Commodore C64/C128 Ram Expansion Unit

[sloopy]

As many of you with Commodore computers know, a REU is a useful piece of hardware to have... Recently in my mail, 'I got a Box', and inside was and interesting new device I picked up...

 

It is a "DAC 1MB REU" by http://digitalaudioconcepts.com/ and i must say this thing is nice...

 

Front

Back

Cased (I havn't put the label on it yet ;')

 

And it fits in some common C= carts with just the screw pillar being removed and the 'latches' on the side holding the cart together...

 

I have had this a few days, and its much better then my 512k 1764, as it is MUCH smaller, and contains a full 1MB of ram... (V, 16mb next? :') And since it uses the same main IC (the REC) as a standard Commodore RAM Expansion Unit, it is full compatible with all the same apps (Wheels, GEOS, MOD's, etc) as stock.

 

Now on to why I am posting this, as some of you know I am primarily an 8bit Atari computer person, and I am looking for suggestions on testing this thing out. Now i have used the common CMD test utility, Wheels, and playing music on it, I am looking for something else, games? apps?

 

thanks,

sloopy.

[Rybags]

There's that recent demo which is a videocap + music of a car racing game.

Unsure if it works on REU, it might stream the frames from a DMA IDE type drive.

 

CSDB should have most modern-day releases that need REU - http://noname.c64.org/csdb/search/advanced.php

 

Looks like you can't search by hardware criteria though.

[sack-c0s]

blueREU is a demo that works with the expansion unit

 

It's not just the expanded RAM that is useful for demo coding - there's a few tricks that can be done by locking it to DMA out a block of data repeatedly to the same address