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Bare-metal Raspberry Pi project that attaches to the Acorn TUBE interface and emulates many BBC Micro Co Processors

10 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2016-07-07 · latest 2024-08-17

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  1. …expected, incredibly rare and valuable. [1] https://mdfs.net/Info/Comp/Acorn/AppNotes/004.pdf [2] https://github.com/hoglet67/PiTubeDirect
    comment by 8A51C · 2024-08-17 · in The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth
  2. …appropriate 80186 (amongst other choices), so you can plug it into the Tube socket on the Master: https://github.com/hoglet67/PiTubeDirect
    comment by LeoPanthera · 2024-06-30 · in Yellow Pig's BBC Computer Pages
  3. …for a number of different processors, notably an arbitrarily fast 6502, a Z80, or an 80286. [1]: https://github.com/hoglet67/PiTubeDirect [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro_expansion_unit#Secon...
    comment by LeoPanthera · 2023-11-15 · in Bare Metal Emulation on the Raspberry Pi – Commodore 64
  4. …microprocessors to the BBC Micro Tube interface, implementing the Tube circuitry in software. https://github.com/hoglet67/PiTubeDirect
    comment by lproven · 2023-06-01 · in Modern CPUs have a backstage cast
  5. …to emulate several different CPUs, while connected to the BBC Micro's "tube" second processor slot. https://github.com/hoglet67/PiTubeDirect (The BBC Micro itself was quite remarkable for supporting multiple processors, which did not have…
    comment by LeoPanthera · 2022-05-20 · in Connecting an 8086 or 8088 processor to a Raspberry Pi
  6. See PiTubeDirect: https://github.com/hoglet67/PiTubeDirect/wiki https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/pitubedirect
    comment by laurencerowe · 2021-05-02 · in MCL65 – Fastest Apple II+
  7. …Just add a Tube co processor and replace the graphics hardware https://github.com/hoglet67/PiTubeDirect/wiki https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13632
    comment by mavhc · 2019-12-29 · in The Ultimate Acorn Archimedes talk [video]
  8. …code running on the second processor and it all just works. Not bad for a system designed in 1981. https://github.com/hoglet67/PiTubeDirect/wiki
    comment by jlarcombe · 2019-04-08 · in Codecademy vs. the BBC Micro
  9. The project's wiki might actually be a better link: https://github.com/hoglet67/PiTubeDirect/wiki
    comment by mmastrac · 2016-07-07 · in Pi-based BBC Micro Co-Processor