Customizable Commodore 64 Cartridge

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Have an old Commodore 64 cartridge with a lost case or a new one without a cover? This innovative two-part cartridge case accurately replicates the design and dimensions of the cartridges Commodore produced for the 64 back in the early 80s. The customizer-enabled design allows users to modify it in several ways, including: remove debossed stripes punch out label hole entirely adjust length of cart based on PCB length adjust position and size of PCB mounting hole, or remove it entirely add support feet to the back (good for longer/heavier cartridges) If you have other ideas for customization parameters, feel free to reach out and I'll see what can be done. Two sets of STLs are also included: standard-c64-cartridge_*.stl — case for a standard Commodore cartridge for the 64 gyruss-c64--cartridge_*.stl — case for Gyruss, which probably works with other Parker Brothers carts for the Commodore 64 as well. Print Settings: Rafts: Doesn't Matter Supports: Yes Notes: When printing on FDM printers, I recommend printing with full support and orienting the case with the opening on the print bed. This should be the default orientation of this model with most slicers. This orientation ensures that the support material will be entirely inside the case, leaving the outside unblemished (except for inside the connector port). How It Was Designed: I have some cartridges from my Commodore 64 that had no cases - they were just bare PCBs. One of them, Lazarian, is a standard Commodore cartridge, and I found a design, Makerboost's Commodore 64 Cartridge, that would work with it. Not all cartridges are compatible with the standard case layout, however. For example, another cartridge I own is Gyruss, which was published by Parker Brothers. Parker Brothers used a shorter PCB than Commodore, and a different mounting hole size and position. I played around with slicing and dicing the STLs to get something that would work, but Thingiverse's Customizer doesn't support STL import. I even tried an STL to OpenSCAD converter, but the resulting source was so huge Customizer couldn't load it. I ended up creating a new design from scratch in pure OpenSCAD using my Radar Rat Race cart, which still has its original case, as a source of measurements. I also made the design parametric, so that it could work in Customizer. This is the result.