BBC Master on Steroids

Re:BBC Master on Steroids by 72deluxe on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:38AM (#24293035)

Very interesting, I did not know you could use a RPi as a second processor. My dad has a 6502 second processor and we were wowed by the hidden line removal and colour on Elite at the time.

Didn't make me play any better though.

I just used to enjoy Chuckie Egg, Mr. EE, Dare Devil Dennis, Exile, Mission Impossible and Firetrack. Brilliant music on Firetrack.

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Re:BBC Master on Steroids by tyingq on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:39AM (#24293551)

There's a cool project that uses an FPGA to allow several implementations of BBC Micro Co Processors (65C02, Z80, 6809, 68000, x86, ARM2, PDP-11, 32016).

And not just vanilla ones. They have a "monster Z80" that does more per clock cycle and a very fast clock, for example.

https://github.com/hoglet67/CoPro6502

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Re:BBC Master on Steroids by JdeBP on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:00AM (#24293772)

I wonder whether anyone has since thought of adding the KimKlone to that list.

* https://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/KimKlone/Kimklone_sho... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16564257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3070169)

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Re:BBC Master on Steroids by JdeBP on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:34AM (#24293499)

The headlined article lead me to find https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP7fiaync5E . I quite enjoyed watching GEM, running on top of DR-DOS, on a 80286, emulated by a Rasberry Pi, connected via the Tube to a BBC Master doing all of the I/O.

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