On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 11:10:34AM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote: > PS: With low cost Chinese PCB's and vintage parts, why are people not > building real hardware replica's of interesting machines.
But they are.. I can't tell what you'd find interesting since the list is pretty wide. I've got an Apple I replica board that someday I intend to populate and get running. You've got the ReAmiga project producing new boards for using up old parts on broken boards. https://www.reamiga.info/?page_id=36 One thing that I find interesting (although I'd never do it), is a board to emulate a 68000 CPU at much higher speeds running barebones emulator on a Raspberry Pi. Aimed at Amiga A1200 again. https://wiki.amiga.org/index.php?title=Pistorm32-Lite I've put together my IMSAI 8080 frontpanel kit, with the CPU emulated on an ESP32. https://thehighnibble.com/imsai8080/ Or they are about to ship out the PiDP-10 blinkenlights kits https://obsolescence.dev/pidp10.html The CPU again emulated on a RaPi, but all new boards and plastic for the console kit I'm not sure if anybody has ever thought about making flipchip boards themselves though. Although they might have been.. https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/a-general-purpose-flip-chip-adapter-board-worth-doing.1228572/
