waveformer Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 http://jledger.proboards19.com/index.cgi?board=dtvhacking&action=display&thread=1167546608 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted February 21, 2007 Report Share Posted February 21, 2007 Heh I saw that while working on the PS2 driver for MIOS few months back, cool toy huh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLP Posted February 24, 2007 Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 I know that this is a stupid question;Where is the C64?!?Where is the big PCB?matthias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted February 24, 2007 Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 I thinks it's emulating the C64, try this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLP Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 sexy ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRE Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 what amazes me is that the case is built from wood!The DTV is not actually an emulation. It is in fact, a full original (on the inside [of that silicone chip]) C64.All custom chips, the original CPU core, the SID, and the boot room are all built onto one chip. (FPGA?)So, many hacks are available that when all combined, restore all the original ports, their pins and functionality. You can even attach an original C= disk drive or C= printer! I think the only thing keeping you from using your original tape drive would be the analog support circuits. (the data pins are there!)A bit of of joystick jiggle on powerup boots to the usual C64 screen rather than loading the 'cartridge' file game burned into the chip.In fact, this 'feature' is only possible because of a ported flaw from the original hardware, where if you had a cart installed, and powered up, you could skip cart loading with the right combination of powertoggles/button presses/joystick wigglies.. I dont remember exactly how, but I did remember doing it once on a REAL C64 and that trash of a game moon lander. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 hah you're kidding! That is so cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Therezin Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 That's beyond awesome.That's it, I'm making one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 The main problem of those C64 DTV, is that the soundchip is not as good as a real SID Chip :((if i remember well, the filters are missing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRE Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 The main problem of those C64 DTV, is that the soundchip is not as good as a real SID Chip :((if i remember well, the filters are missing)Likely that. They had some issues with the colors being dull and washy at first too. The hacker community quickly came up with the filter fix for that, so likely there is a fix for the sound? I dunno.I doubt you have direct access to the recreated sid chip lines either. They are buried somewhere down in the silicone. With Digital its pretty easy to replicate in an FPGA.. but the sid had some analog circuits inside, which cant be recreated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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