Collaborate Disseminate
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
A question: does anyone who was around in the early days of the 8-bit computer revolution remember a dual-CPU 6502 portable machine like this one? Or just a dual-CPU machine? …read more Continue reading PERSEUS-9, the Dual-6502 Portable Machine That Should Have Been
Like today’s Intel-AMD duopoly, the market for home computer CPUs in the 1970s and ’80s was dominated by two players: Zilog with their Z80, and MOS Technology with their 6502 …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: The Baffatari 2600 Adds Atari Compatibility to Retrocomputers
With the Great Chip Shortage still delaying deliveries of new components, now might be a good time to look around your lab and inspect those piles of chips that you …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Reuse Those DIP Chips to Make a 1980s-Style Single-Board Computer
While our attention is mostly directed towards ever smaller-integrated silicon circuits providing faster and faster computing, there’s another area of integrated electronics that operates at a much lower speed which …read more Continue reading The Thin-Film Flexible 6502
Computer memory has taken on many forms over the years, from mercury-based delay-line tubes to handwoven magnetic core. These days, volatile storage using semiconductors has become ubiquitous with computing, but …read more Continue reading Glow In The Dark Computer Memory Illuminates The Fundamentals
Flashing your code into an Arduino, an ESP32 or any other modern microcontroller platform is pretty straightforward: connect the device through USB, fire up the appropriate software platform, and press …read more Continue reading Wireless Bootloader Saves You From Swapping ROM Chips
While there has been no shortage of FPGA-based recreations of classic processors, we always enjoy seeing a new approach. Last month [Some Assembly Required] took on the challenge to recreate …read more Continue reading 6502 Goes FPGA (Again)