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Re:MEGA65 – highly advanced C64 and C65 compatible 8-bit com... by snvzz on Thursday September 30, 2021 @01:42PM (#28708982)
>price

I'd consider buying one at 300€. I'm not even contemplating it at the current price.

>floppy ridiculous.

I disagree. Floppies are very adequate to this sort of hardware, and an important component of the classic feel.

I just wish the drive faced the right side (like a keyboard Amiga) instead. It's not like they have any ports in there.

Inserting floppies from the front seems extremely uncomfortable to even think about.

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Re:MEGA65 – highly advanced C64 and C65 compatible 8-bit com... by romwell on Thursday September 30, 2021 @01:48PM (#28709038)
Tape drive would have been more appropriate, and more fun though :)
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Re:MEGA65 – highly advanced C64 and C65 compatible 8-bit com... by snvzz on Thursday September 30, 2021 @01:52PM (#28709081)
I suffered enough of that back in my C64 days.

Anybody who could afford it did get a floppy drive. I got an Amiga 500 at some point, instead.

I still have the hardware and the tapes, so I intend to get everything operational again at some point. It's just in the back of the queue, as I am busy dealing with a lot of "retro" platforms already.

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Re:MEGA65 – highly advanced C64 and C65 compatible 8-bit com... by ipaddr on Thursday September 30, 2021 @02:45PM (#28709668)
At the end of the c64 era I had hd. Ran a large bbs. In the beginning of the c64 era a 1541 was more than enough.

Using a hard drive for a c64 isn't uncommon.

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Re:MEGA65 – highly advanced C64 and C65 compatible 8-bit com... by tssva on Thursday September 30, 2021 @08:17PM (#28712875)
Since it is trying to replicate the C65 which came with a floppy, a tape drive wouldn't be more appropriate. Even for the C64 which is more era appropriate depends on where you lived. In the US the vast majority of C64s were used with a floppy drive. Software on tape was difficult to even find at your local computer store.
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