Edit FPGA retrocomputing

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Last edited: 12:55:10 pm on 8 February 2010 by 192.168.1.41

With the low cost of modern FPGAs it is very tempting to recreate old computer designs rather than just simulating them on a PC. In theory both options are equivalent but in practice real hardware has a very different feel to it.

Here are some projects (though some seem to have been abandoned) relating to this:
!!!Video Game Consoles
- *Atari 2600>http://www.xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/xcell_54/xc_atari54.htm*
- *AdventureVision>http://home.freeuk.com/fpgaarcade/av.htm*
- *ColecoVision>http://home.freeuk.com/fpgaarcade/cv.htm*
- *Balley Astrocade>http://home.freeuk.com/fpgaarcade/bally_main.htm*
- *Odyssey 2 (Videopac)>http://home.freeuk.com/fpgaarcade/videopac.htm*
!!!Arcade Machines
- *Scramble/Frogger>http://home.freeuk.com/fpgaarcade/scramble.htm*
- *Asteriods>http://home.freeuk.com/fpgaarcade/ast_main.htm*
- *Pacman>http://home.freeuk.com/fpgaarcade/pac_main.htm*
- *Lady Bug>http://home.freeuk.com/fpgaarcade/lady_main.htm*
- *Space Invaders>http://home.freeuk.com/fpgaarcade/spc_main.htm*
- *Galaxians>http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&urltext=http%3A%2F%2Ffreewing-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp%2Fsp2galx%2F%0D%0A&lp=ja_en*
!!!8 bit Microcomputers
- *Acorn Atom>http://www.howell1964.freeserve.co.uk/logic/acorn_atom_project.htm*
- *Atari 800>http://www.retromicro.com/* (seems dead)
- *Apple II+>http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/apple2fpga/*
- *Apple II>http://alexfreed.com/FPGApple/*
- *Apple IIe>http://www.applefritter.com/node/19543*
- *Apple IIe>http://www.applelogic.org/IIE.html*
- *Commodore VIC 20>http://home.freeuk.com/fpgaarcade/vic20_main.htm*
- *Commodore 64>http://c64upgra.de/c-one/* (uses a real microprocessor)
- *Commodore 64>http://www.syntiac.com/fpga64.html*
- *ZX81>http://zxgate.sourceforge.net/zx81.html*
- *ZX Spectrum>http://zxgate.sourceforge.net/spectrum.html*
- *ZX Spectrum>http://www.zxbada.bbk.org/badaloc_fpga/*
- *ZX Spectrum>http://www.eng.petersplus.ru/sprinter/* (uses a real micrprocessor)
- *Jupiter Ace>http://zxgate.sourceforge.net/ace.html*
- *TRS-80>http://zxgate.sourceforge.net/trs.html*
- *MSX>http://www.bazix.nl/onechipmsx.html*
- *MSX>http://www.hat.hi-ho.ne.jp/tujikawa/esepld/esemsx2/* (in Japanese)
- *ABC80>http://www.abc80.org/~hpa/fpga/*
- *Oric>http://torlus.com/index.php?2007/12/05/208-oric-in-a-fpga-continued*
- *Thomson MO5>http://torlus.com/index.php?2007/03/19/200-thomson-mo5-in-a-fpga*
- *Hector HRX>http://torlus.com/index.php?2007/01/31/198-hector-hrx-in-a-fpga*
- *many, including the Color Computer>http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug/pace/Nanoboard/nanoboard.html*
- *generic 6809 running Flex9>http://members.optushome.com.au/jekent/system09/*
!!!16 and 32 bit Microcomputers
- *Amiga>http://home.hetnet.nl/~weeren001/minimig.html*
- *Atari ST Mega>http://www.experiment-s.de/index.php?id=78&L=0*
- *Atari ST>http://www.experiment-s.de/en/*
!!!Minicomputers and Mainframes
- *PDP-4>http://homepage.mac.com/dgcx/pdp4x/*
- *PDP-8>http://homepage.mac.com/dgcx/pdp8x/*
- *PDP-8>http://www.grillet.co.uk/pdq8/index.html*
- *PDP-10>http://neil.franklin.ch/Projects/PDP-10/* (seems dead)
- *PDP-11>http://shimizu-lab.dt.u-tokai.ac.jp/pop11.html*
- *CADR (Lisp Machine)>http://www.unlambda.com/cadr/index.html#downloads*

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