Kudos to you if you can go from zero to your own custom video controller implemented in an fpga in a few weeks. But for normal humans that just want to get inv

Kudos to you if you can go from zero to your own custom video controller implemented in an fpga in a few weeks. But for normal humans that just want to get involved with hardware and dabble somewhat with software/firmware in the context of vintage computing, taking a detour into fpga-world would be a deep unpleasant rabbit hole unless one was specifically interested in fpga's and there was no other viable option (which in the case of custom ASIC's is admittedly quite possible). Compared to the nightmarish complex toolchains used for fpga's, digging up some datasheets and working with a DMM, scope, and logic analyzer is a breeze and actually quite pleasurable.