Any Commodore 64/128 people on here?

[ScottyAU]

My bad - I’ll have a look at a few other options then to clean up the picture from the round din connector then...

Ta guys.

[ScottyAU]

So I did a bit of looking around and thinking and I have managed to find Dell 2408WFP which has a S-Video input! (no more S-Video to VGA adapter).

I'll post an update once it turns up (hopefully this week).  Fingers crossed the video output is a little cleaner!

[AmmoJammo]

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/i%27m-a-hoarder!-c64-crustyness-inside!/msg321251/#msg321251

I have a Commodore 16 too, and am currently trying to find a reasonably priced Vic 20.

[pinkman]

I have two C64's in a box with some software, external floppy drive, etc... Haven't turned them on in years.

They are a little moldy looking which is odd because they weren't stored in a moist environment, but I'll bet they still work. 

Anyone want them?  Lol

[FrankBuss]

You could sell them on eBay. Prices are rising for some years now. You can get EUR 30-50 for a good C64 with floppy drive and disks.

[pinkman]

I have tried and failed at the "selling on eBay" think - I suppose I'll put them in the classifieds here at some point.  I have a lot of old stuff, zenith/compaq "laptops" and luggables, WWII radio equipment, etc - I wish that selling online didn't take so much time to set up!

[ScottyAU]

Pinkman - whereabouts are you in the World?  Guessing no Australia?

[pinkman]

Nope.  USA

[ScottyAU]

Bummer

[pinkman]

I suppose using some manner of drone to get it to you is out of the question.  Battery life and such...  Where is a Mr. Fusion when you need it.

[ScottyAU]

That would be quite handy

[GK]

I also have a C64. I pensioned off my 1084S monitor and just recently bought a 26" LCD television as a replacement. Was the last of its model in stock (the display model), $200 bucks at Harvey Norman. However there are still numerous models available that accept composite and component video inputs. Picture quality is fine - overall way better than the old 1084. The TV is widescreen of course but they pretty much all support 4:3 aspect ratio as well.

Way cooler that the C64, however, is my model B Beeb. Unfortunately though, I managed to pick up a version installed with a 14.32 MHz crystal in the video circuit, which (divided by 4) returns a 3.58 MHz colour sub-carrier. That's the oddball PAL-N standard that was only ever adopted in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay (according to Wikipedia) - the frame rate is 50 Hz and each line is exactly 64uS. Over here it is 4.43 MHz. I pulled the crystal in injected the correct chrominance sub-carrier reference frequency with the aid of my Rigol DG1022. I managed to get a colour picture or sorts, but unfortunately the DG1022 has far too much phase noise for the task and red and violet wont lock stably and yellow is hardly distinguishable from green. Now I just have to source a 17.73 MHz crystal, then I'll be in business.

[BloodyCactus]

nice! I have a spare crystal + vic chip for my C128DCR to convert it from NTSC to PAL, but no PAL monitor so I have not made the change yet.

[ScottyAU]

GK - very nice!

I got my hands on a different screen with S-Video input - looks much better!

http://scottyau.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/commodore-128-part-3.html

[ScottyAU]

Anyone recommend terminal software?  Planning to get the necessary gear together to dial into http://bbs.fozztexx.com

Chris does some awesome stuff: https://twitter.com/FozzTexx

[ScottyAU]

Boo yah!

http://scottyau.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/commodore-128-part-4.html

[Alex Eisenhut]

I've got a few C= machines lying around. It's more for nostalgia than anything, I rarely use them.

I have a 1080 Amiga monitor, a SX-64 (with keyboard cable), a 1571 drive, a 1581, a boosted 1764 512k RAM expansion, a Super Snapshot, the 1351 mouse... A home-made power supply since the original brick is unreliable, runs too hot.

Bunch of other weird stuff like the SFD-1001 drive, IEEE interface and a stringy floppy drive.

When I used GEOS 2.0 on the C64 with the RAM, mouse and 1581 it was a surprisingly capable system 20 or so years ago.

I built my 128DCR from 3 dead motherboards I found on eBay, the case and keyboard from "as is" auctions. It still has a few holes drilled in the front panel from the previous owner. It's quite a mutt!

Years ago I tried my hand in designing a RGBI to VGA converter which was more difficult than I thought. I got it to convert but I never got the colors to work correctly. Even after going through all the registers of the converter chip all I ever got out of it was purple and green.

I also had clock problems, I was aiming for pixel-perfect upscaling at any horizontal resolution and I was unable to design a clock recovery circuit to do so.

[WVL_KsZeN]

So you got an ultimate :-) It's the best thing for your 64/128 ever. Period.

Have fun now you can easily play/watch anything ever made in just a couple of seconds 

[sonic2000gr]

Sure I got one. And it has good company too. The C64 was the first computer I laid my hands on and programmed. I ended up buying the TI-99/4A though.

[RobFromEarth]

I started with a c128 too. My favorite thing about it was the ML monitor. What a nerd. Lots of games/utils collected of course. Thanks for posting the pics, that equipment looks in great shape for its age.

[LektroiD]

I have a mint-in-box C64C here, but no games or controllers. The SID chip in the C64C was never as good as the original 6581, but then I'm an electronic music nut, so these things matter a lot to me. If anyone has an original 'bubble design C64 they are ready to take to the local landfill, do me a favour and pull the 6581 chip for me, I'd love to build a synth module around it...

I have had loads of Commodores in my time although my first machine was a ZX81 (with 16K RAM expansion). I then moved onto a Vic20, then the awesome C64... I loved the Amiga, but the sound was nowhere as awesome as the C64.

Even now, some folk are using upgraded Amigas to browse the 'net...