The Commodore 1541 disk drive is unlike anything you’ll ever see in modern computer hardware. At launch, the 1541 cost almost as much as the Commodore 64 it was attached to ($400, or about $1040 ...

Once upon a time, you might have developed for the Commodore 64 using the very machine itself. You’d use the chunky old keyboard, a tape drive, or the 1541 disk drive if you wanted to work faster.

VICE has a GTK menu-driven interface, so look in the Options and Settings menus to see which bits of the emulated C64 you can tweak. Most games are provided in TAP (tape) or D64 (disk) format, the ...

I never owned a Commodore 64, nor have I to my recollection ever used one. My school was full of Apple II's, ... Commodore 64 Disk Drive Adapter For PCs [via ohgizmo] Recommended.

If you’d rather go the ROM route, there’s a spot on the PCB for adding a Raspberry Pi Zero, which allows the Pi1541 Commodore 1541 disk drive emulator to be installed so that software can be ...

From there the unit boots as if it were a real life C64 with a disk drive, complete with blue screen and LOAD "*",8,1 appearing automatically.

Its safe to assume that the quality of new disk drives themselves got worse towards the end too, ... Maybe I'm just old(tm), but I think I had maybe one 5.25" C64 disk go bad ...

Assuming you've downloaded some C64 disk images already, put them right on the root of a blank USB drive, and attach it to your Pi. If you’re back inside VICE, hit F8 and exit the emulator again.