This site has everything, from assembling Atari 8-bit computers based on the 6502 chip, to programming them in BASIC and assembly, to running official and homebrew games on the hardware itself.

Kyle Hovey has decided to build his own 8-bit CPU from scratch, out of breadboard, NVRAM chips, surface-mount transistors, and lots and lots of wire -- and he's blogged his experience, so you can ...

Hi everyone! Have you heard of the brand new 8-bit computer built from (mostly) off-the-shelf parts called Commander X16 made by a team of people under The 8-Bit Guy (David Murray)? If so what are ...

Most people’s memories of programming in the 8-bit era revolve around BASIC, and not without reason. Most of the time, it was ...

The Atari 400 and 800 were the first machines that truly bridged the divide between video game players and home computer enthusiasts. Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation is ...

8-bit A computer term used to designate either color depth or a unit of data for integer-based computing. One octet equals eight bits, or one byte, so early computers and graphics processing made use ...

The early 8-bit microprocessors sparked the personal-computer (PC) revolution and allowed embedded systems to be compact and inexpensive compared to the minicomputers and mainframes of that era.

What Is 8-bit Graphics And How It’s Used Nowadays? Computer technology has advanced over the last few years and now produces graphic details with clarity in high-definition. There are thousands of ...

It'd cover all computing types that are current but not widely popular (beos), and legacy systems such as the comodore, and would feel much like other hardware but with a historical direction.

A treasure trove of forgotten 8-bit classics from the golden age of gaming has just been brought to Xbox Series X|S in the ...

Shadowman39 has built an 8-bit computer with the help of K'nex construction toys. Despite its imprecise mechanics, the machine solves simple arithmetic problems.

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