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AmigaLove: a channel that focuses on what I call "Tech Archeology" for the Commodore scenes.
Deep-dive, uber niche explorations of Amiga and Commodore 64 hardware and software, with a thin slice of vintage Mac.
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AmigaL0ve
Host:
Eric Hill, based in Seattle, Washington, USA. I also go by the monikers intric8 and AmigaLove.
I led a team to successfully reverse-engineer The Rejuvenator for the Amiga 1000. That project went from 2018-2021.
Deep-dive, uber niche explorations of Amiga and Commodore 64 hardware and software, with a thin slice of vintage Mac.
Subscribe to this channel and join me on this journey. Let's share the Amiga Love, together.
Questions beyond a specific video? Find me here:
amigalove.com
mastodon.social/@amigalove
AmigaL0ve
Host:
Eric Hill, based in Seattle, Washington, USA. I also go by the monikers intric8 and AmigaLove.
I led a team to successfully reverse-engineer The Rejuvenator for the Amiga 1000. That project went from 2018-2021.
Commodore C64X Mister FPGA Build - The Best Retro Gaming Setup Ever
After years of sitting on the sidelines, I finally took the MiSTer FPGA plunge after a friend showed me his latest Commodore-wrapped creation using a brand new C64X case. The C64X can become a full-blown MiSTer in just a matter of minutes once you get all of the parts. You can get beige, a VIC-20 color scheme or even a black "TED" styled version. They are all Commodore branded with the C= key and badges and even come in a gorgeous professionally designed Commodore-branded box.
In this video I show you how to put one together, then show you some of my favorite games. And if you wait until the very end, I'll blow your mind with a Mister Add-On you'll want the second you see it in action. ARTICLE VERSION with Parts List: www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=2765
Table of Contents
00:00 - 00:25 Intro Titles
00:26 - 02:13 Overview and Commodore C64x Backstory
02:14 - 09:26 The Build
09:27 - 09:52 Power Test
09:53 - 11:00 Playing with the MiSTer: Altered Beast, Commando (Arcade)
11:01 - 11:34 Playing with the MiSTer: Colecovision
11:35 - 11:52 Playing with the MiSTer: Shinobi (Arcade)
11:53 - 12:49 Special Add-On SURPRISE!!!
12:50 - 13:16 Outro
● Many thanks to our awesome monthly Site Supporters and Channel Members for their support!!!
Michael Wallen (walldog)
Travis Carter (joethezombie)
Graham Shaw (grshaw)
Acknowledgements
● Intro/Outro music (and more) by the ULTRA bad ass: Axion, with permission [Canada].
axionsynthwave.bandcamp.com/
● Additional Soundtrack music permission by the RIGHTEOUSLY awesome Droid Bishop, with permission [Los Angeles, CA]
droidbishop.bandcamp.com/
● Amiga 3D case render during the intro by the INSANELY talented Thomas (Tommes) Koch
In this video I show you how to put one together, then show you some of my favorite games. And if you wait until the very end, I'll blow your mind with a Mister Add-On you'll want the second you see it in action. ARTICLE VERSION with Parts List: www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=2765
Table of Contents
00:00 - 00:25 Intro Titles
00:26 - 02:13 Overview and Commodore C64x Backstory
02:14 - 09:26 The Build
09:27 - 09:52 Power Test
09:53 - 11:00 Playing with the MiSTer: Altered Beast, Commando (Arcade)
11:01 - 11:34 Playing with the MiSTer: Colecovision
11:35 - 11:52 Playing with the MiSTer: Shinobi (Arcade)
11:53 - 12:49 Special Add-On SURPRISE!!!
12:50 - 13:16 Outro
● Many thanks to our awesome monthly Site Supporters and Channel Members for their support!!!
Michael Wallen (walldog)
Travis Carter (joethezombie)
Graham Shaw (grshaw)
Acknowledgements
● Intro/Outro music (and more) by the ULTRA bad ass: Axion, with permission [Canada].
axionsynthwave.bandcamp.com/
● Additional Soundtrack music permission by the RIGHTEOUSLY awesome Droid Bishop, with permission [Los Angeles, CA]
droidbishop.bandcamp.com/
● Amiga 3D case render during the intro by the INSANELY talented Thomas (Tommes) Koch
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Is Apple Newton’s Handwriting Recognition Better Than the reMarkable?
