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

From: Tony Eros <tony.eros_at_machm.org>
Date: Tue Jan 30 14:03:47 2001

At 11:10 AM 1/30/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>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
>I'm looking at doing one for the PDP-5, PDP-11, and PDP-12). But this
>board 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 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 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
>
>

Chuck -

Do you know where I could find a copy of the PDP-8 VHDL description you
mentioned? I'd like to play with FPGA as well.

-- Tony
Received on Tue Jan 30 2001 - 14:03:47 GMT