It bothers me when youtubers claim that FPGA-based systems are not emulation, when they most certainly are by any reasonable definition of the word.

I'm not an electronics engineer, but what's inside an FPGA is not a reproduction (or clone) of the original hardware, it's a synthesized approximation based on the building blocks provided by the FPGA.

It's a much lower level and, if done well, far more accurate emulation, but don't say it's not emulation.

#retrogaming #emulation #hardware

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Picture of a MiSTer stack, probably the first thing that comes to mind when talking about FPGA-based emulation.

Today I went on a ~23km #hike up and down the North East #coast between #Tynemouth and #Blyth, and then back to #WhitleyBay. I can't be more accurate about how far I went because I tried an experiment: leaving my #phone at home.

I liked it, and think I'll do more #disconnected trips, but I did get a bit bored around 15km in - so I'll need to find a #music / #podcast player to take on the next long walk.

Any #hardware suggestions would be most welcome! #musicplayer #audio #lowtech #offline

#sfw #hardware

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Dark-ish picture showing motherboard mounted horizontally on a transparent acrylic surface. Underneath a combined 5.25 inch and 90mm floppy drive. The installed RAM lights up in different colours, four sticks with blue, purpole organge and yellow LEDs, respectively. VGA, network and sound cards are also visible.