MEGA65 – highly advanced C64 and C65 compatible 8-bit computer

Re:MEGA65 – highly advanced C64 and C65 compatible 8-bit com... by the_af on Thursday September 30, 2021 @10:54PM (#28713962)

> I can imagine a version based on an emulation using a small ARM with the same physical keyboard and box, minus (or maybe not) floppy.

For the C64 at least what you describe exists: TheC64 remake by RetroGames. It's exactly that, an ARM chip running VICE inside a case that looks and acts like a C64, complete with working keyboard. I own one and it's pretty cool.

Why not a real C64 I hear you ask? Well, real C64 are brittle, require swapping components, and outputting to modern TVs and pen drives requires expensive specialized hardware gadgets and addons anyway. Some hardcore fans do it, but it's not for me -- I just wanted it to work out of the box.

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Re:MEGA65 – highly advanced C64 and C65 compatible 8-bit com... by rbanffy on Friday October 01, 2021 @12:22AM (#28714509)

I am the happy owner of a Maxi. This is what made me realize that so much of the experience was the physical artifact. While an FPGA-based board may be more accurate, the experience is incomplete without the accurate replication of the human interface.

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