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This made me giggle maniacally....

Then it made me wonder if there's a C64 emulator that runs on the Pico.

Then it made me wish there was a way to read my old 5-1/4" disks. I created around a dozen custom levels (from silly/stupid to challenging) on Loderunner for the C64 back in the day.

Then I realized that, while I have a bunch of floppies from back then, I don't have the collection that had all the video games on it... and now I'm a bit bummed.

Still, this brought back some memories...
 
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King_V said:
This made me giggle maniacally....

Then it made me wonder if there's a C64 emulator that runs on the Pico.

Then it made me wish there was a way to read my old 5-1/4" disks. I created around a dozen custom levels (from silly/stupid to challenging) on Loderunner for the C64 back in the day.

Then I realized that, while I have a bunch of floppies from back then, I don't have the collection that had all the video games on it... and now I'm a bit bummed.

Still, this brought back some memories...
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You could at least pull the data if you wanted, you just need to find a working 5 1nd 1/4 drive then you could pick this adapter or one like it. Though this site looks a little less than super secure, so maybe use a gift card or something.

http://shop.deviceside.com/prod/FC5025
 
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You could at least pull the data if you wanted, you just need to find a working 5 1nd 1/4 drive then you could pick this adapter or one like it. Though this site looks a little less than super secure, so maybe use a gift card or something.

http://shop.deviceside.com/prod/FC5025
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Ok, so, not sure if I entirely trust that site, but, that is actually still VERY intriguing. I'll admit a bit steeper than I'd expected in price, but, I guess it's a niche product. And, they provide the software for multiple platforms. Hard to argue with that.

I do have some C64 disks in a case in my basement. Mostly programs I'd written myself, if I recall correctly, though there's other stuff. The disks haven't see a drive in something like 25 years, though. The other floppy case with the games disks is gone forever, unfortunately, along with my Loderunner levels.

Oooh, and I still have, in original box with all the accessories, Ultima V. Sure, I know it's out there in emulator world, but it would be amazing if my original disks still were readable.
 
That inspired me to run it again and show it to my kids, using a Windows based emulator.
And I had to find this to find the proper keys (http://www.entropymine.com/jason/lr/misc/controls.html) and remember to activate caps lock, because the original Apple ][ only had upper keys.

It's still as nerve wrecking yet cool as it was then, only I finally get to play it in color.

In the old days it was all green on black because nobody had NTSC color TVs in Europe and my main use case was CP/M on the 80-column card anyway.

I believe a PAL color converter was actually the only original Apple hardware I ever bought and I might have even bought that from the store at the Apple headquarters when I visited there in 1986.

But it went up in smoke as soon as I tried to run it, perhaps because I had an Apple clone. Never bought Apple again!
 
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King_V said:
Oooh, and I still have, in original box with all the accessories, Ultima V. Sure, I know it's out there in emulator world, but it would be amazing if my original disks still were readable.
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The only reason to read disks THAAAAAAT old would be to archive them in digital form, like really they could turn into dust just touching them. (Well ok no, but they are extremely likely to fail)
In other news:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAqJKelw2_4
 
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