If anyone has an old Commodore 64 stacked in a cupboard and are willing to part with it. Please PM me. 

 

The C or G models would work best.

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46 minutes ago, Jaco de Jongh said:

If anyone has an old Commodore 64 stacked in a cupboard and are willing to part with it. Please PM me. 

I've seen modern remakes of it, but I suspect it runs some kind of ARM processor with an emulator.

19 hours ago, plonkster said:

I've seen modern remakes of it,

Can you please point me in that direction, I cant seem to find it?

I see there was some of this stuff on our Audio forum. I guess it was you posting there? https://www.avforums.co.za/index.php/topic,81944.0.html

15 minutes ago, Jaco de Jongh said:

Can you please point me in that direction, I cant seem to find it?

Google for "commodore 64 remake" and "commodore 64 mini".

Takealot even sells it.

But as I said, I think it's got ARM guts with an emulator. It does not have an actual 6150 processor like the original. If you just want to play some retro games, then maybe the remake is ok. If you need it for some programming project, then you might as well run your own on an Rpi 🙂

 

1 minute ago, plonkster said:

If you need it for some programming project, then you might as well run your own on an Rpi 🙂

My plan does include an RPI... 😜  Ill show you when im done. 

14 minutes ago, Gerlach said:

I see there was some of this stuff on our Audio forum. I guess it was you posting there? https://www.avforums.co.za/index.php/topic,81944.0.html

Hi Gerlach, I you are asking me... nope I am not part of that forum. I wanted to look at that link but see that I need to be registered. 

Ahaaaa. ok. There was someone that was looking for one to and some of the guys posted info. If you check under the Wanted: Non-AV items on www.avforums.co.za , you will see it there. Someone got a set there.

Edited September 26, 20196 yr by Gerlach

7 minutes ago, Gerlach said:

Someone got a set there.

Man, look at that Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K. That was my first experience ever with a PC while still in primary school. In high school I swapped it for a 175 CC Scrambler. What memories.. 

There was some serious rivalry those years.. Commodore VS Sinclair. 

31 minutes ago, Jaco de Jongh said:

Man, look at that Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K. That was my first experience ever with a PC while still in primary school. In high school I swapped it for a 175 CC Scrambler. What memories.. 

You guys are old. By the time I grew an interest in computers the PC had been invented 😛

Well, in 1985 I had my first exposure to a BBC Micro. So there is that. But really it starts in 1988 when my primary school bought a heap of "ICL Elf" computers. That had the castrated 8088 processor (8-bit bus, the 8086 had a 16-bit bus).

I learned to program on a VIC 20. When PCs came out with 640K of ram I thought that was just a ridiculous amount of memory. What on earth was a person going to do with all of that?

If some of you guys are interested, check this page out on facebrick. A few of us locals who enjoy the old tech

https://www.facebook.com/groups/vintagecomputingsa

I have a fair few old machines floating about at home, starting with the 8bit machines of the likes mentioned here - Vic20, C64, Speccy's - and then up from there into the 8088/286/386 etc machines.

Does this count as vintage? Or is it too 90s? 🙂

13 minutes ago, plonkster said:

Does this count as vintage? Or is it too 90s? 🙂

I would put it in the Vintage bin. I cant remember when last I saw one of those.