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Indeed - I was surprised to see an ESP32 on there, driven over serial, for the video output. That seems an order of magnitude more modern than using a CPLD, muc
by sponaugle 4y ago
Indeed - I was surprised to see an ESP32 on there, driven over serial, for the video output. That seems an order of magnitude more modern than using a CPLD, much less an FPGA. I am building a VGA adapter for my 68k supercomputer using a CPLD which presents some challenges that would be easy to solve in an FPGA. I have wrestled with that concept of what is retro enough, and there is no simple answer. Sticking with thru-hole is hard enough given the ever declining availability of parts!
- justin66 4y agoThe ironic thing is, if this were 1980 and anyone were taking this thing's "fastest" designation seriously, the very first step z80 developers would take would be to figure out how to use the ESP32 as a coprocessor for general computation.