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Re:Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a per... by jacquesm on Thursday May 17, 2012 @01:43PM (#3988137)
It depends on the size. Big FPGA's are amongst the most expensive chips that you can buy ($10K and up), but small ones are affordable. The amount of logic in an 80's era game computer should be within the gate budget of a small to mid sized FPGA.

See http://www.fpgaarcade.com/ for many examples of this.

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Re:Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a per... by gouranga on Thursday May 17, 2012 @02:11PM (#3988278)
Back in '01 (the good old days), we had volume prices of $40 for Xilinx parts which were big enough to get a PowerPC CPU in it.
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Re:Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a per... by jacquesm on Thursday May 17, 2012 @03:15PM (#3988569)
What were you building?
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Re:Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a per... by gouranga on Thursday May 17, 2012 @04:01PM (#3988790)
Surface to air missiles!
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Re:Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a per... by jacquesm on Thursday May 17, 2012 @04:50PM (#3989031)
Holy crap :)

Remind me to stay on your good side. I suddenly realized there may be bad consequences to 'checking in', such as punching out.

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