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Commodore HARDWARE HACK!

Posted: 19/05/2006 - 10:54
by AlphA
Initially, I just wanted to add a 1/4" jack to my 64. Then I started having too much fun.

Follow this link for more info.
http://www.bigmech.com/misc/c64mods/

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Posted: 19/05/2006 - 13:21
by Tonka
Nice Mod, but a TB303, TR808 & TR909??!!!

I officially HATE you, whoever you are!!! :lol:

Tonka

Posted: 19/05/2006 - 13:29
by fnordpojk
Tonka wrote:Nice Mod, but a TB303, TR808 & TR909??!!!

I officially HATE you, whoever you are!!! :lol:
If you hate him for that, you should have seen jgb's synth collection over the years. That man is seriously overloaded with music making equipment.
The (not verbatim) quote "Yeah, I bought one of the beta SIDStations early, but I sold it since it was just collecting dust" makes at least my blood boil. ;)
Hej Janne! (:

AlphaA: Nice mod, but a shame to a) do that to the C64 and b) use an 8580. Though I can see why you'd want it instead of the 6581 when doing new, original works - it doesn't have that lovely original sound, but it doesn't have as much of the less lovely original buzz either. ;)

Posted: 19/05/2006 - 13:55
by Tonka
fnordpojk wrote:it doesn't have that lovely original sound, but it doesn't have as much of the less lovely original buzz either. ;)
UNLESS you have one of the early 'hybrid' C64C's, which still housed a 6581 chip but has no buzz :)

I've got one [SMARM] :wink:

Tonka

Posted: 19/05/2006 - 17:58
by jgb
fnordpojk: But that's the truth! Everything I did with the Sidstation just sounded like... trance... of the boring kind.

I prefer my Machinedrum/Monomachine/FR-777/Juno-2/FS1r/MonoPoly/Pro~One/MS-10/MS-20/SH-09/TR-606/TR-808/TB-303/TB-303/Syntecno Teebee to the Sidstation. Kind of regret selling the 909/SH3a/Prophet-5 though, but I didn't use those...

Posted: 19/05/2006 - 19:01
by Tonka
jgb wrote:fnordpojk: But that's the truth! Everything I did with the Sidstation just sounded like... trance... of the boring kind.

I prefer my Machinedrum/Monomachine/FR-777/Juno-2/FS1r/MonoPoly/Pro~One/MS-10/MS-20/SH-09/TR-606/TR-808/TB-303/TB-303/Syntecno Teebee to the Sidstation. Kind of regret selling the 909/SH3a/Prophet-5 though, but I didn't use those...
There is some other kind of trance...? :lol:

Posted: 20/05/2006 - 10:41
by Analog-X64
Those hacks are neat. What about some Text to go along explaining what is going on.

As an example the Transform the RadioShack Hummer Off-Road racing game into a tiny, yet fully functional, Commodore 64 computer!

Whats going on in there? are you putting a C64 Mother board inside another case? or Re-Programming the game unit with a C64 Emulator/Bios in there?

And what is that C64 Serial connection thing that looks like an RJ45 Port?

Neat stuff...The C64 stuff needs some text :)