Development of the Mega65, a clone of the Commodore 65, is progressing slowly but surely. Prototyping has gone on for a few years, prototype boards have been sent out to beta testers, and now a Kickstarter campaign has started to gather money to
build the steel moulds (molds) for the injection-molded cases of the Mega65.

I have sent in my donation! For more information on the Mega65, go to

http://mega65.org/

or go to the page for Kickstarter donations at

http://mega65.org/moulds.html

To see the Mega65 discussion forum, go to

http://mega65.net (which will lead you to Forum64.de)

or on Facebook, see

https://www.facebook.com/pg/MEGA65RetroComputer/posts/

Happy New Year!
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

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On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 21:41:52 -0800 (PST), rbernardo@iglou.com wrote:

Development of the Mega65, a clone of the Commodore 65, is
progressing slowly but surely. Prototyping has gone on for a few
years, prototype boards have been sent out to beta testers, and now a Kickstarter campaign has started to gather money to build the steel
moulds (molds) for the injection-molded cases of the Mega65.

I have sent in my donation! For more information on the Mega65, go to

http://mega65.org/

or go to the page for Kickstarter donations at

http://mega65.org/moulds.html

To see the Mega65 discussion forum, go to

http://mega65.net (which will lead you to Forum64.de)

or on Facebook, see

https://www.facebook.com/pg/MEGA65RetroComputer/posts/

Interesting to see how that develops. Luckily I have an emulator able to emulate almost any machine with a microprocessor in it and was able to
see how the C65 works.

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas! ;-)
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01-10-20 11:55 Andreas Kohlbach wrote to rbernardo@iglou.com about Re: Mega65 Retro Computer
Howdy! Andreas,

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On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 21:41:52 -0800 (PST), rbernardo@iglou.com wrote:

Development of the Mega65, a clone of the Commodore 65, is
progressing slowly but surely. Prototyping has gone on for a few
years, prototype boards have been sent out to beta testers, and now a Kickstarter campaign has started to gather money to build the steel
moulds (molds) for the injection-molded cases of the Mega65.

-SNIP-

Interesting to see how that develops. Luckily I have an emulator able
to emulate almost any machine with a microprocessor in it and was able
to see how the C65 works.

I seldom turn on the C=64 and have WinVice but haven't tried to use it for
a long while but I enjoy reading about the new developments for the C=64.

Your writing about the emulator has me wondering if You wrote it or if it
is a free download.

I'm thinking that Your emulator is ran on a C=64, or do You use some other brand of gear with the emulator.

Thanks, 73 de Ed W9ODR . .


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On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:57:00 +1300, Ed Vance wrote:

01-10-20 11:55 Andreas Kohlbach wrote to rbernardo@iglou.com about Re: Mega65 Retro Computer

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On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 21:41:52 -0800 (PST), rbernardo@iglou.com wrote:

Development of the Mega65, a clone of the Commodore 65, is progressing slowly but surely. Prototyping has gone on for a few
years, prototype boards have been sent out to beta testers, and now a Kickstarter campaign has started to gather money to build the steel
moulds (molds) for the injection-molded cases of the Mega65.

-SNIP-

Interesting to see how that develops. Luckily I have an emulator able
to emulate almost any machine with a microprocessor in it and was able to see how the C65 works.

I seldom turn on the C=64 and have WinVice but haven't tried to use it for
a long while but I enjoy reading about the new developments for the C=64.

The C65 is not a new development. It's like the "Commodore 64 Maxi" a -
umm - replica. Emulated.

Your writing about the emulator has me wondering if You wrote it or if it
is a free download.

Yes, it's called MAME. Earlier it could only emulate arcade video games,
since merging with MESS some years ago also computers, including
Commodore PET, VIC 20, C64 and C65, C128 (just took a video booting into
CP/M using the emulator at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSldA8gkcDw>), Amiga.

Talking about these replicas (retro computer and -consoles), they usually
have MAME on a rom. You can get MAME for most computers at <https://www.mame.net/> for free. You also need "driver" (containing
hardware specs to emulate them, plus BIOS or firmware) files.

I'm thinking that Your emulator is ran on a C=64, or do You use some other brand of gear with the emulator.

The emulator runs on Debian Linux here. But is also available for
Windows, Linux, Mac OS, even MS-DOS or exots like Haiku. I think there is
even a version for the Amiga, so you can run a C64, PC, Atari or what
ever on your real Amiga hardware. But that will be painfully slow. But you
can. :-D

... Have you checked your smoke detector batteries & Fire Ext, LATELY?!

Mine is connected to the grid and has no battery, I checked.
--
Andreas

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On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:57:00 +1300, Ed Vance wrote:

01-10-20 11:55 Andreas Kohlbach wrote to rbernardo@iglou.com about Re: Mega65 Retro Computer
Howdy! Andreas,

@MSGID: <5E18D845.3450.cbm@capitolcityonline.net>
@REPLY: <5E18599C.3449.cbm@capitolcityonline.net>
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 21:41:52 -0800 (PST), rbernardo@iglou.com wrote:

Development of the Mega65, a clone of the Commodore 65, is progressing slowly but surely. Prototyping has gone on for a few
years, prototype boards have been sent out to beta testers, and now a Kickstarter campaign has started to gather money to build the steel
moulds (molds) for the injection-molded cases of the Mega65.

-SNIP-

Interesting to see how that develops. Luckily I have an emulator able
to emulate almost any machine with a microprocessor in it and was able to see how the C65 works.

I seldom turn on the C=64 and have WinVice but haven't tried to use it for
a long while but I enjoy reading about the new developments for the C=64.

The C65 is not a new development. It's like the "Commodore 64 Maxi" a -
umm - replica. Emulated.

Your writing about the emulator has me wondering if You wrote it or if it
is a free download.

Yes, it's called MAME. Earlier it could only emulate arcade video games,
since merging with MESS some years ago also computers, including
Commodore PET, VIC 20, C64 and C65, C128 (just took a video booting into
CP/M using the emulator at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSldA8gkcDw>), Amiga.

Talking about these replicas (retro computer and -consoles), they usually
have MAME on a rom. You can get MAME for most computers at <https://www.mame.net/> for free. You also need "driver" (containing
hardware specs to emulate them, plus BIOS or firmware) files.

I'm thinking that Your emulator is ran on a C=64, or do You use some other brand of gear with the emulator.

The emulator runs on Debian Linux here. But is also available for
Windows, Linux, Mac OS, even MS-DOS or exots like Haiku. I think there is
even a version for the Amiga, so you can run a C64, PC, Atari or what
ever on your real Amiga hardware. But that will be painfully slow. But you
can. :-D

... Have you checked your smoke detector batteries & Fire Ext, LATELY?!

Mine is connected to the grid and has no battery, I checked.
--
Andreas

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Oh, my gosh, a person or persons named Tayger have just donated 40,000 Euros!

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
April 25-26 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show - http://www.portcommodore.com/class

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Goal reached! Now at over 69,000 Euros of the 66,000 required.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
April 25-26 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show -
http://www.portcommodore.com/class

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Mega65 developer Paul Gardner-Stephen talks about the new, sudden influx of money (in an article printed just before the crowdfunding goal was reached) and the plans for making the moulds at

http://c65gs.blogspot.com/2020/01/almost-65k-in-65-days.html


Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
April 25-26 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show - http://www.portcommodore.com/class

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