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Feature Request: C64 user port

  RetroBiker

   It would be great to have a driver on TheC64 Mini which supported
   something like this as the user port:
   [2]http://uk.farnell.com/roline/12-02-1049/cable-usb-plug-d-sub-9p-plug-25p/dp/2807848

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  tomxp411

   I think if you've reached that level of sophistication, you'll want to
   switch over to VICE, which supports using any of the host's serial ports
   as a user port device.

   Several people have even installed Raspberry Pi boards inside of a dead
   C64's case to build a "Commodore Pi." I'm actually trying to go a step
   further and install an Intel NUC in a 64C case. I am just trying to find a
   more stable keyboard controller than what I've got right now.

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  RetroBiker

     [3]tomxp411 you'll want to switch over to VICE

   For me, this project is about getting as close to the original feel of the
   C64 and getting it to do the same kinds of things that were possible then.
   I agree that the full size version will be even better suited to doing
   this sort of stuff, however there are all sorts of possibilities even with
   the Mini and the sort of things you can plug into a USB port.

   Having grown up on the PET, I still find this:

 POKE 56577,1

   or even:

 LDA #1
 STA $DD01

   more meaningful than:

 import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
 led = 11
 GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)
 GPIO.setup(led, GPIO.OUT)
 GPIO.output(led, GPIO.HIGH)

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  Jammet

   A lot of the things I do, I do in VICE, because VICE does the job, and
   does it well. That's not stopping me from making feature requests to that
   end in here as well. We hope to see a bigger brother of the Mini
   eventually. Fully featured.

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   2. http://uk.farnell.com/roline/12-02-1049/cable-usb-plug-d-sub-9p-plug-25p/dp/2807848
   3. https://community.thec64.com/d/326/2