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The Apple Newton was often mocked for its early handwriting recognition software in the 1990s. After only 5 years in the market, Apple decided to discontinue the device. How does the final version of Newton from 1997 stack up against the fantastic reMarkable 2 paper tablet in 2024? ARTICLE VERSION: www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=2732 Table of Contents 00:00 - 00:26 Intro Titles 00:27 - 01:17...
Keeping Up With The Commodore and the SX-64
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Brief overview of the lovable "luggable" Commodore SX-64 - the very first full-color portable computer. I then quickly build a 100% brand new Commodore 64 computer where EVERY single component is modern and new in an homage to the SX-64's unique case design. ARTICLE VERSION: www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=2677 Build materials: - Ultimate64 Elite motherboard: ultimate64.com/ - Brand new plast...
The Best Rogue, and Other Roguelikes for Amiga
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Rogue for Amiga is hands down the best version of Rogue made for home computers. I walk through the history of Rogue and the original core ports made in the 1980s. I also show some of the original core "roguelikes" as they were made on Amiga in the 80s and early 90s and show the main differences. ARTICLE VERSION: www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=2639 ● Many thanks to our awesome monthly Site S...
My Commodore GEOS Battle Station, Part II: A Love Letter to CMD
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Back in October of 2022 I demonstrated what I believed to be the greatest GEOS setup money could buy back in 1989. Today, I move us forward in the calendar to 1993 and show an integrated workstation that includes the CMD RAMLink, FD-2000, CMD gateWay and Star NL-10 printer. I also briefly discuss the CMD HD as well. ● GEOS Battle Station, Part 1 ua-cam.com/video/vBhICzE_0o0/v-deo.html ● Article...
King of the Commodore Disk Drives: MSD SD-2
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I was fortunate to acquire this amazing disk drive in 2022 before fully understanding its capabilities. What an incredible piece of hardware. Join me as I walk through its impressive history and features. ARTICLE with Text & Photos: www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2442 ● Many thanks to our awesome monthly Site Supporters and Channel Members for their support!!! Michael Wallen (walldog) T...
Eye of the Beholder for Commodore 128 - Ultimate Gaming Rig Setup
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In November of 2022, Eye of the Beholder for C64 and C128 dropped like a dragon roar heard 'round the realm. In this video I demonstrate what is one of the best ways to fully enjoy this incredible gaming experience. I use vintage hardware with a touch of modernity for the storage option. ARTICLE VERSION: www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=2415 ● Many thanks to our awesome monthly Site Supporters...
Best Upgrade in 30 Years! Parceiro II
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Parciero II: Memory, Clock, Storage... AND MULTIPLE KICKSTARTS/WORKBENCHES! All for the Amiga 1000. ARTICLE VERSION: www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2394 Almost exactly 2 years ago, US-based Amiga addict and inventor David Dunklee shocked the Amiga world with the Parceiro. It provided 8MB of fast RAM, a coin-cell RTC and micro SD storage for Amiga 1000 fans. And, it worked in OS 1.3. Parc...
My Amiga 1000 Macintosh Plus: It's Alive!
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My Amiga 1000 Macintosh Plus: It's Alive!
