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New Commodore 64 simulator lets users break chips and pins

Original: The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results

A hardware simulator of the Commodore 64 has been released that lets users damage chips and pins and observe the effects on the machine. The project was created by antirez, the developer best known as the creator of Redis, and is hosted on GitHub. Interest is concentrated among retro-computing and electronics enthusiasts.

Why now: The novelty of interactively simulating hardware faults on a beloved retro computer, from a well-known open-source developer, is drawing attention.

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