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ChuckT

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Recreating the Commodore PET with an FPGA
« on: October 28, 2011, 06:13:44 AM »
Recreating the Commodore PET with an FPGA

"Using a Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA on the Digilent Nexys3 dev board, he has implemented the Pet in Verilog. Like the original, his clone contains 16K of both ROM and RAM, utilizing the same simulated 6502 microprocessor he used on a previous Apple ][+ project. The FPGA version of the computer sports a 640x400 resolution which is twice that of the original, so [Thomas] simply doubled the size of each of the PET’s pixels to fill in the extra space."

http://hackaday.com/2011/10/27/recreating-the-commodore-pet-with-an-fpga/#comments
 

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Re: Recreating the Commodore PET with an FPGA
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2011, 06:27:50 AM »
Its always interesting seeing all the things fpga makes possible.
 
And interesting people so love old processors or systems that they will put all the work into them to get them to emulate old systems so well.
 
I don't know much about them, but I know I want an fpga amiga with aga.
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Re: Recreating the Commodore PET with an FPGA
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2011, 09:43:51 AM »
It will be nice to have this on the FPGA Arcade,  :)
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Re: Recreating the Commodore PET with an FPGA
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2011, 01:38:23 PM »
Quote from: Darrin;665492
It will be nice to have this on the FPGA Arcade,  :)


There are about 10 cores on 6502.org in addition to this one which is being made open source and it is being added to their library.
 

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Re: Recreating the Commodore PET with an FPGA
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2011, 01:48:50 PM »
Quote from: Darrin;665492
It will be nice to have this on the FPGA Arcade,  :)


Already looked at it ...