Dan Gilbert of Tall Dog joins us to talk
about the
Tiny Nostalgia Evocation Square (or TinyNES for short)!
The TinyNES is an open hardware system compatible with the compatible
with original Nintendo Entertainment System and Famicom cartridges and
controllers.
Instead of being just an emulator or FPGA-based implementation, the
TinyNES uses the original 6502-derived chips and a custom circuit
board, preserving and carrying forward computing history!
Oh yeah, and it's also running a crowdfunding campaign,
so you can order your own
and support open hardware in the best way possible: by playing video games!By the way, we mentioned that FOSS & Crafts Studios would be launching
its first collaboration... we're helping to run the crowdfunding
campaign on this one (and couldn't be more excited about it)!Links:TinyNES crowdfunding campaign (launch announcement, sources will be on tinynes.com when campaign succeeds)Tall Dog, Dan's company (they do some
other cool open hardware stuff too, check 'em out!)Tall Dog's statement on supporting open sourceThe 6502 chip
and its specially modified version for the Nintendo Enetertainment System, the
Ricoh 2A03FreeCAD and KiCADVisual6502Nova the SquirrelEverdrive (proprietary hardware, but lets
you run custom ROMs, including Nova)Robot Finds Kitten on the c64!
Written in Racket!