My New Commodore 64

My computing career began at age 13 with a Commodore 64. I originally wanted a BBC Micro, but couldn't save enough pennies, so bought a C64 instead. In retrospect, this was a good decision: BBCs were mostly for skiers; C64 for snowboarders (even though snowboards probably weren't invented then). Anyway, I'm not sure what I did with my original C64 so have just bought a similar one on ebay because I decided I ought to own the computer that changed my life! I think I've still got some of my old programs somewhere, including a drum machine (Drumz) and a half finished side scrolling shooter game (OffWorld) (all in assembler of course).

The screenshot shows a Power64 emulator, behind my real C64 (through an EyeTV).

Has anyone got any spare 5.25" Double Density floppies?

ExpanDrive

I mentioned ExpanDrive in a recent post. It makes a remote server connected via SFTP, FTP or Amazon S3 seem like a USB drive plugged into your Mac. Everything happens in the Finder, so it's a more elegant solution than utilities like Cyberduck or Transmit (although it presumably lacks some of the advanced features of those, e.g. file permissions control). It's probably the best way to edit remote files in TextMate (which lacks an integrated FTP client like BBEdit or Coda).

There are two reasons for another post about ExpanDrive:

1. I found a coupon code that gives $10 off the usual $39.95 price, which is valid at the time of this post, but could expire at any time: 6NI1DW5ZKW233HYI
2. Another utility MacFusion appears to be very similar to ExpanDrive (MacFUSE does the heavy lifting for both) but is free.

Perhaps one day, Apple will build this functionality into the Finder... Also, I notice that there is a version of ExpanDrive for Windows too, so I guess Windows Explorer doesn't support SFTP/FTP out of the box either (not that I know or care about that).