We mean building something closer to a fully-programmable 8-bit computer from the ground up, like this one from [Federico] based on 74LS logic chips.

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 ...

April 8, 2022 at 8:38 pm I used to yearn for the next issue of 68 Micro Journal, very much a magazine dedicated to this era of computing and hardware systems. And yes, SWTP, Gimix, TSC were all ...

And I thought my old 8 bit original IBM PC was slow at 4.7MHz! Claudio says: 03/28/2012 at 3:19 PM. I remember doing a Debian “potato” installtion on an old Mac Quadra 650 that ran at 33 MHz.

By the time Commodore 128 launched, it was the last 8-bit PC in an era of 16-bit PCs, thanks to the existence of Intel 8086. Fortunately, ...

In a nutshell: Atari's 8-bit computers first launched in 1979, selling for between $549 and $999 and taking up the space of a full desktop machine. Now, more than four decades later, a Polish ...

Get Atari's Mini 8-Bit Home Computer For Its Best Price Yet The Atari 400 Mini is compatible with a huge library of 8-bit games. By Steven Petite and Jon Bitner on February 5, 2025 at 8:25AM PST ...

Polish engineer Piotr "Osa" Ostapowicz recently unveiled "Atarino," which may be the world's smallest 8-bit Atari computer re-creation, according to retro computing site Atariteca. The entire ...

With an 8-bit processor running at 2.4 MHz, a few kB of RAM, and a built-in 240 x 64 LCD display, there's absolutely no chance of running one of the most hardware-demanding games out there.

And so the idea of 8-bit culture today really is a combination of the graphical and visual style from the console games with this idea of the DIY culture as it came from the 8-bit home computer ...