most loved peripherals

[Anonymous No.11255651]

the Commodore 64 is well loved and rightly so, but its essential sidekick the 1541 disk drive barely gets a mention, and its a critical part of the C64s history.
this thread is about the devices for your /vr/ machine that don't get enough attention.
what's your favorite /vr/?

[Anonymous No.11255675]

LUV ME KEMPSTON JOYSTICK INTERFACE FOR ME SPECCY

SIMPLE AS

[Anonymous No.11255681]

>>11255651
The power cord, probably the most important of all console peripherals.

[Anonymous No.11255715]

[Anonymous No.11255728]

Turns this 6/10 lil fella into one of the 10/10 best of the 4th gen


>>11255715
hello fellow based CD add on enthusiast. Just started trying out sega CD games. I grabbed snatcher and Sonic Cd what else should I try?

[Anonymous No.11255730]

>>11255715
>sewer shark? how fitting it comes with this since this thing is a piece of cowadoodie dog shit puked out of a penguins aasssssssssssssssssssssssss

[Anonymous No.11255745]

Still my favorite

[Anonymous No.11255747]

>>11255651
The 1541 sucked ass. It was so slow compared to literally every other disk drive.

[Anonymous No.11255748]

>>11255681
for the Game Gear it was

>>11255651
the gameboy magnifier actually did work really well, it made it look front lit and you could just about see the gap in the pixels

[Anonymous No.11255749]

[Anonymous No.11255750]

>>11255747
>he didnt have a Fastloader cartridge
yeah native 1541 speeds sucked ass, it was fixed.

[Anonymous No.11255756]

>>11255750
I didn't have one, and I envied the kids who did.

[Anonymous No.11256445]

The humble PS2 (fat) vertical stand, the console is simply naked without it.

[Anonymous No.11256716]

>>11255728
I made a quick list, PCE CD/TG-CD is great too

[Anonymous No.11256747]

>>11255651
>but its essential sidekick the 1541 disk drive barely gets a mention,
chad device.

>>11255747
wasn't the disk drive that was slow, it was the transfer protocol used in the roms. some fastloaders were so amazingly fast.

>>11255750
> epyx fastload
i use this cart all the time

[Anonymous No.11258769]

>>11255747
Even when compared to the Original Disk II for Apple ][ line, and the Atari 810 Floppy Drives for Atari 8-bit?

[Anonymous No.11258823]

>>11255748
I always had a magnifier/light for every handheld until backlights were standard. I even had this whole retarded setup for my GBC. The thing for the d-pad and buttons was kinda pointless, but along with the grip on the battery pack, it did made the whole thing kinda comfy to hold.

[Anonymous No.11259103]

>>11255651
1541 is a decent little computer in its own right. You can load and run programs on it directly.

[Anonymous No.11259484]

>>11255651

[Anonymous No.11259664]

The NES Advantage is a great controller. I especially love it for the arcade ports.
The Playstation Mouse is cool and there are actually a lot of great games on the PS1 that support it. If you like console ports of early-to-mid 90s PC games anyway.

[Anonymous No.11259763]

[Anonymous No.11260793]

>>11255728
this, no question about it
if the CD-addon didn't exist, pc engine would've been dead in japan by 92 at best
the CD gave the system a lot of life

[Anonymous No.11262486]

>>11259763
I wanted one so badly but just couldnt afford it as a kid, costs around $1250 in todays money

[Anonymous No.11263732]

>>11255651
>mogs 1541
>stuck to a Speccy equivalent for Hungarians

[Anonymous No.11263767]

>>11255651
>but its essential sidekick the 1541 disk drive barely gets a mention
lolwut? Maybe the kiddies on tiktok don't make memes about it or something. Any grownup who even knows what a C64 is has mentioned what shit it was. The drive itself was decent and had some nice features, but the overall implementation was an infamous clusterfuck.

[Anonymous No.11263831]

>>11259103
Please elaborate.

[Anonymous No.11264774]

>>11263767
anyonw who knows about the C64 would have a fastload cartridge and fixed the clusterfuck

[Anonymous No.11264873]

>>11256716
thank you my antiquated CD cousin. Had no idea about the Road rash port with the cool music, that is next. Plus my wife is mad autistic about streets of rage so she will be thrilled to try out this port I think.

[Anonymous No.11265774]

>>11255675
There's an Amstrad interface as well, for the Spectrum.

[Anonymous No.11265898]

>>11263767
>Any grownup who even knows what a C64 is has mentioned what shit it was
never happened
>but the overall implementation
the drive was fine, it was protocol used by the roms that was gimped at factory level. not that it mattered - people that weren't poor had jiffydos or fastload carts to undo commodore's shit. many commercial games also incorporated their own fastloaders of varying speeds.

[Anonymous No.11266023]

[Anonymous No.11266319]

>>11264774
>anyonw who knows about the C64 would have a thing that only works on something they might only know about and not own that collectively sold a fraction of the units the system did
So kiddies on tiktok do talk about it after all
>>11265898
>never happened
Just because you're not a grownup yet doesn't mean it never happened for anyone else

[Anonymous No.11268879]

>>11266319
anon is right. the roms from commodore speed limited the transfer rates. fastloader carts/programs and rom replacements dramatically decreased loading times.
> doesn't mean it never happened for anyone else
what did the compulsive lying schizo that knows nothing about commodore hardware mean by this?