Amiga 1000 Rejuvenator Project: The Finale
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Amiga 1000 Rejuvenator Project: The Finale
Boing Ball Badged: A Tribute to Dave Needle
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Boing Ball Badged: A Tribute to Dave Needle
StarDrive R2 for Amiga is Reversed Engineered
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StarDrive R2 for Amiga is Reversed Engineered
Amiga 1000 Parceiro: Memory, Clock, Storage
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Amiga 1000 Parceiro: Memory, Clock, Storage
How to Share Files Between a Modern and Classic 68K Mac
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How to Share Files Between a Modern and Classic 68K Mac
CD-ROM Drives and the Amiga Computer
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CD-ROM Drives and the Amiga Computer
Commodore 1581 Floppy Disk Drive: A Brief Look
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Commodore 1581 Floppy Disk Drive: A Brief Look
How to Remove Amiga Space Invaders Mechanical Keyboard Keycaps
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How to Remove Amiga Space Invaders Mechanical Keyboard Keycaps
Commodore 64 Instant Game Load Magic: RAMLink & BackBit
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Commodore 64 Instant Game Load Magic: RAMLink & BackBit
Real Time Clocks and the Amiga 1000
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Real Time Clocks and the Amiga 1000
C64 Beta Testing Environment for New C64 Game
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C64 Beta Testing Environment for New C64 Game
AmiDock: One-Click Application Launcher for Early Amigas
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Walkthrough: The Commodore Amiga 500 "Chicken Lips"
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Walkthrough: The Commodore Amiga 500 "Chicken Lips"
Great build! Well done video. Cool history behind the 64x👍
8 bit (4 channel) or 14 bit (stereo)28khz per channel on OCS/ECS, 8 bit or 14 bit, 57khz on AGA. Closer to the technics VHS DAT machines of the era, rather than CD. In 1984(released 85). Check the TV segment with Fred playing synthesised guitar and strings back in 1985. Memory was at a premium back then, but you could play back raw HDD PCM audio recordings out of the box. To hear any "computer music" sounding so good was a real shock
This is so cool!
Nice build...Hmmm..pay the mortgage or build one of these ?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is the *best* video on this topic I have seen to date yet. Thanks!
Thank you. You've made my day! Appreciate that.
I’m glad you mentioned HyperCard. The well known “killer app” for the Mac back in those days was PageMaker paired with a LaserWriter. But for my money, HyperCard was the biggest reason for getting a Mac over other platforms. It was just amazing what you could do in a short space of time. I used HyperCard for my major project at High School where I imported the local bus and train timetables, and it became a public transport journey planner - working out departure and arrival times and where you had to switch modes of transport at junctions etc. All with a web like graphical user interface. My Dad later modified my stack so that it could export your trip information to the Newton to check on where you need to be at what time while on the go. It was amazing stuff! Despite all this, I find the Amiga fascinating today. It’s the only other computer, besides the Mac, with a cult like status. You don’t get such dedicated users like the Amiga had by accident. It clearly had that sprinkle of magic. So what a killer combination it would have been in the day to have combined these two computers in one! Unfortunately here in Australia, you really only see A500 and A600s for sale. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an A1000 (or any big box Amiga’s) in person. But then I look at my Commodore 128DCR and smile that I do have something special after all.
The GEOS 2.0 disk is overloaded with printer drivers, including a MAC Laser Printer driver. The quality was excellent. The drivers adapted printers of higher resolutions, created stunning results. Also, many printers of the time had DIP switches allowing them to emulate other printer types. For example, Panasonic printers can emulate IBM Pro Printers. Under GEOS you could use all the drivers for all the modes your printer can emulate, allowing you to access what you considered to be higher quality. There was even a Postscript driver, allowing use of even more advanced printers and higher quality types. It was a wildly expanding time of development and excitement for the Commodore/GEOS legend.
This was 1995, not 85
Sorry, when do you think the computer was made?
Too bad you dudn't have a CMD FD-4000. You can reliably format a 3.5" HD floppy to 3.2 MB. More storage space = more better...
I have one... as of about a week ago. Brand new! :)
I had one years ago, and even had a box of those quad density floppies intended for use with it wasn't able to obtain any more at the time so I formatted a standard HD (i1.6 MB usually) as a QD *3.2 MB). It worked just fine..
@@jm131719 Yes, I've gone down quite the rabbit hole around this topic. I have 4 ED disks a friend of mine gave me - never used. But of course we all wanted to figure out the HD conversion. The drive mechanisms the new drives use (Sony) are different than the ones they used back in the day (TEAC) and they have different sensors. After many experiments, we finally got a system down to where the conversions work 100% of the time now. Thank goodness, because HD disks are everywhere! Pretty cool.
It is a really cool design. I love it. Greetings!
