This project somehow has the distinction of being both the longest and fastest portable electronics project I have ever done. I originally started making a C64 laptop in the fall of 2006, and kept pecking away at it every so often. Finally, a few weeks ago, I said "screw it" and started over.Commodore 64 Original Hardware Laptop (Thanks, Stagueve!)
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12:46 am Mon
Apr 6, 2009
Commodore 64 laptop
Stagueve sez, "Ben Heck just finished his new project, a gorgeous Commodore 64 Laptop:"
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That is…(sniff)…so beautiful…
Love it! Nostalgia orgasm!
As awesome as the original? I think not :)
http://oldcomputers.net/sx64.html
Did he suggest that his six year old hands were more nubile? Nice laptop nonetheless.
I’m impressed by his laptop systems, but I wonder why there’s always a thick loop of wire running out the back to the monitor? Isn’t there a way to internalize that? (note: I have no clue) I’d be afraid of someone thinking it was a handle.
Best thing ever!! I want one!
i think i would get one just to play “Impossible:Mission” or maybe even “Hacker”.
the music is starting to make me tear up… i must go.
This is what Commodore should have done back in 1984 or so.
Ubercool! (In need of a time machine)
I’d happily trade my MacBook for that!
Finally, a demo video with entertaining narration as well.
Love the narration.
and now he need to make more of those. if he keeps it to just one he will prob be killed by jealous C64 hackers.
Did Ben Heck describe his wrists at 6 years old as “nubile?”
Those Atari joysticks suck. Get a Wico! (Also, this is fucking awesome.)
LOAD “*”,8,1
Oh, my childhood!
This brings me back. Want!!!
It’s an original Commodore 64 computer plus an emulated Commodore 1541 disk drive (the “1541-III“). I was fascinated by how the 1541-III lets you access the different disk images on the SD card using valid C64 LOAD commands.
I had never seen LOAD”$5”,8 before, but after reading more about Commodore DOS, I can see how it’s a logical extension.
Hey whippersnappers, that’s *cload* to you. This is truly a hack in every sense of the word. Using an original C64 board seems too backward for my tastes, and I wonder why this wasn’t used instead;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV
“…a few weeks ago, I said ‘screw it’ and started over.”
You sound like a programmer.
Damn what a nostalgi trip that was, i might dig out my C-64 from my closet, and have a nice evening with some nostalgy games….
Badass. I spent way too many hours sitting in front of my C64.
I have a Commodore Executive SX-64 Laptop I’d like to get rid of–I mean sell. It works–A light goes on. I’m in Los Angeles and will except any reasonable offer. Frank: smptemonkey@yahoo.com
Very True about the Wico.
I Still have one and it NEVER broke!
Why cant they make controllers like THAT any more!
Very classic laptop