{"id":27,"date":"2020-01-18T20:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T20:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procyon.mooo.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2020-01-24T22:23:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T22:23:01","slug":"in-which-we-detour-onto-another-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/18\/in-which-we-detour-onto-another-path\/","title":{"rendered":"In which we detour down another path"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So to recap, I have bought an A500++ PCB with the intention of making a brand new Amiga. I have been working on this project for a while, and have been motivated to document my progress on this blog, in a series of posts which due to a moment of stupidity and inadequate backup procedures, are now lost for all time. They were great, by the way: amongst humanity&#8217;s finest works of literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thought of immediately rewriting those posts does not fill me with joy, so I&#8217;m going to leave the Amiga for the time being. Let&#8217;s talk about a different machine for a spell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was passionate about all three of my Commodore machines, so when I bought the Amiga PCB the thought &#8216;what about the other two?&#8217; was at the forefront of my mind. Fortunately there is an easy a solution at hand. There&#8217;s a fashion at the moment for releasing &#8216;mini&#8217; versions of classic computers, and some time ago a <a href=\"https:\/\/retrogames.biz\/thec64\">group<\/a> released a mini version of the C64. Basically a single board computer running an emulator inside a scaled down copy of a classic breadbin Commodore 64 case. Last year they went one better, and released a full size C64 with a working keyboard. The emulator runs in both C64 and VIC-20 modes. This seemed to be the ideal solution for my needs, and I preordered it over the summer when it was first announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"427\" src=\"http:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/71H69e8EjLL._SL1500_-1024x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/71H69e8EjLL._SL1500_-1024x427.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/71H69e8EjLL._SL1500_-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/71H69e8EjLL._SL1500_-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/71H69e8EjLL._SL1500_-604x252.jpg 604w, https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/71H69e8EjLL._SL1500_.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In December, a week before release, I cancelled my pre-order. I just wasn&#8217;t feeling it. I don&#8217;t want an emulator, I want the real thing, man. A authentic Commodore 64. Let&#8217;s do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So to recap, I have bought an A500++ PCB with the intention of making a brand new Amiga. I have been working on this project for a while, and have been motivated to document my progress on this blog, in a series of posts which due to a moment of stupidity and inadequate backup procedures, are now lost for all time. They were great, by the way: amongst humanity&#8217;s finest works of literature. The thought of immediately rewriting those posts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/18\/in-which-we-detour-onto-another-path\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commodore-64","category-retrocomputng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readnoise.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}