Moderator Comment by Roberto Navoni on April 9, 2011 at 5:01am

Hi Ritchie yes is true but to have a old C64 case with inside a good cpu with advanced 3d board is more Geek ;)

You can connect a FPV eyewear.

Best Roberto

Comment by Ed Stewart on April 9, 2011 at 6:06am

TRS80, Atari ST I modded with another stack of 512k memory chips for 1 meg total so I could have a ram disk to make my Kings Quest and Leisure Suit Larry load faster.... Then a Intel DX33 that I swapped in a 36Mhz crystal so I had bragging rights with my brother in law about who's machine could load Lynx Golf screens faster.  :-D

Ed

Comment by Troy on April 9, 2011 at 4:50pm

HA, Leisure Suit Larry. That brings back some memories. Don't remember which system I played that on.
I'd have to agree that a net book is a better ground station but the C64 is still cool.

Troy

Comment by Ritchie on April 9, 2011 at 5:49pm

I still have my original C64 (the actual one I learnt to code and read on). The days of copying games with reel to reel are gone :D I'd love to store a app on a tape again that would be well fun.

Comment by Lew Payne on April 11, 2011 at 4:35pm

If you code everything in assembler, it just might be faster than the QT and Java based ground stations!

Comment by Hardy Maxa on April 12, 2011 at 5:46am

Here's a trip down memory lane.

System 80 (aka Genie / TRS80) with extra 32K ram chips piggy backed, and a Z80A upgrade from the Z80 --> Amstrad 6128 --> IBM XT (orig) --> 80286 (NEAT chipset) etc..

With some hardcore Z80, I recon the Amstrad would run the ground station (forget the google maps though).

 

Comment by Richard Unwin on September 7, 2011 at 5:52am

not quite as old school as a C64 - but I am thinking one of these fit-pc's might be worth looking at so I have ordered one to try, it uses less than 20 watts @12v so running in the field will be an option. I just  need a ultra low power 15-20 inch screen to go with it.

link - http://www.fit-pc.com/web/

richie

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