using an FPGA to emulate a vintage computer
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From: james on 11 Feb 2010 11:33 On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:27:23 -0500, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: |Rick wrote: |> On Feb 10, 2:55 am, Olafur Gunnlaugsson <o...(a)audiotools.com> wrote: |>> �ann 05/02/2010 18:19, Eric Chomko skrifa�i: |>> |>>> Has anyone created a copy machine of an old system using an FPGA? I |>>> was wondering if it would be possible to take an entire SWTPC 6800 and |>>> compile the schematics and have it run on an FPGA board.? Wouldn't |>>> even have to be the latest Xylinx product, I suspect. |>> There are loads of such projects out there, even a commercial one called |>> C-One "the reconfigurable computer", here:http://www.c64upgra.de/c-one/ |> |> It is a great effort but last time I checked it was a bit pricey ~$300 |> for a basic system. |> |Just out of curiosity, how old are you? Giving the decade is OK. |A game system is that price so I'm wondering if "kids" think $300 |is too much. | |/BAH |=========== Kids today have little concept of what is too much. For what the board does it is a good price even now at 333 euros. The boards are no longer shipping at the 269 euros anymore. The increase price now reflects that the system ships with the FPGA extender card. Also the main board uses two older FPGAs, EP1K30 and EP1K100. You also need a SVGA monitor, a keyboard, memory, a PS2 style mouse, floppy drives, hard drive, ATX case and ATX power supply. So to get a system up and minimally running is going to cost you at least another $200 additionally unless you have all those components lieing around in your juck box. It is a great effort on the team's part. It can be very flexible system now with the Cyclone 3 extender board. james
From: Charlie Gibbs on 12 Feb 2010 12:36 In article <7ti2brFp0aU2(a)mid.individual.net>, Huge(a)nowhere.much.invalid (Huge) writes: > On 2010-02-09, Charles Richmond <frizzle(a)tx.rr.com> wrote: > >> Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> >>> In article <1bd40ftplw.fsf(a)snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net>, >>> pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu (Joe Pfeiffer) writes: >>> >>>> Al Kossow <aek(a)bitsavers.org> writes: >>>> >>>>> Reviving early computing dinosaurs from the surviving DNA is >>>>> difficult. >>>> >>>> That's a line that deserves to be put above the entrance to a >>>> computer museum. >>> >>> "It's a Unix system! I know this!" -- Jurassic Park >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng > > Another terrible moment in a deeply terrible movie. > > I wanted the dinosaurs to kill them all. And quickly. You're as much of a curmudgeon as I am. At the end of "The Perfect Storm" (one of two movies for which I feel thoroughly ripped off for the price of admission), my only thought was: "Good riddance to those stupid people." (Unfortunately, the screenwriters survived.) -- /~\ cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
From: Michael Wojcik on 12 Feb 2010 12:46 Huge wrote: > > Another terrible moment in a deeply terrible movie. > > I wanted the dinosaurs to kill them all. And quickly. At least in _Jurassic Park_ you could root for the dinosaurs. _The Matrix_ (my candidate for Most Overrated Movie Ever) didn't even have that. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University
From: Eric Chomko on 12 Feb 2010 15:19 On Feb 12, 12:46 pm, Michael Wojcik <mwoj...(a)newsguy.com> wrote: > Huge wrote: > > > Another terrible moment in a deeply terrible movie. > > > I wanted the dinosaurs to kill them all. And quickly. > > At least in _Jurassic Park_ you could root for the dinosaurs. _The > Matrix_ (my candidate for Most Overrated Movie Ever) didn't even have > that. > Yes, the Hugo Weaving character was as obnoxious as Neo and the others... > -- > Michael Wojcik > Micro Focus > Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University
From: mac on 16 Feb 2010 21:53
Some great stuff here. Let me add my re-implementation of a New England Digital Able, the first commercial single-instruction processor. <http://sites.google.com/site/macthenaief/Home/retro/able> <http://sites.google.com/site/macthenaief/Home/retro/fab> |