News Raspberry Pi Powers Commodore 64 Expansion Cartridge, Plays Doom

[Admin]

Bringing the power to a 40+ year old vintage computer, the Raspberry Pi provides CPU horsepower and more RAM than the Commodore 64 could ever dream of.

Raspberry Pi Powers Commodore 64 Expansion Cartridge, Plays Doom : Read more

 

[King_V]

Typo . . NTSC version of the 6510 runs at 1.023MHz, not 1.923

That said, while I wasn't much of a fan of Doom, this is making me wish I still had either my old C64 or C128.

 

[King_V]

True, it's just the RPi running it through the VIC-II chip and the SID . . still a bit interesting, if only for nostalgia purposes.

 

[Jerry_W14]

There are so many things wrong with this article... No, the c64 does not "run doom".

Anything's valid to get folks to click I guess...

When the C64 was out it did play cartridge games. What is the difference here? Why would you insist on trying to run the game on a processor it doesn't support? You boot up the C64 run the game and enjoy. When you are done you unplug it The game is being played on a C64. I see no difference except there isn't a 5 1/2" floppy hooked up.

 

[TerryLaze]

When the C64 was out it did play cartridge games. What is the difference here?

I get what you mean, and in the end this is just for fun and I agree with you mostly, but the old cartridges had only the game on them not an android/arm device that would play the game through emulation.
Again I agree with you, but it's still a very big different.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Every electronic device has a basic desire to play doom 😀

I bet data from star trek even plays doom on himself

I know I would

 

[King_V]

I mean, it's not like they didn't have something similar in the past, just at a smaller scale.

Think of the Flash 8 Cartridge, for example, among other accelerators.