New Member - 128CDR

roushinator · March 05, 2010, 11:31 AM

New member here but not new to Commodore. I had a 128DCR as a kid and played 1000's of hours of games on it. I sold it a couple of years ago.

But picked up another one a few days ago. Here it is.

I know who has my original one. I might email him again and see if he will trade my original 128CDR for this and a few $$$.

roushinator · March 05, 2010, 11:33 AM

If i dont trade I want to add a fan for sure. What are the other suggestions? JiffyDos? I know about the stuff like the 1541 ultimate, supercpu, etc... but what else can i do to the 128 itself?

Blacklord · March 05, 2010, 02:42 PM

Why would you trade ? this one looks to be in excelllent condition!

RobertB · March 05, 2010, 04:57 PM

Quote from: roushinator on March 05, 2010, 11:33 AMIf i dont trade I want to add a fan for sure. What are the other suggestions? JiffyDos?

JiffyDOS, yes. Also there is agreement on the forum here that heatsinking the important chips is a good idea. You can also fill up the empty socket on the board with a function ROM, the best being the Megabit 128 ROM adapter.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org

roushinator · March 06, 2010, 04:53 AM

Quote from: Blacklord on March 05, 2010, 02:42 PM
Why would you trade ? this one looks to be in excelllent condition!

Thanks. I would only want the other one back for sentimental reasons.

roushinator · March 07, 2010, 12:29 PM

Quote from: RobertB on March 05, 2010, 04:57 PM
Quote from: roushinator on March 05, 2010, 11:33 AMIf i dont trade I want to add a fan for sure. What are the other suggestions? JiffyDos?
JiffyDOS, yes. Also there is agreement on the forum here that heatsinking the important chips is a good idea. You can also fill up the empty socket on the board with a function ROM, the best being the Megabit 128 ROM adapter.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org

This is probably a dumb question but where is the best place to get the Megabit 128 ROM adapter?

RobertB · March 07, 2010, 05:14 PM

Quote from: roushinator on March 07, 2010, 12:29 PM...where is the best place to get the Megabit 128 ROM adapter?

You order it from member Megabit right here on this forum. The original thread (or most of it, at least) is at

http://www.commodore128.org/index.php?topic=2645.0

The best C128 upgrade of 2009,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org

Andrew Wiskow · March 23, 2010, 07:43 AM

Quote from: Blacklord on March 05, 2010, 02:42 PM
Why would you trade ? this one looks to be in excelllent condition!

He's talking about trading this one for his original one that he sould a couple years ago. I can totally understand that...

Welcome to the forum, Roushinator. I'd definately recommend adding JiffyDOS to your system, as well as adding a fan. You can find the instructions for adding a fan to a 128DCR here: http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/cbm/128dfan.txt