[mlongval]

This is a really nice project. I built one on a RPi 3b+ a couple years ago when the project started. I got to chat with Randi Rossi about attaching a C64 keyboard to it via his adapter. He is a really cool and talented guy. Very down to earth (for such a genius).

It’s too bad that there isn’t someone else who could take up the project. I have a dream of seeing his Kawarii extensions to the VicII implemented in the emulator. Wow what a blast that would be!

[cmrdporcupine]

I've known and worked with and been friends with Randy since 1999 and agree with your assessment: cool, down to earth, and talented.

But also very modest, so he'd probably be flustered by these comments here so I will make a point of not making him aware of them ;-)

Anyways, I think you could probably make a go of the Kawari extensions in emulation yourself. And to be clear, the changes you'd want would be in VICE, not BMC64 -- which is just a fork of VICE. I have read the VICE source before and it's fairly straightforward what's going on there.

And in fact, I recall part of Randy's test harness for Kawari has been to run the same program through both VICE and Kawari and compare output. So by implementing in VICE you'd be helping extend the test harness.