So I've been making music on the VICE commodore emulator. But I heard that the actual C64 sounds better. Is this true? The prices on ebay can be outrageous. But I found that people are selling it cheaper locally on craigslist.
I watched videos on how to transfer files from your computer to the commodore. My only problem is I cannot find commodore floppy disks themselves. Where do I buy the actual floppies?
Should just be able to format standard PC 360k disks for use with a 1541
Or just use a datasette.
>>55342874
>But I heard that the actual C64 sounds better. Is this true?
Yes. The best sounding option would be a C64 with 8580 SID with digifix. Almost every C64C (except the very early assy. 250466) have this SID; breadbins and very early C64C don't (they have the 6581 SID which doesn't need the digi-fix but sounds worse.)
>>55342874
>My only problem is I cannot find commodore floppy disks themselves.
Pretty sure that there are a lot of expansion boards that allows you to use SD/MMC cards instead of floppy drives.
You can also use tapes.
But again , there are mods to use MP3 players instead of tapes and there are expansion boards that let you use Memory Cards and USB sticks , there is no reason to use floppies in 2016
>>55342874
VINTAGE COMPUTER THREAD ??
>>55343054
Why not.
>>55343005
I was planning to get the original with the 6581 SID
Should I get the C64c instead? The guy from the 8bitkeys channel shills the original C64
>>55343096
Wasn't it just that he didn't have enough working 8580s? The only advantage of the 6581 is that you don't need the digifix if you want to hear samples.
>>55342874
At some point they made a pci card which had the soundchip, that should sound almost identical. You can use that in conjuction with c64 emulator.
>>55343533
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HardSID
>>55343025
Search for "big mess o wires" works flawlessly
