RetroFun.PLOne of my 27 hobby projects is recreating and re-typesetting my favorite computer manual, 100% vector.
@rmcretro look at this :-)
gmc@RetroFunPL @rmcretro I'll take a copy when you're done :)
@gmc all I need now is a lot of determination... and a written approval from AMSTRAD Consumer Electronics plc.
@RetroFunPL The latter one might prove to be difficult I guess, lawyers and all...
@gmc maybe someone could smile to mr Roland Perry for me 😬
Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski@gmc are they active company, or something akin to Commodore and Amiga brands, a manila envelope in some lawyer's office?
@RetroFunPL @emil According to wikipedia it had been defunct since 2011, but "In 2024 Sugar announced he had bought back the rights to the Amstrad name from Sky UK. Amstrad now belongs to a digital marketing firm named Amstrad Digital headed by Sugar's grandson Joe Baron."
@RetroFunPL @gmc I'm not great fan of those types of deals, even if they result in a product that's good.
@RetroFunPL @emil I know, but these modern-day recreations are not something that I'm personally interested in. I prefer the real deal :)
I'm curious though, the brand new "C64", can you open it up and probe at the chips, create mods etc...? Or is it just a big fpga with too many balls that are SMD soldered to a boring PCB that you have no hope of doing anything with yourself?
@gmc @RetroFunPL I never inspected this closely because as you, I have the real thing at home, but the guy who made the board is a very highly regarded hardware hacker. From what I understand it's a FPGA but with all the I/O intact. Normally people cut corners, bring-your-own-keyboard and can't-connect-that, that one is a very good pretender.
I already build my fauxmmodore out of bmc64 (bare metal emulator on RPi3/Zero) and a usb-to-C64-keyboard interface. No I/O (you can make cartridges working if you solder some wires to GPIO)