<story><title>J-CIA64 – Modern spare part for Commodore 64, Commodore 128, SX-64</title><url>https://1nt3r.net/j-cia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>Tangentially related, and given some of the debates in the comments below, I&amp;#x27;m sure I&amp;#x27;ll be burned at the stake for this, but here I go anyway:&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve given up on owning a real C64, just to remind me of my childhood. It&amp;#x27;s too convoluted, requires buying replacement parts, and I don&amp;#x27;t own any TV to plug it into. VICE emulation is good enough &lt;i&gt;for me&lt;/i&gt;. But I really wanted the keyboard, which was a &lt;i&gt;major&lt;/i&gt; part of the experience for me.&lt;p&gt;Out of the box -- no soldering, not buying extra cables or expansions or add-ons -- the most feasible option for me was buying the retroremake TheC64 (&amp;quot;max&amp;quot;, the full version with the working keyboard).&lt;p&gt;Is it perfect? No.&lt;p&gt;Is it a C64? No. It looks like one, but inside there&amp;#x27;s an ARM chip running VICE.&lt;p&gt;Does it &lt;i&gt;look&lt;/i&gt; like a convincing C64 &amp;quot;breadbin&amp;quot;, and can I play every game, type BASIC programs, play with PETSCII art, even type assembly code, and generally relive my childhood?&lt;p&gt;YES!</text></comment>
<story><title>J-CIA64 – Modern spare part for Commodore 64, Commodore 128, SX-64</title><url>https://1nt3r.net/j-cia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stuff4ben</author><text>I question why people go through the trouble of doing this. Then I remember back to when I was a pimply teenager, lugging my C64, 1541, and 13&amp;quot; TV to a user group meeting on a crisp Saturday morning. We would share warez and see awesome demos and oogle the C128&amp;#x27;s and inevitably someone would bring an Amiga. We&amp;#x27;d gather around while they played the latest games and show off the full capabilities of that machine. We had some Apple users there too with their IIe&amp;#x27;s and IIc&amp;#x27;s. I never saw a Mac in real life until much later in college. And that&amp;#x27;s a part of my life I&amp;#x27;ll likely never live again, but now I get why people want to build these machines today, for nostalgia.</text></comment>