A tip on the disk swapping games. As soon as disk 2 is loaded and game is ready to play, take a snapshot in one of the save states. Next time you want to play the game, just insert disk2 directly and load the save state. This saves time since a lot of multi disk games takes a while to load since they also often needs accurate disk mode to load correctly (AD)

Man, I remember playing Defender of the Crown on dual tape. Such a great game, so much loading. Still have it in the big box, too. Feelies are gone, though.

Great video thanks, how many extra games can you add to the c64 mini, is 64 games the max ?

I was doing this exact disk swapping thing on TheC64 before the update, and it worked just as well. It's only a change/update if you have the Mini.

The joystick swapping is easily the most useful feature for me at least. I've wasted countless minutes loading tape images only to discover that the joystick is needed in port 1.

The new microphone is really, really good! :)

Some things I would like to see on both Maxi and Mini systems; Aside from joystick swapping, there should be an option to clone the joystick as both Joy 1 & 2 simultaneously. That would be a super simple way to assure game control. You can assign buttons in CJM files and that is great, but even better would be macros. Assign a series of key presses to one button, to help brute force you way through intros and trainers and "what the hell button starts this game". USB mouse support including use as game paddles. An on screen keyboard that doesn't assume that I'm using the stock joystick (enter button...). An in game CJM editor menu would be fantastic.

Loved Pool of Radiance. On the Commodore 64 version (at least the one I had), there was a bug on one of the sides. I think it was with the Outpost of Zhentil Keep mission. If you did the mission, you couldn't get back into Phlan and you were basically done. When I got my CMD FD2000, I was able to copy all of the disks over to one full disk partition and it worked! No more swapping and I could complete the mission! There was a file on the Outpost mission disk that was defective. Turned out there were a few files common to all of the disks. I kept the ones from disk 1 and skipped them for the others.

i have a c64 maxi is there a chance that if i use a machine code monitor like supermon64 that a program can be saved on a usb drive, at the moment a machine code monitor does not seem to reconise the usb drive, maybe a further firmware update might cure this problem.

What difference does it make if you plug in your usb drive to the rear port for a firmware update? I don't see why it would matter what USB port you use.

Something I tried with this update was Changing joystick ports with the keyboard as left shift left arrow is menu, and ABC are the buttons, but it doesn't let you change with these buttons which is strange as I would think as long as the button maps are pressed it should do the same as the buttons do, don't know why they didnt think to include that given how many people vocaly tell them on groups and forums they use 3rd party or original joysticks with adaptors

It would be cool if someone would patch those multidisk/multiside games so that they could load as if they were from a higher-capacity drive like the 71, 81, 1001, or even HDDs 9090 or Lt. Kernal.

They need to switch the emulator to the bare-metal bmc64, based on porting Vice to run on bare metal libraries (no Linux kernel overhead); its capable of running Commodore 64 demo scene programs flawlessly as to both sound and graphics

What about the speed of games? They have speed really like the originals? Or the games on C64 Maxi are little slow or too fast? I saw boulder dash and I think it's slow than on original C64. Please let me know, I want to end some games so I thinking about the C64 Maxi... I'm lazy and I don't want to setup cassette on original C64 :)

If you figure out how to remap the buttons a video would be great. Thanks for the update. If I understood correctly it allows us to play games that take up more than 1 d64 file? I usually use CRT files for games to get around this but this certainly makes it easier to get all the games I want.

My goodness that Turrican opening is more terrifying than falling off a screen in Impossible Mission on an SX-64 (where the internal speaker resonates on the plastic grill cover and creates a more intense screaming sound)

I've just tried to update mine and my android tab says, this file type unsupported, and it won't download, what's that about? I've upgraded before.

Wonder if it would be possible somehow to emulate dual SID chip support?