"A floppy disk you can count on" literally.
This seems to be a much better computer, hardware wise, than the Commander X16 which has absolutely no C64 compatibility and runs at only 8MHz compared to 40MHz here. Oddly, it seems like there's more software for the X16. It's a shame that one standard couldn't have been made. There's too few users as is. What drove software creation for the C64 in the 1980s was how many millions of users there were. You can't hope for that again, but I think there needs to be more than 1500 or so. There's an emulator for the X16. Is there one for the Mega65? Free users are still possible purveyors of software sales. No one but some hobbyists are going to bother for 1500 total users or whatever the exact number ends up being, many of which won't be interested in one particular software package.
Yes, there's an emulator. It's called Xemu. (Not to be confused with the Xbox thing) See: retrocombs.com/xemu-on-mac
Imagine back in the day rocking the "dual monitor setup" in 1986 compared to today where even the receptionist has 2 or 3 monitors.
Some of the dudes in Jurassic Park in 1993 had massive dual monitors (21"?). But in the 80s? Honestly now that I think about it I can't think of any instances... Hmm... But yeah I guess in 10 years we'll all just wear Vision Pro-like goggles embedded into our eyeballs and lose the monitors for the most part.
Watch my video about the history of Rogue and the original core ports made in the 1980s. ua-cam.com/video/hUb9geptHAw/v-deo.html
I have warm and fuzzy memories from my his game and my Amiga 500. ❤
I can’t get enough of these Microbotics starboard videos! Never gets old. Something just elegant about this setup and process
C64X mister fpga building working for me only 2 weeks in total to order and assemble all components! Everything working other than power light so checking your written guide in case Ive positioned the led dupont connectors incorrectly. FYI the USB on the ITX mini has been revised and moved to bottom right of the mini ethernet cable section - in that space.
My Amiga and the Parceiro will now make love till the end of time. What a great peace of hardware. It just feels orginal but it's so much power for an 1000
Also,.. my original rejuvinator works with stardrive 2
Same. You know, I think it's partly due to my affection for this setup and my friendship with Chris - I still use this setup as my A1K daily driver over my Parceiro, even though the Parceiro is about 100X better in terms of function and convenience. It's probably also partly why I have taken a slight hiatus from my daily Amiga obsessions and focused so hard on C64/128 these past two years. The Amiga setup in this video is one of my most prized pieces of vintage computer goodness. But it also makes me a little sad. Most of that has subsided but it's still there. I want to get back into it more regularly before the end of the year. In fact, one of my next videos will be about a piece of rare hardware only made for Amiga that I acquired - can't wait to show you!
This is still one of my favorite videos!
Thanks, and such a great project it was. Chris had been working on an EPIC piece of hardware at the time of his death that frankly makes me ill knowing it'll never be released. I have some of that hardware... I will show it off some time even though it is unfinished and I have none of his code/files. Honestly, would be nice to do by this September to honor the 2nd year since he left us in 2022. Hm...
Ok, how am I actually hearing that MOD in stereo, if it isn't recorded directly via line-in or a capture card? o.O
At what time-code do you mean?
@@AmigaLove between 13:11 and 14:22 during the HippoPlayer segment. I can hear the left-panned channels from the left side of my headphones, and vice-versa.
@@NightSprinter OK yeah. I recorded that back then using an iPhone. I have 2 original Commodore speakers hooked up to that computer, and the left/right separation is insane on an Amiga, as you know. Starting with iOS 14 (2020), we can capture stereo audio using the built-in microphones. Cool that you were able to pick that up!
@@AmigaLove I'll need to check that out when I get a newer iPhone!
wow this is awesome! I wish there was a keyboard in the style of the Atari 800XL I wouldn't stick a MiSTer in it, but put an USB port instead, so I can take the same keyboard from Altirra to MiSTer when I feel like it.
That would be cool! Have you seen the clear 800xl case?
Just bought this for Switch. I played for an hour or so and love it so far, but I knew someone out there would be able to give a good rundown of how everything works. Thanks!
