My Mega65 has arrived
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My Mega65 has arrived
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Re: My Mega65 has arrived
#2I love that the box and form factor are retro 80's but the keyboard is fully modern. Very good design decisions.
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#3The first question that comes to my mind is, "where did they get the floppy drives?" Surely the original manufacturer of those drives isn't still making them??? And having a batch manufactured as a one-off seems like it would be prohibitively expensive. So I'd be really curious to know how they managed that part of the whole thing.
Anyway, looks like a great project. I wasn't a C64 fanboy as a kid or anything, but I'm still tempted to look into getting one of these. OTOH, I still have an Atari 800 I bought last year that I haven't touched yet, a half-started Z80 retrocomputer project to finish, and a desire to get an Atari 1040 "one of these days". So maybe I don't need yet another retrocomputer "thing" to play with... :p
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#4I have quite a number of Commodore 64s lying around by virtue of developing a hobby of learning component level repair on them.
I'm tempted to buy one of these Mega65s to play around with it but at $832.50 including shipping to the US, it's a bit much. The main reason I am interested in old computers is because I used those old computers back in the day!
Really have to hand it to them on the engineering of it though - looks like an amazing machine.
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#5I have quite a number of Commodore 64s lying around by virtue of developing a hobby of learning component level repair on them. I'm tempted to buy one of these Mega65s to play around with it but at $832.50 including shipping to the US, it's a bit much. The main reason I am interested in old computers is because I used those old computers back in the day! Really have to hand it to them on the engineering of it though…
You might be interested in my good friend Randy's labour of love:
https://accentual.com/vicii-kawari/
FPGA replacement for the VIC-II.
Re: My Mega65 has arrived
#6I have quite a number of Commodore 64s lying around by virtue of developing a hobby of learning component level repair on them. I'm tempted to buy one of these Mega65s to play around with it but at $832.50 including shipping to the US, it's a bit much. The main reason I am interested in old computers is because I used those old computers back in the day! Really have to hand it to them on the engineering of it though…
You might be interested in my good friend Randy's labour of love: https://accentual.com/vicii-kawari/ FPGA replacement for the VIC-II.
Considering I just bought 10 NOS NTSC VIC-II chips, yes I’m interested.
I’ve been following that project for some time but it seems to be On hold for months and counting due to chip shortage. Is it being resumed at some point soon?
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#7Since the CPU is emulated by an FPGA, FDD is emulated, then why not save all the money and just use a software emulator?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might be interested in my good friend Randy's labour of love: https://accentual.com/vicii-kawari/ FPGA replacement for the VIC-II.
Considering I just bought 10 NOS NTSC VIC-II chips, yes I’m interested. I’ve been following that project for some time but it seems to be On hold for months and counting due to chip shortage. Is it being resumed at some point soon?
He's constantly working on it. We both quit our Google jobs back in January (on the same day) and frankly, the VIC is how he seems to be spending most of his time since.
The problem remains chip shortages. He had to rework the board a couple times because of lack of FPGA supply.
I've seen his latest boards and they are impressive.
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#9> Back in the 1980's, Commodore released the famous Commodore 64 (8 bit computer), and then followed it up with the Commodore 128, and Amiga (16 bit computers).
??? Pretty sure the 128 was an 8-bit computer.
Re: My Mega65 has arrived
#10The first question that comes to my mind is, "where did they get the floppy drives?" Surely the original manufacturer of those drives isn't still making them??? And having a batch manufactured as a one-off seems like it would be prohibitively expensive. So I'd be really curious to know how they managed that part of the whole thing. Anyway, looks like a great project. I wasn't a C64 fanboy as a kid or anything, but I'…
So I'd be really curious to know how they managed that part of the whole thing.
Searching the linked development blog yields this: https://c65gs.blogspot.com/2019/03/floppys-floppys-everywher...
After some searching, we found what we were after: A local supplier here in Germany who has some quantity of different models, including a large number of ALPS 3.5" 1.44MB drives.