# antirez/c64-hw-simulator

> Pin-level simulator of the Commodore 64 motherboard (ASSY 250407): lift a chip leg, short it to ground or +5V, pull a chip out of its socket, and watch how the machine behaves.

- Magnitude: 1.9 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 115 total · +9 stars measured 2026-10-15, 17:32–19:21 UTC, ≈ 11 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: C · Created: 2026-10-15 · Last push: 2026-10-15
- GitHub: https://github.com/antirez/c64-hw-simulator · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/antirez/c64-hw-simulator

## Useful for

- Study how board signals affect C64 operation without risking damage to real hardware
- Test a hypothesis about a broken C64 by simulating the fault and comparing symptoms
- Run the common faults in tests/faults.sh and check the expected symptoms

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-15 (UTC), 17:32–19:21: 106 → 115 stars (+9). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +11 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 0 days old and already has 115 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #182.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 11 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 5

## Stars per day, last 1 day (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-15 … 2026-10-15: 9

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #182

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