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MC
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Registered: Jul 2009
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Welcome back
I just bought three C64's, two 1541's, a 1570, two datarecorders, two "the arcade" joysticks by Suzo and a whole bunch of diskettes for 50 euros.
Welcome back.
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
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Very good! :) |
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NecroPolo
Registered: Jun 2009
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Do you mean, 50Eu for the whole pack? Sounds to be reasonable.
Welcome back. I hope you'll release some M-A tunes soon :)
Great stuff BTW. |
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cba
Registered: Apr 2002
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Quote: I just bought three C64's, two 1541's, a 1570, two datarecorders, two "the arcade" joysticks by Suzo and a whole bunch of diskettes for 50 euros.
Welcome back.
What ever happened to your original c64, lost it ? also all the stuff you had way back ? |
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Carrion
Registered: Feb 2009
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I pray everyday to hear new sids from ya!
actually i bought exactly 3 c64s and one 1541 + 1 mmc replay year ago and it proved it was a good decision. besides it was cheap at ebay anyway ;)
welcome back! |
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MC
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Back in the days I owned an old (brown) C64, then a new one with the shitty filtered new SID :) and finally a C128. Amongst other stuff like diskdrives and so on.
After all those computers died on me, I gave my diskdrive, joysticks, cartridges and disks to a friend and left the C64 era behind as I was sure everyone would love Amigas and ST's. I was wrong.
Am picking stuff up tomorrow. Is there any way to hook up a C64 to a VGA input monitor?
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VIC
Registered: Aug 2003
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Now, where's the "Like"-button? |
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Mason
Registered: Dec 2001
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Quote: Back in the days I owned an old (brown) C64, then a new one with the shitty filtered new SID :) and finally a C128. Amongst other stuff like diskdrives and so on.
After all those computers died on me, I gave my diskdrive, joysticks, cartridges and disks to a friend and left the C64 era behind as I was sure everyone would love Amigas and ST's. I was wrong.
Am picking stuff up tomorrow. Is there any way to hook up a C64 to a VGA input monitor?
Hope you will transfer the disks you got with the bunch here.
Also do you have contact to any of the old Spench members?
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MC
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Nope, no contact whatsoever. I have been really utterly and extremely away for 20 years ;) |
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cba
Registered: Apr 2002
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Quote: Nope, no contact whatsoever. I have been really utterly and extremely away for 20 years ;)
If you wanne get back in the c64 vibe, visit the upcoming X-2010 c64 only party in .NL (http://www.scs-trc.net/x2010) |
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MagerValp
Registered: Dec 2001
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Quoting MCIs there any way to hook up a C64 to a VGA input monitor?
Sure. S-Video to HDMI converter boxes can be found in most hifi and game stores. S-Video to VGA used to be pretty common, so with a bit of digging you should be able to find that as well. You'll also need a cable with a Mini-DIN connector, which you can buy from Vesalia and others:
http://www.vesalia.de/r0e_commodore_hardware_cables_adapters.htm |
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MC
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Picked up my stuff tonight. One of the three C64's is flatter then the other two and has nice metal shielding inside instead of the cardboard stuff in the fatter models. I'm using that one for now. All three have the old version of the SID chip.
There's two KCS powercartridges, 3 joysticks, a working 1570 and a non-working 1541 (device not present error but it does respond to the c64 coldstarts, will check that later), a working C2N and a lot of disks of which more then half seem to have errors. There's lots of tapes and other stuff I haven't bothered looking at yet...
Seeing RADWAR stuff and a HOTLINE intro on a real C64 after all these years was special...
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Mr. SID
Registered: Jan 2003
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You might want to consider getting one of these: http://www.1541ultimate.net/ |
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MC
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I already ordered one m8 :)
Still waiting for a comfirmation e-mail (its almost been a week), apparently the lad selling them isn't a fast communicator...
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
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he isnt, but no worries :) quickest way to get one right now is probably to tell him to bring it to X and then pick it up there :) |
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MC
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I hooked up the C64 to a Luxman pre-amp and Bryston poweramp.
Loaded up "Rambo" by Ocean thus reassuring I would get to hear some Martin Galway stuff first thing coming through the old TDL transmissionline speakers.
It is incredible how shit sidplay on the PC sounds compared to the real thing :o
Starting to get the vibe back. SID still is amazing.
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Mr. SID
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 424 |
Make sure to use a recent version of sidplay (2.5 on windows) which uses the resid-fp engine. That one sounds much better than older versions. |
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GT
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Quote: Make sure to use a recent version of sidplay (2.5 on windows) which uses the resid-fp engine. That one sounds much better than older versions.
The latest versions are really good. Still I have problems with filter volumes vs the real thing. Seems that sidplay and VICE doesn't compensate or emulate the volume correctly on 6581's. A voice with filter gets quieter in ADSR on a real 6581. This is just out of my head right now. I'll look at it more closely. An example is the Artillery tune. Play it on a real 6581, then in emulator. Filtered voice is way too loud in the emulators (about 15-20% louder). I'd like to know more about how it is emulated. Has all levels when different filter settings occur really been checked down to the last details? (thinking 6581 especially) |
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GT
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Sorry I posted this in the wrong topic. Some wizard, PM me about it. |
