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Operating System Specific Discussions => Other Operating Systems => Topic started by: Xenobiotical on December 16, 2012, 12:01:59 PM
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Dear Friends,
finally, we got it :) On www.retrocommodore.com (http://www.retrocommodore.com) you can find an article about "resurrection" of an old unpopulated C65 rev 2b board using CSG4510 R5. My friend Giorgio also created a floppy disk adaptor using a classic PC floppy drive on the C65 board. Enjoy! ;)
Take care, Carlo
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Nice pictures, too bad the text is only available in Italian, not English. And congrats on resurrecting it. :)
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Nice pictures, too bad the text is only available in Italian, not English. And congrats on resurrecting it. :)
I read it with google translate & while it may have not done a brilliant job of translating, I was hoping for a few more details.
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Dear Friends,
now is ready an english translation :) My webmaster Sebastiano will put it online as soon as possible. If anyone wants some discussions are going on in FB groups Commodore 65 fan club and Retrocommodore :)
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English version online :)
Carlo - www.retrocommodore.com (http://www.retrocommodore.com)
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That adapter is one slick piece of work.
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The entire thing is a bit of brilliance.
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Are they planning on manufacturing new c65, cause if they are I want one?
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Are they planning on manufacturing new c65, cause if they are I want one?
The C65 wasn't even finished, to begin with.
Reproducing a C65 would, therefore, be a huge undertaking. They would have to reproduce hardware that isn't very well documented and was still in it's early prototype stage when Commodore abandoned it. They would also have to fix/rewrite Commodore Basic V10.0 and find a way to make the system binary compatible to more than the acknowledged 60-70% of C64 software.
So in short, I don't think anyone is going to manufacture new C65s. Nor would there be any sense in it, other than satisfying the curiosity of an elite few.
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Who?
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I agree with Blinx123.. more or less :)
C65 Rev 5 was quite a complete machine... very near to launch... Of course latest ROM revision had some unimplemented commands. C65 was sent to all Commodore departments to do final testing and package was completed with some instructions for use it. Commodore didn't want a full - C64 - compatible machine: they wished 70 - 80 % of compatibility in C65 mode and 100% in C64 emulation inside the machine (with Go 64 command in C65 mode you can turn in C64 emulation mode)
Take care, Carlo
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Of course nobody, i think, is going to rebuild a new C65 :)
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Dear Friends,
however i'm searching also a Commodore 65 case and, of course, other related stuff ;)
Thanks, Carlo
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Hopefully someone will implement the C65, or something very close to the specification and spirit thereof, within an FPGA in the near future.
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Dear Friends,
new presentation and other :) about C65 on www.retrocommodore.com (http://www.retrocommodore.com)
Take care
Carlo
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Commodore didn't want a full - C64 - compatible machine: they wished 70 - 80 % of compatibility in C65 mode and 100% in C64 emulation inside the machine (with Go 64 command in C65 mode you can turn in C64 emulation mode)
In C65 mode then no C64 software is compatible, in GO64 mode some lame software will work.