Ben Heck (aka Benjamin J Heckendorn aka The Hackendorn) has topped himself, again, and we don’t mean that in the suicidal sense. His latest project is a Commodore 64 laptop.
After endless procrastination, Ben finally got started and completed the project in an astonishingly short week and a half. Inside the rather slick and beautifully retro box is an original C64 motherboard, a Gamecube power supply and a piece of hardware called a 1541-III, which tricks the C64 into seeing an SD card as a floppy drive.
You really need to check the video (below) to see the machine in action (despite the SD cards, the game load times are still tortuously long). The clip reminds us of something else, too — how the hell did we ever manage to use those awful Atari joysticks? I hated them the first time round, before my teenage years brought on incurable RSI.
Commodore 64 Original Hardware Laptop [Ben Heck]
See Also:
- Ben Heck’s PS3 Laptop
- Apple ][ GS Laptop From Ben Heckendorn
- Ben Heckendorn Shows Off XBox 360 Laptop Mk II
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