An ambitious rebuild and enhancement of Commodore's never-released C65

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by rbanffy • 12 years ago

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pdknsk• 12 years ago

I hadn't seen the start screen of the C65 yet. It looks great. The project seems to moving at high pace too.

teddyh• 12 years ago

Interesting; it uses the same 80 columns of text, white-on-blue color scheme which was also used for Commodore’s actual follower to the C64 series – the Amiga.

Sanddancer• 12 years ago

Given all the specs of it, it seems to have been designed to serve much the same role of the apple iigs. Something that can act as a bridge between the higher end 32 bit machines, and the bread and butter 8 bit boxes.

badgersandjam• 12 years ago

Wasn't aware of the C65. I'd not have bought one myself. In 1990/1991 there were a lot better machines on the market.

Unfortunately my only Commodore experience was the Amiga 2000. That lasted a mere year before it was replaced by an Acorn A440/1 which was an 8MHz ARM2, 4Mb RAM and 40Mb hard disk'ed monster. That lasted until Windows NT3.51 came out for me to give you an idea how powerful it was.

Nice to see someone giving the C65 some headspace and time though. Especially when you think of the man hours that went into the original.

An ambitious rebuild and enhancement of Commodore's never-released C65

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