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to: Michael Freitag
from: Ez
date: 2020-01-09 05:15:00
subject: Re: Commodore 64 mini

Michael Freitag wrote:
> Rudolf Harras  wrote:
> Every C64 of mine have been opened as I am electronic technician. So also 
this :)
> My first fear was, that there would work a Raspberry with some VICE. This is 
definitely NOT the case.

No, it is a cheap SOC running VICE just like the original "mini", and
without any credits to the VICE team or source code as required by the GPL.

> It looks like they put the complete C64 hardware and their own system on a 
custom chip. I've not seen any lag, so I think its original hardware pressed in 
the chip or a very very fast emulation. Not bad anyway!

No it is not "original hardware pressed in the chip", it is running
VICE. If it was "original hardware" you'd be able to use a normal
joystick like you could on a DTV (which was a hardware implementation,
not an emulator).

The other give away is you can boot into a VIC-20 which has completely
different hardware to a c64 (other than the keyboard).

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