Whoa……..

everyone that has a V2 SCPU are holding onto those I have one

Wheels OS (Created in 1998) was an upgrade and then the German GEOS upgrade called MegaPatch is good

you forgot the CMD HD series 50 pin SCSI hard drives

you wrong there Jiffy Dos was what made CMD possible that was in 1987

Been having a heck of a time trying to get Nethack, hack, Angband, and moria to run on the a500 mini. 😢

Got my R6! :) Serial #01364

To quote Rufus from Bill & Ted: “They do get better!”

This was a fasinating video and I am quite interested in the BackBit which seems very similar to the KungFu Flash. I do want to correct one point though. The Ultimate1541 is also capable of DMA loading D64 and T64 files as the BackBit does (I.E. Load games instantly) - You do this slightly differently on the Ultimate1541. You have to open the D64 image and then when you run the game file inside the disk it will load it instantly using DMA. When you load a disk image outside of the D64 archive it uses direct load. This method is compatible with Multiload games which I don't think are supported by any of the carts that provide DMA loading only

Because of your video, just got one off eBay…

My brother had the Commodore 64 then when the amiga 128 came out oh boy my brother will be up programming for like 2 or 3 days end results it was like unlocking Easter eggs like hidden games n stuff and that was back in the 80 ‘s wow he was getting bit coins too wich the worth then was a penny 😂but look it now 😅 but the best games mannn g.i Joe Solomon’s key 🔑.montesumas revenge,Congo bongo…ect 😢 I miss that era

Great build! Well done video. Cool history behind the 64x👍

8 bit (4 channel) or 14 bit (stereo)28khz per channel on OCS/ECS, 8 bit or 14 bit, 57khz on AGA. Closer to the technics VHS DAT machines of the era, rather than CD. In 1984(released 85). Check the TV segment with Fred playing synthesised guitar and strings back in 1985. Memory was at a premium back then, but you could play back raw HDD PCM audio recordings out of the box. To hear any "computer music" sounding so good was a real shock

This is so cool!

Nice build...Hmmm..pay the mortgage or build one of these ?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

This is the *best* video on this topic I have seen to date yet. Thanks!

I’m glad you mentioned HyperCard. The well known “killer app” for the Mac back in those days was PageMaker paired with a LaserWriter. But for my money, HyperCard was the biggest reason for getting a Mac over other platforms. It was just amazing what you could do in a short space of time. I used HyperCard for my major project at High School where I imported the local bus and train timetables, and it became a public transport journey planner - working out departure and arrival times and where you had to switch modes of transport at junctions etc. All with a web like graphical user interface. My Dad later modified my stack so that it could export your trip information to the Newton to check on where you need to be at what time while on the go. It was amazing stuff! Despite all this, I find the Amiga fascinating today. It’s the only other computer, besides the Mac, with a cult like status. You don’t get such dedicated users like the Amiga had by accident. It clearly had that sprinkle of magic. So what a killer combination it would have been in the day to have combined these two computers in one! Unfortunately here in Australia, you really only see A500 and A600s for sale. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an A1000 (or any big box Amiga’s) in person. But then I look at my Commodore 128DCR and smile that I do have something special after all.

The GEOS 2.0 disk is overloaded with printer drivers, including a MAC Laser Printer driver. The quality was excellent. The drivers adapted printers of higher resolutions, created stunning results. Also, many printers of the time had DIP switches allowing them to emulate other printer types. For example, Panasonic printers can emulate IBM Pro Printers. Under GEOS you could use all the drivers for all the modes your printer can emulate, allowing you to access what you considered to be higher quality. There was even a Postscript driver, allowing use of even more advanced printers and higher quality types. It was a wildly expanding time of development and excitement for the Commodore/GEOS legend.

This was 1995, not 85

Too bad you dudn't have a CMD FD-4000. You can reliably format a 3.5" HD floppy to 3.2 MB. More storage space = more better...

It is a really cool design. I love it. Greetings!

"A floppy disk you can count on" literally.

