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Hardware, Embedded Systems At this year's 25th Chaos Communication Congress, an annual four day conference with the slogan "Nothing to hide" reveals everything about the Commodore 64, in 64 minutes. Across 256 slides. The video is now available to download via BitTorrent or FTP. The Commodore 64 is the greatest selling computer of all time; learn how it got there with its quirky hardware, loved by hackers worldwide.
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by Xaero_Vincent on Thu 1st Jan 2009 17:36 UTC
Xaero_Vincent
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2006-08-18

I have a old-generation beige C64 in my house. But it doesn't have a 1541 or cassette drive like most C64s. I bought a CMD FD-2000 3.5" 1.6 MB floppy drive many years back. :-P

There is a driver for Windows that enables PCs to read/write hundreds of old system floppy formats and software images copied on them, including FD-2000 and 1541.

So I'm able to download C64 ROMs off the Internet and copy them to floppy and play them on the real machine. However my system is an NTSC model, therefore most PAL games run over-speed.

Edited 2009-01-01 17:37 UTC