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Re:The Mega65 by tines on Friday September 27, 2024 @06:15PM (#41676074)
Real Commodore hardware is going to break down eventually, I'd love to have something that uses modern parts so we aren't dependent on rare parts that are going to disappear or become super expensive.
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Re:The Mega65 by ruk_booze on Friday September 27, 2024 @11:14PM (#41677577)
There are modern FPGA-based options like the Ultimate64.

https://ultimate64.com/Ultimate64

Got one of these too (the now discontinued non-Elite version) and it is pretty cool running stuff at 48MHz:

https://youtube.com/shorts/fF2IXTwWDPQ?si=ww3IXp7CVWDT3SZy

In above video, I hacked the awesome demo Andropolis to utilize U64’s turbo mode during vblank.

This clip shows it running in full turbo mode:

https://youtube.com/shorts/hvmNnwz7ENQ?si=6idbUgRYikXHh25O

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Re:The Mega65 by varjag on Saturday September 28, 2024 @04:55AM (#41678927)
They are extremely repairable due to low level of integration and commodity components. And many ICs (outside DRAM or PROM) can potentially last for centuries.
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