How the Commodore REU Works

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  @matthewray6008 · 4 years ago

  My uncle ran a computer store in the 80s and I just texted him to see if he knew how much REUs went for. He has always been a Commodore fan (he even has a tattoo of the logo). He said that he can try and track down a price sheet from back then but he's pretty sure they were MSRP for 299 but most shops would price them at MAP which was 199.

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  @geekwithsocialskills · 4 years ago

  The 32K EPROM socket can be used to add GEOS onboard to the REU for instant loading of the base GEOS application.

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  @Toonrick12 · 4 years ago

  Sonic is actually a port of the already existing 8-bit version for the Sega Master System/Game Gear. That being said, it's a near perfect port of it, and it even runs a bit better than the original version!

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  @fredgoesfast · 4 years ago

  David, I bought mine from Best Products for $149.99. I do remember that the price had no catalog listing and when I asked them why they said that the price of dram was very volatile at the time. And, when they had to look it up it was listed with the jewelry department since it had to be where their program allowed them to easily modify the price.

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  @8_Bit · 4 years ago

  Several of the later Infocom games shipped with REU support which allowed pre-loading of data into RAM, greatly speeding up the time it took to process your turns.

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  @RacerX- · 4 years ago (edited)

  Great Video. I can help with the price.   The REU listed for $149 in the USA when it came out but I got mine on sale at Toys R Us for either $109 or $129.  I do know that later on they were selling them for $99 and that is when we picked up a second unit for our BBS.   I still own my 1764 and the PSU is still in use on my 64C.

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  @danielstickney2400 · 4 years ago

  My experience with the 1764 REU was discovering that my RAM disk was not as slick an idea as I thought when my C64 crashed and I lost the term paper i was working on at 2:00 AM in the morning on the last day of the semester.  The old and dying refrigerator drew enormous current when it kicked on and my landlord's brother-in-law wiring job wasn't up to the task of supplying it and the rest of the house.    Fortunately I only lost the bibliography but man it was a pain.  Save early and Save often has been my motto ever since.

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  @MyAmazingUsername · 8 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c2jhh1f5FE&amp;t=606">10:06</a> &quot;Anyway...&quot; cuts the scene immediately while Sonic is tumbling to his demise. 😂

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  @ricky_pigeon · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c2jhh1f5FE&amp;t=769">12:49</a> Sonic ending his life.

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  @kaseyboles30 · 4 years ago

  I had one of those. I even had it all wired up with extra sockets and the glue logic (74series ftw) to make it a two megabyte reu, just at 15 I never came up with the money for the actual ram chips. There was also an update to software to properly use all that ram. This was more ram than pc-xt&apos;s of the time.

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  @mikeprice2311 · 4 years ago

  I love how they even recreated 8-bit Sonic 1s broken demo. That&apos;s true dedication to the source material.

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  @HelloKittyFanMan. · 4 years ago

  Yes, it&apos;s so interesting how there&apos;s now quite the cult following of the C64 that can finally afford to use these super accessories that we wish we could have had just as easily some 4 decades ago! And with people developing modern solutions for old machines, like being able to run flash storage on these computers, this is really a magical era for nostalgia, isn&apos;t it?

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