Gorgeous setup, Bulletdust, and awesome Post idea!
- My C= Setup
I have what my wife calls a "man cave" which is in truth a glorified closet. It's too small to be a bedroom, and too large to be a simple closet (and is in-between the stairwell and furnace room). But it does have power, and it does have a door so I can shut it when I want privacy.
Deep down, it's The Commodore Room.
I can run two machines side-by-side. I always have the C64 on the right:
- C64 Breadbin
- Ultimate ii cart
- 1541-ii drive (also have an original in the closet as a trusty backup)
- 1581 drive (I used this more before I had the U-ii)
- WiModem and Schema WiFi Modem (currently running Jim Drew's WiModem)
- 1702 Commodore Monitor - I like those CRT scanlines
- 1520 Plotter
The C64 is a combo of 2 previous breadbins: one had a perfect housing and keyboard, but dead board. The other had a perfect board, but sloppy keys. I combined the two into one very fine specimen.
On the left I have one of my Amigas running. I currently have 3: 2 Amiga 1200s and 1 500. I expect to get 1-2 2000s in the next week. One of my 1200s is NOS that had been sitting in a warehouse for 2 decades, never opened. It is a Canadian version, NTSC, but annoyingly boots into PAL by default.
In that machine I've installed a 4GB CF HD, and an ACA1221 board that is maxed out at 128MB RAM. It's awesome for using the RAM disk. It is the later model Amiga - Amiga Technologies - with the little red square over the "i".
My other is a recent acquisition that is an original USA NTSC 1200 that is currently my daily driver (I split my time between it and the C64 lately). It has:
- 40MB HD
- 8MB RAM
- 1084s Commodore monitor (stereo)
- 1010 external disk drive (I have 2, 1 is NOS in the box the other is refurbished. I am going to sell the refurb later this year)
And of course lots of original joysticks - the ones I had back in the 80s. I'm so used to them I wanted the same these days, too. And, stacks and stacks of original boxed software. If I can find it for "a deal" I get it if I intend to use it. I'd much rather have the original manuals and codewheels when I can get my hands on them. If - on the Amiga (almost always) the disks are shoddy - I will download an ADF or use WHDLoad (which, amazingly, never seem to have annoying crack intros on them. Yay!).
Oh - and since the 1702 is arcade quality and has the ability to run 2 devices, I also have an SNES plugged into it (which you can see at the far right in the pic above).