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Written by hkz on 2025-01-18 at 07:23

The #C64 of Theseus.

The original chipset is slowly getting replaced. If the post doesn't fuck it up, next week the CPU and CIAs will go too and (ignoring glue logic) only the original VIC-II will remain.

For that, I'm considering potential options: I can't make myself a Kawari as the gerbers are not public, and premade ones seems to be out of stock. I could make myself an adapter and mount a newer 85xx, but I'll probably keep the original in here as long as it lives if I can't get a newly made replacement.

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Written by hkz on 2025-01-20 at 19:34

An update on the "experimental" #C64:

Swapped out both CIAs and the CPU for newly made replacements. The VIC-II is the only remnant of the original chipset now (barring glue logic).

I also swapped out the ARMsid for a SIDKick pico, as I wanted to play around with it, especially with the dual SID emulation (even though I will use it with mono output).

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