My C64 mod

PaulQ · Post by **PaulQ** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:05 am

All it needs now is a built-in disk drive...oh, and a Warp Speed cartridge...

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:21 am

Yes, your own portable Commodore computer. Maybe you could build it like a huge, foldable laptop with the keyboard on top of the mainboard, a LCD in the lid and .. well, where would we put the floppy drive?

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:17 am

Maybe you could build it like a huge, foldable laptop with the keyboard on top of the mainboard, a LCD in the lid and ..

....and a 12V car battery duct taped to the bottom

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PaulQ · Post by **PaulQ** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:39 am

One thing I'd like to try (if I could get a hold of all the necessary parts) is to put a DTV motherboard in a classic C64 breadbin case, towards the right side. Wire in the serial port and joystick ports. Get a 1581 drive kit, take it apart, and put its components in there; stick a 3.5" disk drive on the left side. Put the LCD monitor on top. Hack in a Warp Speed cartridge with a disable switch, hack in a user port, and try to run it all from the same power supply.

gklinger · Post by **gklinger** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:24 pm

DigitalQuirk wrote:One thing I'd like to try (if I could get a hold of all the necessary parts) is to put a DTV motherboard in a classic C64 breadbin case, towards the right side. Wire in the serial port and joystick ports. Get a 1581 drive kit, take it apart, and put its components in there; stick a 3.5" disk drive on the left side. Put the LCD monitor on top. Hack in a Warp Speed cartridge with a disable switch, hack in a user port, and try to run it all from the same power supply.

Everything you've listed can been done with the exception of the Warp Speed cartridge. The DTV has user port lines but no expansion port equivalent. There was a guy that did just what you're talking about albeit with a 64c. I can dig up a URL if you're curious.