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in reply to mos_8502 ๐จ๐ฆ • • •My biggest reason for hoping it's successful was the baked in REU and the possibilities a large installed base of them opens up for game dev.
Now my biggest reason is to watch the haters get even more tilted over it. The REU thing is secondary.
Patch Arcana
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in reply to Patch Arcana • • •@patcharcana The pre-sales for same, yes -- the C64 Ultimate, which is a combination of a new moulded case, Gateron mechanical keyboard with proper C64 keycaps, and a modified Ultimate 64 mainboard, sold for a price way under what those parts would cost you separately.
Some folks on Facebook, Reddit, &c are really angy about it.
Patch Arcana
in reply to mos_8502 ๐จ๐ฆ • • •I'm going to guess the angry falls into the same general camp as people who kvetch about "emulation not being real retro" and "FPGA BAD".
EDIT: Because I can't imagine they started re-manufacturing a bunch of defunct silicon just for this.
mos_8502 ๐จ๐ฆ
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in reply to mos_8502 ๐จ๐ฆ • • •Patch Arcana
in reply to mos_8502 ๐จ๐ฆ • • •So I've only seen bits and pieces about this, but it's claiming to... basically be a drop-in replacement, BUT BETTA. Think I saw HDMI output, and I definitely saw a claim that it should work with any preexisting carts and peripherals.
So the objection to the use of the FPGA as an economic replacement to trying to reboot foundary operations for chip designs that don't get minted anymore is... what, a perverse ideological purity?
Granted, retro has always had weird internal purity crusades (I have OPPINIONS about tamagotchi clones, knockoffs, and replacements) but like... c'mon, the alternative was really no machine at all and the slow death of the legacy fleet as more and more inevitably failed.
mos_8502 ๐จ๐ฆ
in reply to Patch Arcana • • •@patcharcana Okay, so here's what your money gets you, in terms of equivalents to original hardware:
Patch Arcana
in reply to mos_8502 ๐จ๐ฆ • • •Well shit, that sounds awesome.
I feel real bad for anyone who can find a way to be mad about that, and I say that as a guy who is mad most of the time about most of the things.
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