{"id":392,"date":"2013-04-10T20:20:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T20:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=392"},"modified":"2013-04-10T20:20:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T20:20:53","slug":"this-may-be-turning-into-an-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"This may be turning into an obsession…"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago I scored an Altera DE2 dev board on EBay for \u00a390. It’s the lower-end model with “only” 35,000 logic elements in the FPGA, but still a worthy addition to the collection.
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My first steps down the road that led me here were nearly two years ago now. I brought my old Amiga stuff down from the loft with a view to selling it, since I hadn’t touched it in years. I had an A4000\/030 (my pride and joy when I was 17!), an A600 that I’d inherited as payment-in-kind for some programming work, and an A1200 with 50Mhz ‘030 that I’d bought from a friend and then promptly mothballed.<\/p>\n

In my defense, I *did* sell the A600.<\/p>\n

However, since discovering how active the Retro scene is, and becoming interested in the FPGA recreations of retro systems, I’ve somehow managed to acquire the following cool but ultimately pointless toys!<\/p>\n