Sure, pick your version of possible, get a million people to pay $30 a chip, get 5000 people to pay $250 a chip, get a dozen guys to remortgage their houses for a dozen chips each... fab setup costs are somewhat huge, that's even if there's any capacity available.

ncmark wrote on 2024-11-17, 01:13:

Looking at their website, they don't even have cases in stock - and they want to sell those and the keyboards separately.

It's a microATX motherboard so it'll fit any standard microATX case.

ncmark wrote on 2024-11-17, 01:13:

Something I gotta wonder though - might it have been possible to reverse-engineer the VIC-II chip and make new ones?

Already done, see the VIC-II Kawari (source on GitHub).

ncmark wrote on 2024-11-16, 13:27:

An old saying comes to mind - just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD

Well you should sometimes do things you enjoy, or your life won't be much fun. Sometimes wonder if I can do some old retro software project, so I try it out, even though it's not of much value to society in general, or in most cases to any other person in the entire world. I guess the 8-Bit Guy has enough money and influence that he can do similar things but with hardware which costs money as well as time!

I am reminded of the number of times I browsed ebay for a commodore 64, but then I am reminded of the reasons why I threw out the two had back in the mid-90s. By that time I was using a DX4/100.

Did anybody see his video on the arcade he built?

ncmark wrote on 2024-12-10, 01:10:

Did anybody see his video on the arcade he built?

For my taste, his recent videos about solar panels, arcade machines and Commander X16 videospam were just boring, so I skipped them all. But I found the latest video about Atari computers very interesting and I hope he continues to make such videos in the future.