Hardware Emulation (was Re: Spectrums, Ultrix, feeling old :)

One of the 'toys' I recently purchased is an eval board with the Xilinx Spartan II 200K gate FPGA on it. My plans for this are classic computer emulation. (there is already a PDP-8 VHDL description floating around and I'm looking at doing one for the PDP-5, PDP-11, and PDP-12). But this board includes bits that let you drive a VGA display with it if you choose and it has PS/2 ports etc that you can also use. So I figured wouldn't it be cool to actually try doing "new" Atari 2600 hardware or something like that? It should be pretty easy to design a PONG equivalent game, the original was all TTL gates anyway. All I need it another hobby I don't have time for but it helps motivate me to learn the tools if I've got a project to work on. --Chuck