Love this! The C64 introduced me to the world of computers as a kid. I still have that almost 40 year old machine in my collection, but I’m weary of failure every time I turn it on. This is somewhat better than the MiSTer as I can use physical peripherals with it. Great work!

So cool! Things we would do to re-live the past. Not really into hardware but I remember trying to build an emulator for z80 just to learn how it work for old Sega games

> rewritten graphics rendering code (running 5-10 times as fast as the previous code while sacrificing some compatibility)

argh, too bad. If one goes the cycle-accurate way, then not doing everything accurate is a bit strange... I wonder why they made that choice...

I love the sound of the SID chip, happy to find out about this project as well: https://github.com/frntc/SIDKick-pico

8 Bit Weapon are making some fantastic use of it:

https://8bitweapon.bandcamp.com/album/disassembly-language-a...

https://8bitweapon.bandcamp.com/album/disassembly-language-a...

https://8bitweapon.bandcamp.com/album/modular-sidsation

LukHash also regularly features C64s in his kit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JQkW6BgUYU

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Ohh, at first I was excited to see if this mean you could just replace parts of the C64 with some nice modern building blocks: I have a very old C64 that I don't want to cannibalize for parts that has a broken clock module. But this is not quite that. :)