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8bit Weapon transports me back in time. Pure hypnostalgia.

I found that design decision a bit odd as well, as the author states multiple times that he's interested in cycle-accurate emulation. When people go for a cycle-accurate emulator, they are purposely eschewing performance for accuracy. e.g. the Higan emulator which focuses on accuracy/code readability, but it's one of the slowest SNES cores out there (and it's fine)

You may be interested in this: https://www.hackster.io/news/building-a-brand-new-c64-96e803...

Can't wait until punchcards make a comeback ;)

Why isn't there an emulation of punch cards using eReaders!

Completely on your side, just wondering how far back do we go?

Tbh it’s not just nostalgia (at least for me). That machine (and related machines) had such a unique combination of limitations and possibilities that 35 years on, I still find a lot of inspiration in code and optimizations that were/are being written for C64 and are directly or indirectly applicable to programming today.

8 bit CPU with 16 bit address space, a simple assembly language, most peripherals accessible by modifying bytes in memory, coupled with a desire to show off and one up each other produced an absolute treasure trove of programming tricks and techniques. Coders regularly produce(d) results that on paper were not possible on C64.

The most common failure points in these old boxes are the capacitors and the power supply. Swap out all the caps and replace the original power supply for a modern remake and the 64 could last you another 40 years. :)

Not directly - you'd need level shifters to handle the 5V signals in the C64. (The RP2040 isn't "officially" 5V tolerant - there are certain circumstances where you can get away with wiring some its inputs directly to 5V logic, but those circumstances exclude bidirectional IO.)

Do CIA chip replacements come with a backdoor? </s>

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