Posted By
GeTE
on 2018-05-24
05:21:28
|  Re: How many people are there genuinely interesting in C16 retro stuff?
@MIK
I totally agree with you. We shouldn't all do the same, but we must have an eye for the small and necessary parts no other one might solve.
My first self earned money I got for a little program that was published by a german magazine. The intension was to switch off peripherie by software without the need to plug and unplug them (http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/The_Final_Deleter).
I was a kind of hooked on the Turbo-Pus-Modul just because that was the only enhancemend module for the 264er (on the C64-Side there was much more like Magic Formel or Final Cartridge III). So, when the first 264-emulators came up, I wanted to use them as my original machine. But how could I gt that working? Well I am no hardware-man, but around the year 2000 there was one of the last Amiga-dealers still alive (Fisher Hard- und Software).
Entering the office was a strange kind of retro-trip. Amazing! But they had the hardware and I left my Turbo-Plus-Cartridge there (beeing afraight it might brake). The next day I could get it back and they imaged the EPROM for me on a 3,5"-disk. The first thing I did when at home, was to email this file to all emulator-developers. With the next releases I - and everyone else - could use this cartridge when emulating a 264-system.
That was such a kind of thing, that really was not difficult, but I had the feeling, I must have to do it because no other one will. So much of you felt the same and in my opinion that is the spirit that made this hugh side happen.
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