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> I really like this idea. A lot of the experience of a retro machine is the physical device. I've been toying with the idea of making Atari ST and Amiga keyboa
by bitwize 3y ago
> I really like this idea. A lot of the experience of a retro machine is the physical device. I've been toying with the idea of making Atari ST and Amiga keyboards with USB ports just so that the emulators would "feel" more real.
THEC64 got a lot of love and goodwill from the retro community, just by having a breadbox case and a keyboard with real C64 layout and feel. It's still an emulator on an ARM computer, so it's not going to be cycle-accurate or even particularly low latency. But damn it, the feel of the thing is pretty close to booting and playing with a real C64 for 98% of the things you might do with it!
- rbanffy 3y agoI know. I have one. That's what triggred this realization - that the physical interface is much more important than absolute fidelity to the original's internal logic.
- snvzz 3y agoI'd be less unhappy about these if they were shells for FPGA-based boards, instead of ARM-based ones.
- rbanffy 3y agoThere's no real reason for not offering both options. In the case of the TheC64 Maxi, there is no lack of internal space.