Just bought a C64 :-)

[humppa]

Get yourself a MMC64 and maybe a Retro Replay and then head over to the real cool stuff. ;-)
You could also get ethernet and a proper browser with CSS-support. ;-)

[humppa]

motorollin wrote:

Marco wrote:
With the later revision SID chip that a lot of people complained about for sounding ever-so-slightly different IIRC.

Hmmm dunno about that. I got it solely for music. Will the SID chip in this revision be ok  :-?

It will be ok, there is nothing wrong with it. The 8580 sounds a bit cleaner than the 6581. On the other hand drums sound quite phat on the 6581 while being a little too "metallic" on the 8580. But that's just personal taste.
One important difference though are digis, e.g. digitized speech like in the beginning og "The last V8" or "Space Taxi". The 8580 is nearly uncapable of playing those digis at a decent volume. There is a resistor-fix available, very easy to do, I did it and it worked perfectly.

[humppa]

8580 SID-chip in c64c have a "bug" with digital samples, this are playing at very low volume but you can fix it in a very simple way with a 330k resistance between pins 11 and 26

That's what I did and it worked fine. You can vary a bit with the resistors between 300k and 500k and the strength of the effect will change. The best would be to have a potentiometer for that, so you can regulate it to your own liking.
It's good that you put "bug" in quotes, because it's rather the other way round. The 6581 has a bug when turning the volume up and down on one channel very quickly. The result is a clicking noise that some programmers used for generating digi sounds. Weird technique, but it worked.
The 6581 has a more "warm" sound while the 8580 sounds very clean and "sharp".

[humppa]

It aparrently lets you use your Amiga as a C64 disk drive. I have never tried it, but it looks like you need to build a circut to connect the Amiga's parallel port to the C64's serial port. Think I'll just get the MMC64 instead. Does anyone know whether I will be able to use the Prophet64 connected to the MC64 passthrough, and whether I can save Prophet64 projects to the MMC card?

Please note that the MMC64 does not allow you to load multifile games (e.g. from D64-files). However, you can start single Programs (.PRG-files), look inside D64-images and start PRGs from there, write back D64-images to your 1541, convert 1541-disks to D64, isten to WAV-files, watch ANIms and pictures, play SIDs and many many other things.

If you also have a Retro Replay, you can make full use of the "Dreamload" plugin, which allows you to also load multifile D64/D71 images. The IDE64-fixed version work fine with it.
I don't know about the Prophet64, but the Retro Replay works fine together with the MMC64.