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One of those news that almost got lost in the noise of our beloved, international, IP based ether this week came from an individual named Jon running the YouTube channel Vicenary.

Quite nonchalantly, the good man presented a VIC chip replacement based on an FPGA! 🫢

Apart from the fact that we already have a replacement for the graphics generator of the C64/128 with VIC-II Kawari, now also the VIC-20 gets the benefit of fresh hardware, and in future restoration projects you may soon be able, to get along without possibly unreliable chips from the 70s or 80s.

The demo video is short, but contains everything you need to know. Especially that the project is currently still in the test phase, and we have to wait a bit. ⌛️

But that's what people like to wait for.