I picked up a nearly immaculate Commodore SX-64 portable C64 unit. This thing
is awesome. I've spent the past few days playing Bards Tale 3 off of a 5.25"
This past weekend was the World of Commodore show here in Toronto.
In the 90s, the WOC would draw thousands of people to a massive
convention center, today it gets about a hundred people and it's
run by the local Commodore user group.
I picked up a nearly immaculate Commodore SX-64 portable C64 unit.
This thing is awesome. I've spent the past few days playing Bards
Tale 3 off of a 5.25" floppy.
I also picked up an Amiga 1000 and a Vectrex unit to add to my
retro collection, although neither as cool as the SX-64.
I had one of those and I really liked it, although the keyboard was absolute shi t. Maybe I'll get myself another one someday.
I picked up a nearly immaculate Commodore SX-64 portable C64 unit. This thing is awesome. I've spent the past few days playing Bards Tale 3 off
of a 5.25" floppy.
I also picked up an Amiga 1000 and a Vectrex unit to add to my retro collection, although neither as cool as the SX-64.
My school friend had an SX-64 back in the time, I only ever saw it a couple of times though.
Had a 500 back in the day. Sold it to a buddy of mine when I got
divorced. Now...I wished I had sold her & kept the Amiga. Guess which
one would be of more value to all of us here? ;)
I am an avid Commodore collector. Now that I have added the SX-64 and
1000 to my collection, I am only missing the Amiga 3000. It is the one machine I owned as a kid but my Mom decided to scrap it years ago.
Have been looking at eventually getting one of those "fake" Amiga's with the fpga Amiga core.
I am experiencing a high pitched whine when it is on. I have to track down what is causing it. It is driving my kids mad.
The CRT is about to fucking explode. Wear goggles.
I have a myster, great product. Although, a raspberry Pi and Amibian or AmiBerry is just as good and a lot cheaper.
I am experiencing a high pitched whine when it is on. I have to track down what is causing it. It is driving my kids mad.
Set up Amibian...but the core is rather old. It will be nice when the newest version comes out of beta. Will use my3B+ to set it up.
You have seven minutes to reach minimum safe distance.
Have you tried Amiberry yet? Their core is a lot newer and it is very
bare metal.
Think I have looked at it in the past. As soon as my 7 day work schedule stops this weekend...certainly will on the 3B+. Between the sauna they
use at work to keep the store open for the customers over 60 & with not getting enough sleep with getting up at 3:45 AM...have written it down & will look at it next week & during Xmas week.
Have you tried Amiberry yet? Their core is a lot newer and it
is very bare metal.
Think I have looked at it in the past. As soon as my 7 day work
schedule stops this weekend...certainly will on the 3B+.
getting enough sleep with getting up at 3:45 AM...have written it dow will look at it next week & during Xmas week.Sounds like a rough schedule.
I just tried Amiberry on my 3B+.. let me know if you get it working, I couldn't.
Kept getting a black screen after trying to start the emulator.
I just tried Amiberry on my 3B+.. let me know if you get it working, I couldn't.
Kept getting a black screen after trying to start the emulator.
Yeah...retail blows...but at least Oregon has laws in place which forces companies to post the schedule at least a week beforehand & eventually
two weeks soon. Makes companies mad that they are forced to treat their employees by allowing them to have a life.
I just tried Amiberry on my 3B+.. let me know if you get it
working, I couldn't.
Kept getting a black screen after trying to start the
emulator.
Sounds like you don't have your config setup properly. You can
email or netmail it to me and I will gladly help you out.
essentially forced you to work or loose your job. The would change up
the schedule on you last minute.
The only benefit we had was if they
called you in on the day of and you wern't scheduled to work, they would have to either provide you with 4 hours worth of work or pay you at
least 4 hours worth of work.
I was wondering how difficult it would be to port Magicka to AmigaOS, seems vorlon had it running on debian/m68k on an Amiga - so the hardware can do it, just curious what I'd need to do software side.
I was wondering how difficult it would be to port Magicka to
AmigaOS, seems vorlon had it running on debian/m68k on an
Amiga - so the hardware can do it, just curious what I'd need
to do software side.
May I suggest a copy of Amiga Forever. Even as "frugal" as I
am...was well worth the cost...especially with all the
bells/whistles which come with it...not including the games.
I was wondering how difficult it would be to port Magicka to AmigaOS, seems vorlon had it running on debian/m68k on an Amiga - so the hardware can do it, just curious what I'd need to do software side.
Don't trust these bastards any more than I trust my ex-wife. This is why
I am a die hard progressive who believes in unions...as long as they
serve those who pay the dues.
I do use it for the roms though.
Tip of the hat. I have spent the past 21 years working as a Staff Rep
for a private sector union!
I do have amiga forever, and commodore64 forever or what ever it's
called. It's good but I don't presently have a windows setup, and was
hoping I could use one of my spare pis. I do use it for the roms though.
In this respect...I wasted my time & money supporting the union. If any other union were like this...probably wouldn't join. Want someone
covering my back to protect my interests.
Maybe it was you that was a part of this conversation already, but
someone mentioned that there are a couple of distros that emulate Amiga
on a pi, if I understood correctly... Ambian (I think) and maybe
Amiberry (???).
I tell people all the time, the people are the union. It is only as good as those who are elected to run it. We have 1000s of locals across North America. Some leadership is better than others. For the most part, those who don't do an effective job representing their members don't tend to last long.
Re: Re: SX-64
By: Netsurge to echicken on Mon Dec 09 2019 09:04 pm
I am experiencing a high pitched whine when it is on. I have to track down what is causing it. It is driving my kids mad.
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