C64-Controller

Der C64 Controller

This is Hardware Extension for a C64 retro computer. (The C64 is a retro hardware from Commodore)

Controls your C64 retro computer. Select Kernal, BASIC and Charset. Select devicenumber of internal SD2IEC drive.

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Nessecary Hardware

• an old C64 computer
• optionally a internal SD2IEC drive
• a multi ROM adapter (for example REPROM64 or MeGALoROM)
• an arduino Nano [3€]
• an OLED 128x64 display [3€]
• optionally an I2C LCD display [3€] (16x2, 20x2, 20x4)
• a Rotary Encoder [1€]

Nessecary Software

• Arduino Workbench
• Arduino Lib: LCD Menu Lib 2: https://github.com/Jomelo/LCDMenuLib2
• Arduino Lib: U8g2lib: https://github.com/olikraus/u8g2

Features

• reset the C64
• select a Kernal (and autoreset) -- 4 Kernel (REPROM-64) or 16 Kernel (MeGALoROM)
• optionally select one of 2 BASIC (and autoreset)
• optionally select one of 4 Charset
• optionally select device number from 8 Go 11 for an internal SD2IEC device
• optionally switch to next Disk Image on your internal SD2IEC device
• optionally disable internal SD2IEC device
• Info Display

Weblinks

• Arduino Project Hub
• Files on GitHub
• REPROM64 - one of the best ROM Adapter for the C64
• MeGALoROM - C64 Kernal switch for MeGALoDOS
• 2 fach Kernal Umschalter / Adapter Sockel