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Unobtanium 6502 based KIM-1 part now obtanium with FPGA
Today I'm excited to announce a project I've been working on for over a year is working and ready for early adopters to play with. Since October 2023, I've been writing FPGA gateware to replicate one of the rarest chips in the retrocomputing space, the MCS6530 released by MOS.
Since October 2023, I've been writing FPGA gateware to replicate one of the rarest chips in the retrocomputing space, the MCS6530 released by MOS. The board it uses is called the reDIP RIOT and it was designed by Dag Lem, creator of the reSID engine used by the VICE C64 emulator. I currently have the 6530-002 and 6530-003 variants of this chip functioning well enough to boot my replica KIM-1 with the motherboard designed by Eduardo Casino.
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