After three months and one reshipping episode (one month passed just because of the lost package), I finally have this thing in my home!

The only sad thing: I won't be able to test this until late into next week!

(If you're curious: https://ultimate64.com/U2PLBLU-TA )

#c64 #commodore64 #ultimateii #ultimateiiplus

After seeing lots of people preordering the C64 Ultimate Elite or whatever it's called, I went in the other direction and bought a C64 Reloaded MK2, despite having two C64Rs MK1 from 2015 already.

I moved the chips from one of those to the new one (from the other one I took the other SID).

Now I have the luxury of switching from 6581 to 8580 and back at will, while the C64 is on.

Also, there's this fancy thing of connecting to the board from a PC through the dedicated USB serial port, in order to configure stuff.

And there's also custom Kernals and character ROMs and things like that, but I didn't try those at the moment.

Next silly money spending scheduled: a 1541 Ultimate 2 +L (the tape adapters are sold out right now, or I would have ordered it already 🤪)

#c64 #commodore64

Quite honoured of this mention, actually.

@jalanhenning : "extremely streamlined", I think that belongs to you 😁

https://bsky.app/profile/konstantinosd.bsky.social/post/3l2xlikvwnc2h

I can finally throw away my throwaway profile pic.

My current one was drawn by Cami from "Stuck in Attic", an independent game studio, known for their game Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.

They're currently busy developing a new game, Near Mage (https://www.near-mage.com/).
Programming the game is my good IRL friend Christopher Sacchi @LostTrainDude

They're three amazing people, what they are doing seems unique!

I warmly suggest you wishlist their game (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1685870/NearMage/) and follow the updates on their Kickstarter project page (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stuckinattic/near-mage/posts) !