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I see this story about every 3 years. For a few seconds I think "wouldn't that be awesome." Then I realize that a modern C64 (or Amiga) will never be as good as my childhood memories. In fact, modernizing it would probably destroy it for me. Let me keep the memories of notching 5.25"s, BBSs, and LOAD "*",8,1

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You can always use VICE.

Or MESS, but I never quite got that one to work.

Still, a modern PC in a C64-like box would be sweet. It's like a casemod without sacrificing a real C64.

We cannot preserve those machines forever - they'll end up breaking. This may be an economically viable way to preserve the experience of using a C64, as well as a source of mechanically compatible parts.

The joysticks of my Atari XE were manufactured 20 years after the computer.

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