that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted July 7, 2005 Report Share Posted July 7, 2005 But I still have my C64! And it still works great! (the floppies with all my games are another story though - they were never designed to last 20+ years!!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted July 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 You can download all the games from the web. I probably have them somewhere on some CD too (finding them would be a different story ) A few years back, I made this cable that interfaced the PC parellel port with my old C64. Then I got this program off the web that emulated the 1541 drive. You would go through your list of disk BIN images, pick one and mount it. Then on the C64, you could load it just like a regular disk! It worked really great and it was very fast. It was probably more than 95% compatible with things but not 100%. But yah, as far as the old software, no worries! Almost all the old disk images are alive and well on the web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hytga Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 (edited) have you tried this one Sip? http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/dow...ategory&catid=5 Edited July 8, 2005 by hytga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted July 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 Yup! That's really cool. I have it running on my home PC. For the most part, I keep the Microsoft Bookshelf CD mounted all the time (part of Encarta now) because I use that a lot to lookup various words, quotes, etc. The commodore 64 1541 disks are only 170K in size though so they are much easier to deal with. The program I'm talking about above "emulated" a 1541 disk drive on a PC. The commodore 64 is conntected to the PC using the parallel port (using a special cable) and then the PC basically starts acting like a disk drive. It's a pretty strange thing to do if you think about it ... to use a 3Ghz Athlon PC to act as a 170KB disk drive for a PC running at 1Mhz But it's still hella-cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted July 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2005 I just picked one up from Toys R Us for $19.99 !!!! Opened it up and sure enough, it's all I need. Can't wait to hook up a keyboard and 1541 disk drive to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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