Connecting an 8086 or 8088 processor to a Raspberry Pi
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Connecting an 8086 or 8088 processor to a Raspberry Pi
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Re: Connecting an 8086 or 8088 processor to a Raspberry Pi
#2Love the simple/elegant/powerful idea of driving the CPU clock from code running on RPI/Linux. It sidesteps the difficulty of efficiently doing bitbanging on RPI/Linux in a neat way.
Re: Connecting an 8086 or 8088 processor to a Raspberry Pi
#3Had to search for the PCB.
Looks like this is the one:
Re: Connecting an 8086 or 8088 processor to a Raspberry Pi
#4Reminds me of the project that used a Raspberry Pi running a software emulator as an Amiga CPU - Pi plugged into the CPU socket via an adapter board. Probably the most impressive project I've ever seen. https://www.hackster.io/news/hands-on-with-the-pistorm-the-u...
Re: Connecting an 8086 or 8088 processor to a Raspberry Pi
#5Reminds me of the project that used a Raspberry Pi running a software emulator as an Amiga CPU - Pi plugged into the CPU socket via an adapter board. Probably the most impressive project I've ever seen. https://www.hackster.io/news/hands-on-with-the-pistorm-the-u...
Lots of interesting drop-in chip replacements in the retro computing world these days.
Two I can think of off the top of my head:
- FPGA 6581 to replace a Commodore 64 SID chip.
- There's a drop-in sorta Z-80 so you can run CP/M on the TRS-80 Model 100.
Re: Connecting an 8086 or 8088 processor to a Raspberry Pi
#6Reminds me of the project that used a Raspberry Pi running a software emulator as an Amiga CPU - Pi plugged into the CPU socket via an adapter board. Probably the most impressive project I've ever seen. https://www.hackster.io/news/hands-on-with-the-pistorm-the-u...
This seems worthy of its own HN submission, so I did it:
Re: Connecting an 8086 or 8088 processor to a Raspberry Pi
#7Reminds me of the project that used a Raspberry Pi running a software emulator as an Amiga CPU - Pi plugged into the CPU socket via an adapter board. Probably the most impressive project I've ever seen. https://www.hackster.io/news/hands-on-with-the-pistorm-the-u...
Lots of interesting drop-in chip replacements in the retro computing world these days. Two I can think of off the top of my head: - FPGA 6581 to replace a Commodore 64 SID chip. - There's a drop-in sorta Z-80 so you can run CP/M on the TRS-80 Model 100.
I wonder if we might see drop in replacements used in other tech from the past that might be end of life or near to, especially space satellites where power supplies permit.
Re: Connecting an 8086 or 8088 processor to a Raspberry Pi
#8Confused as to why this is a useful exercise vs emulating the 8086 on the Pi?
Re: Connecting an 8086 or 8088 processor to a Raspberry Pi
#9Confused as to why this is a useful exercise vs emulating the 8086 on the Pi?
Perhaps it’s more to see if they can, or for fun, than strictly for some useful purpose.
Re: Connecting an 8086 or 8088 processor to a Raspberry Pi
#10Confused as to why this is a useful exercise vs emulating the 8086 on the Pi?
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