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This hurts to see. Poor C64.

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It says that the mounts do not require you to drill or cut the C64 case, so, it will be fine :)

It is just put a Raspberry PI in a C64 case. I wonder if it can be done with those Kickstarter C64C cases?

Why not?

It still needs a real keyboard matching the case holes.

That's coming http://www.breadbox64.com/blog/c64-keyboard-prototype/

If Phase 5 would deliver the replacement keycaps from their crowdfunded campaign three years ago we'd be able to do these conversions without touching a real 64. I haven't given up hope -- the machinery and molds are being moved to a company that specializes in this kind of low-volume production.

This is amazing.

Maybe with these we could finally build the Commodore 256 ;-)

Would you settle for a Commodore 65 clone with a 50MHz processor, 800x600 video @ 8.3 million colors, Ethernet, etc.? http://mega65.org/

I would still like to design a 64-bit 65064 processor.

Or you can just buy a broken C64 to do this, plenty of them on ebay.

They tend to be very easy to fix.

That said, it's not like the C64 is rare. I'd be more concerned about someone doing this to an Altair or a Lisa...

Old micro computers tend to be easy to repair. Given replicas of most retro hardware exists these days I'm generally of the opinion that I'd rather see original retro hardware restored rather than hacked. But ultimately it's not my place to say who can do what to their hardware otherwise - particularly since I'm the kind of guy who also like to hack their own modern devices as well.

Yeah, they are easy to repair, but I think the main point is that they are plentiful. I don't think a few little projects like this are going to put a dent in the overall market supply.

At least, I hope they don't.

The problem is that is that the demand is already quite high at the moment (retro is cool is seems) and the supply is only finite. Given there are decent enough reproductions I feel it seems a little ill-advised hacking the irreplaceable originals as once they're gone they're gone for good.

Plus if we are completely honest, a refurbished original would also have more longevity than one with a raspberry pi which will have an initial novelty factor but then quickly get forgotten about once the Pi becomes obsolete.

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