Wish I had this in 1988..

BigEd / beeb816

65816 upgrade for BBC Micro, including lots of fast RAM (see also boot816)

https://sites.google.com/site/beeb816

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Wish I had this in 1988.. #6

Open janrinze opened 6 months ago

janrinze commented 6 months ago

In 1988 my Atom got a 8Mhz 65SC816 (GE Plessey?) Your PCB would have been an awesome upgrade. My Roland Atom works fine, I don't think it has support for the 65816. Always was a little envious of the Apple II GS with lots of RAM. ;-)

Are there boards and CPLDs available? The 40 pin connector to 40 pin DIL is a 'special' too. I'm not sure where I left mine or how to get one these days.

And.. how about software?

BigEd commented 5 months ago

Hi Jan... software... yes, I think Dominic Beesley's 65816 port of BBC Basic does some of what we'd hope for. Perhaps that's everything we have at present.

I hope you've seen these forum threads - might be a good place to ask questions (I missed this one!) A bit of progress on our Beeb816 project at retrocomputing forum Beeb816 - an in-socket upgrade for Acorn's 8 bit machines at 6502.org

CPLD availability is a bit of a problem these days - let's discuss that.