CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
Why We're Protective Of Your Commodore 64 Ultimate FPGA — Commodore Blog
- Key
- commodore2026fpga
- Authors
- Bilodeau, Marc
- Issued
- 2026-4
- Type
- post-weblog
- Container
- Commodore Blog
Raw CSL JSON
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"title": "Why We're Protective Of Your Commodore 64 Ultimate FPGA",
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"family": "Bilodeau"
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2026,
4
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2026,
5,
16
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Claims
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Commodore justifies firmware restrictions by saying its hardware roadmap will diverge from Gideon Zweijtzer's standalone Ultimate64, for which Zweijtzer's firmware is built.
"Our hardware roadmap for the Commodore 64 Ultimate includes board revisions and component changes that Gideon's Ultimate64 firmware has no reason to address, since it's built for his product, not ours. As those two paths diverge, firmware designed for one is increasingly likely to cause costly problems on the other."
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Commodore acknowledges that the FPGA board at the heart of the Commodore 64 Ultimate was designed by Gideon Zweijtzer.
"The FPGA board at the heart of the Commodore 64 Ultimate was designed by Gideon Zweijtzer, who first developed and sold his own"
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