Build your own Commodore 64 cartridge

I’m a geek, you’re a geek, we’re all geeks.

And geeks likes their retrogaming experience to be as similar to the good ol’ days, yet can’t wait for load up time. Particularly when it comes to Commodore 64 and it’s legendarily slow load process.

Some games were delivered by cartridge in the best days of the Commodore 64. Some didn’t and geeks from around the world had to load up from cassette tape or floppy disks, both of which are much slower to execute.

Lots of those games have since been adapted to Cartridge format either for emulation or physical carts.

In today’s article we explore the making of custom physical Commodore 64 cartridges.

2023/05/092023/10/03 by wereallgeeks Categories: 100% Geek, C64Cart, Commodore 64, Computers and technology, Games, Geekyness, Projects, Retrocomputing, RetrogamingTags: 16k, 3d-print, 64gs, C64, C64C, cart, cartridge, commodore, Commodore 64, commodore 64gs, commodore max, DIY, electronics, EPROM, games, iNimbleSloth, microchip, open hardware, pcb, PLA, programming, RAM, retrogaming, ROM, shared project, shell, T48, TL866, vice, Video game, videogames 3 Comments

C64 Audiovideo Jack panel

I’m a geek, you’re a geek, we’re all geeks

and geeks still use electronics from the eighties, on their 2020s televisions.

The Commodore 64 was the most prolific computers of all time, and luckily was intended to output in old-style television RF, Audio-Video (RCA) cables, or Chroma-Luma for it’s monitors; which can be adapted to S-video cables.

The output connector for most of the options but RF was a DIN on the back of the machine, so geeks need to come up with an DIN-to-Television adapter cable.

Today’s article will explore an easy board to achieve such results.

2023/04/292023/07/11 by wereallgeeks Categories: 100% Geek, C64Mods, C64SID, C64VIC, Commodore 64, Computers and technology, Geekyness, Projects, RetrocomputingTags: audio-video, AV, C64, commodore, Commodore 64, electronics, jumpers, luma-chroma, mod, open hardware, pcb, RCA connectror, s-video, Sven Petersen