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Thursday, 10 May 2012

Your guide to building a homebrew 6502 computer - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2012/05/10/your-guide-to-building-a-homebrew-6502-computer/

12 comments:

  1. I've got a design somewhere for (I think) a five chip Z-80.
    Processor, EPROM, RAM, PIO and some decoding.

    Must see if I've got all the bits in my bits box...

    (Will this sort of thing be seen in future years as a sort of modern-day "fit a sailing ship in a bottle"?
    Quite clever, but ultimately pointless)

    I have to admit, I find wiring up busses tedious.

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  2. Found it last night - Processor, RAM, ROM, DUART (2681) and a single 74139 (or was it 138?) for decode.
    And yep, I've got all the parts.
    Just got to cobble together an EPROM programmer, probably from an Arduino...
    I think I've got some UV LEDs to make an eraser too - gonna need an eraser!

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  3. You haven't got any JEDEC SRAMs by any chance?
    I've got a UV_EPROM, and thought I had some 16 kbit RAM chips, but couldn't find any when I looked again :(
    Don't really want to be bothered wiring up DRAM - too fiddly.

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  4. Not as far as I know. I can't remember the last time I even saw an UV EPROM - let alone erased/programmed one, grandad

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  5. OK, I suppose I'll just have to knit one out of ferrite cores.

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  6. One of my first ever jobs was building an in-circuit EPROM programmer for an Intel 8080-based system.
    The main problem was not the code, but finding a UV eraser with a drawer big enough to take a whole card of EPROMs, which were soldered, not socketed.

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  7. I've just got the Beeb emulator to buld on Android (Beebroid/Eclipse) - Next stop, build(write) a link between the accelerometers and the Beeb's ADCs... Smoke me a kipper

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