Epyx Rogue is on Switch?! Holy smoke, I'll have to look it up!
surprised the ironclad board doesn't have a microSD extension option. Also you could probably mount a 2.5" hard drive in the DVD slot using a 2.5 to laptop DVD drive adapter.
I want that TV the late Leonard Nimoy had in that clip.
That's a gorgeous back-breaking TV for sure. Wait, you don't want his beeping crystal?? For me, I wish I could grow a 'stache like Nimoy's. It added some real 70s class I'd enjoy wearing in future videos. :)
@@AmigaLove I could have that as a bit of deco. House needs to have a conversation pit.
UPDATE: you will just get an email when posted - so don't worry if you don't hear back for a week :-) WARNING: DO NOT BUY the MiSTer Mini-ITX Ironclad Lite - I ordered it from d3fmod weeks ago and have had no reply from my chaser emails/tweets to the company or Roberto the owner. Don't know if hes been in germany for weeks watching spain but I was stupid to order and pay immediately after watching this video and had no response.
He has a very long backlog. Mine took 2 months.
@@AmigaLove ok will wait rather than chargeback
@@AmigaLove ignore me received email this morning from Robert/ d3fmod to confirm its been posted!
ITX mini arrived from Spain so all is good in the world 🙂thanks for great video - I'm now up and runing with the C64X - I went for clear/ RGB lighting keys in the breadbin
I LOVED my C64/128/Amiga, LOVED. They are now all retired and their motherboards hang like trophies in my man- cave. My current PC, a Windows type, is about one million times faster and can draw real pictures! Amazing, huh? LOL. Keep retroing!
I used 3Com's (or was it Palm's?) "handwriting" recognition back then. Were they copying Apple?
Palm used their own thing called "Grafitti" which made you learn a very specific way of writing "their way". You either matched it's explicit way or it created errors. Rather than learn your handwriting, Palm made you learn theirs. It was a totally different way of going about the problem.
Ah yes, that's right. It worked, though.
Damn it ! You just made me spend half a grand lol 😂
Haha! I don’t think you’ll regret it. Have fun!!
I used to love my commodore 64 as a kid - Chuckie Egg all the way for me
This was a very well made and timely video! I've been wondering what to do with my transparent C64x case (even contemplating selling it) and the news of the cheap Mister clone has reawakened my interest in finally getting one. This is would be the perfect match. I started searching around for builds like this but did not see much being done, and now you have shared the definitive example. Thank you! Here's hoping the MisterFPGA will fit perfectly.
Thank you so much and I’m glad you found the video useful. In the description area I link to an article with a shopping list. (I’m not attached to any of the shops in any way.) the entire build - for me, with shipping, was $700-800 total. However you’re right - a very affordable clone Mister at $100 appears to be dropping any day now, which is amazing. Good luck with your build! Would love to see it when it is done. The motherboard took the longest for me to receive.
I have a SD1, quite the chunky boy. Haven't tried the IEEE interface yet.
ok brilliant video - I have just bought the same hardware with v3 memory! and SD to SD extension cable - bought the 64X translucent case with RGB lighting!
That sounds awesome. That should be quite the retro gaming disco when you’re done!
