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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I wish I could use it but I can’t. The folks developing UT are awesome but they are a very small group of unpaid volunteers and this stuff is painfully difficult to do.

    One of the biggest problems is the lack of VoLTE support for making actual phone calls on most phones. Last I looked (which was admittedly more than a month ago) only a few models supported it, and it is the only supported mobile voice protocol in several countries. You can work around this with a SIP (Voice over IP) account and some geekery but it’s not ideal.

    Another issue is very limited software. There just aren’t that many developers creating software for the platform.

    I ended up on /e/.



  • I think you pretty much understand the issue here. The C64 has composite video output through a DIN-to-RCA adapter and analog television output through an RF converter. There is no option for digital outputs to modern monitors since they did not exist when the C64 was manufactured and they use a completely different set of signals.

    Your options are pretty much to:

    1. Find an analog monitor or TV with RCA inputs and buy or build an adapter cable,
    2. Find an analog color TV and use the RF adapter (which will give you far worse display quality), or
    3. Try the converter box, which I hear is a hit-or-miss option.

    This is the fun of going retro, no?