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Several years ago I worked with Dr Mike Negin from Mnemonics Inc on a small handheld battery powered DSP that could detect the value of paper currencies and annunciate them.  This is a good example of a general purpose single chip system with onboard processor as an IP, in this case I used the standard NIOS processor from Altera and tweaked it for size and performance.  Different cores are available from www.opencores.org including the 6502.  In this case the magic Juju was all in the code that Dr.

A long time ago after finding out that there were people still using these wonderful machines through reading comp.sys.cbm, lemon and other forums I also found out that my childhood Commodore 64 and accessories were still stashed at my parents home! What luck !! So, armed with access to these new forms of communication and my old equipment I started the journey back to Commodore land. On that journey I discovered there were other Aussie's out there who were part of the revivle/retro scene and some time after decided to set up a mailing list so we could converse among ourselves.

 
 
As a Commodore enthusiast and also as a happy GNU/Linux lover I want to discover all available alternative operation systems for C128 to push it to its edges  and at the same time have a usable system.
 
I start with the hardware listing, these are the main items I am going to use:
 
1. Of course a real C128, with no memory expansion.
2. uIEC/SD as storage device and a SD card.
3. 64NIC+ Ethernet cart.

I see the logo and I remember the first time I saw it.  I remember seeing it again when the word 264 had been replaced by Plus4.  What was to be something of a sleeper business machine juststayed a sleeper do to a bad pricing strategy: $299 instead of $79.

If you are a fan of old Commodore Computers, you need to head over to this collection and check it out:
Commodore Plus4 World

What could be simpler than small opensource hardware, a software emulation of it.