The retro designs that I really want to see made real would be the ones done by "Arne"[1]. Most of the designs would be impossible, being pretty steeped in tra

The retro designs that I really want to see made real would be the ones done by "Arne"[1]. Most of the designs would be impossible, being pretty steeped in trademarks, but they've explored some interesting ideas, like alternate keyboard layouts (ABC, 4 rows etc.) and mashups of all kinds of "retro" machines. We're also not seeing that many 16-bit faux-retro designs (i.e. not straight-forward Amiga/Atari clones). Either because they tend to be more complex, or because this follows the same trends as fashion and music, where we e.g. had 80s synthwave followed by 90s vaporwave and now more 00s sounds and looks. Since the time for that should've come by now, I think it's more the complexity angle. "Just" hooking up a 6502/z80 seems an order of magnitude easier than coming up with whatever the equivalent of custom chips would be. Never mind that because of the scale economy, you'd have to do the latter with FPGA, which is a step down on the ladder of retro authenticity. [1]: https://androidarts.com https://androidarts.com