[Anonymous No.11269002]

>>11268879
>i is right
No (You) isn't
>strawman cope
I accept your concession

[Anonymous No.11269005]

>>11259763
that's a lot of copy for a hd

[Anonymous No.11269152]

>>11255651
Watching dodgy late night tv on SBS (aus network) in bed as a kid in aus between columns games, peak childhood.

[Anonymous No.11269327]

>>11255651
What's up with the 1571 and 1581? I always thought the disk release mechanism of the 1541 felt weird.

[Anonymous No.11270026]

>>11269002
> lies about drive
> gets btfo by people that know what they're talking about
hilarious and cringe.
lmao. anon was right, you're just a compulsive lying schizo.

[Anonymous No.11270041]

>>11262486
>I wanted one so badly but just couldnt afford it as a kid, costs around $1250 in todays money
atari fags didn't get much benefit for it. c64 version was broken and created incompatible disks. i always thought this drive was a scam.

[Anonymous No.11270052]

>>11269327
>I always thought the disk release mechanism of the 1541 felt weird.
because it's ancient and dates back before the 1980s. 1571 and 1581 are using better hardware and matches the design of the commodore 128.

[Anonymous No.11270223]

>>11270026
Keep coping and projecting tiktok

[Anonymous No.11270407]

>>11270223
> everyone is projecting!
> says the delusional schizo liar that knows nothing about commodore hardware

[Anonymous No.11270883]

>>11270407
Cry harder little zoomie. I had several commodore machines, from C64 to A2000. All you're doing with your trantrum is making a fool of yourself. You're welcome to continue doing it, but it'll be bad for your already tenuous mental health and likely get you banned. Your call.

[Anonymous No.11270923]

>>11263831
The drive has a 6502 CPU, two VIAs and 2KB RAM. It's most of the hardware of a VIC20 minus the VIC chip.

DOS runs locally on the drive, so you can load a program from disk directly into drive memory, or pump some code down there through serial like fastload carts do.

An advanced example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprSxCMlECA

[Anonymous No.11272438]

>>11270923
>or pump some code down there
For me this was one of the most important features of the drive. It allowed me to do all kinds of stuff without any sort of hardware mod or even addon. Drives could run and even interact with each other while the C64 was doing its own thing. Pretty amazing, at the time.

[Anonymous No.11274442]

>>11255651
Don't forget about the VIC-20 RAM expansion cartridges!

[Anonymous No.11274462]

>>11255651
if someone would dial into my color64 bbs and didnt know what super snapshot was or didnt have at least v4.0 i would hang up da phone

[Anonymous No.11274483]

original 1541 had the power supply inside which is why its so big, and would over heat
used to take 4 pencils and put them in the screw holes on the bottom of the 1541, so it was up on stilts with erasers facing down like the feet
also had a thin plastic ruler sometimes i would use to push the heads back into position
then one day i got a 1541-ii with external power supply, worked much nicer

[Anonymous No.11274772]

>>11274442
I had a vic and could afford all of those extras. I really wanted super expander at least. :( Ended up with a c16 later which had the equivalent of these carts:

Super expander (3k)
8K RAM
Programmers' aid
Vicmon

I had a lot of fun programming on that comp.

[Anonymous No.11274853]

>>11274772
...Couldn't afford :(...

[Anonymous No.11274914]

>>11258769
Yes it wad super dog shit. You could get better speeds with it on a vic 20 or the old pets with the shared drive master in a big computer office.

You'd have to start your game loading and then go play with Legos for like 10 minutes.

[Anonymous No.11274918]

>>11266319
>e eryone had a fast loader
See this is the shit that happens when you weren't there and trust youtubers

Anyone that saw that shit in a magazine and didn't see it in real life assumed it was a scam. Every other time some shit like that has been in a magazine its been a scam- why wouldn't a fast loader

[Anonymous No.11274919]

>>11274914
It wasn't that bad, if you had dolphin dos or jiffydos it was the best going.

[Anonymous No.11275123]

>>11274918
>e eryone had a fast loader
>See this is the shit that happens when you weren't there and trust youtubers
This is what happens when you drunk post. I don't know if you're so drunk you replied to the wrong post or so drunk you can' read. Either way. Take a rest and try again in the afternoon after a pitcher of coffee.

[Anonymous No.11275157]

>>11274918
every normie did have a fast loader though they were as common as game genies were for the nes
the elite c64 user had the super snapshot posted earlier in the thread

[Anonymous No.11276007]

>>11255651
>peripherals

[Anonymous No.11276376]

>>11276007
My condolences

[Anonymous No.11276394]

i had one of these i still miss it
they released a chink flash cart called super ufo and now i cant find the kino menu music from the original on youtube

[Anonymous No.11276693]

>>11276394
>i cant find the kino menu music from the original on youtube
Probably because you're searching for the wrong thing. I can't tell which model that is for your thumbnail but I don't recall any of them having menu music. I have a 7 in one of my setups and I just checke and there's no music.

[Anonymous No.11276907]

>>11255651

The disk drive was awesome - it gave the system that extra nice feel. Sucks that it wasn't able to live up to its potential in standard form.

[Anonymous No.11276908]

>>11263732

Killer look and "dubs"