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Well, its been years in the making, but finally the MegaCart has arrived, and mine has just arrived yesterday!
The MegaCart in full - The guys have done a great production job!
What is a MegaCart?… Well, it is a brand new cartridge produced in 2009 for the Vic 20, the C64’s older brother. Overall it contains every single cartridge game ever released for the machine all on one cartridge, along with a selection of disk/tape games, utilities and hidden extras.
Everything is very well produced, as well as some very neat packaging, you get cartridge acting as a tribute to the classic Vic 20 carts of yesterday (Now complete with an Action Replay style reset switch).
Plugging in for the first time, you are presented with an excellent menu system with plenty of shortcut keys and boot features. You can select from a range of impressive tunes to play (and mute when you’ve had enough), add games to a favourites list and pick a random game from the impressive library.
Additionally the cartridge helps to provide the one-stop solution by providing RAM expansion boot options, and a touch of Action Replayness with the addition of the excellent EasyLoad+.
All set up and raring to go... The Vic 20 in the background is in a Rotronics case, but sadly the Space bar isn't working, so I need to rip this one apart and sort it.
Although I still really need to sit down and enjoy my new purchase, overall this was an excellent purchase to dig out my Vic 20 again and fire up some old memories.
For more information on the cartridge, check out the website here.
It’s been buzzing around the internet like wildfire, but quite amazingly – Nelly Furtado’s new “Do it!” song rips off quite blatently a recent Amiga/C64 tune – even lifting a segment of the actual C64 voices for part of the voice. We’re talking a fairly hefty segment too!
Now considering that C64 is the machine closest to my heart in the world of retro gaming, this has been quite exciting stuff – whilst at the same time quite anger inducing considering that the original authors (one of which I know and helps from time to time on GTW) will not get a penny from any of this, mainly because they are “small people” against a “big corporation with many laywers”….
Timberland are the mixers behind the tune, who have been found from previous interviews to have a “Sidstation” in their pocession – which is a music station that is powered by C64 chip sound (to get the desired old school sounds, and is used quite a lot in various songs – I kid thee not).
This is probably more amazing than when Kernkraft 500 ripped off David Whittaker’s Lazy Jones tune for “Zombie Nation”….
Here’s some comparison proof…
http://timbalandtempest.ytmnd.com/
And also a nice big write up about it from C64 Audio head… Chris Abbott … http://www.c64audio.com/timbaland.php
Pretty much anyone who knows me and my retro gaming background will know how much I praise up the Commodore 64 and the constant new things it manages to achieve with its 64k of memory and 0.98 mhz clock speed.
It only seems like not so long ago when I was watching the slow dwindling death of the great Commodore 64, but it is sadly just over 10 years now since the machine's last commercial magazine breathed its last (Commodore Format – 1995). Although I had an Atari 2600 and Vic 20 way after they were commercially obsolete, it was into 1996 that still being a C64 user classed me as a "Retro Gamer" (Or "Sad Tosser", as many were affectionately known in the early beginnings).
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