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A t first the name filled me with fear because it made me think of flashing your own ROM cartridges, which is a voodoo I'm not at one with. It turns out that products like the Easyflash are less scary than they sound. I believe EF had 8 ROM slots that you could flash from the C64 itself and then it operated as a cartridge containing the ROM you selected.  If I have that wrong, forgive me, but it just demonstrates that KFF is easy enough for a numpty like me to use.  Creator Kim Jorgensen has taken that Easyflash idea and run with it.   Kung Fu Flash takes a micro SD card, on which you put as many program files, disk or cartridge images as you like. (If you buy one from Future Was 8-bit, it comes with a micro-SD which already has a lot of stuff copied to it.) The Menu button on the KFF menu gives you a file browser.  You simply select one of your .prg files to run it. In that respect it's a credible alternative to the SD2IEC.  If you select a .crt file, KFF will ...

M y 'bionic' C64 has reached another milestone. I wrote about it after I'd installed a PLAnkton , ARMSID and TOLB , and in the process resurrected a 'black-screen' computer. Although I have an external SD2IEC which is good for plugging into any C64, Vic20 or C16 that I am using, I'd always intended to put an internal SD card drive inside this machine, I had envisaged simply leaving the drive inside the machine, opening it up whenever I wanted to copy anything to the card. But I found that Gaz Marshall has designed a replacement side panel for the C64 which has an SD card slot and houses the SD2IEC. It's available as a model for 3D printing , or ready-printed direct from his Shapeways shop . I hadn't found the shop for ordering the printed version, so I asked a friend to print one for me. Here's the result. Note that there's an all-in-one version, and a 'modular' version where you have to screw the tray to the side panel. ...