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Title: Commodore 64 with 1541 SD drive and Suzo joystick
Post by: lesoleil70 on May 30, 2014, 05:11:46 pm
ROCKS!
(http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/m6NSkfQTNEpdfSaxMxjLfjQ.jpg)

(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/zxuc9C62WyU/hqdefault.jpg)

Taking a break from arcades for a week, going back to my roots gaming on 8 bit computers.
Having fun with the 1541 Floppy drive emulator on SD card, original C64, and a suzo stick.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oYYkv53BL.jpg)


Title: Re: Commodore 64 with 1541 SD drive and Suzo joystick
Post by: lordkahless214 on May 30, 2014, 05:43:56 pm
Nice! I've been messing around with my Commodore 128 this week myself, fixed my broken 1541 and built a XE1541 cable for an old pc so I can use it as a file server, I'll probably pick up one of those SD readers soon, there is nothing like the sound of SID tunes  ;D


Title: Re: Commodore 64 with 1541 SD drive and Suzo joystick
Post by: airsoftmodels on May 30, 2014, 11:55:28 pm
The first computer I ever saw was a C64 in a small private school in 1982.  I fell in love instantly.  I was supposed to get a Commodore 64 for Christmas in 1983, but they were all sold out, so I got the Atari instead.


Title: Re: Commodore 64 with 1541 SD drive and Suzo joystick
Post by: lordkahless214 on May 31, 2014, 02:26:45 am
My brother and his best friend were huge Commodore junkies in the early 80's and they both worked at Radio Shack and they traded disks back and forth, and I pretty much grew up on the thing, we started with a breadbin C64 and datasette in 83, then we moved up to the 128 and 1581 around 86.
I remember we tinkered with the Atari 800 and the old Apple computers, while we all liked messing around with the Commodore and Atari stuff, the Apples were always failing, we rammed foam between the pcbs and left the cover off to keep it going and it STILL overheated.  :D


Title: Re: Commodore 64 with 1541 SD drive and Suzo joystick
Post by: DaCord421 on May 31, 2014, 02:45:36 am
I miss my old VIC-20


Title: Re: Commodore 64 with 1541 SD drive and Suzo joystick
Post by: BloodyCactus on May 31, 2014, 11:28:14 am
the uIEC/SD is a great little devivce. nice plastic cover yours comes in. Do you have an ultimate 1541-ii cartridge? I have one, they kick ass!


Title: Re: Commodore 64 with 1541 SD drive and Suzo joystick
Post by: John's Arcade on May 31, 2014, 12:09:33 pm
Wow. That SD card reader is sweet. They make one for the 800xl???.


Title: Re: Commodore 64 with 1541 SD drive and Suzo joystick
Post by: lesoleil70 on May 31, 2014, 04:37:03 pm
Wow. That SD card reader is sweet. They make one for the 800xl???.

Been kicking arse on Yie Ar Kung Fu today.

To answer your question John, not from the same place, but a search for similar brought up this, there's probably others, but it certainly looks like they are out there.

http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=23 (http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=23)
(http://www.lotharek.pl/zasoby/produkty/23/zdjecia/001_s.jpg)

Imagine every 800xl game on a SD card!



Title: Re: Commodore 64 with 1541 SD drive and Suzo joystick
Post by: yks104 on May 31, 2014, 08:23:29 pm
Damn, I loved my Commodore 128! Those were great times.