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My guess is that this wouldn't be appealing to a younger crowd. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, and it is the older folks with the interest and the cash to make
by MegaDeKay 3y ago
My guess is that this wouldn't be appealing to a younger crowd. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, and it is the older folks with the interest and the cash to make efforts like these viable. For Edu, something slapped together around Retropie that is cheap and not difficult to assemble is already popular.
- jmount 3y agoI suspect you are right. The systems are clever compromises against the affordable technology options of they day. What feels clever/satisfying will differ by era. Or, as I assume you are anticipating, kids these days also have their own good and interesting ideas.
- samtho 3y agoFor a younger, student electrical engineer, they could easily gain the appreciation for the engineering that went into these things. Especially as a someone who wrote a lot software prior to completing my EE training, I wanted to learn on something that was fairly “pure” to learn major concept and patters on: a large MCU that only breaks out into a bunch of connectors is not it. While convenient and inexpensive, it doesn’t let you learn the more basic concepts that empower you to understand what is going on a at the lower levels of its operation. I would love to be able to teach (or have had the opportunity to learn) system architecture from analysis of arcade cabinets, starting with a CPU, adding ram, rom, peripherals, etc. Ben Eater’s 6502 computer kit[0] comes very close and is closer to the ballpark of what I would want out of a learning experience. [0]: https://eater.net/6502 https://eater.net/6502