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A nice guide on how to actually put those ”illegal opcodes” into work is ”No More Secrets”

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=248511

Early teen me still knows many addresses and instructions by their decimal values 8^)

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

Sounds like you may want a Commodore 64? Preferably equipped with an Ultimate 1541.

Or if that it is too limited, go for the Amiga. It is more modifiable.

As a sidenote, I got my Mega65 just the other day. Been waiting almost a year for it :)

How sad to see that this is no more.

I helped out reviewing the winning contribution[1] by Linus Åkesson, for what I now know was the final contest.

Linus, aka ”LFT”, is a remarkable and truly talented person in so many ways. If you haven’t heard of him before, I suggest you check out all of his projects.

[1] https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/underhanded/2015.ph...

Not China, but I have used this EU based service with good results and fast delivery

https://www.craftrum.eu/

Heh, the repo comes with the cruncher plugins I once hacked up for Kick Assembler. Cool!

https://gitlab.com/camelot/kickc/-/tree/master/repo/se/triad...

The CSDb release page comes with a screenshot

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=242711

I have been hoping for long that he would finalize this machine of his and start working on a new album.

Please get me right, the machine is marvellous but I love their music even more.

It has been reverse engineered

https://github.com/mist64/geos

It is originally from the C64 demo ”Andropolis” by Booze Design and Instinct. Coded by Andreas Larsson, the guy/genius who ported Eye of the Beholder to the C64.

Here is the same thing in turbo mode on an Ultimate 64:

https://youtube.com/shorts/fF2IXTwWDPQ?si=ds5-5Kwm95Zj2vtf

And with no vsync:

https://youtube.com/shorts/hvmNnwz7ENQ?si=mDVQLWx3T8hnrbuC

ESCOS blew my mind back then.

1001 Crew sparked the whole C64 demoscene, IMO.

I stand in awe.

mp3 on a stock C64 was showcased by Mahoney in 2010:

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=87985

https://youtu.be/0mF9kXZAjsI

tbf, it is ”mp3” but still really impressive.

Who would have ever thought in 1982 that something like this was possible on the C64?!

A local store had this on display for Christmas. Nine yo me gazed upon the dazzling graphics and smooth animations. It was almost as watching a cartoon. This was the exact moment in time I knew that all I wanted was my own Commodore 64 so that I too could create such beautiful stuff.

Fast-forward 40 years and I am still making demos for the greatest home computer ever built <3

Love the effect and the in-depth write up!

I guess there are not that many that truly understands the effort and commitment needed to get a seemingly trivial thing by today’s standards such as this. Well, I do at least :)

A truly awesome achievement. Very well done, Raistlin and Sparta!

I have both the C128D and the C128DCR.

Unfortunately, the DCR is missing its keyboard :(

It was always a bit awkward with the far reach for accessing the Action Replay cartridge’s (a freezer/turbo-loader) buttons since the cartridge port was way behind the monitor (or in my case, a small TV)

Almost never used any of them other than in C64 mode. Booted CP/M like once. What a waste, all those poor Z80s must be the least utilized cpus ever.

Commodore 64, way ahead of its time.

W00t! That's my old 256b C64 version of Conway's Game of Life :)

http://csdb.dk/release/?id=104384

The log begs to differ

http://git.eclipse.org/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core.git/log/