@@AmigaLove thanks! checkout the video for a demo by "MyRetroComputers Translucent c64x Breadbin/RGB Keyboard Review"
The "Admittedly high price" is something I feel requires more attention than simply stating it, and saying there was a "Smear campaign" against it is implying a collective effort to actively join forces to say that no matter how great the thing is, we're going to make sure this fails. Even the most spectacular failures will sell more than 200,000 if there's that kind of attention being paid to it, in this case it's probably more that nobody cared. To me Apple is and always was a mid to upper mid-tear quality being sold as if it were high tier to a very rabid/cultish userbase that believes that are high tear. If you can't even sell to that group, then there's obviously something wrong with the product that somehow even made Apple's own users fail to see its benefits. Now that right there, is worth a video, no joke that the Simpsons make is going to influence a cult of people determined to buy a brand, something more made them not pay attention. What line is crossed that finally makes the diehards say "no way!", that's what I'd be interested in knowing. As for the Newton itself and what I think of it in regards to what this video shows, I have no personal experience with it, I'm sure I saw a couple back in the day, and I remember the X-Files game actually using it as one of the main mechanics of the game. I remember the jokes, I've made some of my own, but it's no surprise to me to learn that it's "not garbage", I don't expect anything from Apple to be pure garbage and of course this video shows that it's not that, but nor is it something that justified its price... Which is something I would say for every single Apple product ever released. Why this failed when most Apple products did not, that simply cannot be blamed on the people who never used the product, who just mocked it, no... It's on Apple users and the company somehow failing to convince them that they needed it. Apple did not/does not need volume of sales to succeed with a product, they only need their own users to buy whatever they make. The comparisons with the reMarkable I will assume are correct, as I certainly have no interest in that either, and hey, if the Newton is cheaper than that (now) and has better handwriting recognition, eat up that new old stock if it serves a purpose. To me, ahead of its time or not, it was another black and white device from Apple, only this one wasn't from 1984 when it had no business being made, it's from 1993, and it's not being sold for the same price that a GameBoy, that's for sure. This to me, as a video, a little too much. I don't think I could have gotten through it if it was anyone else, because it feels so much like all the other hardware stuff you see on here. The same type of shots, let's show a monitor with an old commercial, along with fake interference so it looks like what we "think" a VCR should look like, the same type of script which is obviously being read in this strange manipulative combination of monotone but also faux emotion (A UA-cam specialty), if the Newton was new I'd have to wonder if you were getting paid by Apple. -This is not meant to be taken angrily, it's more difficult than I can possible describe to write what I just wrote to someone I genuinely like and respect... What I do, will never be liked by most, but I will always have integrity, this type of video... Well, I'm actually surprised it didn't do better for you, because I feel this is the type of video that "should" get views on this site, the type of video that normally does I should say. I don't know, hopefully this only effects you if it's something you're wondering about yourself, because I'm going to tell you that there's nothing anybody could say about my videos at this point that I would give a ____ about. I hope you reach that point, I don't know what your goal is with the videos, and it's why I've never subscribed, I'm a very difficult person to get a sub from, and I can certainly say it was never earned by doing the same annoying pop ups of "subscribe" with a mouse pointer that then moves over to a bell with sound effects. If you're hoping to someday reach the likes of MVG/LGR, then disregard all of this, because you're doing it right. I'm only pondering this in a comment because there's nobody I'd like to subscribe to more than you... Buried underneath that script is passion for a device nobody else cares about, and I respect the ____ out of that, I really do.
Now all we need is easyflash saving to be added to the mister c64 core 😂
Honestly, being able to run EasyFlash CRT files (like Curse of the Azure Bonds) would be very cool...
You can run the easyflash carts it just won't save to the file for things like highscore etc
@@alpanchen Oh, now this is really cool to learn. I had no idea! Many of my favorite EF3 carts are SSI D&D adventures. What's cool about them is when you load them they ask which drive you want to save to. Since I have the IEC adapter, I should be able to set the external to 9 and save games to disk that way. I'll give that a shot later today. That would be cool!
@@alpanchen So check this out. If you use the EF3 ports created by s!r, he has coded ways for you to save your games via floppy disk, or 3 slots on the EF cart! I've created a party in Curse of the Azure Bonds and saved the characters/game to floppy, all while playing off the cartridge. It's great!
@AmigaLove not the same as it retaining the info in the cart like real ez or even u64 or kungfu flash.... a dump of the file back to sd on exit to the osd would solve the issue on mister
Nice build! I'm not convinced a MiSTer is compelling for me but I'd definitely consider this case as an option on my short list for a Denise mini-ITX Amiga. I feel pretty confident it would be a good fit with a picoATX power supply even allowing room for a CPU socket accelerator and a smaller (or maybe even two) zorro II card with an appropriate right angle riser.
If you decide to get a case, be sure to do a search on mini-itx.com for "barebones" and you'll see the 3 color options. The VIC-20 white case would look good with an Amiga core... hell, even the black one!
