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And what was missing in April? Clearly: hardware.

Dave Curran aka @tynemouthsw must have realized this big, big problem. Dave is always good for interesting hardware innovations, that are technically a perfect fit for retronostalgics. And one of his long announced projects is a remake of the VIC20 called MINI VIC.

But since Dave plans to use only currently available hardware for this project, he faces the same challenge, as so many of his peers: How to replace the VIC chip?

In his search, he stumbled across a software implementation for the ATmega328P in the Arduino Nano, and is using that as the basis for his own experiments. Whether and how all this will actually lead to a functional product, remains to be seen. But Dave's approach might be interesting for the one or the other hardware enthusiasts.