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For many years we have FPGA64[1] which as core has been ported to many boards, such as Altera Cyclone-based DE0, DE1, the C-One and Turbo Chameleon to name a fe

by gbraad 12y ago

For many years we have FPGA64[1] which as core has been ported to many boards, such as Altera Cyclone-based DE0, DE1, the C-One and Turbo Chameleon to name a few. Not sure about Xilinx-based, but I guess someone might have tried to get it on a Spartan. [1] http://syntiac.com/fpga64.html http://syntiac.com/fpga64.html

SwellJoe 12y ago
The Turbo Chameleon looks pretty awesome. It's kind of everything you'd want to expand a C64, including an SD card drive, keyboard jack, VGA output (with scan doubler)...but, it also has the ability to act as a C64 (or Amiga, or Spectrum, or Atari 800XL) standalone. Really clever. I have a C64 with a MSSIAH cartridge, which I've occasionally used for music. But, my SD card drive was destroyed in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident, so I don't have any way to do much other than use MSSIAH on the machine (no way to save or load things). So, the Turbo Chameleon actually might be sufficient for my needs. And, maybe the FPGA on board can be made to run the C65 emulator, as well. I'd like it if the MSSIAH folks made a port to work on the C65; that'd be awesome. The MSSIAH can already use dual SID chips, but I haven't done the soldering to add a second SID to my C64 yet (and I'm vaguely afraid to do that, since I only have one C64 and no parts machines, so if I break it, it's back to ebay to find one of the few remaining functional units).