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Customer Review
- Reviewed in Canada on September 15, 2019I was excited to finally be able to play my favorite C64 games again and relive my childhood moments but I had to do a lot of searching and watching of youtube vids to figure out a few things.
I am glad it does have BASIC and you can type commands as well.
This machine was rather frustrating in the beginning, but after I went to the manufacturer's website and downloaded the newest firmware update onto a USB stick, THEN things became awesome and worked a lot better.
With that being said, here are a few items I recommend purchasing with the mini.
-USB keyboard (with number pad) as the keyboard on the mini is fake and non-functional and some games can be played via number pad after updating.
-USB HUB with 3-4 ports
-Adapter to plug in the micro-usb power cable into the wall (as it does not come with one, just the cord, I just used an extra one from my cell phone)
-Longer micro-usb cable (optional but recommended)
-USB gamepad (USB SNES controllers work great) but most wired USB game pads will work and are more comfortable than the clunky provided joystick (which is too tall in my opinion)
-USB stick formatted in FAT32 (For downloading of roms/games and updates from abandonware sites and archives) 2-4GB is all you really need
One downside is that I am still trying to figure out a work-around for my personal games that use more than one "disk" or "Side."
I highly recommend doing some reading and research online and on YouTube for answers. Hopefully this will be addressed in a future update.
Overall I love this little thing and there are workarounds with issues, but if you are debating or are completely new to the C64, I would wait until Dec 2019 when they are planning on releasing the newest version which is full size with a working keyboard, and hopefully has more upgrades to the firmware.
I was excited to finally be able to play my favorite C64 games again and relive my childhood moments but I had to do a lot of searching and watching of youtube vids to figure out a few things.I love it! BUT You will need to buy a few things to get the full experience
Reviewed in Canada on September 15, 2019
I am glad it does have BASIC and you can type commands as well.
This machine was rather frustrating in the beginning, but after I went to the manufacturer's website and downloaded the newest firmware update onto a USB stick, THEN things became awesome and worked a lot better.
With that being said, here are a few items I recommend purchasing with the mini.
-USB keyboard (with number pad) as the keyboard on the mini is fake and non-functional and some games can be played via number pad after updating.
-USB HUB with 3-4 ports
-Adapter to plug in the micro-usb power cable into the wall (as it does not come with one, just the cord, I just used an extra one from my cell phone)
-Longer micro-usb cable (optional but recommended)
-USB gamepad (USB SNES controllers work great) but most wired USB game pads will work and are more comfortable than the clunky provided joystick (which is too tall in my opinion)
-USB stick formatted in FAT32 (For downloading of roms/games and updates from abandonware sites and archives) 2-4GB is all you really need
One downside is that I am still trying to figure out a work-around for my personal games that use more than one "disk" or "Side."
I highly recommend doing some reading and research online and on YouTube for answers. Hopefully this will be addressed in a future update.
Overall I love this little thing and there are workarounds with issues, but if you are debating or are completely new to the C64, I would wait until Dec 2019 when they are planning on releasing the newest version which is full size with a working keyboard, and hopefully has more upgrades to the firmware.Images in this review
