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I hadn't seen the A2FPGA card before. It was briefly discussed on HN a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237176 https://news.ycombinator

• musicale 3mo ago
  You could probably implement the whole Apple II on the FPGA and have LUTs to spare... Edit: Tang Nano 20K, so fairly powerful, with 64Mbit of DRAM (enough to use as a virtual hard drive.)
  • js2 3mo ago
    I realize it's not an FPGA, but even in 1986 the entire Apple II was already available on a single ASIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_II Can get a Sipeed Tang Nano 20K FPGA Development Board from AliExpress for $7.05. I don't know the first thing about working with FPGAs, but this seems like something worth learning someday. https://6502.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8270 https://6502.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8270
    • musicale 3mo ago
      FPGAs are great - it's like writing software to create hardware, magically and on demand. I wish it were easier to get started with them - the toolchains are usually designed for professional engineers rather than beginners, and the debugging experience is poor vs. any typical software IDE like VSCode or IntelliJ (even though Vivado seems to be based on Eclipse or something.) But don't let that discourage you - working with FPGAs is incredibly fun once you get over the initial learning curve, and there are many resources available on youtube etc.