Making a C64/C65 compatible computer

Those who have been following along the MEGA65 story for a while will know that the MEGA65 has 384KB of main "fast chip" memory which is clocked at 40MHz, and is accessible by the VIC-IV, and that we also planned from the outset to have additional RAM.

The original Nexys4 boards had a kind of RAM

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This short post is really one for the folks out there pulling their hair out with FPGA development in general, rather than the MEGA65 specifically.

I have had errors like the following a few times, and it always takes me a while to remember what the cause is:

ERROR: [Synth 8-2396] near character

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As many reading will know, the German arm of the project has been running a fund raiser since mid-October last year, with the goal of funding the manufacture of the injection-moulding tooling to build the cases for the MEGA65.

The main concerns that people raised about this, was that it was rather

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Just a super-quick post to say that the interview I gave a couple of weeks ago about the MEGA65 is now live in the German-language brotkastenfreun.de podcast. This interview runs for about two hours, and covers a wide range of topics. It is unfortunately only available in my dodgy German that my

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