The third installment in the thrilling saga of “can Will make a CPU” just dropped and it’s a good one! https://willwarren.com/2026/03/12/building-my-own-cpu-part-3-from-simulation-to-hardware/
The third installment in the thrilling saga of “can Will make a CPU” just dropped and it’s a good one! https://willwarren.com/2026/03/12/building-my-own-cpu-part-3-from-simulation-to-hardware/
Vintage Canadian Video Hardware Becomes Homebrew Computer
This is all it took to get subtraction working (lol). Can you tell I ran out of wires and resorted to some truly cursed creations? Also yes that is the Flags register just sort of hanging there resting on the wire nest.
I have birthed AGI, a superintelligence capable of …. counting veeeeery slowly to 255. It will run a lot faster once I get some more parts in the mail I swear. Then it’s only a matter of time until the singularity.
Have you taken your daily recommended intake of blinkenlights today? If not, try these
M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer)
https://maniek86.xyz/projects/m8sbc_486.php
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M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) [Back to the homebrew computers page] The M8SBC-486 is a 486 homebrew computer motherboard made from scratch. From the schematic and PCB to the chipset! It is not based on existing designs, but rather on my experience with my previous experimental 486 homebrew (page about it coming soon!). I started working on it back in August…
Playing Silk Dust (https://darwinne.itch.io/silk-dust) on the Delta. Given that it is open source, I modified it so it doesn't need to be split into multiple parts, plus it works in 80 columns mode.
There is a certain pleasure in playing a game you hacked around with, typing on a keyboard you designed, connected to a computer you recovered from a 40y old magazine, reconstructed, hacked and improved upon.
Plus, it's a great adventure.
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UCSD p-System sine wave plotter on Z80-MBC2