RE: Have you met MiSTer? Is FPGA the future of Retro Gaming?

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You can achieve cycle exact emulation in software as well as in hardware though your operating system can make it difficult. There are also various cables and devices that allow you to connect original peripherals (like say a Commodore 1541 disk drive) to your PC. I think the hardware solutions are nice for those that want to use "original" hardware to some degree (e.g. replacing original chips, motherboard, etc. with FPGA implementations) but I don't think it is necessary for near perfect emulation or data recovery (at least in the vast majority of cases).



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Yeah I have the zoom floppy and SD2IEC for my C64 but both are still not 100% as using original hardware and the FPGA solution is still closer. Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of emulation, but there was a definite step up going from BMC64 to Ultimate 64, and in many ways it is more convenient than the original breadbin and C64C that I still love :)

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