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by tsmarsh 1610 days ago
I bought Ben Eater's Motorola kit and was overwhelmed, I have a whole new respect for folks that can do this.
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Author of the blog post here. Thanks, it was a quite long project, but the device have a pretty simple and plain architecture that made it easy. Todays consoles are much harder to hack, due to multiple layers of encryption and protection.
I had to build an rtos (real-time operating system) for the m68k and dealing with how m68k stack pointers work with interrupts was really frustrating.