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The Commodore 64 EasyFlash Cartridge
0With some money I had left in my PayPal account, I decided to buy one of the EasyFlash programmable cartridges for the Commodore 64 from Sinchai.de
EasyFlash is a cartridge for the C64 expansion port. In contrast to traditional cartridges, this one can be programmed directly from the C64
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You can easily create various classic computer game cartridges, program collections or even a diagnostic cartridge to track down issues with your hardware with it. All what you need to do this is a C64, an EasyFlash, the software available here and an image of the cartridge (*.crt). As these CRT files may be quite large, a large disk drive like the FD-2000 or an sd2iec may be useful. For smaller drives EasySplit can be used to compress and split large cartridge images.
EasyFlash is not a freezer cartridge like the Final Cartridge III or the Retro Replay. And it’s no replacement for a 1541 disk drive like the sd2iec.
Military Computers Preserved
02 months ago
by Andy
in Andys Retro Computers
Several computers and associated peripherals and control panels have been rescued from the Cook Building at MoD Southwick Park (formerly HMS Dryad) which has been decommissioned.
Cook Building was home to several Royal Navy training suites where personnel underwent tactical warfare training on type 22 and type 23 frigates and type 42 destroyers.
Some of the computers used to feed emulated data to the training suite were designed in the late 60′s and were fully operational right up until the closure in July 2011.
Phil Heathcote from BAE Systems contacted three museums with a view to preserving these historically important computers. It was finally agreed that the three museums could purchase the equipment from a government disposals agency and the pressure was on for each museum to raise their 1/3rd of the £1800 purchase price as well as additional funds to cover the logistics costs.
To read the rest of this article, please visit Military Computers Preserved
Retro Computers Google+ page
03 months ago
by Andy
in Andys Retro Computers
www.retrocomputers.eu now has its own page on Google+.
Goto the Retro Computers Google+ page here or use the G+ icon at the top of this page. See you there!
Retro Computers YouTube Channel
04 months ago
by Andy
in Andys Retro Computers
Here is one of my more recent videos – a BBC Model B playing Commodore 64 SID tunes thru the BeebSID device. There will be a new one soon about the BBC Master 512 – a 80186 PC inside a BBC Master 128.
MITH’s Vintage Computers
11 year ago
by Andy
in Andys Retro Computers
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) have opened up their own Vintage Computer museum. I find it interesting that whilst we had the BBC Micro in schools in the UK, the Americans had Apple ][s etc.
This site demonstrates a description scheme and model for preservation and use of computing devices. The key features here are navigation of a computer system through hierarchical component browsing (the items listed on the right side of an item’s page) and navigation across computing devices through tag groupings (‘video card’, ‘motherboard’, etc.). Tags for an item are found near the bottom of the item’s page. Every item is accompanied with some basic descriptive and technical metadata, and these fields can be refined and expanded upon by an administrator, as use requires. Where it is possible metadata on actual manufacture dates and companies has been given, and an emphasis on connections (external and internal) and the use capacity of the device (read/write abilities, OS affordances, etc.) is attempted
Visit the museum here.
Super Mario Bros music played on a Violin
01 year ago
by Andy
in Andys Retro Computers
This is a brilliant video that shows a guy playing not only the theme tune, but also the power up sounds etc.
