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I've recently decided I want to add one of these to the game collection. I seem to recall they could be hooked up to a television via composite video cables... other than I also remember this wannabe s-video cable that went to the old commodore monitors. I'm betting I'll never find that chroma luma cable but I'm thinking the composite cable will work well through an upscale converter and output something useful on a newer tv. I also vividly remember these things having horribly built floppy drives that crap out like crazy and ac adapters that melt because they get so hot so I'm thinking third party ac adapter and using an sd card instead of the floppies. I'm sure the internet is rife with pinouts to convert different game pads to work with a c64 so I'm sure there's a lot of routes to take with everything but the keyboard. I'm guessing since it's built in there's not a lot of room for change. I've yet to find info on the internet as to if the keyboard is truly a mechanical keyboard (which would be nice) but I doubt it having seen several pictures of the commodore's innards and how cheaply these things were made.
(retro here's where you come in) - Does anyone have first hand knowledge of these computers? They have a huge library and were 8 bit gaming before the Nintendo got its legs so I can't imagine that all game collectors or retro junkies have dismissed this system.
(retro here's where you come in) - Does anyone have first hand knowledge of these computers? They have a huge library and were 8 bit gaming before the Nintendo got its legs so I can't imagine that all game collectors or retro junkies have dismissed this system.