Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: DurexForth v1.3 - MML support Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:29:47 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: <851a6421-2af0-49a6-b756-ae0c67ed89ad@googlegroups.com> <37aefb9e-8044-4dc9-a72e-6eb21aaae7a7@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:29765 On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 22:58:26 -0400, wrote: > I have a couple of C64s, but I don't have a disk drive anymore. I have bunch computers, drives, keyboards. They're boxed up and well packed away. I'm not going to dig them out. Most of the 1541 drives (5 1/4" floppy) had the heat expansion issue. This was where the low-quality metal frame of the floppy expanded or warped after the drive warmed up causing infinite frustration due to disk mis-alignment. > Do you have the ability to make C64 cartridges? A game cartridges was a small card inside a plastic case with a small ROM/PROM/EPROM etc. Did you know that Google is your friend? "How to make your own C64 cartridge" http://www.n2dvm.com/leif.html "Project C64 Cartridge" http://home.tiscali.nl/commodore/indexuk.html "C64 cartridge shells" http://www.vesalia.de/e_c64cartshell.htm Transactor article on C64 cartridges w/schematic http://ar.c64.org/rrwiki/images/5/57/The_Transactor_Vol07_04_1987_Jan_A_C64_Cartridge_without_Eproms.pdf There are likely to be many more of those if you simply looked... > Are very many people still interested in the C64? The C64 was the most popular computer of it's era. So, you tell us: http://www.c64-wiki.com http://www.commodore.ca/commodore-manuals/ http://cbmbasic.sourceforge.net/ http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/schematics/computers/ http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/ http://www.d64editor.com/ http://c64preservation.com/ http://www.chrismcovell.com/c64dtv.html http://www.ide64.org/ http://rdist.root.org/2009/01/21/introducing-xum1541-the-fast-c64-floppy-usb-adapter/ http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/02/22/commodore-64-disk-drive-adapter-for-pcs/ http://www.retrocomputers.eu/2011/05/05/sd2sio-commodore-to-sd-card-adapter/ http://www.6502.org/ http://www.c64.com/ http://www.c64forever.com/ http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/ ... Rod Pemberton