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Post by madcrow on Feb 24, 2005 13:30:08 GMT -5
seeing as it's kind of hard to get a real 1541 these days, i was wondering if some of the newer after-market hard drives and disk drives will work on the dtv or if they connect some way other than the serial port that can be added.
also as i'm not much of a hardware guy, i was wondering if there are people doing the hardware hacks for a fee, sort of like the guys who chip dvd players and ps2s.
finally, has anybody wondered why the designers of the DTV made the stuff that one has to do to turn it into a real C64 so balzingly obvious, down to solder-on-a-PS/2-port-and-go support for keyboards? it's almost as if they WANTED to make it possible...
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Post by pablot on Feb 24, 2005 17:16:48 GMT -5
I think that in fact they really wanted the DTV to be expanded, so they made it with this in mind. Am I right Jeri?
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Post by Leif Bloomquist on Feb 26, 2005 19:54:49 GMT -5
seeing as it's kind of hard to get a real 1541 these days Eh? How many dozen do you want? www.jammingsignal.com/woc2004/images/DSCN1216.jpg As said above - the designers indeed did this quite deliberately. Jeri (lead designer) told me she justified the extra cost to the customer by saying how much better sales would be of a hackable unit. So get hacking people! Plus, I'm guessing Jeri reused a lot of her knowledge from the C1 project ( c64upgra.de/c-one/ ), so a lot of it was already possible.
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