Commodore HARDWARE HACK!

AlphA · Post by **AlphA** » 19/05/2006 - 10:54

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/

Tonka · Post by **Tonka** » 19/05/2006 - 13:21

Nice Mod, but a TB303, TR808 & TR909??!!!

I officially HATE you, whoever you are!!!

Tonka

fnordpojk · Post by **fnordpojk** » 19/05/2006 - 13:29

Tonka wrote:Nice Mod, but a TB303, TR808 & TR909??!!!

I officially HATE you, whoever you are!!!

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.

Tonka · Post by **Tonka** » 19/05/2006 - 13:55

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]

Tonka

jgb · Post by **jgb** » 19/05/2006 - 17:58

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...

Tonka · Post by **Tonka** » 19/05/2006 - 19:01

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...?

Analog-X64 · Post by **Analog-X64** » 20/05/2006 - 10:41

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