software:emulation:retrohardware
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interesting hardware
- GB Boy color
playing retro games with a portable device
device | pros/cons |
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Nintendo switch | runs linux, has MMU, is fast. But needs a payload via USB after each boot. |
GPi case | runs linux, has MMU, but is quite slow, not good enough for SNES games? |
Nintendo DS | runs linux 2.6 kernels, but needs RAM expansion over default 4MB. Low specs. |
Sony PSP | Has no MMU, PSPlinux exists. PSP has low hardware specs thou. |
Sony PS Vita | As os 2019 active developmenthttps://github.com/xerpi/vita-linux-loader, Vita has 512MB RAM |
Rockpi4 | more free, 6 core, raspi4 |
ESPboy | to weak for emulation |
MiSTer | FPGA emulation introduction, also Retronauts |
Mega65 | Aimed at being easy to understand |
Steckschwein | Aimed at being easy to understand |
Gigatron | Aimed at being easy to understand |
RISC-V
- FPGA (reprogrammable hardware) could be used.
- Orange Crab, Lattice ECP5 FPGA
- ULX3S, FPGA ESP32, should start shipping 2020-06-16 for $115, WLAN, 32mb RAM
- This one looks actually really really nice! Has USB, Wifi, Video out
- Fomu is aimed at teaching FPGAs basics (Micropython, verilog), can not connect devices/load code from a microSD card
- AndeShape FPGA boards, likely ~$1000
- iCEBreaker FPGA Development Board
- Lattice iCE40UP5k FPGA, capable of hosting CPU soft cores such as picorv32, picosoc, and RISC-V
- the board has no NIC
- https://www.crowdsupply.com/ has some interesting projects
- KVM-guest on x86 can emulate RISC-V. Details from fedoraproject.org
- HiFive Unleashed: to it's expensive.. currently at $999. I was looking for raspi scale performance wise.
- https://beaglev.seeed.cc/ - 2021-April “Pilot run for community”
East German Computers
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