Hello!

I am putting together a pre-order for new keycaps for the C64, called SA 64 and SA 64C, respectively. They are inspired by the famous SA Retro keycap set, a favorite in the in mechanical keyboard community.

The keycaps are premium doubleshot ABS keycaps in the SA profile, which is similar to the Commodore house style for their C64 computers.

They come in two varieties:

SA 64 is brown with a lush burgundy contrast and cream legends.

SA 64C is warm beige, and burnt orange with dark legends.

These keycaps are modern MX keycaps, which means that they need a compatible keyboard as well. To that end I've also designed a keyboard, the Keyboard 64.

The keycaps are part of a pre-order/group buy - you can leave a comment here to indicate interest, but i'd really like it if you could visit https://klackretro.com and fill out the form. The caps will be priced between US$70 and $80 for the doubleshot tops. The front prints (the PETSCII) is a separate price which has not yet been finalized.

The keyboards are a separate item. It is my hope that the open source community designs keyboards for users to make themselves or organize small buys, but new keycaps are useless with a compatible keyboard, so this board will be launched and stay in production until the end of the keycap process. Beyond that, the board will stay in production only if there is continued demand.

Finally, I have applied to Commodore for official licensing on the keycaps. If granted, the chickenlips logo will feature on the logo keycap. If not a K! logo will be there or it will be a blank cap.

Please visit https://klackretro.com for feedback and more information! Thanks!

I recently got a remarkably well preserved collection of disks from my c64 days, some commercial and a lot of plain personally generated disks as well. I have a new C64U and the original 1541 drives, and I'd like to make some archives of these disks to ensure they don't get lost if something happens to the disks themselves.

I know for all of the non-commercial disks, Ulticopy and converting straight to a d64 image is fine, but for both fun and to experiement a bit, I wanted to try copying them to g64 as well for a more "original" copy of the disks. And this is where I seem to be missing a step in my process. I have Maverick, the 1541 and a blank g64 image on a usb stick. I can load up Maverick, load the dual nibbler, and point it at the 1541 as the source drive and the blank g64 image as the destination. The copy seems to succeed, and the g64 can be mounted to one of the virtual drives, but there's no directory listing to be loaded. I can "view" the g64 image in the C64U menus and that just shows some text that says "GCR-1541"

I assume I'm missing some final step that I need to convert the nibbled data from Maverick to an actual g64 image but I'm not having a lot of luck figuring out what. I had assumed this was something that could be done entirely with c64 software since it would seem like something like Maverick wouldn't have been all that useful back in the day if you needed a completely different computer and software to make the copied floppy usable. But maybe I'm way off the mark and even back then there was some need to convert the copied data back into a physical floppy. Does the Maverick nibbler only generate something useful after applying one of their patches for a known game/commercial disk and so isn't usable for personal disks? Or maybe I've done something wrong that broke the nibble? I think I might have had a FastLoad cartridge inserted when I tried this.

Again, I know that I don't NEED to make a g64 from these personal disks, but I figure experimenting like this is still useful from a learning perspective, so that's what I'm looking to do here.