Tag: Mega65
It was announced today via email that the Mega65 is available for pre-order at the Trenz Electronic webshop http://trenz.org/mega65. The price tag is €666.66 or USD 742 plus shipping. The price might scare some as it is not cheap, but based on the dev kit sold some time ago, I am actually surprised it is below 700 Euros. During the…
When I interviewed Paul Gardner-Stephen last June, one of his answers mentions the importance of the community for the project. He specifically said: Yes, we really want a strong community. That is central to everything. A lot of it will grow organically, but we are also thinking about some competitions. We also hope that the demo competitions will soon have…
For the past few days, we’ve talked a lot about the MEGA65 here and on Twitter. The reason is the start of the pre-sale for the machine Dev kits. When you read this article, the first 100 units will be likely sold out, but the interested in the project sky-rocketed and more people want to know more about it. To…
The MEGA – Museum of Electronic Games & Art has announced that the first batch of development kit of the MEGA65 will be ready for pre-orders next week at Trenz-Electronic. This is a limited run aimed at developers who want to participate in shaping the final machines, which are expected to be released in 2021 or want to start producing…
With a myriad of Kickstarter campaigns, ones successful, others not so much, the retro computer enthusiasts grew weary of them and are thinking twice to back new projects. This is unfortunate because KS is a legitimate way to fund a project that otherwise would never see the light of the day. Being one of these projects, the Museum of Electronic…
The Mega65 (a C64/C65 compatible computer) team has announced on its website a new version of the DevKit, which is a version of the Mega65 aimed for developers to create programs for the machine and make them ready for when the final product is released. The board was lowered to leave more room for cables and programmers which required for…
We’ve been publishing many posts about the MEGA65, the FPGA-based Commodore 65 that is in development for the past 2 years or so. Today, there is a big update on the development blog, showing the latest PCB being tested, loading the C65 firmware, and being tested with an authentic C65 keyboard! It is also nice to see Paul going down the…
Found some interesting News on Facebook this morning. The first MEGA65 Prototype PCBs have been made, and were tested at Revision 2017 Demo Party over Easter Weekend. Paul Gardner-Stephen has a blog called c65gs which shows photos of the new board, plus a small News write up regarding progress. Follow the link below. Many thanks to Regor Lediek for the…
We’ve talked to Detlef Hastik, from M.E.G.A and he has provided us further details about the MEGA65. First he confirmed that, even being all open source, they will make available a fully assembled version for purchase. Planned to be ready around March next year, there is no price set yet, but he says that it will be the cheapest possible,…
We’ve been posting news about Paul Gardner-Stephen’s project on Commodore is Awesome very often, and today we are pleased to see that his efforts weren’t in vain. Today, he presented, in partnership with the people behind the Museum of Electronic Games & Art a new 8-bit computer – the MEGA65 Retro Computer. Strongly based on the never-released Commodore 65, the…
