The Commander X16 is up and running. David Murray has pulled it off.
youtube.com
>it's heavily inspired by the VIC 20 layout
>it has VGA output
>it has 256 color mode
>an emulator is out
>it runs BASIC
>it has some games and software already
>it plays music, basically 2 SID chips
>it has expansion slots
github.com
It's pretty close to done as far as prototyping goes, assuming all the current selected chips are kept in the design.
post that webm
He didn't do shit. He asked other people to do shit for him.
What's the point of a new 8 bit computer?
RPi for boomers
I understand where you're coming from, but this is definitely his thing.
He met people, he had a vision, he developed the kernel, and other people enthusiastically joined to help make free/open/available parts to drop in on areas of the design that still relied on discontinued shit.
You can't say he just had other people do it for him.
This is a modified vic-20. That brainlet could never design anything original.
> modified vic-20
Even that is more than what 99% of Jow Forums will ever accomplish