Vic-20 people have the "Penultimate Cartridge" and it adds RAM and extended BASIC and a bunch of other cool shit, including most of the old software. I think the Commodore64 folks have an SD-card solution. And any system that could handle a standard floppy disk drive can mount a Gotek. The Tandy Coco folks have their CocoSDC and the MC-10/Alice folks have the MCX-32 and MCX-128.
2022 is the best time to get into 8-bit computers!
Been wanting to pick up that Turbo Chameleon V2 from icomp.de. On the expensive side though. Would love to just have even some REU... but all I can really come across is GEOS ram.
OMG GEOS
YEAH, DAMNIT! If only I can get the 1351 mouse to work! Or any mouse, for that matter. Have a couple of those usb mouse/usb gamepad adapters, gamepad part works but mouse part doesn't. 2 machines, same problem.
Come to think of it now, I donated the SID chip from one to the other... maybe that's why the problem followed... I think the mouse uses the A/D on the SID. Sounds perfectly fine though when put through diagnostic. The SID I replaced was missing noise on ch3.
Mostly agree...the last decade was the best time for 8-bit SoC like AVR. 32bit is so cheap now I think it may be time once again to frame the 8-bit stuff and hang it on the wall.
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