Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Unboxing, reviewing, and how to play Planet X2 (http://the8bitguy.com) on the C64 Mini (http://thec64.com).
The Mini has 2 USB ports. Planet X2 is a keyboard intensive game. As the mini does not have a built-in working keyboard, you need plug in one to make it work. But wait! you also need a USB drive, and the Mini's joystick to navigate the menus because the Mini does not have keyboard support outside the machine emulator (the program it calls Commodore BASIC). You cannot load the game into internal storage and you cannot switch the keyboard and mouse because the minute you do - POP! You are kicked out of the program you are trying to run.
It is very doable and Mr. Gigabytes will show you how (because Mr. Gigabytes needed to figure it out for himself for some of the other programs he uses.)
Get the C64 Mini: amzn.to/3koazNR
Unboxing, reviewing, and how to play Planet X2 (http://the8bitguy.com) on the C64 Mini (http://thec64.com).
The Mini has 2 USB ports. Planet X2 is a keyboard intensive game. As the mini does not have a built-in working keyboard, you need plug in one to make it work. But wait! you also need a USB drive, and the Mini's joystick to navigate the menus because the Mini does not have keyboard support outside the machine emulator (the program it calls Commodore BASIC). You cannot load the game into internal storage and you cannot switch the keyboard and mouse because the minute you do - POP! You are kicked out of the program you are trying to run.
It is very doable and Mr. Gigabytes will show you how (because Mr. Gigabytes needed to figure it out for himself for some of the other programs he uses.)
Get the C64 Mini: amzn.to/3koazNR
