The C6. 4 Retro. Pie Mod Page 2 breadbox. The Finished C6. 4 Retro. Pie Mod After less than two hours including coffee breaks and the mandatory photo shoots of intense building, the machine looked like thisThe 3. D printed conversion kit blocks off all the rear ports with a sleek finish. The micro SD card can be reached from the outside of the case. The Serial port functions as a HDMI connection while the Monitor port is used for powering the system. The entire machine ended up with quite a clean look. During the initial phase of the mod, I wanted to add an USB connector to the Expansion port, but changed my mind a little too late though BummerC64 ROMs. On this page I will describe some exeriments with dumping the kernal ROMs of a Commodore 64, and making some small modifications. I will also cover how I. An extra USB plug may be mounted at a later time to accommodate, e. Commodore 6. 4. An external view of the plate that seals up the gap surrounding the USB connector. Once again, the attention to detail is stunning and gives the machine a very nice finish. Removing the case top reveals the heart of the machine. There is plenty of room even with the electronics installed. The sweet looking Raspberry Pi 3 Model B with all the cables attached. The ceramic disc capacitors are just for showing off. Gotta keep some of that retro feelingThe larger 3. D printed bracket has a long arm which, besides securing the attachment to the case bottom, also has cable tie holes for controlling the inevitable cable mess. It does not get any easier than thisand the Keyrah V2 residing peacefully in the right cornerInstalling the Software The Linux distribution that I was looking for should be easy to install and have a retro gaming front end installed natively. I basically wanted to get going as fast as possible without doing tons of Linux terminal stuff In this respect, I found that the Retro. The Finished C64 RetroPie Mod After less than two hours including coffee breaks and the mandatory photo shoots of intense building, the machine looked like this. JiffyDOS is a Disk Operating System DOS enhancement which gives your C64 or C128 the disk access speed it has always needed. A chipforchip replacement for the. Commodore BASIC ist ein Dialekt der Programmiersprache BASIC, die in Commodores 8BitHeimcomputern beginnend 1977 mit dem PET 2001 bis zum C128 im Jahre 1985. Posted by Tod on 6th May 2012 If you do any sort of programming, you need this. The ability to quickly easily switch between kernal ROMs is fantastic. Pie link distribution had exactly that hence the name of the mod. After installing Retro. Pie, I setup the wireless connection from the Retro. Pie main menu. The Commodore 6. Acpi Fuj02b1 Windows 7 Driver Download on this page. Vice is not one of the standard emulators on the system, so this had to be done manually using the menus of Retro. Pie. As copying game roms is not straight forward coming from a MS Windows system, I used File. Zilla on my laptop to connect to the Ras. C64 Kernal Roms' title='C64 Kernal Roms' />Pi through the wireless connection. By entering the Ras. Pis wireless IP address can be found in the Retro. Pie wireless setup menu along with the username pi, the standard password raspberry and port 2. Raspberry Pi. After copying a few of my favourite Commodore 6. Retro. Pieromsc. Retro. Colin Cracknell. Pie calls this Emulation Station. Managing the specific emulator settings were done directly in the Vice emulator. The C6. 4 Retro. Pie Mod in action Here is a small video of the machine running a quick game of Commando using the Commodore 6. Vice emulator on the Raspberry Pi. Final Thoughts The machine has been build for playing Commodore 6. C64 Kernal Roms' title='C64 Kernal Roms' />If considering installing other emulators on the machine, adding an USB connection would be the obvious choice. This can easily be done in the, e. Expansion port opening as I already kinda did by mistake. C64 Kernal Roms' title='C64 Kernal Roms' />Different game controllers can then be inserted into this USB port depending on the console being emulated e. NES or SNES. It should be a pretty straight forward job. In my previous Commodore 6. Ras. Pi mod I used the very first version of the Raspberry Pi, a Keyrah V1 and the Chameleon. Pi software distribution link. This combination of hardware and software was far from stable, most likely due to the inferior capacity of the Ras. Pi. Often the keyboard would not function correctly or the software would freeze. Plugging in new USB hardware e. Linux terminal. For this current mod, I used a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B highly recommended, a Keyrah V2 and the Retro. Pie software distribution version 4. The combination of the newer hardware and software worked flawlessly Booting the machine takes about 2. USB devices work right after being plugged in e. Xbox 3. 60 controller for MAME games. The wireless network is also a very nice feature for transferring new roms to the system without the need for a cable connectionThe Scraper feature of the Retro. Pie software allows for automatically obtaining game information online. Its really easy being a modder these daysAs evident from this post I really really like the 3. D printed conversion kit for the new style Commodore 6. C cases who doesnt like 3. D printed stuff, right. It took me less than two hours to install all the hardware including drilling and soldering and I was not in a hurry. The 3. D printed C6. C conversion kit makes it very easy to make a professionally looking machine. Everything fits perfectly and the black oxide screws make for a nice finish the black self tappings crews are not included in the kit, but Ebay have heaps of them. Printing the parts for the entire conversion kit takes about 1. After the printing process, the support material has to be removed and the heat sets inserted into the prints for accommodating the screws. So quite a bit of labour has been put into these little beauties. In this respect, the pricetag of 6. Canada seems quite fair and is obviously not a gold mine. Im just thankful that someone has taken the time to produce these little gems. Great job COREi. 64 Tired of the old beige Commodore 6. In less than 1. 0 minutes, everything can be transferred to one of them nice looking transparent Kickstarter cases in order to show off the 3. D prints to the rest of the world Happy Raspberry Pi modding breadbox.