It can be held back no more.

[Gast]

It can be held back no more.

I'm still staring at this. It's so simple. Just ROM, RAM, CPU, and VERA. Some I/O, a little bit of storage. Simple enough that it should be actually affordable, powerful enough for legit Amiga-level retrogames to be made for it. And it's open hardware.

I did that. I made a thing. It's real. It's happening. The new prototypes are literally in production at the fab house in Shenzhen. Once any last-minute bugs get worked out, I'll be able to take orders for the first round of actual production -- assuming I can get hold of reliable supply of the CPU, of course. That's tomorrow's problem, though. Today's problem is containing my excitement.

What you get:

• W65C816S-compatible CPU at ~1.8MHz or 8MHz
• 512KB SRAM
• 512KB flash ROM
• iCE40UP5K FPGA running the VERA bitstream, with 128 sprites, two tiles layers, adn 16 channel PSG sound
• Two SNES-compatible control ports
• Full expansion bus port

Target price: USD$149, case not included.