I was hoping to keep the full retro experience complete with whirring disks and head clicking, but if I can't get these old controllers to talk to newer drives, then yeah, I may have to go down the SCSI-SDCard route. :(
I'm also trying NOT to expand into Commodore 64/128 as well, as I'm rapidly running out of room... but I never owned a C128 back in the day, and I REALLY want one!
Yeah, I understand the authentic vibe, but there's something to be said about having every bit of software, ever written for the machine, on a single solid-state SD card. ;)
Re: C128 - I know the feeling .. a pal of mine in the retro-computing group at a local hackrrspace recently set up his C128 for some great assembly hacking (he's building a new game engine for it in assembly) and it has totally inspired me to take another look at it as a machine.
If you get a C128, I recommend a C-128DCR with 64k of VDC ram. Otherwise, you'll have an opportunity to do some soldering to get hires multicolor bitmaps from the VDC chip.
I'm also trying NOT to expand into Commodore 64/128 as well, as I'm rapidly running out of room... but I never owned a C128 back in the day, and I REALLY want one!