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Originally Posted by TCD
The idea (as far as I understand it and it is written on their homepage) is to have an 8-bit machine that doesn't rely on parts you can no longer get.
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Unconvinced that's the case. There are plenty of options for building an 8-bit computer from currently available parts. A 16/32-bit computer should be doable.
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Originally Posted by TCD
But I think it's more about having a machine that you really would have liked to have back in the eighties  |
I get the impression there may be a lot of this. After all, this all came out of two videos on David's dream 8-bit computer. The result definitely has unusual design decisions. A lot of the compromises people make in home computer designs today (e.g. Vera and the FPGA) result in peripheral hardware far in excess of the main computer's capability.
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Originally Posted by TCD
Just impressive that they got it working without any majoy foundraiser
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Definitions of major and what constitutes that point of manufacture may differ, but
there's a fundraiser now if you're interested.