I just bought myself a The C64 and a The VIC20. Really impressed with what they managed to do for the price. However, I have a few gripes. I don't understand why they haven't implemented an option to enable accurate disk emulation from the menus. It's way too much hassle to rename D64s in order for disk images that require true disk drive emulation to load. Also, I wish they had an option to enable autofire from the menus or via a button combination.

Wait, did they not include RAM expansion options out of the box?! My retro arch pi thing emulator has all of the ram expansions enable-able in the stock software…

If you update to 1.6, you'll have REU suport. That means Sonic C64 play. Oh yes. And joypad support, and new games. Worth it. Doesn't overwrite your added games either.

Are there any usb controllers that work with this thing yet? Or are you still limited to the stick it comes with?

Are these still being actively made? We had about 5 retailers in Australia, and none of them carry it anymore. And I can't even find one to import.

There are tonnes of REU 16MB demos available. Admittedly they're only tech demos....but well with seeing :)

Can we get the ability to delete roms from thumb drives whilst plugged into the maxi already?

Can't be fixed with firmware obviously, but the only other thing I want is some nice GPIO pins mapped to the userport of the emulated c64.

Can you use this or the maxi as a usb keyboard for a PC?

have they given any options to remap the buttons on a controller yet?

What about the new cartridge features?

I used REU in GEOS for many years and wrote 1000's of pages and of geoWrite and geoPaint and my thinking is the save to REU as a stand alone file for the 2 meg etc. available? The Ultimate 2+ does it. So I am hoping to save files from GEOS.

I have a The C64 but my version seems to hold a different name yours is amora while mine is snowbird. question now the reu expansion works what about loading CRT files and TAP files also for the life of me how do I use the REU util disk in .d64 image to mage a blank REU drive 9 of a 512k ram disk.

Brilliant. If only I could buy one. :-(

Mouse support would be nice, especially if you want to fool around with stuff like GEOS

Looks like I'll be picking me up one of these on eBay along with a USB disk drive. I'd prefer to load my games, old school. and as luck would have it I can even still get a USB tape player and load my games from tape if I wanted to.

I have found quite a few C64 games don't work on The C64. Many graphic adventures and games that are not as well known, like Portal by Activision. These all work in Vice emulation on my PC, so I presume it's because The C64 doesn't have the latest version of WinVice. I hope they can update the emulation, so more games will run on it. The more games you have to end up emulating on the PC, the more you feel there was no point spending the money on The C64!

in Dec 2021 the C64 port of SEGA Sonic the Hedgehog has been released and it requires minimum 256KB of REU to run - it's a very impressive port

I think the significance of the updates to the theC64mini are underplayed. The "mini" was intended to be just a game machine but they opened pandora's box when they provided access to BASIC. For many, this really kicked off the craze! The "virtual keyboard" just wasn't enough. USB keyboards were necessary... and it just grew into the necessity of the "full" sized machine. But is the mini useless? Well NO! It got a LOT better without people noticing! It now has "classic" (boot to BASIC) mode! That's huge! With a good keyboard everything opens up. And frankly, while I have the "full" the mini is more useful to me because of desk space sharing. One of the mini's shortcomings is the number of USB ports and so USB keyboards which provide more USB ports or a USB hub is necessary. I started using a USB hub but found a fantastic USB keyboard with USB hub ports included! (Perixx Periboard-409!) The Full size uses the power button as a "menu" button but also as a means of providing a "hard" and "soft" reset. But the mini's power button only serves as a power button as a momentary click will cue the shutdown script for the machine. But RetroGames provided this hard/soft functionality to a USB keyboard user via the F12 key. (Most mini keyboards only provide up to F10 and provide F12 as a "Fn+F2" combination) With the Periboard-409 providing two USB hub ports, I can send the mini to the back of the desk and use the USB hub ports (still two) for a USB drive and game controller! This is exceedingly convenient. I added a label to the keyboard with two labels. The first: LShift+F12: Soft Reset LShift+[OS]+F12: Hard Reset The second: Recover BASIC program after soft reset poke 2050,1:sys42291:poke46,peek(35):poke45,peek(781)+2:clr Soft reset is useful/important when using virtual cartridges like supersnapshot and TurboMacroPro for assembly development. Once again there are many small USB keyboards out there. Most have no physical F12 key so those key combinations become more complicated (LeftShift+Fn+F2... also note that [OS] refers to the Windows key but could be any symbol there) This is why I simply prefer a mini keyboard with the full range of F keys. That combination of keys and USB hub ports makes the selection of possible options much more limited... and "expensive." So far, only Periboard-409 does it all. I'd be glad to know if there are other options which are affordable in a mini keyboard. (If readers here know of any other options tell me! I want to know!) The point of my commentary here is to say that the mini is actually "better" [more appropriate/useful] depending on the circumstances. And the mini is ABSOLUTELY easier to find and buy because they are still everywhere and absolutely CHEAPER as well. It's cheaper even after you buy a periboard-409! And I learned about "Periboard" because of the Commander X16 project as Perixx is providing the keyboards for the still-in-development "Commander X16" series of machines which utilize PETSCII keyboards and character sets. So Perixx will be providing PETSCII labeled keyboards! I don't know when they will be released to the public but the fact that they are will also serve my interests with the "theC64" series machines. Lots of awesome!

