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We have some important news to share about HackSpace: Issue 81 was the last issue of HackSpace as a standalone magazine, and HackSpace has become part of The MagPi, the official Raspberry Pi magazine. Starting with issue 145, We’ll be adding pages to The MagPi to make room for the stories and tutorials you’ve come to expect from HackSpace.

Commodore C64 disk drive emulator

By Andrew Gregory. Posted

Every obsolete computing platform that there has ever been has a bunch of hardcore enthusiasts, for whom the zeroes and ones of their youth are somehow better than the crude, modern equivalents. We’ve seen loads of Spectrum emulators/re-creations, so it’s only fair that we should show off this piece of hardware that pays tribute to that other titan of 1980s computing, the Commodore C64.

It’s a disk drive emulator that enables the user in 2022 to load data into their treasured C64 (or C128) without the need for a clanking mechanical unit. For a certain niche it’s going to be very useful indeed, as the one thing you can guarantee about magnetic disks is that they will degrade over time.

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