BitBinders is now taking preorders for the MEGA1581, a MEGA65-themed external 1581-compatible IEC 3-1/2" floppy disk drive. BitBinders has been making 1581-compatible external drives in interesting form factors for several years. This new drive has a case that matches the shape of the MEGA65, taking its place by its side. The drive includes JiffyDOS and a 12-month warranty. https://bitbinders.com/products/mega1581?se_activity_id=147172130914&syclid=d8l41o1q4r9c7391heb0

** The Ultimate MiSTer2MEGA65 Porting Guide **

If you ever wanted to port a MiSTer core to the MEGA65, now is the time: The Ultimate MiSTer2MEGA65 Porting Guide is available. On 184 DIN A4 pages, you will find the most comprehenisve step-by-step explanation that we ever had:

• Part I builds the mental model: what MiSTer provides, what M2M provides, and what replaces what.

• Part II is the walkthrough: 130 steps from zero to hero. Numbered in order and grouped into thirteen phases from studying the MiSTer core to a released bitstream.

• Part III is the reference catalog of Quartus-to-Vivado and MiSTer-to-M2M patterns

• Part IV is the debugging playbook and the appendices (port tables, repository map, glossary).

Click here to learn more: https://github.com/sy2002/MiSTer2MEGA65/wiki/The-Ultimate-MiSTer2MEGA65-Porting-Guide

The guide is relevant for you either way: If you already made your first steps into porting cores (or even have released cores) - or - if you're a bloddy beginner. In the latter case, here is your path to success:

Step 1) Work through this tutorial: https://files.mega65.org/html/main.php

Step 2) Chose your MiSTer core

Step 3) Sequentially work through The Ultimate MiSTer2MEGA65 Porting Guide: https://github.com/sy2002/MiSTer2MEGA65/wiki/The-Ultimate-MiSTer2MEGA65-Porting-Guide

Don't feel bad, if an AI helps you with that 🙂

💫 Dan's #mega65 Digest for June 2026: Classic Rogue. https://dansanderson.com/mega65/classic-rogue/

The dungeon crawler that inspired countless dungeon crawlers, the original Rogue for Unix has freely available C source code. Can we run it on a modern computer? On the MEGA65?

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