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Mega65 and CPUs

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Wiebo de Wit is one of the lucky ones, who will get to enjoy a Mega65 very soon. Unfortunately, the machine is only ever produced in pre-ordered batches, which is perfectly understandable considering the non-commercial nature of the operation and team.

The documentation for the Mega65 is freely available, detailed, and should be sufficient for most to get their feet wet with the machine.

Wiebo was apparently missing a bit of information there, so he compiled it himself and posted it on his blog. In his post he looks a little closer at the history of CPUs of popular Commodore machines. In detail these are the C64, the C128, the never released C65 and finally the Mega65 (of course not being a Commodore).

Certainly nothing groundbreaking for those familiar with the subject, but a helpful comparison of the capabilities of the CPUs of these machines and a quite informative read.

Thx Wiebo.

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