Bare Metal C64 Emulation on Raspberry Pi - Randy Rossi - World of Commodore 2019 -

[@gklinger]

An excellent presentation of a superb piece of software (and hardware) engineering. Thank you!

[@JaviMendoza70]

Incredible piece of software. Thanks for your gift to the Commodore community! You are really a genius!

[@stupossibleify]

Fascinating presentation. What a technical feat!

[@TheSulross]

the highest calling in computer software development - implementing bare metal software emulation of vintage computers that deliver the most faithful experience possible, and that brings retro-computing to the masses on a budget that everyone can afford

[@daibonehead]

Wow. This is an excellent project. Thank you for all of your work.

[@leondustar]

this guy is a legend

[@skideric]

Thanks for all the hard work put into this EXCELLENT Pi Emulator ! Gonna add Joystick Port ASAP...

[@Rick_Todd]

Great speech & presentation rrossi, Thank You

[@Tony240zt]

Great work Randy!

[@aftertheendtimes]

Great presentation! not to say awesome and truly inspireing! =) Cheers

[@allenhuffman]

Very impressive work. Getting the emulators closer to bare metal would go a long way to margin them more "real." Nice job.

[@8bittimes]

Great work! And I'd love to see the PET

[@jdryyz]

Fantastic!

[@dnoroger]

Que configuración en los txt se nececita para sacar video por elmhat vga666?

[@andreasimoncini]

great :)

[@peterstitselaar9030]

This is a nice project, i wonder is your pcb design also working in a breadbin case ?

[@JonRowlison]

Awesome project! No hate, but does anyone know if a similar project is actively running for a 65C02 Apple2 (same CPU, pretty much...)

[@surfersilver6610]

It always amazes me how all modern PCs and devices (smartphones) that have 1,000 times the power of a C64 or Amiga, yet they take much longer to boot in their native environment with standard hardware that's again, much faster than the 1980's hardware. Using SSD drives or other Solid State storage to bootup speeds them up but the same happens with the 80's machines making them still faster than the modern machines. Let's not even speak of operations after booting, or when the device is 'more full' than when new and how it runs slower. The nightmare in modern OS files systems, trying to troubleshoot or track anything is a mess compared to Amiga OS. So much software bloat & inefficiency and it seems HARDWARE design isn't as good as it was in the 70's and 80's. I figure with larger storage and memory available at lower cost, there is less effort at MAXIMIZING the hardware & software. This feels just like modern pop music compared to the 70's & 80's, people played instruments and could sing without Autotune and computerized(speaking of computers) everything. I curse at my 3.2Ghz 16GB ram laptop taking too long to open a device or directory, right mouse press response, etc. Etc..😠😡🤬 Windoze 10, takes minutes "Calculating" the time it's going to take to copy hundreds of files....it could have finished copying HALF of them by then. What a total WASTE OF TIME. Thanks Bill......🤬 Amiga Forever!!🏖

[@SirRandallDoesStuff]

Too bad he refuses to port this to Pi 4/400. The Pi 400 would be a perfect pi for this OS. If he doesn't update to newer hardware this project will die. It's sad as this is really great work.

[@ldisc66]

Randy is not alone. I've been reading of others who are/were attempting to port BMC64 to RPi4 but according to them (and Randy who has tried) reported it'll require A LOT of work to compensate for the RPi4's new video pipeline.

[@EXITMUSIC2011]

No mention of sound (SID) emulation. Is this any better as VICE under Windows is quite a way off.

[@sierraromeoromeo2444]

What? Did you even watch the presentation?