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1. AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Aug-2023 01:33:11 JST AmigaLove

   J-CIA64
   Modern FPGA spare part for Commodore 64, Commodore 128, SX-64 and 1570/1571 -drives
   https://1nt3r.net/j-cia/

   #c64 #c128 #commodore #fpga

   • Eric Gustafson ☑️ (ericgus@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Aug-2023 02:38:18 JST Eric Gustafson ☑️

     in reply to

     @amigalove ive said it many many times but the future is FPGA .. the supply of old original silicon is drying up .. I can see a future where many of the original MOS chips have FPGA replacements.. tangentially this is also why I embrace FPGA as a legitimate alternative to original silicon, its hardware, this is the future.

   • AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Aug-2023 04:29:40 JST AmigaLove

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     • Eric Gustafson ☑️

     @ericgus I love the Ultimate64 100%

     My Analogue machines are super solid as well.

   • AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 00:16:14 JST AmigaLove

     in reply to

     • Gen X-Wing
     • Eric Gustafson ☑️

     @breadbin @ericgus

     So far:

     PLA (Several different ones, including the 64Cs Super PLA)
     SID (Several, IE ARMSID, FPGA SID, BackSID, etc)
     VIC-II (Kawari)
     CIA (J-CIA64)
     ROM's (EPROMs, Etc)
     RAM (SRAM Modules and abundant replacements for original ICs)
     8701 Clock chip (Several replacements)
     6510 CPU (There is an adapter to add missing features to a plugged in 6502)

     Logic ICs and other components are still made.

     Amazing

   • Gen X-Wing (breadbin@bitbang.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 00:16:16 JST Gen X-Wing

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     • Eric Gustafson ☑️

     @ericgus @amigalove It’s such a shame that the original schematics for all these chips aren’t available and free. :( FPGA or something else, this is our history and I feel any commercial aspects have played out their part at this point. Having perfect copies would be such a great thing, and having these close to perfect ones are also fantastic!