Date   : Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:50:31 +0100
From   : kortink@... (John Kortink)
Subject: FPGA BBC - yah!

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:05:04 +1100, Mark McDougall wrote:

>Mike Tomlinson wrote:
>
>> I find it quite remarkable that you were able to get a FPGA design
>> running without having the real machine to hand to refer to.  Well done
>> :)
>
>Thanks! To be honest, a real machine isn't terribly useful - the schematics, 
>advanced user guides, ROM disassemblies and a debug build of MESS are much 
>more useful for prying into the innards and debugging your implementation.
>
>I've done more than a handful of FPGA implementations of 8/16-bit 
>arcade/micro platforms and I've never once used the real hardware to assist 
>in the development - it's all been documentation, schematics and emulators.

Did you ever actually finish any of them ?


John Kortink

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