Tag: freezer

Open C64 flash cartridge with seven EasyFlash slots, eight external KERNAL slots, freezer-cartridge support, and USB transfer.

AMI64 described its assembled EasyFlash 3 as newly available on 2026-07-30. The package includes the cartridge and a printed quick-start guide; a USB cable and any separate C64 storage device are not listed as included.

Current and DIY versions of the C64 and C128 utility cartridge with fast loading, freezer, monitor, BASIC extensions, and desktop software.

Daniel Mantione currently offers the assembled Final Cartridge III 101% with a case through his project page and SellMyRetro. It arrives without firmware, so the buyer must flash a compatible image before use; version 2 of the 101% firmware and the C64 flasher are available from the maker. The separate C64iSTANBUL III+ project offers an orderable through-hole PCB, bill of materials, and 64 KB or 256 KB EPROM images, but it requires assembly and an EPROM programmer. PCBWay labels that shared hardware project CC BY-SA 3.0. The original and derivative firmware remains copyrighted and is not presented as freely licensed.

DIY replica of the 1985 C64 freezer cartridge that captures RAM, I/O, and CPU state to disk.

The replica repository's 2021 v1.0a files include ISEPIC-named Gerbers, an Altium PCB project, schematic, bill of materials, and disk images. Its README mistakenly links its PCBWay order button to a different 8 MHz Z80 card; do not order that board as an ISEPIC. Review and fabricate from the included ISEPIC files instead. Replica hardware files outside the Docs and Software directories are CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. The original 1985 ISEPIC software remains copyrighted and is not covered by that hardware license.

Vintage and DIY C64 freezer cartridge that saves restartable memory snapshots to disk, tape, or EPROM-oriented cartridge files.

DDI's Re-Capture page still exposes Gerbers, a parts list, a Capture ROM archive, and a manual link. The parts list specifies the EPROM, SRAM, logic, passives, and switch choices, but ReplayResources says the schematic is still missing and no complete assembly or test guide was found. Neither page supplies a clear license for the reproduction files or Capture software. ReplayResources quotes permission relating to Jason-Ranheim's separate Promenade materials but explicitly says its own Capture permission requests went unanswered, so the catalog does not treat the Capture ROM as open or freely licensed. Original cartridges remain worth searching for used.

Current flashable C64 freezer and development cartridge compatible with Retro Replay, Action Replay, and Nordic Power ROMs.

individual Computers marked Nordic Replay available for immediate delivery on 2026-07-30 as a fully assembled and boxed cartridge with the Retro Replay ROM pre-flashed. iComp supports the hardware but not the third-party ROM software. Action Replay compatibility does not supply an Action Replay ROM license; the maker says an owner may use an image from an original cartridge. The accessory connector is documented only for compatible devices such as Silversurfer, RR-Net, and MP3@64, and the technical page warns that incorrectly fitted hardware can short and destroy both devices.

Uses a Raspberry Pi cartridge to emulate memory, sound, cartridges, ROMs, and file-loading functions across several Commodore 8-bit systems.

The open project publishes Gerbers, BOMs, software, and case files for full-size and Zero boards. Retro-Updates' assembled Sidekick64 Zero was out of stock on 2026-07-27 and excludes the Raspberry Pi Zero 2. The maker calls the project a personal playground and warns that unsupported images, timing glitches, and unsafe cartridge combinations remain possible.