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1+ GHz Commodore SX-64 Mod
Spider[DAC] writes "I just found this site, about a person who modified a Commodore SX-64 to contain a 1.2 GHz PIII system. It appears to be a really cool system, and apparantly requires some specially made hardware to make it all interoperate properly. A well-documented read, and definitely something to dream about doing yourself."
... a beowulf cluster of these
Heh, let's put it to the test with the /. effect.
Think your Commodore 64's pretty neat?
Put in a P3 and it'll be l33t!
"Anonymous Coward" is for whistleblowers, not unpopular opinions.
"...and definitely something to dream about doing yourself."
Finally!! I get to dream about doing myself!!
I love you Slashdot!
ZERO
I'm attempting to move the innards of a C64 into a Dell case. Wish me luck!
It took 15 years, but I can finally play my C64 copy of "Bad Dudes" at more than 5 frames per second - hoorah!
That's nothin'... I have the original UNIVAC in my spare house that I modified to use AMD 2.2 GHz Athlon XPs. Of course, the blinkenlights flash on and off so fast they burn out in just a few seconds. Then again, the original wiring was only run at 2.2 MEGAhz, so trying to get all the timing right was a nightmare.
And have you ever tried searching PriceWatch for a PGA to vacuum tube converter? Sheeeeesh... You'd think people had never heard of retrocomputing.
bytesmythe
Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.
-- Scott Meyer
Overclocking? Has anybody ever tried to OC a C64?
What's with you people? Didn't you read that this thing runs Windows XP?
/. outrage?
Where's all that
definitely something to dream about doing yourself.
No. I'll continue my long-standing tradition of dreaming about a trio of beautiful, naked, goth-looking chicks who service my every need. I rather like that dream.
But if you want to dream about the Commodore 64, go right ahead.
Since it's bad analogy day on Slashdot how about this:
It's like taking a Model-T, ripping it apart, and using the body panels to make a Toyota look like a Model-T.
I read the internet for the articles.
I wish some Scandanavian warrior would rip this guys arms off :-)
Made you look!
Windows XP would REALLY suck with only 64k of memory...
And to start the thing up without a hard drive? I figure it would go something like this:
LOAD "WINXP",8,1
LOADING...
FLIP DISK TO SIDE 2
PLEASE WAIT...
INSERT DISK 2 OF 5.34E20
PLEASE WAIT...
One of these days, I'm going to wake up, select Slashdot from my bookmarks, and find that the top story is about some 7 year-old who managed to get his bicycle -- complete with training wheels and little brother onboard -- into lower earth orbit using some recently GPL'd Mathematica clone, an overclocked Furby, 50ft of CAT5 scavenged from the local LUGs trash bin and Jack Valenti's ego tinsnipped into tiles for the re-entry shielding.
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Jennifer, you might find my wang more to your liking!. It is quite large.
I see it uses the original Commodore keyboard... I wonder, do you still need to use a hammer to press the "Enter" key?
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The SX-64 page mentions--
"Ah, the DX. That was the american version which had 2 disk drives. (The UK gets short changed
again! - Akuma). Our european version had one plus a hole marked 'Storage'. Very useful, as long
as you don't store disks in there; the magnetic fields generated by the SX64's drive tends to wipe
them clean or corrupt them at the very least. Nice piece of design.
"
Probably Commodore's way of paying tribute to the Coleco Adam..
Dig-dug oughtta get something like 3,500 fps.
Need a simple, easy to use data tier generator? http://www.gryphinsoftware.com/
Two stories mentioning the C64 in a row? Someone please turn down the Improbability Drive a bit.
Yeah, and I hope he has fun getting eyestrain trying to watch DVDs on the 5" CRT..
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Its a sad day for apple when even the commodore 64s are made faster than the crap they sell.
Shayne
Today I didn't even have to use my AK; I got to say it was a good day -- Icecube