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Influenced by my bare-metal Macintosh experiments, I decided that the
68000 CPU would be perfect for the microcontroller-and-eink-based
personal computing device I was wanting to build myself. I began
imagining a complete personal computer architecture, inspired by the
many excellent homebrew 68k (and many other) computers out there.
The PCD-68 "specification" was born as something that could be
realized first as pure software, as a portable emulator, and then
later as "hardware" -- either as an emulator core running on an mcu
or eventually as gateware on an FPGA. ;)
I made some great early progress on the emulator code, proving out a
portable emulator core built around the excellent Moira 68000
implementation before my ADHD pulled me deeper into things like Plan 9
and LoRa. But once I made (tentative?) peace with the LLM, I began
enlisting Claude's help in punching past some of my previously tedious
user stories / bugs. As a result, PCD-68 is gaining new features
regularly and I've been able to bring it back around into my more
recent FRST work.
TODO: write more about PCD-68, especially the recent port to DOS.
visit https://github.com/jrsharp/pcd68 for the
"ultimate" documentation ;)