by Sjaak | Oct 5, 2020 | Blog, commodore, vintage |
As you may know I’m busy with pimping a Commodore SX64 and trying to bring it into the 21th century. Since it is fairly old technology loading a program is painstakingly slow. Traditionally modded kernals or cartridges are used to install fastloaders. Modern...
by Sjaak | Sep 23, 2020 | Blog, commodore, vintage |
Since a couple of months I have fascination for vintage computers like Commodore or Nintendo. I’m in the process restoring and pimping a Commodore SX64 and realized I did’t have a printer for it. After all it is an executive machine and how do I otherwise...
by Sjaak | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog, product, Prototyping, vintage |
After some revisions of this project I decided to split the project in an EPROM and SRAM version. The EPROM version should be good for the general audience and the SRAM version for developers. The most obvious thing to program the EPROM with is EPYX fastloader as this...
by Sjaak | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog, PCB, product, vintage |
Together with the PCBs came in a new revision of the C64/SX64 RAM Cartridge with onboard SD2IEC. It has a completely new layout and was tailor made to a C64 Cartridge shell I got from Ebay. Now I had more PCB estate at my disposal so the layout is much cleaner and...
by Sjaak | May 18, 2016 | Blog, PCB, Prototyping, vintage |
It has been a while that I ordered some PCBs.. I got a bit scared by my own post , so it took a while for sending them in. As usual I use the DHL option, but as I feared there were custom troubles again. I managed to contact customer service and got it somewhat...
