On 10/14/2021 at 9:06 PM, kelli217 said:
If he did, he'd be satisfied to leave things to The Future Was 8-Bit and their Mini PET kit.
Small correction: The Mini PET kits are by Tynemouth Software from the UK. TFW8b is just a retailer.
On 10/14/2021 at 9:06 PM, kelli217 said:
If he did, he'd be satisfied to leave things to The Future Was 8-Bit and their Mini PET kit.
On 10/15/2021 at 3:28 AM, EMwhite said:
Prob only 5% of the fanbase here will be interested but if you look at Day 1 of VCF east (YouTube link), you'll see just that... Ben Eater's worlds worst video card implemented in FPGA by Stefany of C256 Foenix.
On 10/15/2021 at 3:33 AM, BruceMcF said:
and then the word was passed through from the team that the features were considered locked down, so people could stop posting "how about adding this to Vera!" threads.
On 10/15/2021 at 1:47 AM, BruceMcF said:
But while I am less than a beginner in terms of using FPGAs, I have seen the FPGA used for Vera quoted at under $7 Q1 at Mouser, and I have seen other FPGA with far more pins at over $20 Q1, so I am always a bit skeptical about confident assurances that "so and so" can "easily" by done when the "ease" may well involve simply throwing three times as much money at the problem.
On 10/15/2021 at 3:33 AM, BruceMcF said:
The original Gameduino C64 card used for early prototyping several years ago now was bit banged SPI (not SCI), and, yes, that would be too slow.
On 10/15/2021 at 7:33 AM, Janne Sirén said:
Or perhaps it really needs some insider input to put new life into the parts that matter. ?
On 10/15/2021 at 7:33 AM, Janne Sirén said:
I am perfectly fine with VERA (especially as part of a whole that is somehow unique), mind, but just pointing out this history.
On 10/15/2021 at 7:33 AM, Janne Sirén said:
In fairness, it was the start of the X16 dream computer that did set the expectations of the project using discrete chips and that being one of the things that set it apart from the rest. I don't think it is unreasonable that people who follow this project might have some preference towards that and did buy the rationale for such a project at inception.
On 10/15/2021 at 6:09 AM, Ju+Te said:
I don't have to solder it.
On 10/14/2021 at 2:33 PM, Janne Sirén said:
In fairness, it was the start of the X16 dream computer that did set the expectations of the project using discrete chips and that being one of the things that set it apart from the rest. I don't think it is unreasonable that people who follow this project might have some preference towards that and did buy the rationale for such a project at inception.
On 10/14/2021 at 2:33 PM, Janne Sirén said:
Or perhaps it really needs some insider input to put new life into the parts that matter. ?
On 10/14/2021 at 7:31 PM, Oldrooster said:
arhh, the first signs of death for a project, well, that's too dramatic, but it's that restriction, where you have to stop the freedom, stop taking things all apart and re-doing them completely, stop screwing up the whole page and throwing it into the trash, that moment you have to work towards walking away and leaving it as is, you don't ever call art finished if you're an artist, not always, not really. You just call it 'enough for now' perhaps.
On 10/15/2021 at 12:43 PM, BruceMcF said:
In other words, you have a fundamental philosophical disagreement with this particular project,
On 10/14/2021 at 8:13 PM, Oldrooster said:
I came here after noticing that the project I was ALREADY working on