On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 11:10:34AM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
PS: With low cost Chinese PCB's and vintage parts,
why are people not
building real hardware replica's of interesting machines.
But they are..
I can't tell what you'd find interesting since the list is pretty wide.
I've got an Apple I replica board that someday I intend to populate and get running.
You've got the ReAmiga project producing new boards for using up old parts on broken
boards.
https://www.reamiga.info/?page_id=36
One thing that I find interesting (although I'd never do it), is a board to emulate
a 68000 CPU at much higher speeds running barebones emulator on a Raspberry Pi.
Aimed at Amiga A1200 again.
https://wiki.amiga.org/index.php?title=Pistorm32-Lite
I've put together my IMSAI 8080 frontpanel kit, with the CPU emulated on an ESP32.
https://thehighnibble.com/imsai8080/
Or they are about to ship out the PiDP-10 blinkenlights kits
https://obsolescence.dev/pidp10.html
The CPU again emulated on a RaPi, but all new boards and plastic for the console kit
I'm not sure if anybody has ever thought about making flipchip boards themselves
though.
Although they might have been..
https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/a-general-purpose-flip-chip-adapt…