Re: 65816 emulating a C64.

From: groepaz_at_gmx.net
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:04:28 +0200
Message-ID: <4740693.Qq0lBPeGtt_at_rakete>
Am Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2020, 14:55:13 CEST schrieb tokafondo:
> The question is easy: could a 65816 system emulate by software a C64?
>
> Not talking about creating a supercharged C64 computer by hardware, but
> about coding software that would work as VICE, CCS64 and others.
>
> It would benefit from sharing a lot if not all the instructions between the
> host and guest machine.
>
> The extra cycles got from running at 20Mhz could be used to emulate the SID
> and VIC-II.
>
> The CIAs could just be bypassed to real CIAs.
>
> The emulator could even drive real Commodore drives, I think - or just load
> X64, TAP and CRT files.
>
> What do you think?

No *bleep* way. Perhaps you can emulate the BASIC, and some *very* rudimentary
VICII and SID features.

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