Emulation (Was: Emulators of Classic Computers)

From: Brad Parker <brad_at_heeltoe.com>
Date: Thu Jan 15 10:53:56 2004

Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>
>There are PDP-8 emulators out there already, better ones than this too.
>But I wanted one that was *mine*! (Shh, little secret, keep it under
>your hat but it's an experiment, maybe a precursor to building an 8 in
>TTL).

I'm probably high, but I'm still dreamy from the work the XKL guys did :-)

If you want to do it in an FPGA (well, CPLD), let me know - I'll help!

You can get some simple cpld kits from Xilinx for $99. I'd plop some
SRAM next to one and use a JTAG compliant port to load up the memory...

(and, well, you'd obviously need a bunch of LEDS also, otherwise, what
would be the point? :-)

-brad
Received on Thu Jan 15 2004 - 10:53:56 GMT