16MB REU could be used if a file system was large enough and you can bypass the slow loading.

Yay! The Last Ninja Here I come

There is still no saving back to EasyFlash. This is a really simple change that has not been made.

The voice at the beginning of Turrican sounds like a Dalek.

I just want to be able to change the SID and the colour palette and I'll be happy.

The REU memory is useful for pre-rendered/pre-loaded video.

What’s the point of being compatible with the REUs? I would think they’d have enough spare RAM already in the core SOC to just emulate them.

all we need now is super cpu support

The BluREU demo from Crest uses the whole 16 MB.

the only person whose videos i like before watching (well you and RMC)..

I would love for them to add USB mouse support for GEOS.

They really need to update the actual Vice Emulator they are using, I believe it is 2.4 which is more than 10 years ago . The Vice Team are up to 3.5 now.

I bought this thing as soon as it was released and played 30 minutes of Bruce Lee with it. Now it's just a conversation piece on my desk 'cause nobody knows what it is :)

Where can I get this the C 64 thanks

still havent sussed out multi disk on the sd2iec....need more time with it methinks

It would be nice if I could find one of these for sale... been looking for restock for more than a year and nothing...

Would be good if you could mount more than one disk image at a time. Some games I love have a ton of disk sides and the swapping gets very tiresome ..Ultima V anyone?

I wish they’d add full C=128 compatibility, I’d buy it then…

Audio is fixed, no more bass coloration or reverb

There’s a Defender of the Crown ROM out there that is only 1 disk in size.....

the link of the turrican ROM?

Nice waggling! 👍🕹️

Nice, now I'm ready to buy one. But where?

Still waiting for mouse support :(

I would just like to know when they are going to release the one for the United States

still no auto fire option for the joystick.

My question is ( and it's HIGHLY unlikely to be answered) : *Where in the Bloody 'Ell are the units for the US market?!* They appear to be unobtanium and I certainly am not going to pay some slimy, sleazy, skeevy Jimmy Savile wannabe eBay scalper for one!

dust rags are a thing you know

That the TheC64 on the video looks pretty dusty ;)

You should really compare it with MiSTer :)

Update would be more usefull if i could put my hand on a unit...

I wish Nintendo would take note and update their consoles instead of making people buy two mini Sega Mega Drives... so much plastic for no reason 🤯

Oh yeah how you gonna sort that 15 MB address list on your c64 without 16MB of RAM huh? How you gonna sort the first million or so real randoms for a freq analysis test huh? How you gonna find out what the 16 million digit of pi is on your c64 huh? You can never have too much RAM! 🤓

Ahh another computer with Linux called a c64.