wraggster
March 10th, 2013, 20:32
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This is [Wpqrek's] Commodore 64 modified to go on the road with him (http://wpqrek.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-c64-mods.html). The elderly machine has a special place in his heart as it was what he learned to code on. He performed a series of hacks which house everything necessary to use the machine inside the original case.
Obviously the hack that has the most effect when it comes to portability was swapping a display for the small LCD mounted above the number keys. This was a pretty simple process because the screen, originally intended for a rear view camera in a vehicle, already had a composite video input. To emulate the floppy disc drive he’s using an SD card via an sd2iec board which he laid out himself. Rounding up the alterations is a stereo SID. The second channel uses the pre-amp circuit cut from a second C64. This audio hardware will let him do cool things like playing some classic Zeppelin (http://hackaday.com/2012/11/14/playing-led-zeppelin-on-a-c64/).
http://hackaday.com/2013/03/08/making-a-commodore-64-portable/
This is [Wpqrek's] Commodore 64 modified to go on the road with him (http://wpqrek.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-c64-mods.html). The elderly machine has a special place in his heart as it was what he learned to code on. He performed a series of hacks which house everything necessary to use the machine inside the original case.
Obviously the hack that has the most effect when it comes to portability was swapping a display for the small LCD mounted above the number keys. This was a pretty simple process because the screen, originally intended for a rear view camera in a vehicle, already had a composite video input. To emulate the floppy disc drive he’s using an SD card via an sd2iec board which he laid out himself. Rounding up the alterations is a stereo SID. The second channel uses the pre-amp circuit cut from a second C64. This audio hardware will let him do cool things like playing some classic Zeppelin (http://hackaday.com/2012/11/14/playing-led-zeppelin-on-a-c64/).
http://hackaday.com/2013/03/08/making-a-commodore-64-portable/