Archive for January, 2007

It’s… alive!

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Now I got a power supply, and after some cleaning of the C64 motherboard, it starts. And the 15 year old disks are still mostly working! Hooray! The next step is to connect the 1541 or 1570 disk to my Linux PC by soldering an XM1541 cable… The problem is that I have only one original serial cable and cannot kill that to make the XM1541…

Rain! Rain! Rain!

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

It is pouring down again. The rain never stops. This is the winter in Bergen. If you don’t like rain, don’t even think of moving to Bergen. The glaciers are melting and obviously the melt water is transformed to clouds which all hurry to Bergen. The summer is far away in the void.

Rain window

The Problem of the Power Supply

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

I have put an ad in the newspaper, because I need a power supply (PSU) for my Commodore 64. Since nobody want to sell the PSU only, I guess,  I have even advertised for a Commodore 64. It doesn’t hurt to  get some more equipment and have a “backup machine”…

The World View Finder

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Because of extreme interest, I think I will have to do the boring job of programming the analysing motor for The World View Finder. The interface is finished, but the endless calculations remain… Here is the official ad for the WVF, contributed by Mr.(Vik):

Add for WorldViewFinder