Apple II+ retrocomputing with an FPGA

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  1. pacav69

    pacav69 Live long and prosper Staff Member

    more info

    the things you can create with FPGAs

    Retrogaming is one thing — emulating an arcade machine or an Amiga to play your favorite games — but retrocomputing is something else entirely. Retrocomputing involves using actual hardware — tape drives, floppy disks, and computers powered by 1MHz processors — to poke your way around antiquated operating systems and once-bleeding-edge software packages like VisiCalc or Deluxe Paint.

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  2. Glenn

    Glenn Administrator Staff Member

    Ahhh the good old days where something crawling under one of your keys would stop that key from working, so you would pull the whole thing apart and un-solder the key, twist the metal tabs and pray you could get it all back together again with the spring working... IF you remember to put the spring back in that is :D
     
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  3. pacav69

    pacav69 Live long and prosper Staff Member

    The fact that you can put an apple2 motherboatd on one FPGA chip makes the chip count very low :)
     

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