{"id":270,"date":"2022-03-18T11:53:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/?p=270"},"modified":"2022-03-18T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:55:26","slug":"rebuilding-my-old-commodore-64-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding my old Commodore 64 setup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in the late eighties, I had a Commodore 64C, a 1541-II floppy drive, Okimate 20 colour printer, light pen, two joysticks, and most importantly, a COMAL80 cartridge. I&#8217;m obviously getting old, as I suddenly felt a desperation to get all this back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have bought a COMAL80 cartridge, a very rare item, which should be on the way, and the 1541-II I bought has just arrived, photo below. I have not dared power it up using the old power supply. I will get a modern power supply for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image004-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image004-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image004-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image004-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image004-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image004-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image004-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image004-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>My new, old 1541-II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m bidding on a C64C and have to my surprise found several Okimate 20&#8217;s in the US but shipping costs are prohibitively expensive. I will keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the late eighties, I had a Commodore 64C, a 1541-II floppy drive, Okimate 20 colour printer, light pen, two joysticks, and most importantly, a COMAL80 cartridge. I&#8217;m obviously getting old, as I suddenly felt a desperation to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/?p=270\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[62,64,63,59,60,61,57,58],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","tag-62","tag-1541-2","tag-1541-ii","tag-59","tag-c64","tag-c64c","tag-commodore","tag-commodore-64"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}