The Commodore 64 Ultimate
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It's a bit more than a raspberry pi
Would you even know the difference though ?? Not pulling it apart it looks mint but FPGA much different ? I have never looked and have no clues about it.
Genuine question,
Dave.
I love the idea but would never use the additional features it has , I only ever turn mine on , load up the SD card and run a game and mine cost about £80 I think and I doubt i'm much different than the majority of users.
This bloke has compared the Maxi and the ultimate so you can decide if you need to spend the extra bucks.
Here
This bloke has compared the Maxi and the ultimate so you can decide if you need to spend the extra bucks.
Here
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kingtreelo
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does this work the original carts, i have a bunch of them and my C64 is being a PITA at the moment, or the joystick port is anyway
Says it does in the write up.
John Bennett
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The advantage here is it's got all the connectivity for cartridges, tapes etc, which you wouldn't get on a Pi/PC setup.
FPGA is still emulation though, whether they omit the word or not. What difference it makes depends what you put in it. There's some stuff that's a chip-by-chip replica of the original, or made by decapping custom chips. And then there's hacky MAME C code turned straight into verilog on other stuff. Whether anyone notices when playing a game, I dunno, probably depends what MAME setup you've got running (a 20-year old port on a Pi isn't really fair).
Anyway, no idea if this has transistor-level SID etc, but at a glance, it looks pretty top-notch for mixing old and new with tonnes of features. Should be for that price, mind you. .
Yeah, marriage and kids can do that 😂
kingtreelo
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urgh, guardian paid for articles, no ta
John Bennett
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It’s free - just click ‘maybe later’.
The Guardian doesn’t actually have a paywall on any pages, unlike many.
I downloaded a folder of what is allegedly every game made for the C64 to play on my Maxi C64., They load up the intro screen as if they were coming off a tape ( so slowly line by line which you can skip if you like) they also have the cracktro intro which I find nearly as enjoyable as the games itself so you can tick infinitive lives / energy etc if you are a cheating MoFo and cant beat the fan lady in Yie ar Kung Fu by yourself.
If anyone needs it i will find a place to upload it as I remember I had to mess with it to get it into the right format and split the files into alphabetical chunks for the Maxi so will save you some bother.
I cant guarantee its every game either but there are a lot!
If anyone needs it i will find a place to upload it as I remember I had to mess with it to get it into the right format and split the files into alphabetical chunks for the Maxi so will save you some bother.
I cant guarantee its every game either but there are a lot!
kingtreelo
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i don't want to be that guy, but FPGA is replication rather than emulation, it replicates the original hardware rather than emulating software on the fly
it's all good though, it all works the same when we are trying to do anything more than 20 years old, i could run C64 games on a phone i had about 15 years ago i imagine
John Bennett
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"A replica is an exact (usually 1:1 in scale) copy or remake of an object, "
I wish that was true. Then you could pull any bit of verilog off MiSTer and use it to make a custom chip to fix a dead arcade PCB. 99% of the time you can't.
edit: But to be fair, if you go to the extreme levels, you can pretty much replicate every transistor in an FPGA.
Rom set ad splitter ( you need to split the folder down otherwise the C64 wont display every game)
Download Python, download the romselt and script and it will split it into the correct sized folders for you.
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Download Python, download the romselt and script and it will split it into the correct sized folders for you.
GitHub - jamesediluke/c64Romset-from-Archive.org-Splitter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIdoKzsOw2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIdoKzsOw2M. Contribute to jamesediluke/c64Romset-from-Archive.org-Splitter development by creating an account on GitHub.
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