FPGA retrocomputing
With the low cost of modern FPGAs it is very tempting to recreate old computer designs rather than just simulating them on a PC. In theory both options are equivalent but in practice real hardware has a very different feel to it.Here are some projects (though some seem to have been abandoned) relating to this:
Video Game Consoles
- Atari 2600
- AdventureVision
- ColecoVision
- Balley Astrocade
- Odyssey 2 (Videopac)
- Sega Megadrive
- NES
- PC Engine/Turbografx-16
Arcade Machines
8 bit Microcomputers
- Acorn Atom
- Atari 800 (seems dead)
- Apple II+
- Apple II
- Apple IIe
- Apple IIe
- Apple IIgs
- Apple ///+
- BBC Micro
- Commodore PET
- Commodore VIC 20
- Commodore 64 (uses a real microprocessor)
- Commodore 64
- ZX81
- ZX Spectrum
- ZX Spectrum
- ZX Spectrum
- ZX Spectrum (uses a real micrprocessor)
- Jupiter Ace
- TRS-80
- MSX
- MSX (in Japanese)
- ABC80
- Oric
- Thomson MO5
- Hector HRX
- Tandy Color Computer 3 (discussion)
- many, including the Color Computer
- generic 6809 running Flex9