Hah! I wasn't born then, but me and my friends implemented a CoreWars 88' standard microprocessor in an FPGA for a school hardware project. It was possible to

Hah! I wasn't born then, but me and my friends implemented a CoreWars 88' standard microprocessor in an FPGA for a school hardware project. It was possible to write code snippets in redcode and then we compiled it and sent it through usb and the FPGA was connected to a screen so we could see the progress. The source is fairly messy but have a peek if it interests you: https://github.com/treeman/MARC https://github.com/treeman/MARC