The internal floppy disk noise when accessing the disk images on the SD card is meant to be a cute special effect. The next platform release will have an option to turn that off. It's fun at first, but most of us would rather preserve the life of our drive mechanisms. The C65 and MEGA65 have many new disk commands and shortcuts useful for launching programs. Instead of LOAD"*",8,1 : RUN, try RUN "*", or just press Shift + Run/Stop. DIR shows the disk directory, and you can cursor up to a file, type the Up Arrow, and press Return to load and run it. These are only available the MEGA65 mode, not GO64 mode. I'm enjoying seeing your "haven't read the manual" experiences! It's useful to be reminded of what's intuitive and what isn't. I'm so used to the MEGA65 now I just take everything for granted.
@DanSanderson I will indeed try the other option out, you are 100% correct re the drive mech, It sounds ..... wrong ....... even a sample of the drive access would be better than the drive grinding..... I have deliberately not edited my experience of actually using the mega 65 so far , I'm currently spending a lot of time learning vhdl in the hopes of bring new cores to the mega65, I'm looking at the c16 currently but it's a steep learning curve
Am enjoying you share your experiences :-) Will jot down some things while I watch :-) For loading programs, for the most part, you no longer need the ,8,1 at the end, as 8 is now the default, so you can just do LOAD "FILE" (or for mega65, DLOAD "FILE", or / "FILE") - In GO64 mode, you can hold down the NOSCROLL key to speed up loading time :-)
I do not have a Mega65 but have a real 64 Breadbin + a real 1541 and i love it. For now i have a Ultimate 2+L cartridge but have preordered a Ultimate 64 mk.2. I guess that the C64 core would be better over time as the development progress. But so far it is quite cool. I am a now a new subscriber. ;o)
@@HeliZero the c64 core from the mister is what is being used on the mega65 , I'm not sure what is happening with the D64 or CRT files as they seem to be corrupting the display, The mister core is very nice so hopefully this is a bug that will be resolved , I also 9wn the ultimate 64 and 1541 ultimate cart, they are very nice devices, I can definately recommend the u64 board too
For the saturated colours, I recall zeha made a kernal patcher python script to modify the mega65 rom to switch the palette to the c64's muter palette (available on the filehost), so could be worth a try if the brighter palette isn't your cup of tea
For the unwanted drive sounds, there is a newer development core that has an option in the config to turn it off. I think newer dev core + roms have introduced .d64 support on the mega65-side, though I haven't tried that out yet.
@IshiTheLastYihi d64 support is nice for the go64 side, to be fair though the mister c64 core is superb and as that's the base for the alt c64 core once the bars are resolved it should be excellent
For the c64 core, I think I spotted some chat on discord that the colour bar issue was specific to the R6 revision of the board, earlier board revisions aren't experiencing this and the core devs have it on their radar and are looking into.
thx for sharing your experience! - got my Mega65 this week - still wondering about its features, btw: your Captain Commodore logo is awesome!
@@BerniesBastelBude thanks, the mega65 is a seriously cool micro
The internal floppy disk noise when accessing the disk images on the SD card is meant to be a cute special effect. The next platform release will have an option to turn that off. It's fun at first, but most of us would rather preserve the life of our drive mechanisms.
The C65 and MEGA65 have many new disk commands and shortcuts useful for launching programs. Instead of LOAD"*",8,1 : RUN, try RUN "*", or just press Shift + Run/Stop. DIR shows the disk directory, and you can cursor up to a file, type the Up Arrow, and press Return to load and run it. These are only available the MEGA65 mode, not GO64 mode.
I'm enjoying seeing your "haven't read the manual" experiences! It's useful to be reminded of what's intuitive and what isn't. I'm so used to the MEGA65 now I just take everything for granted.
@DanSanderson I will indeed try the other option out, you are 100% correct re the drive mech, It sounds ..... wrong ....... even a sample of the drive access would be better than the drive grinding..... I have deliberately not edited my experience of actually using the mega 65 so far , I'm currently spending a lot of time learning vhdl in the hopes of bring new cores to the mega65, I'm looking at the c16 currently but it's a steep learning curve
Am enjoying you share your experiences :-) Will jot down some things while I watch :-)
For loading programs, for the most part, you no longer need the ,8,1 at the end, as 8 is now the default, so you can just do LOAD "FILE" (or for mega65, DLOAD "FILE", or / "FILE")
- In GO64 mode, you can hold down the NOSCROLL key to speed up loading time :-)
I do not have a Mega65 but have a real 64 Breadbin + a real 1541 and i love it. For now i have a Ultimate 2+L cartridge but have preordered a Ultimate 64 mk.2. I guess that the C64 core would be better over time as the development progress. But so far it is quite cool. I am a now a new subscriber. ;o)
@@HeliZero the c64 core from the mister is what is being used on the mega65 , I'm not sure what is happening with the D64 or CRT files as they seem to be corrupting the display, The mister core is very nice so hopefully this is a bug that will be resolved , I also 9wn the ultimate 64 and 1541 ultimate cart, they are very nice devices, I can definately recommend the u64 board too
To each his/her own but the floppy sound is embedded in my brain waves so it seems 'right' to hear it on my MEGA65
The drive sounds are intended by the devs to keep the retro feeling.
@@bigrock9637 I understand the sound, but it's the actual drive mechanism grinding causing the sound..... not a sample being played back......
@@CaptainCommodore I know, thats exactly how it should work.
For the saturated colours, I recall zeha made a kernal patcher python script to modify the mega65 rom to switch the palette to the c64's muter palette (available on the filehost), so could be worth a try if the brighter palette isn't your cup of tea
@IshiTheLastYihi I'm actually OK with it as can always switch cores to the alt c64
For the unwanted drive sounds, there is a newer development core that has an option in the config to turn it off. I think newer dev core + roms have introduced .d64 support on the mega65-side, though I haven't tried that out yet.
@IshiTheLastYihi d64 support is nice for the go64 side, to be fair though the mister c64 core is superb and as that's the base for the alt c64 core once the bars are resolved it should be excellent
For the c64 core, I think I spotted some chat on discord that the colour bar issue was specific to the R6 revision of the board, earlier board revisions aren't experiencing this and the core devs have it on their radar and are looking into.
I have now got the beta and that has been solid for the last 3 hours running ik+