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  • Actually I am a member of the M65 team, and I either don't get money for that, indeed. So no need to explain the situation and the goal of the project too much, I guess. Also I am quite OK to know what GPL and LGPL is, as an author of some GPL licensed software (btw including Xemu which aims to emulate Mega65 and C65 too, among others, like Commodore LCD, that is in fact the world first Commodore LCD emulator ever), also a project member of a quite big GPL licensed software in back (MPlayer) which according to the freshmeat.net's statistics, it was in the first 2 or 4 (I can't remember now) top open source projects for some time. I guess you misunderstand my point (and from typical internet usage things I told is because I am quite capable to see the average needs as working for ISP as Internet System Engineer, UNIX engineer and also software developer over time). I haven't got problem with GPL, open source, M65 or anything. It's not like that. But anyway, it's more like a flame now, so time to quit, I have no intent for that at all. Hope for the best, and friendly regards.

  • “what he means is "someone else will write the software i am dreaming about"”

    It's not me who started.

    And yes I did some programing too, but that's so long ago and not that mighty and well known piece of software. It was a program for calculating lengt of pipes in so called '3-D etages'. first version in Casio-Basic on a handheld, portet to to OPL on Psion S3, and later on ported to GFA-Basic (for Windows).

    And I know for sure who you are, I use xemu, but I guess I should use the c65 part of your emu. I still read a lot of info about the c65 and it still overwelming me. I see the capabilities of the system, And yes, I know it will not attract much people, but hey dreaming and hoping is allowed, or not?

    Also in my age it's too late to really dig into serious programming. Partly also due because not that much time left. And I have to do my other 'hobies' too: A garden of 2000m² must be cultivated and I'm building alternatives for energy (solar & wind power) as also micro-water 'powerstations'. Setup a biological grey-water cleaning (coz ma house has no connection to fresh water and grey-water pipes). I buyed a tiny house in Transylvania in a very little village (~150 people) for living the rest of my life.

    I still hope there will be enough people interesting in buying this babe, so the 'masses' would reduce the costs and make it affordable. I also know that the MEGA65 will never really compete to systems like p.E. Raspbery Pi. But as long as old c64/geos users exist, it is an option to look at.

  • “Do you think Paul Gardners get payed for develop the Mega65?”

    actually, since its a project he runs with his students.... he kinda gets paid :)

  • Well, yes, I get paid, but I get paid whether or not I work on the MEGA65, so the argument doesn't hold entirely (although I understand the point, and accept that it makes my situation rather different to most contributors). However, working as an academic does give me more freedom to offer student projects in directions that I want to explore. Of course, I have to have some rational justification for this, which for the MEGA65 comes from our "Security through Simplicity" and related initiatives.

    The key is that just as unpaid volunteer, no member of the community can compel me to implement some particular feature (which doesn't mean that I don't listen to them, or implement various features that people ask for, indeed, I have implemented quite a few features that people have asked for).

    Paul.

  • So I hear it can run dos programs? And can it run old Amiga stuff or 486 to 586 games as SimCity or civilization, where in the world is Carmen Santiago? As for US would it run Linux or Windows 3.1 or Apple II?

  • The FPGA is capable of implementing a DOS box or an Amiga. We haven't written the VHDL for that, however. But it shouldn't be hard to port one of the Amiga FPGA implementations. I don't know what people have done in terms of DOS boxes in VHDL. We don't have the time to attack these, but would be very happy to see the community implement such things.

  • I think, nothing stops people to port VHDL implementation of "cores" to the FPGA+stuffs presented by Mega65 (or Nexys4 board), with my limited knowledge on the VHDL world I have already tried to create some, with a Z80 based Hungarian computer (Primo) with success. However I am not sure how Nexys4DDR suits well enough (especially when you need more RAM than FPGA's internal resources), since its DDR memory may not be ideal for that (neither for M65, so maybe the final product having some other kind of memory can help on this - not DDR as with the "de facto" standard nowadays to use the Mega65 core). Or such ...