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No matter your age or background, there’s an excellent chance you’ll recognize the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) at first glance. The iconic 8-bit system not only revitalized the gaming industry, …read more Continue reading A Guided Tour of the NES
As disruptive and generally unpleasant as the pandemic lockdowns of 2020 were, they often ended up being a catalyst for significant personal growth. That was often literal growth, thanks to …read more Continue reading From a 6502 Breadboard Computer to Lode Runner and Beyond
Over the summer, you might recall seeing a homebrew 6502 game console called the GameTank grace these pages. The product of [Clyde Shaffer], the system was impressively complete, very well …read more Continue reading DIY GameTank Game Console Gets Upgraded Cartridge
Over the years, and especially lately, we’ve seen tons of single-board retrocomputer builds. That’s fine with us — the more, the merrier. But they all start to run together a …read more Continue reading Squeezing a Minimalist 6502 Retrocomputer Onto a Single Breadboard
[Ted Fried] wrote in with not one but two (2!) new drop-in replacements for widespread old-school CPUs: the Zilog Z80 and the Intel 8088. Both of the “chips” run in …read more Continue reading Teensy Twofer of Plug-In Emulated Retro CPUs
Virtually any platform you might find yourself programming on has some simple method of running a delay. [Joey Shepard] got rather creative on a recent project, though, relying on a …read more Continue reading Blinky Project Is 6502s All The Way Down
It’s been a long time since computer hobbyists stored their programs and data on cassette tapes. But because floppy drives were expensive peripherals and hard drives were still a long …read more Continue reading A Cassette Interface for a 6502 Breadboard Computer, Kansas City-Style
Single-board computers have been around ever since microprocessors became affordable in the 1970s and never went away. Today we have Raspberry Pis and LattePandas, while back in the ’70s and …read more Continue reading The Pocket265 is a Pocket-Sized 6502 Single-Board Computer
When we first saw the PZ1 laptop — a 6502 laptop-style computer with a small display and 512K of RAM — we couldn’t help but think of the old AIM …read more Continue reading Laptoppin’ Like 1975
The NES, Atari 2600, the Apple II, the Commodore 64 and the TurboGrafx-16 are just some of the many game consoles and home computers built around the 6502 CPU. And …read more Continue reading The GameTank is the Latest and Greatest 8-bit Game Console