14 Jul
2010
14 Jul
'10
6:10 p.m.
arcade boards aren't that cheap anymore. How's about a Genesis. As
common as teeth.
And often-forgotten range of 68K machines are the older HP9000s, in
particular the HP9000/200 and 9000/300 families. Personally I'd go for a
9000/200 seires machine, although it's only a 68000 (or a 68010 if you
are lucky and get a 9817 or a 9826U/9836U), there are many fewer custom
parts than in later machines, so repairing them is a lot easier.
The 9000/200 machines that I've worked on are very solid (and you'd
expect from HP), you can run either HP technical BASIC (which does allow
you to run short machine code routines), or Pascal (which is based on
UCSD Pascal, and IIRC includes an assembler)
-tony
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Dan Roganti <ragooman at comcast.net> wrote:
if you want a quick 'n simple way to get into
68K
programming. You can always hack a cheap 68K sound board
from the Bally Spy Hunter Arcade game --