Comments on: Digital Archaeology Revives the Ancient Chip That Ran the First Nintendo

By: Murgatroyd

Murgatroyd — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:41:20 +0000

It also appears to have powered the Terminator …

And it powers Bender on Futurama!

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:06:58 +0000

On a slight tangent, software emulation of processors (works especially well on old processors like the 6502) is common and very popular. The power of modern CPU design is more than sufficient to overcome the inefficiency of emulating (old) hardware with software.

The posterchild for such digital archaeology might well be the MAME project (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAME).

By: Curt

Curt — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:31:36 +0000

Kirk you are so right,

I’ve been recovering GDS and GDS II files off of TU78′s for several years and have recovered numerous Atari proprietary chips thought long lost…. shoot me an email, we should talk…

Curt

By: kirk

kirk — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:10:44 +0000

I have reverse engineered many, many, many IC’s. It is a well known craft. Most are done for patent claims. If you don’t think a 6502 schematic and artwork exists – you are not even wrong. This chip holds many, many patents and has been the focus of many, many claims both defensively and offensively. Plus, someone one (or many someones) has transistor for transistor knock-offs. You are claiming that we don’t know how to reproduce a model-T because the original Ford plant does not exist anymore. Just sayin.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:00:12 +0000

Soon! All in Mandarin, oriental languages! America dies as we speak! most “chips” now come from off-shore! Even Sanskrit more valued than American English on the computer world now! Will they even record us, our part?

By: durfus McGrew

durfus McGrew — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:45:32 +0000

Your link: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/07/20/digital-archaeology-revives-the-ancient-chip-that-ran-the-first-nintendo/www.visual6502.org

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