From: Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com>
To: Jason Stevens <jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 68k prototypes & microcode
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 21:30:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC5iaNHeQ_T-ad+kvPPs6TopQ8GsjgNGMsMgVKkuHQ4UEhCzRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0F0B9BFC06289346B88512B91E55670D300E@EXCHANGE>
An amazing idea.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 7:51 PM Jason Stevens
<jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:
>
> You might find this interesting
>
> https://twitter.com/i/status/1320767372853190659
> <https://twitter.com/i/status/1320767372853190659>
>
> It's a pi (arm) running Musashi a 68000 core, but using voltage buffers it's
> plugged into the 68000 socket of an Amiga!
>
> You can find more info on their github:
>
> https://github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm
> <https://github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm>
>
> Maybe we are at the point where numerous cheap CPU's can eliminate FPGA's?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Parson [SMTP:mparson@bl.org]
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2021 10:43 PM
> To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] 68k prototypes & microcode
>
> On 2021-02-04 16:47, Henry Bent wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021, 17:40 Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm probably Stockholm Syndrommed about 6502. It's what I grew
> up on,
> >> and
> >> I still like it a great deal. Admittedly register-starved (well,
>
> >> unless
> >> you consider the zero page a whole page of registers),
> but...simple,
> >> easy
> >> to fit in your head, kinda wonderful.
> >>
> >> I'd love a 64-bit 6502-alike (but I'd probably give it more than
> three
> >> registers). I mean given how little silicon (or how few FPGA
> gates) a
> >> reasonable version of that would take, might as well include
> 65C02 and
> >> 65816 cores in there too with some sort of mode-switching
> instruction.
> >> Wouldn't a 6502ish with 64-bit wordsize and a 64-bit address bus
> be
> >> fun?
> >> Throw in an onboard MMU and FPU too, I suppose, and then you
> could
> >> have a
> >> real system on it.
> >>
> >>
> > Sounds like a perfect project for an FPGA. If there's already a
> 6502
> > implementation out there, converting to 64 bit should be fairly
> easy.
>
> There are FPGA implementations of the 6502 out there. If you've not
> seen
> it, check out the MiSTer[0] project, FPGA implementations of a LOT
> of
> computers, going back as far as the EDSAC, PDP-1, a LOT of 8, 16,
> and 32
> bit systems from the 70s and 80s along with gaming consoles from the
> 70s
> and 80s.
>
> Keeping this semi-TUHS related, one guy[1] has even implemented a
> Sparc 32m[2] (I think maybe an SS10), which boots SunOS 4, 5, Linux,
> NetBSD, and even the Sparc version of NeXTSTEP, but it's not part of
> the
> "official" MiSTer bits (yet?).
>
> --
> Michael Parson
> Pflugerville, TX
> KF5LGQ
>
> [0] https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki
> [1] https://temlib.org/site/
> [2] https://temlib.org/pub/mister/SS/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-13 2:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-13 1:06 Jason Stevens
2021-02-13 2:30 ` Gregg Levine [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-02-13 4:34 Jason Stevens
2021-02-13 6:05 ` Toby Thain
2021-01-29 10:49 [TUHS] AT&T 3B1 - Emulation available Arnold Robbins
2021-02-03 7:53 ` emanuel stiebler
2021-02-03 7:59 ` arnold
2021-02-03 8:53 ` Ed Bradford
2021-02-03 8:58 ` arnold
2021-02-03 10:13 ` Ed Bradford
2021-02-03 14:58 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-04 0:41 ` [TUHS] 68k prototypes & microcode John Gilmore
2021-02-04 0:52 ` Al Kossow
2021-02-04 1:10 ` Arthur Krewat
2021-02-04 1:33 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-04 1:47 ` Al Kossow
2021-02-04 1:57 ` Al Kossow
2021-02-04 7:23 ` Arno Griffioen
2021-02-04 11:28 ` Toby Thain
2021-02-04 15:47 ` Arthur Krewat
2021-02-04 16:03 ` emanuel stiebler
2021-02-04 21:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-04 22:11 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-04 22:39 ` Adam Thornton
2021-02-04 22:47 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-05 14:42 ` Michael Parson
2021-02-04 22:56 ` Richard Salz
2021-02-04 23:14 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-04 1:35 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-04 2:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-04 15:53 ` Arthur Krewat
2021-02-05 2:16 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-05 2:53 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-04 1:14 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-04 1:20 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-04 14:56 ` John Cowan
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