Category: Hardware
The MixSID is a stereo SID board for the Commodore 64 that can be used with any combination of SID models on a wide range of C64 mainboards. Features include an integrated stereo channel mixer, pragmatic stereo addressing scheme, flexible handling of io areas, onboard audio input, output and digiboost circuits, dedicated stereo output, full paddle compatibility and versatile digital…
István Hegedüs has developed a cycle exact FPGA core for the MOS 7360/8360 TED chip written in verilog. The final goal is to have an fpga core that could be used as a drop in replacement for the MOS 8360 chip which is the heart of the Commodore 264 series 8 bit computers, namely the Commodore 16, Commodore Plus 4…
Systems like the VIC20 or the Commodore 64 have cartridge slots, so can run diagnostic software from there. The PET does not, so this is Tynemouth Software’s new 6502 diagnostics board, a board which fits in place of the 6502 CPU in systems such as the Commodore PET to run diagnostics checks on a non-functional PET. Source: http://blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk
[youtube qAGVilt3Rls nolink] The ‘NES Classic Edition’ is causing a commotion in the retro gaming community. While it is “not da saaame” as playing on the original hardware, the modern minified version is on the Christmas list of *everybody* probably because it is from Nintendo and it looks exactly like the original console. However, according to a recent article on…
Happiga is an emulation system that can be used on a very small computer such as a Raspberry Pi. It uses the UAE4ARM emulator to emulate an Amiga 4000 AGA including Picasso96. You can use a real keyboard and joystick via the Keyrah V2. Changes in this version: An update for Raspbian, support for 128 MB Z3 RAM, a new…
The Vampire 600 turbo card uses the Apollo FPGA-core to emulate the 68000 CPU and the SAGA graphics chip. The changes for Apollo are: Added CHK2, CAS2, CMP2, EXTW/L, FAST-IDE and a HDMI boot-pic. Improvements for BFEXTU, BFEXTS, MOVES, NCBD, PACK, TRAPcc and SUBQ/BNE. Source: http://www.apollo-accelerators.com
The TransKey II is an adapter for 8-bit Atari computers that allows use of an external PS/2 keyboard. AtariAge user mytekcontrols has just released a new firmware version with significant improvements, including: A much improved PS/2 handler kernel with more solid timing Improvements to keyboard hot-plugging support A switchable US/DE key map (Ctrl+Alt+F4) Faster cursor movement As a bonus, the…
After 20 years, the CD copy / homebrew protection on the Sega Saturn has been cracked. A very clever reverse engineer known as Professor Abrasive has managed to dump the 64kB ROM of the CD subsystem processor and figured out the byzantine copy protection code and how it interacts with the Video CD slot. A proper announcement of this is…
Quartz website has reported that the Apollo Guidance Computer code was published on Github. If you are interested in both the Apollo program and programming, you will be delight to be able to go over the thousands of pages of the code that helped the man to go to the Moon. The code, according to Quartz, has been available for the public…
Over on hackaday.io, user kodera2t is documenting his build of a minimalist 8-bit computer. The design is based on Grant’s 6-chip 6809 computer, but kodera2t has gone the next step and released the source files for his PC board. Not into etching your own boards? That’s okay – this computer can even be built on a breadboard! All you need…
