Theorizing about hack / mod / expansion of a C64 motherboard.

From: tokafondo <tokafondo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:12:55 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <1596028375799-0.post_at_n4.nabble.com>
I'm wondering what could be done with a C64 motherboard if compatibility
could be left out the table.

I mean...

If I take out the main chips (VIC, CPU, SID, PLA, CIAs) and put pinout
compatible ones (existing models like WDC's ones or FPGA'd or Arduino
cores)...

If I put faster RAMs and ROMs, these having a different, not C64 compatible
kernal...

What could be achieved with the same motherboard? 

Could it be running at higher speeds? Could a C64 motherboard, leaving chips
apart, stand 4Mhz speed? 8Mhz? 32 Mhz? (Just guessing numbers)

I just remembered telomoya's dual core C64 (*) and though about that.

Thanks for replies.

(*) https://hackaday.com/2016/07/02/the-dual-core-arm-powered-commodore-64/





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