A working, transistor-scale replica of the MOS 6502 microprocessor

Re:A working, transistor-scale replica of the MOS 6502 micro... by madengr on Sunday May 21, 2017 @09:38AM (#14387234)

It's cool just for the blinking lights alone. Computers are so boring these days, at least from my growing up with 60-70s SciFi.

It'd be cool to build a blinken lights bus expander for the C64, or other 8-bit computers of that era. Complete with switches for data and register access, like a PDP or Altair.

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Re:A working, transistor-scale replica of the MOS 6502 micro... by danellis on Sunday May 21, 2017 @01:59PM (#14388299)

You wouldn't see much, though, would you? It's nice to look at here because of the very slow clock speed. At 2MHz, I expect it would just be like looking at dimly lit LEDs.

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Re:A working, transistor-scale replica of the MOS 6502 micro... by rbanffy on Sunday May 21, 2017 @05:57PM (#14389465)

> At 2MHz, I expect it would just be like looking at dimly lit LEDs.

Maybe. Or maybe other patterns would emerge - some LEDs would be dimmer, some brighter, then the pattern would change, as the program progresses. Let's try it.

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Re:A working, transistor-scale replica of the MOS 6502 micro... by pstuart on Sunday May 21, 2017 @01:27PM (#14388183)

Mark Williams C?

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