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really wanna do a 68k build one day

i love the MC68000, i just think they're so neat!!

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@vidak do you want to run existing 68k software on the thing you build? or make new things from scratch?

@jaredj probably a bit of both! what would you recommend?

@vidak The reason I ask is that the existing software is not targeted solely at a processor, but at a whole platform: not just a 68000, but an Amiga, or a Mac, with all the other custom chips, ROMs, memory maps, etc. that underlie the platform. I've tried to build a 6502-based computer, at first with just serial I/O, then hopefully displaying something using a 32x8 LED matrix, sort of in the CollapseOS.org cobbling tradition; that project has not finished, and that could be because I set out on my own, and tried to skip the part with a bunch of LEDs, switches and breadboards, that would make it possible to debug one piece or another of the system. The journey of https://www.youtube.com/@akohlbecker toward a 65816 computer, https://github.com/adrienkohlbecker/65C816, has been quite enlightening, firmly 16-bit, and not aimed at running preexisting software. What it hasn't been is short. :)