Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured

Re:Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured by hguhghuff on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:54AM (#18013361)

Why don’t these retro remake computers use actual 8 bit CPUs?

8bit CPUs are still available aren’t they?

I don’t get it. If it doesn’t have an 8bit cpu then how is it anything else but a modern machine?

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Re:Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured by rbanffy on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @05:26AM (#18013732)

I think it is - it's a 6502-ish CPU implemented, along with the rest of the logic, on an FPGA. It's just that it can run 40x faster than the actual CPUs.

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Re:Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured by mega65 on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @01:45AM (#18021987)

Confirming the MEGA65's CPU is indeed 8-bit. We have gone to considerable effort to avoid having ANY non-8-bit CPU.

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