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This new ultra-compact FPGA Game Boy clone costs just $90 (techspot.com)

2026-09-20 | by Daniel Sims | get FunnyPlaying FPGB Mini Game Boy FPGA handheld → | tags: fpgb mini, analogue pocket, fpga emulation

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This cartridge-playing Game Boy clone is smaller and cheaper than Analogue’s Pocket (theverge.com)

2026-09-18 | by Andrew Liszewski | get Analogue Pocket Game Boy handheld → | tags: funnyplaying, fpgb mini, game boy

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Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring ASIC/FPGA Engineers to Build Chips for ASI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-17 | tags: zettascale, yc s24, asic

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Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by Retro Gaming | get Xilinx Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit → | tags: voodoo graphics, fpga, 3dfx

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Colorlight 5A-75B: A dive into a popular low-cost ECP5 (FPGA) development board (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: colorlight 5a-75b, lattice ecp5, fpga

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Fomu An FPGA board that fits inside your USB port (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-02 | get Alchitry Cu FPGA development board Lattice iCE40 → | tags: fomu, fpga, risc-v

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WebFPGA (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-02 | get Lattice iCEstick FPGA evaluation kit → | tags: webfpga, kickstarter, fpga

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WebFPGA (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-02 | get Alchitry Cu FPGA development board → | tags: webfpga, kickstarter, fpga

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Cyberpunk 2077 meets the Commodore 64 in this gloriously retro crossover (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-26 | get Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition PS5 → | tags: cyberpunk 2077, commodore 64, fpga

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Does Analogue 3D really make retro games 4K? Here's what you should know (engadget.com)

2026-08-23 | by Thomas Godwin | get 8BitDo 64 wireless controller Nintendo 64 style → | tags: analogue 3d, nintendo 64, 4k hdmi

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World’s smallest GPU silicon passes real-world testing — 240,000-transistor TinyGPU v2.0 renders 3D graphics at up to 15 FPS while v3.0 prepares for 2026 release (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Mark Tyson | tags: tinygpu, sky 25b, openhardware

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Dust off those Nintendo 64 cartridges: M64 brings classic games back to your TV (techspot.com)

2026-07-30 | by Shawn Knight | tags: nintendo 64, modretro, m64

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3D-printed F-14 Tomcat uses an FPGA recreation of the ‘world’s first microprocessor' — CADC’s MP944 chip controls the fighter’s swing-wing system, among other things (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-26 | by Mark Tyson | tags: f-14 tomcat, cadc, mp944

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Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: doom, id software, fpga

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RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-11 | tags: build, fpga, riscboy

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80386 Early Start Memory Access (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-23 | by Retro Gaming | get Intel 80386 Processor → | tags: intel 80386, early start, z386 fpga

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GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | get FPGA Development Board → | tags: gategpt, fpga, transformer

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AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-28 | by It'S Foss | get AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPU → | tags: amd, vivado, fpga

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AMD leaves Linux FPGA users in the lurch with controversial Vivado licensing update — new tier model restricts future free versions to Windows (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-26 | by Zak Killian | get AMD FPGA Development Kit → | tags: amd, vivado, fpga

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AMD (Xilinx) is Excluding Linux From the Free Tier For Its FPGA Dev Tool (slashdot.org)

2026-05-23 | by Posted | get Xilinx FPGA Development Board → | tags: amd, xilinx, fpga

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z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-23 | by Retro Gaming | get Intel 80386 Processor Kit → | tags: z386, intel, microcode

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White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-23 | get White Rabbit Switch → | tags: white rabbit, cern, fpga

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Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-18 | get FPGA Development Board → | tags: altera cyclone ii, quartus, verilator

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I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-15 | get Scientific Calculator Kit → | tags: verilog, fpga, quartus

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EMiX: Emulating Beyond Single-FPGA Limits (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-13 | get FPGA Development Board → | tags: emix, fpga, emulation

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I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | get FPGA Development Board → | tags: apple lisa, fpga, apple

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The Chip That Made Hardware Rewriteable (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-04-28 | by Willie D. Jones | get Rewritable Hardware Development Kit → | tags: fpga, xilinx, amd

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The resurrected Commodore 64 is getting a facelift like the original (theverge.com)

2026-04-28 | by Andrew Liszewski | get Commodore 64 Mini → | tags: commodore 64, fpga chip, c64 ultimate

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Commodore backs down over FPGA firmware lockdown — firm stops trying to block third-party firmware installs but will stand firm against bricked modded units (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-26 | by Mark Tyson | get Commodore FPGA Expansion Kit → | tags: commodore, c64 ultimate, fpga firmware

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Bolt Graphics tapes out its first Zeus GPU test chip on TSMC 12nm — firm touts 17x lower cost of compute (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-23 | by Luke James | get Zeus GPU Test Chip → | tags: bolt graphics, zeus gpu, tsmc 12nm