zx-sizif-512
karabas-128
| zx-sizif-512 | karabas-128 | |
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| 3 | 1 | |
| 157 | 24 | |
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| 6.2 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | 4 months ago | |
| KiCad Layout | VHDL | |
| MIT License | Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License |
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zx-sizif-512
- Fuzix OS: Unix for the Z80 and 680x
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Why does the Commodore C128 perform poorly when running CP/M?
> This was the swan song for the 8 bit machine
This is a common statement. It's not true. As pointed out down the comments, it was pretty much only the last 8-bit in the US market.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33925871
The rest of the world carried on making 8-bits for another decade or more.
New 8-bit machines and ranges of machines launched after in or after 1985:
• Sinclair Spectrum +2
• Sinclair Spectrum +3
• Acorn BBC Master range
• MGT SAM Coupé
• Amstrad CPC Plus range
• Amstrad PCW series
• MSX 2
• MSX 2+
• MSX Turbo-R
That's not counting 21st century reboots, of which there are hundreds.
Notably, after the collapse of Communism in Europe, the West found out about legions of enhanced ZX Spectrum clones and the like from the Warsaw Pact countries. Amazing machines with built-in floppy drives, hard disk controllers, stereo sound, improved graphics, lots more RAM (megabytes of it) and so on.
http://rk.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/clones/russian.htm
<- pay attention to the dates column.
Some are still being made.
https://www.hackster.io/news/css-electronics-zx-nucleon-is-a...
Note this is real hardware, not FPGA emulation or anything, although some of those are amazing too.
https://github.com/UzixLS/zx-sizif-512
I know that the USA thinks that the C128 was the last new 8-bit machine, but in fact it was only about the half way point of the evolution of 8-bit home computers, and some of the more interesting machines were yet to come. Entire families of native CP/M computers that sold in the millions of units in multiple countries. Capable home games computers with amazing graphics. Powerful educational/laboratory machines that gave rise to the ARM chip.
But they weren't American, and so everyone in the USA doesn't even know that most of them existed.
- DIY retro clones
karabas-128
What are some alternatives?
spectrum-desolate - 🕹️ Ported Desolate game from TI-83 Plus to ZX Spectrum
Jupiter-II - Another Jupiter Ace computer clone
CLK - A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sega Master System, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum.
FusionConverter - Design files for the open-hardware NeoGeo MVS to AES converter
vunit - VUnit is a unit testing framework for VHDL/SystemVerilog
zesarux - ZEsarUX - ZX Second-Emulator And Released for UniX
neorv32 - :rocket: A tiny, customizable and extensible MCU-class 32-bit RISC-V soft-core CPU and microcontroller-like SoC written in platform-independent VHDL.
lighthouse-of-doom - A simple text-based adventure game
ghdl - VHDL 2008/93/87 simulator
Amiga-2000-EATX - An Amiga 2000 PCB in the EATX form factor.