VCF Build-It-Yourself Workshops

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/2/2006 at 2:43 PM David Betz wrote:

>I would *love* to assemble an FPGA kit that allowed me to experiment  
>with various classic architectures (and maybe some modern ones!).  
>Sign me up if you decide to have one!

Golly, folks have been doing this for quite awhile.  The XESS kits seem to
be very popular.  There was/is even a fellow who was offering a
pin-compatible Z80 replacement implemented in FPGA.

Here's one of the lists I've found:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/jekent/FPGA.htm

What's not really clear to me is what the practical difference is between
implementing a classic CPU in FPGA and writing an emulator for on to run on
a PeeCee.  

As someone on the list has mentioned, it's really the old peripherals that
are the interesting bit.

Cheers,
Chuck