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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 ...

Looking for a home for a C64 and 1541 5.25" floppy drive. $25 shipped. Unless for some reason it costs more than that to ship it to you.I have not plugged it in for a few years but it worked the ...

No. 8 is the device id for the 1541 disk drive, and the 1 tells the os it is loading a binary executable. A tape drive is ID 1, a printer is ID 7, a second 1541 would be ID 9.

We saw the amazing Commodore 64 laptop Mod from Ben Heck previously on geeky gadgets, he now has a new version out. ... The disk emulator mimics the original 1541 disk drive, ...

The machine had a generous 64 kilobytes of memory, and you loaded programs into it from a tape drive–eventually to be superseded by a painfully slow floppy disk drive (the legendary 1541).

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 ...

Benjamin J. Heckendorn seems unusually enthused by his latest hack'n mod, calling the Commodore 64 laptop "probably one of, if not my favorite project I have done." That's saying something from ...

Fans of the Commodore 64's predecessor, the VIC-20, will be pleased to find it gets a nod in this new machine as well. You can use the VIC-20's BASIC screen, run two included games ( Gridrunner ...