Mega 65- Enhanced Commodore 65, fpga etc.


fusion_power said:
Others build their own Dream Computers too. :cool:


Very interesting. All these old chips are still available, can you imagine that?
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Great, another retro computer project to clutter up the market. I missed what he said the target price was, but there's also a limited number of people who'd be willing to code for these kind of devices in this modern era. I'm not sure we'll see any impressive projects for this, other than what this four man team can produce themselves. Maybe I'm wrong, I mean it's a pretty big channel as far as I can tell, and maybe .5% of people watching that might at least try to code something up.
 
levi said:
Great, another retro computer project to clutter up the market. I missed what he said the target price was, but there's also a limited number of people who'd be willing to code for these kind of devices in this modern era. I'm not sure we'll see any impressive projects for this, other than what this four man team can produce themselves. Maybe I'm wrong, I mean it's a pretty big channel as far as I can tell, and maybe .5% of people watching that might at least try to code something up.
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Well, in the Video, it looks like hit Computer will be go a little bit in the C20/C64 direction, of course more powerful. But since he uses all these old standard chips, maybe the coding will not be that complicated.
Price target is ~$200 for the first incarnation (micro ATX size board), later he want to make a more optimized Mini-ITX siezed board for $100-$150 and later maybe even a small, full integrated board for maybe $50.
 
Yeah, it'll be more like the old computers where you could understand everything in your head with only occasional reference to the documentation to understand what it's doing. I'm not sure that's necessarily a good thing in modern times, because libraries allow you to understand enough to get stuff working and you have the computing headroom to be able to do a lot more that you could imagine.

I dunno, there's a lot of people that think that coding to a smaller target improves your creativity, and maybe there's something to that, and I guess I'm pissing into the wind slightly, and nobody actually cares what I think. Certainly not enough to alter a purchasing decision, and down the line have an idea that could be implemented on a device like this.
 
fusion_power said:
Others build their own Dream Computers too.
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The 8 bit morray! Love the nick names they have for each other!
Looks sweet! Not sure is revision 3 (with just the FPGA) is what the world is waiting for. As pointed out already, there are lots of other computers made in the last 10 years that fall into that category. Using the old chips (rev 1)... well, that is interesting. (eventhough it is a little more expensive)
 
this one looks nice too :)
[doublepost=1568623336,1568596936][/doublepost]spotted that pandora(case)! ;)

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Changing the drive number of the internal drive
 
FYI

(Post from MEGA65 at Facebook)

As you can read in previous posts, we have decided against Kickstarter.

We believe that YOU, the community, our friends and followers are more than enough to help us keep the project running and even finish it as intended.

This is one of the last and biggest steps towards the production of the MEGA65 desktop machines: We need money to buy the steel moulds, the tools to produce MEGA65 cases at a reasonable price.

This is why we have launched the "case moulds donation game". We are asking for donations via the little golden coin in the donations game at http://mega65.org until we can afford to buy those steel moulds.

Meanwhile we will make the MEGA65 better and squash lots of bugs. Thank you all in advance for walking this bumpy road together with us ❤️
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Man, i never keep up with these posts. That picture looks great.

Also got an email from them today about the DevKits about to go up for sale.
 
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Wonder why there's a caps lock and a shift lock key?
 
There's a shift lock there because the C64 (and perhaps the C65, but I dunno about that) had a shift lock there.

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The caps lock is slightly more debatable, although I'm personally happy they put it way out of the way up there. I used to use Caps Lock on those old machines because on the machines I used BASIC and Assembler all used capitalised instructions. Versus the C64 they've added tab where ctrl was which I can understand, and thus shifted ctrl down where run/stop was, and moved run/stop into the first F-cluster, along with a new to me Escape key, the new Caps Lock, and a no scroll key which I also can't find on the C64 keyboard. The four original F keys are in the next cluster, and they've added F9-F14 matrixed over three buttons and a help key in this rightmost cluster.
 
nice, a new keyboard thread!
i like the 'new' nav-cluster, the c64's shift+crsr keys are a bit... annoying. ;)
 
Yeah, it's expensive, and having bought the Nexys4DDR board those couple of years ago, and still never really getting involved, i couldn't justify that amount.

Depending on the production unit cost though, I'd be very tempted.

Though part of me thinks it was a bit of a shame they went with that full width unit with disk drive, other than that "office" version they posted a questionnaire about a while ago. I'm sure that'd have costed less, smaller unit, less plastic, no floppy drive... Let's face it, nobody uses floppies, and I'd be surprised if anyone still actually made them.
 
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