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intric8
Seattle, WA, USA

Posted Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:16 pm

Someone has ported the Commodore 64 Kernal and Basic ROMs to the NES. You read that right. It's not on actual hardware (yet) but in emulation. But still!

calcwatch on nesdev.org:
A few years ago, I got the crazy idea to try porting the Commodore 64 KERNAL and BASIC ROMs to the NES, since their CPUs are mostly the same. But I gave up when things got complicated with the PPU. Then a couple weeks ago, I saw that someone ported it to the Atari 1200XL, so I decided I'd give it another shot. This time, I was able to make a (mostly) working system.
Check out our old-friend the BASIC maze program running on an NES!


You can find a lot more technical details here.

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A1-X1000
Toronto, Canada

Posted Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:59 pm

cool so now I can show my kids games I grew up with on their 3DS's :commodore: <3 :D

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obitus1990
USA

Posted Tue Feb 22, 2022 6:12 pm

What do they use as the keyboard?

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MOS6569
Sweden

Posted Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:05 am

Amazing! Imagine a combined NES/Atari/C64 kind of computer on your desktop <3

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austin90

Posted Wed Feb 23, 2022 6:34 am

obitus1990 wrote:
Tue Feb 22, 2022 6:12 pm
What do they use as the keyboard?
Same question. That is definitely pretty cool though!

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intric8
Seattle, WA, USA

Posted Wed Feb 23, 2022 9:59 am

It is done through an NES emulator. So it is several levels of 8-bit Inception here from what I can tell.

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Hook
Ottawa, Canada

Posted Thu May 26, 2022 11:20 am

I wonder if this would fit on an Everdrive N8 cart. If so, you could C64 on your real NES hardware.





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