Making a C64/C65 compatible computer Hier sind die Blogs von Dr. Paul Stephen-Gardner zum MEGA65 Projekt!
Just a short post this time, but a very exciting one: The first commercial software title has been announced for the MEGA65! Hibernated 2 will released on 3.5" disk for the MEGA65:
Both the author and Stefan Vogt and PuddleSoft are enthusiastic supporters of the MEGA65, and thus it our great
…Just a quick post to report on progress on the integrated sprite editor that we are building as a plug-in to the Freeze Menu. The reason for doing this is that unlike BASIC 7 on the C128, the C65's BASIC 10 doesn't include a sprite editor.
We have already made this plug-in framework, where the
This might sound like a rather strange thing to be working on, but there is a reason. The NLnet Foundation has taken an interest in the MEGAphone as a secure and "sovereign" communications device, that can play a role in civil society. This largely aligns with what I have previously said about
…Goodness me, it's been a long time that we have been working on the MEGA65 nowhelp. But we are finally at the super-exciting end of things where things are starting to happen more quickly. And that includes this week, when pre-ordering of the DevKits will open over at Trenz Electronic.
So let's
Another post where I promise to be short on the words, so that you can just enjoy seeing the MEGA65 hardware become a reality: This time we have the components all being put together to make sure that everything fits.
These photos are hot off the press -- as you can read in the labels on the
…Among everything else, we have been looking at some bugs with teh MEGA65's internal floppy controller. It was working most of the time, but would hang in various situations.
The first problem was that it would hang during loading files a long way from the directory track. I was worried at first,
This past week we have been working on improving some of the cross-development tooling that we use, which I will write about soon. But for now there is nothing really visible to show. So I will instead share with you the work I did today on getting the MEGA65 Audio Mixer that is accessed from
A quick post just to share the exciting progress with the injection-moulding tool manufacture for the MEGA65 case. The major pieces of the tool have now been produced, as you can see below!
First, here we see the inside of the lower case. The tools are all in negative profile. The big round
…I recently got the MEGA65's 8MB built-in expansion RAM mostly working. I say mostly working, because it was still doing various strange things sometimes. So I have been spending all my spare time trying to get this sorted.
While in theory the RAM controller is simple, in order for it to offer
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