Comment Re:Is this an ad? (Score 1) 89
Or more likely, trying to source smaller memory chips would cost more
I'm rather thinking they would have more then C64 functionality in mind for the board, otherwise they could have just implemented an ASIC. Also; the original Commodore 64 did not have WiFi, or a LAN port, or USB ports, but this board has all those things.
The whole point of a FPGA chip is that it is programmable. And presumably hackers will want to do cool things with it if possible. Also there should be some memory overhead for loading a Commodore 64 core onto the FPGA at power on, and executing whatever other software and firmware they had in mind to help manage the C64. I imagine at power on the firmware chips, or whatever they actually have will need to read the core they have programmed for the FPGA from some location such as the flash chips or external storage and place the whole implementation of the Commodore 64 into some RAM area first If they want to provide the ability to load different programs supplied by the user onto the FPGA to open the possibility to recreate other kinds of hardware.