The C65 CPU

Started by airship, November 04, 2007, 09:59 AM

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I ran into this interesting little tidbit on Wikipedia:

QuoteThe 65CE02 (a derivative of 6502/65c02) is a CPU core developed by Commodore Semiconductor Group (formerly known as Commodore MOS) that has been used in the CSG 4510 micro controller (that combined a CPU and several I/O components) in the Commodore C64DX/C65.

A product that used the 65CE02 was the Commodore A2232 serial port card for the Amiga.
It also says this about the 4510:

QuoteThe MOS Technology 4510 was the MOS-manufactured microcomputer chip used in the (unreleased) Commodore 65 8-bit home/personal computer. The 4510 was essentially a 65CE02 CPU with two 6526 CIAs (I/O-adapters) on-chip.
So does this mean that if you can find an Amiga serial card, strip the 64CE02 out of it, and breadboard it up with a couple of 6526s you essentially have a CPU for the C65?

Could you hack this into an accelerator for the C128? :)

Bo Zimmers has the chip data for the 65CE02 here: http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/documents/chipdata/65ce02.txt
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