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- 8 August 2024Hangman on the planck 6502
User benchapman on the forum has created the first game for the Planck6502
- 21 October 2023Good progress on the RAM board
The boards I had made for the RAM expansion board prototype were not working properly. It’s been a few months already, but I have not gone around to trying to fix it until now.
- 5 October 2023Updated forum
A new forum is online for all current and future users of the Planck 6502. Come chat with us and discover the Planck 6502 even further.
Welcome!
- 22 August 2023Finally some kits for sale
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I finally managed to get a hold of enough parts to make about 10 kits for the Planck 6502. I also have parts to make kits for most of the expansion boards. See below for how to buy it.
- 27 March 2023CompactFlash card on the 65C02 CPU
After struggling for a long time with my prototype CompactFlash board, it turns out that once the design was put onto a PCB (and a few corrections made), everything worked flawlessly.
- 7 March 2023A filesystem for the Planck computer
Designing a file system for the 6502 MPU is not an easy task. In this post I will explain what I tried, what failed, and maybe what succeeded.
- 28 July 2022This has been taking too long 🙁
It’s been a while, the waitlist on Tindie keeps growing and there’s not much I’ve been able to do about it. Apart from supply chain issues for electroniccomponents, which may imply a new board revision in the near future, I have also moved to a house that has needed way more work done than expected. It’s been over 6 months and not everything is ready yet.
- 3 November 2021The Planck 6502 is published on 6502.org!
Wow so a while ago I got the Planck 6502 bus pinout published on pinouts.ru and now the whole project has been linked to in the “projects” section of 6502.org!
I can’t hide the fact that I am feeling rather proud about it :)
- 1 November 2021The VGA card FINALLY starts to work
It’s been a long since I have started to work on a VGA card for my homebrew computers, even before the Planck was a thing. I started with a cheap Gowin FPGA develoment board, but the development tools were windows only and not very reliable.
- 28 October 2021On Tindie
The Planck 6502 computer was available on Tindie for a short while.
I had listed 4 computers in stock, but I should have checked my parts bin more thoroughly beforehand, because it turned out I was missing some parts to complete all 4 kits.
- 15 October 2021The new boards are in
The final through hole boards for the computer, the IO board, the LCD board and the OPL2 board are in !
- 22 September 2021Planck computer design is in fabrication
The Planck computer is almost ready for the big time. I received the prototype a few days ago and the build with through hole components was fine, except I feel it takes slightly longer to solder all the components when they are through hole, because you have to cut all those spiky legs off, and my side cutters are not very sharp…
- 31 August 2021Redesigning for through hole components
So feedback I received regarding the Planck 6502 computer is that some people are not comfortable soldering surface mount components by hand. I originally used surface mount components to save board space and because I find the larger ones reasonably easy to solder. Also, they are cheaper than through hole components.
- 26 June 2021OPL2 sound card prototype
I am having great trouble building a good VGA output card using either an FPGA or a microcontroller, so for a change I decided to start working on a sound card.
- 9 March 2021Designing a complete extensible computer
The Planck 6502 backplane can make a great retro computer if you add in the basic necessary boards. For the simplest possible configuration however, you need at least three boards : the backplane itself, the CPU board (which also contains RAM and ROM) and a serial board for I/O.
- 2 March 2021Planck 6502 expansion bus pinout published on pinouts.ru
Great news!
- 1 March 2021Open Hardware certification granted!
I am happy to announce that Planck 6502 is now Open Hardware Certified.