3D printing, what is the advantage of 3D Printwork anyway? As the regular visitors of both the Websites and the Facebook page will have noticed by now that I have focused more on 3D Printing lately . There is a simple reason for this, I would like to be able…
Commodore 64 IRQHack cartridge II, a new design! Since the development of the IRQHack (as I mentioned before) has completely died down, and I would have loved to see some changes to the original, I started building a redesign of the interface myself. What I disliked the most about the…
Pi1541 zero, the ultimate low budget 1541 emulator. The original Pi1541 is a real-time, cycle-exact Commodore 1541 Disk drive emulator that can run on a Raspberry Pi 3B, 3B + or 3A +. From version V1.21 it is also suitable to run on a (slightly) overclocked Raspberry Pi Zero. People…
SD card based solutions for the C64 Compared I regularly get the question what someone should choose if he wants a (more) modern storage for his Commodore 64 (and C128 in most cases too). It is not easy to see the wood for the trees, given the number of different…
What are recertified diskettes. Over the years, many types of diskettes have disappeared from the shelves, many diskettes have simply been scrapped when the demand decreased, because there was little or no interest anymore in the declining types. Today if you can find a box of floppy disks they are…
Tapuino Interface – Introduction I had already read about the Tapuino interface for the various old 8 bit systems (C64. MSX, ZX Spectrum), but never thought of doing anything with it. The interface was originally designed by Peter Edwards . There are so many different storage adapters that Tape didn’t…
XUM1541 Interface to connect a Commodore Diskdrive to the PC. There are several ways to get data from a PC to a Commodore 64 (and vice versa). Most are cumbersome or unreliable and are not easy to use. The XUM1541 changes that, with this interface it is possible to connect…
Sega Mega D-pad Adapter for Commodore 64 and Amiga A number of different models of D-pad controllers have been marketed for the Sega Megadrive (II). For non-European countries, the Sega Megadrive is mainly known as the Sega Genesis. The controllers for these machines are loved by retro console enthusiasts, and…
Reanimator, The Deadtest Cartridge The deadtest Cartridge was still a missing piece in my toolbox, and since I also needed this one, I had to get it. I looked for all the necessary signals and then rebuilt a regular cartridge to see if it works. After the tests had gone…