@@AmigaLove I was just looking at those and yeah, I agree the VIC-20 case feels the most Amiga. Ideal I think would be to have that paired with the white keyboard with grey function keys although I have no clue if they could accommodate that. Another option since it's standard MX mount keycaps would just be to swap the keycaps for something more appropriate.
I've been waiting a lifetime now for a full fat 1:1 parity Amiga 1200 & C64 FPGA computer, that has a full mech KB, floppy drive and CD-ROM, plus native OPL3, SID and MIDI built in, along with a UHS-III full-size SD card reader, or something even better than that even like CFExpress, a traditional cart slot that can boot games, soundbanks/fonts and software, along with high-quality repro games inc modern indie releases and ports, basically the perfect C64 & Amiga computer FPGA all-in-one, would be amazing to get either X68K mode as well, or a standalone Sharp X6800 1:1 FPGA computer system with a replica of the OG case, keyboard and mouse, speakers and an OLED 4:3 monitor replica using an iPad 4:3 OLED panel, also with a proper Yamaha OPL3 ASIC and a nice Wolfson DAC, plus a collection or repro X68K game carts/box's/manuals, I hope someone does this one day, as the Amiga 1200 and Sharp X68K are the best way to enjoy retro computer games imo, but unobtainium for the most part (the Sharp X68K especially).
This looks wonderfull. I have a modded "TheC64" (simply used the keyboard part of it (it is usb)) myself with a mister in it. it is a very good way to experience the C64 this way. Your build looks a lot more tidy and better though! Mine is a mess inside :) I did not know about that floppydrive intrface!! Awesome!
Very cool! And thanks!
so how much was it to make? heck the MEGA65 has a ton of cores and used the MISTER core for an awesome C64 too and in my opinion the MEGA65 case and keyboard is much cooler than this C64 PC case
At the end of the day, it's about the same price as a Mega, maybe a touch higher. I had a 1st-batch Mega, but finally sold it (broke even on it) earlier this year and went all-in on this instead.
@@AmigaLove ah ok I guess it’s a cool project too and of course personal preference
@@f1lupo If I were based in the UK or EU I might have kept the Mega65. But it was so PAL-focused and fragmented about what the machine should actually *be* I honestly felt kind cast to the side from a user standpoint. And I feel like I kept wanting the machine to be something, or become something, that it wasn't. If you're a programmer and want to program on the machine you're the perfect target audience. If, like me, you're just a user... well, it's a bit more wild west. And there's a bit of a philosophical split between core Mega65 development and other cores, like the Commodore 64. Plus, I'm not a programmer. So, I solved my own issues and let someone else buy my machine (he was a programmer!). ;) It's a very cool machine and one of my good friends is now on the steering committee so I get monthly updates on the progress from the top. I definitely still "stay connected" to the scene. Some very smart people involved.
Picked up 2 of these in an auction a few months ago. Both work without issues
Wow! Congrats
that is...awesome
Thanks!! I totally dig it, too.
Excellent video, thanks.
Thank you, Jim!
Good job. I have my MiSTer inside an amiga 600 shell, it surely was cheaper, got the shell and the keyboard back when they you could find them for relatively cheap at 40 euros each.
Very nice. Did you follow my friend mattsoft's build? (He also did this with an A1000, but never publicized that one) www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=636
@@AmigaLove Yes, mostly. You can thank him on my behalf. I got the idea when I saw the 3D printed conversion kit on eBay, and later I found out it was based on his design (it gotta be, it's identical).
@@urracojalpa4481 Yes indeed - a lot of people take his creations and recreate them and sell them w/o any credit. He doesn't want or expect $ from his ideas but the lack of credit is ... tacky, I guess is the right word. He's a mad scientist! =)
Awesome build Eric!
Thank you!!!
Damn, that's one of the sweetest MiSTer builds I've seen.
kudos again!
Great stuff, i had this idea also , really great , great retro minds think alike 🤣
c64 my fav system of alltime
Same.
the c64x is way too expensive. try the 8bitdo c64 keyboard, comes with joystick and also 2 separate massive fire buttons. i'm hoping there's space inside to fit the nano or the raspi : )