Here is the new playground: https://github.com/peternoyes/dodo-playground-vue
It uses WASM for the 6502 emulator

The llvm-mos code is upstream in that repo

Hey all! I have been lurking here the past couple days and saw the Dodo mentioned so I thought I would chime in! It is still alive and in fact I have done some work related to it the past year or so. I couple of updates:

1. I re-wrote the online playground and it now supports WebSerial so it can ...

LZW is simple enough to implement with reasonable compression.

Thanks Brad! I love following your work, I am inspired to one day implement a large hardware project like you have.

EDIT: Just to follow up:
The Display from the Datasheet pulls a max of 90mA at 3.3v (so 60mA from the 5V perspective) but it is not run at full brightness so it consumes less.
The RAM and ROM pull far less than 40mA each because they are clocked at 1MHz. Current consumption is related linearly to ...

Will this one go on a PCB?

pnoyes, what kind of current does this thing draw?

My research of what's in there suggests that there shouldn't be enough current (or only just barely) to run this thing.

The main buck boost according to the datasheet is good for 400mA, and the LDO stepping down to 3.3V is good for 250mA. From my ...

I just enabled international shipping using USPS Priority Mail International which seems to be the best value.

Indeed, I have to say this is really cool, and I may well pick one up myself if it can be shipped to the UK. I particularly like the WebIDE - I wouldn't even know where to begin making one of those.

Having had a look through the API documentation, one major suggestion I have is some kind of Save ...

I have the kit and am looking forward to building it. Got sidetracked playing with my FPGA system on my week off, but the Dodo is next on the list!

Awesome! Thanks for picking one up. Let me know if you have any suggestions for the API. I am starting to queue up some ideas for the next revision ...

Hey everyone! The Dodo project I have been working on for some time is finally complete.

Basically it is a 1mhz 65C02 handheld game system running off of AAA batteries with swappable came cartridges, monochrome graphics, and a single voice of sound. There is a web IDE where games can be developed ...

All good questions!

Yes, the 6502 must be executing 6502 code, and controlling the Video and Audio output.
Yes, any 650x variant will be acceptable, 6510, 6509, even 65816 would be fair.
Yes, video needs to be at least capable of a text that is readable on the screen!

The DODO game system is a ...

I wouldn't consider my solution "Minimal", but it does satisfy most of the bullet points above:

https://hackaday.io/project/9325-dodo-6502-game-system


Almost all chips are DIP except for a FRAM chip on the game cartridge which is SMT. There is also an OLED module that has lots of SMT parts on ...

I went KIM-1 to Atari 800. After that, I bought the early Macintosh -- all 128K of it. I upgraded the Mac to 512, got the new ROMs, got the 800k drives.

Then, I got a TRS-80 Model 100.

I, later, sold the Mac, and use the money for a motorcycle (one of the better trades I've done).

Next -- heh ...

After the C64 my Dad got us a 386DX2 running at 33mhz. It had 4MB of RAM, a 110MB hard drive and a 2400 baud modem. The funny thing that we didn't really use Windows on it too much, we instead had GeoWorks.