The one core that MiSTer won't get anytime soon...

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The one core that MiSTer won't get anytime soon...

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The NABU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ge9ArK-B9M

Very cool about all the work being done with this machine.

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Zdebel starts to work this computer.
https://github.com/zdebel/NABU_MiSTer

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Feels a bit like Videotex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotex or the French Minitel. Videotex would run on regular PC's with a terminal emulator which is how I experienced it in the early 1990's.

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If anybody is curious as to what the minitel looked like, it is featured in the first half of my old video :D

https://youtu.be/UhZ4jLmNgLU

Wonder if an FPGA core of a terninal coukd be made, it would be funny but limited use without a server.

Now you can play with Videotex drawing on the browser, there's some fun tools (which I used for some visuals in the video)

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Quite a scene of telnet BBS'es exists on the internet these days. An FPGA DEC VT100 does feel a bit indirect for using those. :D

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It should be relatively easy to create a core, it's a Z80, with a TMS9918A, some USART and UART, and some logic chips. An MSX has the CPU/GPU, so there's some starting points already. The main thing was the communications - needed to boot the system.

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