Subj : Re: Mega65
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : bcw142
Date : Sun May 14 2017 05:37:02

On 05/14/17, Richard Menedetter said the following...
 
 RM> Hi All!
 RM> 
 RM> I do not know if you have heared of it.
 RM> But there is a great project to recreate the commodore 65.
 RM> (including a perfect c64 mode).
 RM> 
 RM> They want to produce actual c65 with housing and everything.
 RM> 
 RM> But you can already play with it with a USB Keyboard on a FPGA board.
 RM> The downside ... it is expensive.
 RM> They have not yet announced the price, but I am sure it will be hefty.
 RM> 
 RM> They are using the Nexys4 DDR FPGA board which costs 300+ EUR.
 RM> On the upside it is a great board also to use for other FPGA learning
 RM> things!
 RM> 
 RM> CU, Ricsi
 RM> 
 RM> --- GoldED+/LNX
 RM>  * Origin: An idea's not responsible for fools who believe in it

I wonder why they'd bother with all that? A Pi will do it with VICE and there 
must be off shoots of the original 6502 that would do it as well - So why
recreate a chip with an expensive FPGA? Easy enough to make the housing and 
use off the shelf keyboard and ports adding USB & Ethernet since they are
there. It would take some work, but be a lot cheaper and be able to do more.
The c64 was popular because it was cheap and had cheap add ons.

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