Blog
Technical posts on FPGA design, retro computing, and the Retro-Active ecosystem.
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The Retro-Active Roadmap
The bus is the start, not the finish. Here's the full landscape — main boards, peripheral cards, bootloaders, kernels, drivers — and the order they need to land in to make a working ecosystem.
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Why Retro Computing Needs a Common Bus
Every retro builder reinvents the wheel. Here's how a shared bus standard turns isolated projects into a leverage-able ecosystem.
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FPGAs as Co-Processors: The Missing Piece for Retro Computing
A $15 FPGA gives any vintage system modern peripherals: HDMI, PS/2, audio, SD cards. Here's why that pattern changes the retro computing calculus.