c64 .DATS and playing games on the C64 hardware

[pmc]

Originally Posted by Hewitson

The features simply won't be used.

Probably true to a point, but who's to say I won't use the features of mine, or others won't use the features of theirs, for their own C64 asm coding projects...?

Originally Posted by Hewitson

In the C64 world it's considered lame to code something that won't run on a standard machine.

Again, this is only true to a point, see for example this release by Crest:

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=90344

that uses a C64 plus REU expansion. Finishing 1st at the Breakpoint 2010 Wild Demo compo can hardly be considered lame.

[Retroplay]

I got my 1541U-II with tape extender today.
This is without a doubt the coolest thing I've bought in a long long time.

[Retrofan]

If you don't want to expend 129€ and you don't need usb and a real time clock, you cand expend 60€ and have this: http://c64sd.roxer.com/