Alternative 8-Bit Systems

The Alternative 8-Bit Systems section covers news for modern 8-bit systems that were influenced by the Commodore 64 such as the Commander X16, OtterX, Foenix 256, LC256, MEGA65 and more.

C256 Foenix – RevC4x Boards – How to Upgrade Kernel Flash

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In this new video C256 Foenix creator Stefany demonstrates how to upgrade your C256 Kernal Flash (Kernal = Commodore Kernel) with the Foenix IDE. Foenix...
C256 Foenix

C256 Foenix March/April 2020 Update

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From the March/April 2020 Newsletter C256 FMX (Status) Rev C4B: Pre-Order (Dlvry: June 2020) Rev C4A: Aug/Feb2020 Orders In Progress Rev C4A: May-July 2019 Orders Fulfilled C256 Foenix FMX Rev C4B...
C256 FMX

C256 Foenix Feburary 2020 Update

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From the Feburary 2020 Newsletter Rev C4A is Shipping Rev C4A - Official Release The shipping of the early-birds has begun in early January 2020, after a...
MEGA65 Pre-Series Builds

MEGA65 Raises Almost 65K€

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The MEGA65 team has just reported that they have received a massive 40,000€ donation towards their injection-moulding cases for the MEGA65 during the last...

Adventures With QSPI Flash

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Paul Gardner-Stephen over at MEGA65 reports he's getting closer to being able to communicate with the QSPI flash, so that he can have the...

Boot time comparison of MEGA65 and THEC64

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From the MEGA65 Description: People have been talking about the boot time of TheC64 MAXI a bit lately. So we decided to do a quick...
C256 FMX R4

C256 Foenix December Update

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From the November 2019 Newsletter C256 FMX Rev C4A will be shipping in December Rev C4A - Official Release November has been a short month for me...
MEGA64 DevKit Prototype

[UPDATED] MEGA65 Prototype DevKit Assembly

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Over at the MEGA65 website they've just published some photos and a description of the prototype for the MEGA65 DevKit. As you can see...