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C64 Ultimate Toolbox for macOS

Show HN: C64 Ultimate Toolbox for macOS

31 AI Score
Show_hn Added Apr 7, 2026

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$0
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$0

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My wife got me a Commodore 64 Ultimate (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commodore.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commodore.net</a>) for my birthday, and it became an obvious hassle to have to keep an entire monitor connected to it just to tinker with it. When I found out the Ultimate FPGA board has built-in support for streaming the video and audio data over the network, as well as a REST API allowing for file and configuration management, I set to work on an app to remotely control my new device.<p>- View and hear your Commodore 64 Ultimate or Ultimate 64 device over the network, with a fully configurable CRT shader so you can dial in just the right retro feel.<p>- View and manage files on your device, including support for drag and drop folder&#x2F;file upload, as well as the ability to run and mount disks, create new disk images, and more.<p>- BASIC Scratchpad is a mini-IDE in the app where you can write BASIC apps and send them directly to any of your connected devices to run.<p>- Keyboard forwarding allows you to interact with your device with your computer keyboard, includes a keyboard overlay for Commodore specific keys your keyboard definitely doesn&#x27;t have.<p>- Visual memory viewer and editor, along with a terminal-like memory viewer and editor for debugging and tinkering. - Built-in support for recording videos and taking screenshots cleanly.<p>- Fully native macOS AppKit app.<p>Here&#x27;s a rough and ready demo video I recorded and sent to App Review for the 2.0 release which was approved yesterday: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_2wJO2wOGm8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_2wJO2wOGm8</a><p>Please note again this app only works with Commodore 64 Ultimate or Gideon&#x27;s Ultimate 64 devices. Ultimate II does not have the data streams feature to power the display.

AI Score Reasoning

This is a high-quality niche utility for a specific retro-computing hardware community, but it lacks the scalability and total addressable market (TAM) required for venture capital. While the technical execution is impressive, it functions more as a passion project or a 'prosumer' tool than a high-growth startup.

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