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I love this project but I’m tired of hearing about it until the next story is that I can buy it.

It is still in beta test and they have a free emulator and the ROM is open source. It is a Commodore 65 clone, which is like a cross between an Amiga and Commodore 64. It has Amiga graphics and sound. It also has a C64 mode.

Only developers can buy a computer and it is expensive, once it hits retail they will make them in mass production to keep costs down.

https://c65gs.blogspot.com/2020/07/mega65-emulator-and-tools...

Yeah, but any news around it is pointless unless I can buy it. Devkit or no. I can’t even find a price, that makes it kind of hard to get enthusiastic.

I agree. Everytime this project gets mentioned somewhere, it turns to be still vaporware.

While the final machines are not yet purchasable, you can buy an off-the-shelf Artix7/Nexys4DDR FPGA development board and run the core on that. This has been supported for several years. Also with 100 devkit machines sold and in people's hands, its definitely not vapour ware.

My comment should have made more clear that I’ve heard all of this a lot over the past two years.

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