Hi All!

I do not know if you have heared of it.
But there is a great project to recreate the commodore 65.
(including a perfect c64 mode).

They want to produce actual c65 with housing and everything.

But you can already play with it with a USB Keyboard on a FPGA board.
The downside ... it is expensive.
They have not yet announced the price, but I am sure it will be hefty.

They are using the Nexys4 DDR FPGA board which costs 300+ EUR.
On the upside it is a great board also to use for other FPGA learning things!

http://mega65.org/

CU, Ricsi

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On 05/14/17, Richard Menedetter said the following...

Hi All!

I do not know if you have heared of it.
But there is a great project to recreate the commodore 65.
(including a perfect c64 mode).

They want to produce actual c65 with housing and everything.

But you can already play with it with a USB Keyboard on a FPGA board.
The downside ... it is expensive.
They have not yet announced the price, but I am sure it will be hefty.

They are using the Nexys4 DDR FPGA board which costs 300+ EUR.
On the upside it is a great board also to use for other FPGA learning things!

CU, Ricsi

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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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Hi bcw142!

14 May 2017 05:37, from bcw142 -> Richard Menedetter:

I wonder why they'd bother with all that?

Because they wanted to have something that they can touch ;)

The same reason why I have a commodore 128 with a 1541 Ultimate II and I am not
using a Raspberry with VICE.

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?

Because you can ;))
And because they have learned very much from doing so.
Actually they came up with a great design that even has a Hypervisor ;)

I am thinking of buying a FPGA devboard ... just to play around.
There are some nice small ones (25-45 USD).

But then again ... you can go big, and buy the Nexys that the Mega65 guys used ...
but 300 EUR is too much for me for playing around a few hours, and then throw it into the corner :))))

CU, Ricsi

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Re: Re: Mega65
By: bcw142 to Richard Menedetter on Sun May 14 2017 05:37 am

I wonder why they'd bother with all that? A Pi will do it with VICE and ther

Are you using an entire build or just installing VICE from a package on your raspi?
Maybe another method altogether?
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On 08/11/17, Bbsing.Bbs said the following...

I wonder why they'd bother with all that? A Pi will do it with VICE and

Are you using an entire build or just installing VICE from a package on your raspi?
Maybe another method altogether?
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Both ;) On Raspbian I add it as a package, on RetroPie it's built in to that package. I use it the same on both. Also add it to x86 systems at times.

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