antirez/c64-hw-simulator
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What it is
A pin-level simulator of the Commodore 64 motherboard (ASSY 250407), built from the board netlist and chip models. Users can float, short or remove pins and chips, open passive components, and observe the resulting screen, keyboard and board signals. Runs on macOS and Linux with…
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Retro computing enthusiasts and hardware repairers diagnosing or studying a Commodore 64 board
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- The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results237 points · 35 comments · 15 Oct 2026
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