Has anyone ever tried to port the Commodore 64 Kernal ROM to an 8-bit Atari 130XE? Let me answer this rhetorical and probably rather silly question with a piece of Shakespeare - Hamlet, act 4, scene 5, vers 28:

No.

Believe it or not, Nick Bensema aka Nerd Butterscotch did it. The hardware of the two machines is quite similar, still, there were plenty of things to do.

You get more info and a link to a demo video in Joe Dorns article and you can read Nick’s build instructions directly on github.

I would love to know, what Nolan Bushnell would have to say about that. 😆

However, seeing the C64 Basic screen on an Atari machine … a picture for the gods.🟦