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I love projects like this. It's even simpler to just homebrew your own 8-bit computer / game console from widely available parts, and a great way to learn about
by TillE 3y ago
I love projects like this. It's even simpler to just homebrew your own 8-bit computer / game console from widely available parts, and a great way to learn about and really understand how computers work. Computers have become far more complex, but the broad fundamentals are basically unchanged since the 1970s.
- wkjagt 3y agoI did Ben Eater's 6502 kit and expanded on it a lot. You're right, it really gets you to appreciate how computers really work, in a much simplified way of course, compared even to for example the first IBM computer. Implementing something like a FAT file system for example also really makes you appreciate the deeper concepts of how an OS works. I only did a very simple FAT implementation, without subdirectories, but even with that, terms like FAT and sector became very concrete things instead of vague concepts.
- eek2121 3y agoBen Eater is awesome. I knew most of the stuff for x86, but revisiting all the things on a breadboard for 6502 and peripherals? AWESOME.Note of the snobbish: you can even build your own graphics card.