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Its quite popular in the retro-computing scene, for example, to bring these old machines into the 21st century with modern microcontrollers being used to add pe
by boffinAudio 2y ago
Its quite popular in the retro-computing scene, for example, to bring these old machines into the 21st century with modern microcontrollers being used to add peripheral support.
For example, the Oric-1/Atmos computers recently got a project called "LOCI" which adds USB support to the 40-year old computer[1], by using an RP2040's PIO capabilities to interface the 8-bit DATA bus with a microcontroller capable of acting as the 'gateway' to all of the devices on the USB peripheral bus.
This is amazing, frankly.
And now, being able to do Ethernet in such a simple way means that hundreds of retro-computing platforms could be put on the Internet with relative ease ..
[1] - https://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?t=2593&sid=2d30a090c99cbc5f420a39dfcab11130 https://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?t=2593&sid=2d3...