alt Hacker NewsLT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
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Stunning work! Astounding progress since its under 3 months old from PCB to this result.
Funnily enough I've been musing this past month would I better separate work if I had a limited Amiga A1200 PC for anything other than work! This would nicely fit.
Please do submit to HackaDay I'm sure they'd salivate over this and it's amazing when you have the creator in the comments. Even if just to explain no a 555 wouldn't quite achieve the same result. No not even a 556...
I love the super clunky retro esthetic!
Takes me back to a time when a laptop would encourage the cat to share a couch because of the amount of heat it emitted.
Amazingly quick as well. Pointless projects are so much better and more fun when they don't take forever!
Awesome! Gives me mnt pocket reform vibes.
Maybe this can achieve RYF certification.
What I really would love: modern (continously built) modern (less than 10 years old tech) devices ryf-cetified.
Wow. It's fresh as a rose! Congratulations!
neat. not something i´d hanker for. i saw a 16 core z80 laptop years ago and i often think about it because it can multitask. https://hackaday.com/2019/12/10/laptop-like-its-1979-with-a-...
this post made me smile. why not!!! 6502 my first processor. <3
Way cool! When can I buy one?
And it mostly runs Microsoft software, too... Basic from 1977 :-P
Complete madness! But, I love it.
It's commodore 64 ish. I like it
I sometimes wonder what the alternate reality where semiconductor advances ended in the eighties would look like.
We might have had to manage with just a few MB of RAM and efficient ARM cores running at maybe 30 MHz or so. Would we still get web browsers? How about the rest of the digital transformation?
One thing I do know for sure. LLMs would have been impossible.