Tag: FPGA
Turbo Chameleon 64 is an extremely user-friendly cartridge that can be used without opening the computer. You just plug it into the expansion port of the C64. The Turbo Chameleon 64 cartridge can also be operated as a stand-alone unit (since it’s basically an FPGA computer like the C-One or the Minimig in a C64 cartridge case), replacing the computer,…
Once Upon a Byte and 8bitchip present you the story of Amiga Vampire FPGA accelerators, as told by Igor Majstorovic. Majsta visited this year’s BalCCon (Balkan Computer Congress) and in an informal talk at Once Upon a Byte’s Retro Computer Assembly revealed all of the details that he and the Apollo team had to go through to get a working…
Alex Zaikin has created a replica of Mikro-80, an early ’80s Soviet 8-bit computer whose designs were published in the magazine “Radio”. The Mikro-80 had a very large chip count (approx. 200) and was very difficult to build. Consequently, it was not a popular machine. It used the KR580VM80A CPU (which was a clone of the Intel 8080), sported 64kB…
The AVS from retroUSB is one of the most compatible and accurate NES clones on the market. Powered by an FPGA chip allowing the device to very closely mimic the hardware on an actual Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom. The system is compatible with original NES controllers and runs original NES cartridges. More details and video review below. Video: 720p wide screen HDMI output,…
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…
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The FPGASID Project consists in a of a standard Commodore 64 main-board where the SID chip has been replaced by an FPGA. An FPGA is a circuit which the user/developer can create custom “chips” programmatically. The ultimate goal is to make the FPGASID and the original SID behave absolutely identical. You can read all details of this neat project following the…
FPGA Arcade is a retro computer system developed by MikeJ and can be used to emulate (in hardware) many retro computers such as: Amiga, Apple II+, AtariST, Atari 800XL, BBC B, Commodore VIC-20 / C64, MSX and the Spectrum. Mfilos has received his FPGA Arcade and has built the system inside a mini-itx case. You can follow his progress on…
A quick update from Philippe Lang Dear Backers,Through our last update you already knew that we’ve added support for the Raspberry Pi and Pi2 boards within our 1200 case.We’d like to announce that the case is supporting Till Harbaum’s MiST board as well ;) Till confirmed us that all buttons on the board can be activated from the keyboard, and…
A new core for the MiST is now available. Features supported chipset variants : OCS, ECS, AGA chipRAM : 0.5MB – 2.0MB slowRAM : 0.0MB – 1.5MB fastRAM : 0.0MB – 24MB CPU core : 68000, 68010, 68020 kickstart : 1.2 – 3.1 (256kB and 512kB kickstart ROMs currently supported) HRTmon with custom registers mirror floppy disks : 1-4 floppies…
