Using TAP files on a real Commodore 64

Wow!

I Just realized i can use TAP files on my Commodore 64 🙂

1. Install an app on my Android phone (tapDancer),
2. Purchase a cassette tape adapter with a minijack.(on EBay)
3. Put TAP files on the phone’s SD card.
4. Put adapter in Datasette Player
5. Start the c64
6. type “load” and press return.
7. press play on tape (Datasette Player)
8. Press play on tapDancer
Profit!

 

Just a quick tip for anyone with a c64 with a datasette player 🙂

Will post pics of this when my gf is out of the house 🙂

Amiga : Converting to full ECS

Now that the best Agnus available is installed, we just need the best Denise. Denise is pin compatible, so we won’t need an adapter.

 

Here’s OCS Denise (8362r8):

 

Since I don’t know how this really shuld be done, I just put the tiniest flathead screwdriver i have under the chip, and carefully forced it up. Extreme care should be taken as not to bend the chip’s pins!

And here’s HiRes Denise (8373r4) in her place:

 

And here you can see that she’s located at the upper left portion of the motherboard:

You can even see the edge of the Agnus adapter card in the bottom right corner 🙂

 

If this A500 had a Kickstart 1.4, and a new clock battery on the RAM expansion board, she would now be a fully functional A500+ 🙂

Modding my Amiga 500: The Plan

The plan so far:

* Get 2MB Chip RAM
* Get full ECS (Enhanced Chip Set)
* Floppy Emulation
* Get the Zeus68k (Accelerator, IDE controller, Kickstart switcher, Fast RAM expansion, Freezer e.t.c) (http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=65047) or feasible alternative.