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Title: An Emulated Commodore 64 Operating System for the Raspberry Pi
> Author: Bil Herd
> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 01:01:42 -0400
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> It's no secret that Commodore users love their old machines with the
> Commodore C64 being chief among them with 27 Million units sold worldwide.
> Speaking as a former Commodore Business Machines (CBM) engineer the real
> surprise for us is the ongoing interest and devotion to an era typified by
> lumbering 8 bit machines and a color palette consisting of 16 colors. Come
> to
> think about it, that's the description of Minecraft!
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> Jump forward to today and it's a generation later. We find that the number
> of
> working units is diminishing as age and the laws of entropy and physics
> take
> their toll.
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> Enter the Commodore Pi[1], an emulated Commodore 64[3] operating system
> for
> the Raspberry Pi. The goals of the project include an HDMI and composite
> compatible video output, SID based sound, Sprites and other notable
> Commodore
> features. They also plan to have hooks for more modern technology to
> include
> Ethernet, GPIO and expansion RAM.
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> A video demo of the emulator can be found below. If you're just warming up
> to
> the Commodore[4] world, you'll definitely want to know the real story
> behind
> the C128[5].
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> Thanks to [Terry Fisher[6]], head of PCB development at Commodore Business
> Machines [4]for the lead.
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