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.

I don't even want rounded corners. I like sharp windows.

What a typical waste of time.

The Amiga was a dead end. It was awesome for its time and I owned many of them, but the cool stuff you could do with the OS was in many cases predicated on a lack of memory protection and this was also a major drawback. It was good that you could reboot quickly, because it was frequently necessary. The custom chips were however death to backwards compatibility, and the more they were used, the harder it was to update existing software for a new chipset.

PCs started to do the things Amiga did even at the time, for example there were accelerated graphics cards even for Windows 3.1 that would accelerate drawing operations and do bitblits, and the GUS Max would offload some audio processing from the CPU.

How about just working on making KDE smaller and faster, instead?

Pretty please?

With the last Plasma update, the time to intialize my desktop went from acceptable-but-could-be-better, to (not kidding) 60+ seconds. No changes on my side.

(And to the folks over at Mozilla, you've completely dropped the ball for rapidly getting Firefox to a usable state.)

Bold of you to assume that this administration, which also includes Pete Hegseth ('Germs are not a real thing': Fox News host says he hasn't washed hands in 10 years) in addition to Robert F Kennedy Jr and Christi Noem, has the capacity or will to do what is the proper health response.

Trump killed hundred of thousands of citizens with his reckless covid-19 response in his first term, there are absolutely no indications that he or his administration has improved or learned anything (on the contrary, they are now in the process of killing hundred of thousands of persons world wide by gutting USAID).

And how the hell is how to manage DoD, an executive department of the U.S. federal government, not politics?

Well, minimal government oversight is good for business when your goal is to purely grift for your own benefit at the expense of everyone else, so as such it is not that surprising that this is happening under the Trump administration.

Speaking of intolerance and dehumanizing language, Hitler’s 1939 Reichstag speech: When you replace ‘Jew’ with ‘Immigrant’ and ‘Germany’ with ‘America,’ you get MAGA.

Perhaps most people only wrote for the c64, But I would suggest that C64 enthusiasts of today would most likely be pleased not to be restricted to the base 64 and potentially have other capabilities from that FPGA, such as potentially? having all the memory expansions available that were possible under the original hardware including the 256kb REU expansion and the geoRam the expansions that had been made for use with the GEOS 8bit Operating System, Etc.

Merged with Maemo to become Meego, cancelled in favor of Tizen. The corpse became Sailfish OS.

Considering you can pretty much take any low-end hardware and emulate a C64

Perhaps, but the C64 Ultimate is not an emulator. It's a FPGA-based recreation of the hardware.

Which could make the result is better or truer. Emulators are usually good enough for most purposes, but are also imperfect.

Yes, a deposit should go a long way in mitigating this.

Even in the 1980s there was a lot of talk about RAM expansions for the C64, And of course some of the C64 software may require RAM expansions. Or it's just much more convenient to have 100 meg than to have 64K; that's for sure.

No.. A C64 at this point is specialty hardware in low supply and thus more valuable than some generic laptop. Put it this way: You see broken C64s sold "for parts" at more than $100 these days, and very old used C64s in working condition sell for $200 to $400.

Luckily these days gcc produces faster code than icc.

When I worked for an IC design company we used Sun's compiler for the same reason.