This seems to be a much better computer, hardware wise, than the Commander X16 which has absolutely no C64 compatibility and runs at only 8MHz compared to 40MHz here. Oddly, it seems like there's more software for the X16. It's a shame that one standard couldn't have been made. There's too few users as is. What drove software creation for the C64 in the 1980s was how many millions of users there were. You can't hope for that again, but I think there needs to be more than 1500 or so. There's an emulator for the X16. Is there one for the Mega65? Free users are still possible purveyors of software sales. No one but some hobbyists are going to bother for 1500 total users or whatever the exact number ends up being, many of which won't be interested in one particular software package.

Imagine back in the day rocking the "dual monitor setup" in 1986 compared to today where even the receptionist has 2 or 3 monitors.

Watch my video about the history of Rogue and the original core ports made in the 1980s. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nobFapqbpdl7d9k

I have warm and fuzzy memories from my his game and my Amiga 500. ❤

I can’t get enough of these Microbotics starboard videos! Never gets old. Something just elegant about this setup and process

C64X mister fpga building working for me only 2 weeks in total to order and assemble all components! Everything working other than power light so checking your written guide in case Ive positioned the led dupont connectors incorrectly. FYI the USB on the ITX mini has been revised and moved to bottom right of the mini ethernet cable section - in that space.

My Amiga and the Parceiro will now make love till the end of time. What a great peace of hardware. It just feels orginal but it's so much power for an 1000

Also,.. my original rejuvinator works with stardrive 2

This is still one of my favorite videos!

Ok, how am I actually hearing that MOD in stereo, if it isn't recorded directly via line-in or a capture card? o.O

wow this is awesome! I wish there was a keyboard in the style of the Atari 800XL I wouldn't stick a MiSTer in it, but put an USB port instead, so I can take the same keyboard from Altirra to MiSTer when I feel like it.

Just bought this for Switch. I played for an hour or so and love it so far, but I knew someone out there would be able to give a good rundown of how everything works. Thanks!

surprised the ironclad board doesn't have a microSD extension option. Also you could probably mount a 2.5" hard drive in the DVD slot using a 2.5 to laptop DVD drive adapter.

I want that TV the late Leonard Nimoy had in that clip.

UPDATE: you will just get an email when posted - so don't worry if you don't hear back for a week :-) WARNING: DO NOT BUY the MiSTer Mini-ITX Ironclad Lite - I ordered it from d3fmod weeks ago and have had no reply from my chaser emails/tweets to the company or Roberto the owner. Don't know if hes been in germany for weeks watching spain but I was stupid to order and pay immediately after watching this video and had no response.

I LOVED my C64/128/Amiga, LOVED. They are now all retired and their motherboards hang like trophies in my man- cave. My current PC, a Windows type, is about one million times faster and can draw real pictures! Amazing, huh? LOL. Keep retroing!

I used 3Com's (or was it Palm's?) "handwriting" recognition back then. Were they copying Apple?

Damn it ! You just made me spend half a grand lol 😂

I used to love my commodore 64 as a kid - Chuckie Egg all the way for me

This was a very well made and timely video! I've been wondering what to do with my transparent C64x case (even contemplating selling it) and the news of the cheap Mister clone has reawakened my interest in finally getting one. This is would be the perfect match. I started searching around for builds like this but did not see much being done, and now you have shared the definitive example. Thank you! Here's hoping the MisterFPGA will fit perfectly.

I have a SD1, quite the chunky boy. Haven't tried the IEEE interface yet.

ok brilliant video - I have just bought the same hardware with v3 memory! and SD to SD extension cable - bought the 64X translucent case with RGB lighting!

