Very cool way to not just get a C64 online, but also significantly shorten load times. Fascinating!

Thank you for keeping the community alive with this device. Looking to purchase one.

I want one so I can make my own server. Thanks for the introduction!

Great video!

@Arcticretro

3 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot. I enjoy your videos a lot too :)

Hello from France, Tommy (Tommy’s your first name, right?)! Thank you so much for this interesting presentation of the wic64 and thank you in general for your awesome videos. I also enjoy seeing the beautiful sceneries from Norway which you include in every show. Keep up your incredible and very much appreciated contribution to the retro-computing community! Kind regards, Thierry

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Appreciate it. I will do my best going forward :)

Ever since I got my FujiNet adapter for my Atari 800XL, I've been trying to find something similar for my C64. It looks like I found it! Thanks for the video!

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

I made a two player artillery duel clone for that device called Multorio (it's available in the Portal under "Online games") and a remote BASIC compiler that sends your program to a server, compiles it there and gets the result back from the server. It's quite fun to work with these devices, albeit some things are still in their early stages and it shows. One of mine died recently, because a capacitor on the ESP32 shorted, which also burned out a diode on the WiC's PCB. I replaced the diode and flashed a new ESP, no big deal. But I'm not the first one with this exact failure, so it might be a general problem with either the quality of some ESPs or the voltage supplied to the ESP. Just in case your WiC starts to smoke as well, that's what it might be...

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

Nice :) Hope it wont happen to me. I guess the possibilities are endless if you know how to program and can utilise it fully. Hopefully that portal will be expanded with more stuff.

@gunken8870

2 жыл бұрын

and EgonOlsen71 also done MOS Speed Basic Compiler reachable over WiC64 ;-) I always use to compile my Basic .. DiskFix tool ;-)

This is very cool. They have recently developed something similar for the Coleco Adam computer, wifi adapter named FujiNet that lets you connect to a site to download game directly to the old computer's memory.

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I heard about fujinet for Atari

@miked4377

2 жыл бұрын

i am really excited about fujinet for coleco adam...when can we order the proper equipment!

I LOVE C64

very good! you are becoming a favorite of mine...

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks!

Got mine in last week, once up and running i will add puzzle bobble if posible.

Amazing c64

This would have blown my 1985 mind who had to load stuff of cassette taking up to twenty minutes.

@Okurka.

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck loading games off the internet in 1985.

This is super cool. I wonder if you could have the thing load a directory on a local server of games. It wouldn't be so difficult to have a simple ftp or http server locally that it could access the applications. I have an SD2IEC that works pretty well but some applications do take a dump on me but what can you do. The other thing I wonder is, could I use this to also PUT information on a local network? Maybe save some data files here and there, nothing to complex. Hmmm.... This is super cool.

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

It has a lot of possibilities :) We´ll see what comes next

A very interesting gadget. Perhaps, in another future video, a test of this interface could be done with the Commodore 128 or 128-D. (In 128 mode?). See you soon. 👋

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

Cool idea! Yes, I might do that!

For future reference: Almost all HTTP servers are case sensitive since they usually map directly to an underlaying *ix filesystem. The hostname is never case sensitive unless the client is bugged.

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

I would say many, not almost all. But if mapped to a *ix file system, that is true.

oooooooooooooooooooooooo man! awesome! greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

Thank youuuuuuuu!

Can this software be used with the Wifi64 modem or is it specific to WiC 64?

Who is the artist of this beautiful music?

You mention that you found some English instructions. Where would those be?

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/122554-wic64-manual-deutsch-wic64-english-manual/

@congestiontv

Жыл бұрын

The English manual is also available on the Wic64 web site. Although it might not have been when this video was released.

Will this firmware also work with : C64-WiFi-Modem-User-Port by Sven Petersen? From what I can see the hardware design is very similar and if my understanding is correct all of the magic is done in the firmware/ software?

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know :)

@michaelcarey

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think it will. The Sven Petersen modem uses the C64 "RS232" serial in/out on the User Port, basically emulating an old-world telephone modem. The Wic64 uses a parallel connection between the C64 and the ESP8266, this is how it can load data so quickly.

You could have a local WLAN storage device to load games and files instead of from an external website.

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

Sure. I mentioned that. I did not bother to set up a web site then, but I forgot I could have used one of my web hotels.

This is what the Berlin Clock item is simulating: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengenlehreuhr

Where to buy the 3D print of the case ?

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

There are many shops where you can send in models and have it printed. I have no experience with those since I have a 3D printer

Maybe some of the glitches you experienced are due to a heavily modded C64 (the screens show you have jiffydos kernal rom and maybe some other custom ICs).But a great device nonetheless!

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

Could be, but then it would fail always I think.

A really great project. However, this device cannot make a Pi1541 or an sd2iec obsolete as it doesn't handle full disk images. In other words, programmes loading several files in a row would need additional treatment to be supported by Wic64. Also you can't create backups of you old diskettes and then transfer them towards the net. I hope I see this right.

@Arcticretro

Жыл бұрын

They are constantly updating the software for it. I see now that you can watch KZread on a C64 via this device. I haven't tested that yet

@congestiontv

Жыл бұрын

@@Arcticretro That is really crazy. Maybe they even find a way for the follow-up loading of files for games like Space Taxi.

its always a little bit tight the first time

That’s a great device. Okay, not for me, as I am „using“ the C64 Maxi… Greetings 👋

Of course the speed is offset by the time it takes you type that long url :)

@Arcticretro

2 жыл бұрын

Yes sure. But it works with shorter urls :)

@congestiontv

Жыл бұрын

Slow typing was for demonstration purposes only. Arctic Retro normally types at light speed. :o)