Current Retro Computing Happenings?

[Iggy]

Well a friend of mine, Luis Antoniosi has designed an 80 column video card for pre-Coco3 Color Computers that uses the Yamaha V9958 video display processor.
This also has sprite graphics, higher res modes, and a great range of colors than the original 6847 VDG was capable of.
He has working prototypes of it and we've just received the first circuit boards back from a Chinese production run.
He has OS-9 and BASIC drivers he's working on.
And we've talked about adding an OPN4 sound chip to a future board.

So 6809/6309 based hacking continues...

[Iggy]

I'd really hoped to see more interest in this thread as I have interest that span a lot of older hardware.
In addition to the Amiga/MorphOS and Coco stuff I've been doing, I have an Atari 130XE with a 6309 processor installed in it, two Coldfire Evaluation boards, and some boards from the N8VEM home brew project.
And there is a project connect to the N8VEM developers that is working on a home brew 68040 based system that has my attention.

I wouldn't mind a specific forum for this stuff.

[Iggy]

Again, not Amiga related, but reflecting another of my Motorola based interests.
My friend [FONT="]Luis Antoniosi has posted a video on YouTube showing the finished 80 column display card for the Tandy Color Computer he calls the Wordpak 2+.
Notice that he has managed to stuff a Yamaha V9958 VDP, 4 64Kx4 drams, and the other circuitry into a standard program pak.

[/FONT][FONT="]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btTlrNovbc0[/FONT]