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Plus, in that timeframe, FPGAs have become much cheaper and more powerful, providing tinkerers a step up from bitbanging.
by comex 11y ago
Plus, in that timeframe, FPGAs have become much cheaper and more powerful, providing tinkerers a step up from bitbanging.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoBitbanging was part of the fun. That's kinda the point most are making here.
- jdietrich 11y agoBitbanging hasn't gone away. If you want to write assembler on an 8-bit micro, you can do it on a $4 dev board. That board can run on AA batteries and be embedded into other projects. If you want to spin your own boards, you can get 10cm*10cm boards from China for less than a dollar. We are living in a golden age of hardware hacking. Modern computers aren't particularly amiable to bare-metal programming, but we have truly incredible microcontrollers available at very low cost. We also have excellent gratis and libre toolchains for microcontroller development. Once you have a little experience working with microcontrollers, you realise the incredible possibilities available to us today. The ZX Spectrums and C64s we loved haven't gone away, they've just turned into tiny chips that cost less than a newspaper.