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C64, FPGA-based Commodore 64 remake

An FPGA recreation implements the original chips as logic, cycle by cycle, instead of imitating their behaviour in software.

C64, FPGA-based Commodore 64 remake
Reference photograph of a machine of this type, not the museum’s own example. Image: Bill Bertram · CC BY-SA 2.5 · source

Technical record

Category
Computer
Collection status
Held by ATX Computer Museum
Reference
ATX-CAT-C64-FPGA-BASED-COMMODORE-64-REMAKE

Background

An FPGA recreation implements the original chips as logic, cycle by cycle, instead of imitating their behaviour in software. The result behaves like the hardware, including the timing quirks that games and demos depend on.

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