17 Jun
2009
17 Jun
'09
5:52 p.m.
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, M H Stein wrote:
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:08:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Liendo <christian_liendo at yahoo.com>
I take a different view, at least with my Commodore 64 and Amiga 3000. Over
the years, I've souped both up quite a bit. I just wish I could afford CPU
accelerators for them!
Zane
I am a fan when it doesn't ruin the end user
experience.
<snip>
The technology has to be built in a way so that
you don't have to harm the old computer so that if you want to run it the old way,
>you can. I mean sometimes you want the experience of listening to the grinding of a
1541 drive.
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One of the not-much-larger-than-a-postage-stamp SD card disk drive
emulators for the C64 does exactly that; it makes the same comfortingly
familiar nasty sounds that a 'real' 15xx CBM drive would make.