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Because it’s basically a full fletched Easyflash cartridge. Overkill, I know but it’s open source and only requires proper attribution.

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That’s correct, it’s featuring a SID chip and a special VIC-II variant that is using SRAM. It was supposed to be released in Germany as VIC-10, but never made a release outside Japan. I have two of them, but none with this kind of box.
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I’m well aware of the Max Machine, it was the direct ancestor to the C64 and I have repaired a few myself.
It’s just that I never saw one in a C64 box format. Usually the MaxMachine boxes are more square.

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Not that I know of, it’s pretty much hit and miss, most of the time.

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It was at Gäupark in Egerkingen.

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I remember that one. Brilliant game. I wish Parasol Stars would have made it on the C64.

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Yes, and this is even a special version for the CDTV.
But if you’re cool with an external solution I’d probably recommend the Unijoysticle (Amiga version).

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It’s indeed quite odd.
It even gets weirder, there was a data recorder (datasette) that could be plugged into the keyboard for loading and saving programs.
Strangely enough the use of a disk drive prevents the use of family basic because it occupies the cartridge port.

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That is indeed a beauty.😍
Reminds me of some MSX machines.
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France was big in Minitel, they even continued the service until 2012.
I remember using the Swiss counterpart “Videotex” with a German BTX adapter cartridge for the Commodore 64.
They all had pretty much the same standard.