16 Mar
2007
16 Mar
'07
2:27 p.m.
On 3/16/07, Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
There are quite a few around, they are just not
advertised much.
I'd agree with that. Those that haven't made it to the landfill are
sitting in closets around the world, especially in Europe.
Anything made in that quantity will be around this
earth for a while.
More than 17,000,000? Assuredly.
Most people don't want a real C64 with a 1541
drive that needs 5.25" DD
floppies that take a minute to load, they want an emulator that plays ROMs
they download off the net instantly (or maybe a real C64 with a 1000 in 1
Cartridge).
Heh... personally, I want to take one of my DTV boards and hack it
into something like a 1581 so that all you have to do is pull a 3.5"
floppy out of your backpack, plug in a keyboard and hook it up to a
monitor. If I could find an inexpensive PlayStation-1 LCD monitor,
I'd consider a C-64 laptop, though. I wouldn't be the first to do it,
but I'd do it all the same.
I have lots of fond memories programming the C-64, including my first
3 jobs. I probably spend more emulation time in VICE than any other
environment to this day.
-ethan