Growing up in the seventies and eighties, my childhood memories basically consist of videogames, bright plastic toys and TV cartoons.
Any time that was left I spent drawing and programming games for my Commodore 64. At a later age a few of my childhood dreams became a reality when I temporarily moved to Melbourne, where I worked as a videogame programmer, did oil-painting in a studio and had my work displayed in one of the local galleries.
After a course in Graphic Design I made a career-switch and became a graphic designer/illustrator. Currently back in The Netherlands I work at a small design company and spend my spare time illustrating my childhood memories and designing papertoys.
I specialize in one-piece papertoys that consist of a single flat piece of paper, which by intricate folding is transformed into a 3-dimensional model.
source: marshallalexander.net
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! nIGHTFALL Crew.
- The Expert Cartridges from Trilogic.
- Robcom Turbo Series.
- Game Killer from Robtek.
wiki: cartridge-c64-wiki
Note: Motherboard is the same of Commodore VIC-1540 (Rev A/B PCB 1540007 (C) 1981 made in Japan) with a old HIGH Rom MOS “901229-01″ instead of “325303-01″.
Description: The Commodore 1541 (aka CBM 1541, and originally called VIC-1541), made by Commodore International, was the best-known floppy disk drive for the Commodore 64 home computer. The 1541 was a single-sided 170 kilobyte drive for 5¼” disks. The 1541 followed the previous Commodore 1540 (meant for the VIC-20).
source: wikipedia
Description:
The Commodore 1571 was Commodore’s high-end 5¼“ floppy disk drive. With its double-sided drive mechanism, it had the ability to utilize double-sided, double-density (DS/DD) floppy disks natively. This was in contrast to its predecessors, the 1541 and 1570, which could read or write such disks only if the user manually flipped them over to access the second side. (from Wikipedia)
wiki: 1571-Wiki
dtvtrans is a PC <-> C64DTV V2/V3 transfer solution. It uses a cable connected between the parallel port of the PC and a joystick port on the C64DTV. (port 1, port 2 and the user port supported).
The transfer speed is roughly 15 Kbyte/s PC -> DTV and 13 KByte/s DTV -> PC. Used with Lallafa’s dtv2ser+usb hardware it is roughly 17 KByte/s PC -> DTV and 19 KByte/s DTV -> PC.
dtvtrans+ 1.0 (20081122) 1570 Changelog:
- [PC] disable safe setup by default due to problems with some setups
- [PC] exit on transfer errors
- [PC] updated autoflash helper (fixes AT49BV163A)
download: picobay.com/dtv_wiki
Description:
- Country: US
- Most common: Italy/Germany (PAL)
- Rarity: Rare
- Year: 1976+
- Video Output: RF modulated signal
- Games: 6
- Chip game used: AY-3-8500
The Conic Color was originally designed to output an RF modulated (VHF) signal but with a mod you can get a better signal with the Composite Video .
source: pong-in-a-chip
Description:
- Country: US
- Most common: Italy/Germany (PAL)
- Rarity: Rare
- Year: 1978+
- Video Output: RF modulated signal
- Games: 18
- Chip game used: AY-3-8610 and AY-3-8765
The Duette Color was originally designed to output an RF modulated (VHF) signal but with a mod you can get a better signal with the Composite Video .
source: pong-in-a-chip
Description:
- Country: US
- Most Common: Germany
- Rarity: Rare
- Year: 1987
Externally, the C64 Aldi had same case colour as a standard C64 but the keyboard was light grey, like the future C64G and C64C.
Internally, the motherboard was redesigned to minimize production costs, most of the TTL chips were removed, replaced with a new MMU chipset. First releases of this board had some compatibility problems with C=64 peripherals – they lacked the 9V user port voltage, but this limitation was repaired in the next revisions.
Although made in USA, the Aldi was sold only in Germany as a game machine through only one distribution channel, a supermarket chain called… Aldi, hence his name, given by the German 64′er magazine.
In 1989, the C=64 Aldi would be replaced by the grey C=64G which would use the same motherboard.
wiki: C64-wiki – OLD-Computers.com
Old prices of Commodore stuff:
- 1982: Commodore Vic 20 + Tape + Games L.330.000+VAT
- 1983: Commodore Vic 20 L.199.000+VAT (discounted)
- 1983: Commodore 64 L.599.000+VAT (discounted)
- 1983: Commodore 64 + Tape + 2 Games L.699.000+VAT (discounted)
- 1983: Commodore 64 L.825.000+VAT
- 1983: Commodore Datassette L.120.000+VAT
- 1983: Commodore Floppy Drive 1541 L.680.000+VAT
- 1983: Commodore Printer MPS-801 L.550.000+VAT
Price are express in Lira (currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002)
Item Information:
- Manufacturer: Commodore (england)
- Country of Production: Japan
- Year of Production: 1976
link: vintagecalculators.com
A paddle is a simple control device for use in games: It has a single potentiometer type knob (similar to the volume knob found on e.g. a stereo) which the player uses to move or control something in the game along a seemingly continuous range.
The paddle is an alternative to the more common (then as well as now) joystick, and was often used in conjunction with early “TV game” systems, or “pongs” as they are commonly called today. The C-64 an especially the VIC-20 were competing against such systems, and thus included compatibility with their control devices so “pong”-style games could be easily implemented on Commodore’s offerings.
source: c64-wiki.com
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