Lately, I received many emails about the Mega65, if "I was aware of it..." Please NOTE that I am fully aware of Paul's project. We have briefly spoken and he has been very cool and I wish him the best of luck, since I believe he is very close to release time.
Now, you have to understand that my goal is very different from his. First, mine come's David Murray's request. But like anything, I have decided to start the project upon David's request, but I also decided to give my own spin on it. In order words, David's has laid it out his dream computer and I am going to play it out from my own perspective.
My own perspective is to create a 8 Bit computer that would have followed the C128 in 1987/1988 timeframe and to be as close as what Commodore would have done with the business and time context. So, this is my own twist on it. the Mega65 is very far away from that and it is okay. Paul and his team has been working on that for a while and I am glad that he made it with the whole molded enclosure, etc... It is really sweet that somebody went through all this to bring this new retro computer in 2018.
As for me, I am sure other people has decided to fulfill David's request and it is cool, so there will probably be others like me. Despite all that, I will go forward and create this machine and whether it is accepted by the community or not is quite irrelevant to me, because I am having a blast just design it! And if some people want to join me in my craziness and have a blast with me by sharing the same vision than great!
Thanks for your attention!
Regards,
Stefany