u/QueenEriselle

Hey r/c64. I'm am about to be receiving a working original breadbin C64 for my birthday, which I'm pretty excited about. It won't come with a monitor, nor any controllers. Just the computer, power brick, cardboard box, and manual.

I grew up with C64s around the house. My parents used to find them at yard sales and such, and it was my main/only computer from age 6 until 13. Most of the modern world back then had already moved on to early PCs, but our parents figured we wouldn't know the difference until we were older. Any time they saw another C64 machine, monitor, or software at a yard sale, they'd buy it all up for cheap, because people were dumping left and right. Every year or so, the one we were using would fry, and they'd go pull another "new" one out of a box. At one point in time, we had seven working ones stored up. I spent much of my childhood perusing thousands of disks looking for new games to try. In the past few months, I've been reliving my past with emulators, and even writing a bit of assembly code.

I think I am going to need to do things and acquire stuff to make this actually usable. Video connectivity, software, lack of controllers and disk drives, etc. Any suggestions?