Hardware Emulation (was Re: Spectrums, Ultrix, feeling old :)

From: george_moraes_at_lakelabs.com <(george_moraes_at_lakelabs.com)>
Date: Tue Jan 30 13:38:44 2001

Hi there ...

-- Original Message --

>One of the 'toys' I recently purchased is an eval board with the Xilinx
>
>Spartan II 200K gate FPGA on it. My plans for this are classic computer
>
>emulation. (there is already a PDP-8 VHDL description floating around and
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Do you know the link ??????
I always wanted to do that !!!! Excellent Idea....

>I'm looking at doing one for the PDP-5, PDP-11, and PDP-12). But this board
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>includes bits that let you drive a VGA display with it if you choose and
>it
>has PS/2 ports etc that you can also use. So I figured wouldn't it be cool
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>to actually try doing "new" Atari 2600 hardware or something like that?
>It
>should be pretty easy to design a PONG equivalent game, the original was
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>all TTL gates anyway. All I need it another hobby I don't have time for
>but
>it helps motivate me to learn the tools if I've got a project to work on.
>
>--Chuck
>
>
Definitely its a wonderful hobby .... :-)


Regards.
George.
Received on Tue Jan 30 2001 - 13:38:44 GMT