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'Breadbin' Commodore 64 Ultimate: Starlight Edition (product page)

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Key
commodore2025starlight
Authors
Commodore International Corporation
Issued
2025
Type
webpage
Raw CSL JSON
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  "type": "webpage",
  "title": "'Breadbin' Commodore 64 Ultimate: Starlight Edition (product page)",
  "author": [
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    }
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  "issued": {
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        2025
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  "accessed": {
    "date-parts": [
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        2026,
        5,
        16
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Claims

  1. Commodore describes the C64U as using FPGA hardware to replicate the original C64 motherboard rather than software emulation.
    "an updated FPGA that replicates the original C64 motherboard (not emulation)"
    Locator: section: product description · Quote language: en
  2. Commodore allocates the C64U's 128 MB of DDR2 RAM as 16 MB system RAM, 16 MB REU, 16 MB GeoRAM, and remaining memory as a RAM disk, alongside 16 MB of NOR flash.
    "Memory: 128MB DDR2 RAM (16 MB system, 16 MB REU, 16 MB GeoRAM (soon), remaining MB RAM Disk), 16MB NOR flash"
    Locator: section: Memory specifications · Quote language: en
  3. The Starlight Edition includes SID-reactive LEDs in the case, keyboard, and power light, and uses what Commodore calls the world's first transparent keyboard PCB.
    "It features SID chip-reactive LEDs (case, keyboard, power light*), the world's first transparent keyboard PCB*, original and modern creators' autographs etched in copper, and an updated FPGA that replicates the original C64 motherboard (not emulation)."
    Locator: section: product description · Quote language: en
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