wraggster
October 5th, 2014, 21:26
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Sometimes you come across a build so far along you wish you could go back and enjoy it just a bit at a time. This C65 build is so far along, it’s like binge watching a retro computer build. One that never actually existed.
Okay, that’s admittedly a bit rash. But technically the C65 (successor to the Commodore C64) never saw its way through development. A good place to start looking in on the build is from the second post way back in March (http://c65gs.blogspot.nl/search?updated-max=2014-03-15T19:56:00-07:00&max-results=7&reverse-paginate=true). The FPGA-based project is already looking promising with proof-of-concept display tests. Are we the only ones surprised by the 1920 native display resolution?
Checking back in June we see that there is some software working (http://c65gs.blogspot.nl/2014/06/c65gs-begins-to-run-real-software-sort.html) but a bounty of bugs will definitely keep [Paul] busy for a while. Fast forward to the beginning of September and he’s come full through to getting a network connection up and running (http://c65gs.blogspot.nl/2014/09/remote-keyboard-access-now-works.html).
The Wikipedia page on the C65 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_65) gives a good idea of how awesome this would have been back in the day had it actually made it to market. We suppose it joins the Commodore lists of would-haves and should-haves with the likes of the C128 (http://hackaday.com/2013/12/09/guest-post-the-real-story-of-hacking-together-the-commodore-c128/).
http://hackaday.com/2014/10/04/building-a-retro-computer-that-never-existed/
Sometimes you come across a build so far along you wish you could go back and enjoy it just a bit at a time. This C65 build is so far along, it’s like binge watching a retro computer build. One that never actually existed.
Okay, that’s admittedly a bit rash. But technically the C65 (successor to the Commodore C64) never saw its way through development. A good place to start looking in on the build is from the second post way back in March (http://c65gs.blogspot.nl/search?updated-max=2014-03-15T19:56:00-07:00&max-results=7&reverse-paginate=true). The FPGA-based project is already looking promising with proof-of-concept display tests. Are we the only ones surprised by the 1920 native display resolution?
Checking back in June we see that there is some software working (http://c65gs.blogspot.nl/2014/06/c65gs-begins-to-run-real-software-sort.html) but a bounty of bugs will definitely keep [Paul] busy for a while. Fast forward to the beginning of September and he’s come full through to getting a network connection up and running (http://c65gs.blogspot.nl/2014/09/remote-keyboard-access-now-works.html).
The Wikipedia page on the C65 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_65) gives a good idea of how awesome this would have been back in the day had it actually made it to market. We suppose it joins the Commodore lists of would-haves and should-haves with the likes of the C128 (http://hackaday.com/2013/12/09/guest-post-the-real-story-of-hacking-together-the-commodore-c128/).
http://hackaday.com/2014/10/04/building-a-retro-computer-that-never-existed/