Flack wrote:The 1541 Ultimate is a ~100% compatible "drive" that uses SD cards for storage and reads/writes D64 disk images instead of real floppies. It is, bar none, the best thing I ever bought for my Commodore, period.
I think it runs around $200 but they way I justified it is, that's about what I paid for a real 1541 back in the day. I cannot overstate what an awesome product it is.
nnnnnghhhh! This is why I am still running on like a 17" SyncMaster 750s from 1989. I decide I want to get a new monitor, and then I am made aware of something that will function as a non-magnetic C64 drive. Argh! Well, I've got to get that before I upgrade monitors next year. I can get more time out of the old Syncster here, I can't live without that 1541 SD drive.
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:The C64 and Atari 2600 (and 400/800/etc) could use the same joystick, but the carts aren't compatible.
They made a thing for the Colecovision that took Atari carts, and I think the Intellivision could do it too, but they were add-on thingies.
At least for the CV it's basically an Atari 2600 in a smaller case. The weird thing is, I'm not sure there was ever one of these that was actually cheaper than just buying a 2600.
More than that, it was the idea of "our console does all that, and then some." In other words, would you rather have an Atari 2600, or a ColecoVision that also plays Atari 2600 games? It's one of those plus one games; our console plays everything yours does, +1.
This was important when you consider the Atari 2600 had more than 900 titles, whereas the ColecoVision had 125 and the Atari 5200 had about 70.
Was over at my friends house last night. He finally got around to cleaning out his basement and found a tape of us from the mid 80's. Some stuff I haven't heard since my four track broke back in 1990. The tape deck I had in the attic plays a half step slow, probably from age and temperature. Sounds pretty good tho.
Anyway, the real reason I wanted to post here again was the nostalgia factor of finding a tape that has been lying around in a shoebox for the last twenty years and being able to experience a mental time warp. I remember when cassettes were cutting edge (well, maybe not cutting edge but certainly the best medium at the time) And me only buying the CrO2 kind that went for maybe five bucks each for a sixty minute tape.
Regular everyday tapes were nine bucks for a three pack at Record Town so these were OOOooooo top end! because your music's worth it!
NICE! I've been rocking some old tapes my brother gave me when he moved all winter.. moving them in each night so they don't freeze in the car.. CRo2 BABY!
Sounds like something Dick Clark would shill for. So you don't get to choose the artists, just pays your money and gets your tapes. What's the point of that?