The "Admittedly high price" is something I feel requires more attention than simply stating it, and saying there was a "Smear campaign" against it is implying a collective effort to actively join forces to say that no matter how great the thing is, we're going to make sure this fails. Even the most spectacular failures will sell more than 200,000 if there's that kind of attention being paid to it, in this case it's probably more that nobody cared. To me Apple is and always was a mid to upper mid-tear quality being sold as if it were high tier to a very rabid/cultish userbase that believes that are high tear. If you can't even sell to that group, then there's obviously something wrong with the product that somehow even made Apple's own users fail to see its benefits. Now that right there, is worth a video, no joke that the Simpsons make is going to influence a cult of people determined to buy a brand, something more made them not pay attention. What line is crossed that finally makes the diehards say "no way!", that's what I'd be interested in knowing. As for the Newton itself and what I think of it in regards to what this video shows, I have no personal experience with it, I'm sure I saw a couple back in the day, and I remember the X-Files game actually using it as one of the main mechanics of the game. I remember the jokes, I've made some of my own, but it's no surprise to me to learn that it's "not garbage", I don't expect anything from Apple to be pure garbage and of course this video shows that it's not that, but nor is it something that justified its price... Which is something I would say for every single Apple product ever released. Why this failed when most Apple products did not, that simply cannot be blamed on the people who never used the product, who just mocked it, no... It's on Apple users and the company somehow failing to convince them that they needed it. Apple did not/does not need volume of sales to succeed with a product, they only need their own users to buy whatever they make. The comparisons with the reMarkable I will assume are correct, as I certainly have no interest in that either, and hey, if the Newton is cheaper than that (now) and has better handwriting recognition, eat up that new old stock if it serves a purpose. To me, ahead of its time or not, it was another black and white device from Apple, only this one wasn't from 1984 when it had no business being made, it's from 1993, and it's not being sold for the same price that a GameBoy, that's for sure. This to me, as a video, a little too much. I don't think I could have gotten through it if it was anyone else, because it feels so much like all the other hardware stuff you see on here. The same type of shots, let's show a monitor with an old commercial, along with fake interference so it looks like what we "think" a VCR should look like, the same type of script which is obviously being read in this strange manipulative combination of monotone but also faux emotion (A KZbin specialty), if the Newton was new I'd have to wonder if you were getting paid by Apple. -This is not meant to be taken angrily, it's more difficult than I can possible describe to write what I just wrote to someone I genuinely like and respect... What I do, will never be liked by most, but I will always have integrity, this type of video... Well, I'm actually surprised it didn't do better for you, because I feel this is the type of video that "should" get views on this site, the type of video that normally does I should say. I don't know, hopefully this only effects you if it's something you're wondering about yourself, because I'm going to tell you that there's nothing anybody could say about my videos at this point that I would give a ____ about. I hope you reach that point, I don't know what your goal is with the videos, and it's why I've never subscribed, I'm a very difficult person to get a sub from, and I can certainly say it was never earned by doing the same annoying pop ups of "subscribe" with a mouse pointer that then moves over to a bell with sound effects. If you're hoping to someday reach the likes of MVG/LGR, then disregard all of this, because you're doing it right. I'm only pondering this in a comment because there's nobody I'd like to subscribe to more than you... Buried underneath that script is passion for a device nobody else cares about, and I respect the ____ out of that, I really do.

Now all we need is easyflash saving to be added to the mister c64 core 😂

Nice build! I'm not convinced a MiSTer is compelling for me but I'd definitely consider this case as an option on my short list for a Denise mini-ITX Amiga. I feel pretty confident it would be a good fit with a picoATX power supply even allowing room for a CPU socket accelerator and a smaller (or maybe even two) zorro II card with an appropriate right angle riser.

I've been waiting a lifetime now for a full fat 1:1 parity Amiga 1200 & C64 FPGA computer, that has a full mech KB, floppy drive and CD-ROM, plus native OPL3, SID and MIDI built in, along with a UHS-III full-size SD card reader, or something even better than that even like CFExpress, a traditional cart slot that can boot games, soundbanks/fonts and software, along with high-quality repro games inc modern indie releases and ports, basically the perfect C64 & Amiga computer FPGA all-in-one, would be amazing to get either X68K mode as well, or a standalone Sharp X6800 1:1 FPGA computer system with a replica of the OG case, keyboard and mouse, speakers and an OLED 4:3 monitor replica using an iPad 4:3 OLED panel, also with a proper Yamaha OPL3 ASIC and a nice Wolfson DAC, plus a collection or repro X68K game carts/box's/manuals, I hope someone does this one day, as the Amiga 1200 and Sharp X68K are the best way to enjoy retro computer games imo, but unobtainium for the most part (the Sharp X68K especially).

This looks wonderfull. I have a modded "TheC64" (simply used the keyboard part of it (it is usb)) myself with a mister in it. it is a very good way to experience the C64 this way. Your build looks a lot more tidy and better though! Mine is a mess inside :) I did not know about that floppydrive intrface!! Awesome!