![]() ![]() These original C65 systems now sell for crazy money on Ebay, with a recent Commodore 65 system on Ebay in 2022 sold for over AUD$70,000!!Ī group of enthusiasts formed a company called MEGA in 2015 to work on recreating the Commodore 65 system in FPGA based system, but using the same functionality, disk drive, cartridge port and connections to legacy peripherals, with the planned new case and keyboard. A lucky few have the rare developer versions of the C65 still, some working and some not. The machine to my knowledge was never commercially released. Some of the developer units were sold off when Commodore went bankrupt in 1994. Ultimately Commodore made a few Commodore 65 prototype systems internally, but the project was abandoned. The idea (from my understanding) was to have a low-cost 8 bit system as an entry level machine, while leaving the 16 bit Amiga line of systems at more expensive entry price points. You can read more about the Commodore 65 on Wikipedia here. But now I am back, and my pre-ordered Mega 65 computer has arrived!īack in the 1980's, Commodore released the famous Commodore 64 (8 bit computer), and then followed it up with the Commodore 128 (8 bit computer), and Amiga (16 bit computers).Ĭommodore was quietly developing a successor to the Commodore 64 called the Commodore 65, combining improvements on the Commodore 64 (and backwardly compatible), along with some advancements learnt from the Amiga systems. This is why I haven't been able to blog this month until now. This week I returned from a business trip overseas for the past few weeks.
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