I bought my mini back on Amazon, during Thanksgiving. I like it, but I still love my original with printer, disk drives, datasette, and cartridges. I really miss the BBS's, that I used to call. Fun time. Wish I could use my original controllers. Thanks,, for the video.
I got one as a gift myself. I had no plans to get one myself, but I must say, since I've gotten it, I've been using it non-stop. I've especially been hooked on Galencia, especially considering that I'm a massive Galaga fan. The Epyx games, paradroid, and Boulderdash were probably the best known games on the mini (at least here in North America) The thing is most of these games were popular in Europe, but not so much here. But I do realize they could only get the games that Cloanto owned the rights to (mostly games from defunct companies). Obviously they couldn't get anything from companies like EA and Activision, since they pretty much own their own IP. Now I AM considering buying the full size version when that comes out
In another review, I felt it was unresponsive (due to emulation), i do not know. In my opinion, it would have been possible to add the serial port to connect 1541. It would have been fun. ;-)
I bought my mini back on Amazon, during Thanksgiving. I like it, but I still love my original with printer, disk drives, datasette, and cartridges. I really miss the BBS's, that I used to call. Fun time. Wish I could use my original controllers. Thanks,, for the video.
I would have liked to see the inside, however, it is better to have the original.
Doh! Good point. In my defense I'm more of a software guy than a hardware guy.
It's a pretty unremarkable SBC. and some weights. There's enough spare room in the case to also fit a Raspberry Pi B in there.
I got one as a gift myself. I had no plans to get one myself, but I must say, since I've gotten it, I've been using it non-stop. I've especially been hooked on Galencia, especially considering that I'm a massive Galaga fan.
The Epyx games, paradroid, and Boulderdash were probably the best known games on the mini (at least here in North America) The thing is most of these games were popular in Europe, but not so much here. But I do realize they could only get the games that Cloanto owned the rights to (mostly games from defunct companies). Obviously they couldn't get anything from companies like EA and Activision, since they pretty much own their own IP.
Now I AM considering buying the full size version when that comes out
In another review, I felt it was unresponsive (due to emulation), i do not know. In my opinion, it would have been possible to add the serial port to connect 1541. It would have been fun. ;-)
You don't really need a physical 1541 this day and age with things like the SD2IEC
www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/SD2IEC