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.
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 @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)