[Ben Eater] posted some videos of an 8-bit computer with no CPU ... array of blinking lights. The CPU design follows a design in the book “Digital Computer Electronics” so if you were serious ...

The engineer behind the project is Piotr "Osa" Ostapowicz, who began working on Atarino more than 10 years ago. What started ...

The 8-Bit Guy is building his dream computer, heavily inspired by the Commodore ... Because a Western Design Center sales guy told a Commodore engineer that Apple was using it in their next ...

Not content with your new, 1.4-billion-transistor Ivy Bridge processor? Maybe it runs too hot, or lacks the polygon-pushing powers that you require? Well, I've got just the thing for you: How ...

High school student Jack Eisenmann has built his own 8-bit computer from scratch ... demonstrating Jack’s understanding of hardware design. The 256 bytes of RAM, while minuscule by today ...

We've actually already seen one completely home-built 8-bit computer but ... The transistor-transistor logic (TTL) design is slowly coming together and every step of the process is being ...

Polish engineer Piotr "Osa" Ostapowicz recently unveiled "Atarino," which may be the world's smallest 8-bit Atari computer re ...

Some games by design don’t offer an appreciably different ... game software studios catered to the installed base of Atari 8-bit computer owners. Stalwarts included Lucasfilm Games, Avalon ...

It has a brand new 8-bit 65C02S CPU at 8 MHz (yes, WDC still produces them), 512 KB banked RAM, 512 KB ROM, Yamaha YM2151 sound chips and a custom module named VERA for video and additional sound ...

Steve Chamberlin, a Belmont, California, videogame developer by day, set out on a quest to custom design and build his own 8-bit computer. The homebrew CPU would be called Big Mess of Wires or BMOW.

The early 8-bit microprocessors sparked the personal-computer (PC) revolution and allowed ... Check out my blog, AltEmbedded on Electronic Design, as well as his latest articles on this site ...