Free-ip disappeared

[Renaud]

Hello 6502 lovers,

Anybody knows what happened to www.free-ip.com (they used to offer an open source VHDL synthesizable model of a 6502 core)? Their WEB site disappeared a few days ago. It is not only not responding but there is no route to host anymore!

Best regards.

[kc5tja]

Renaud wrote:

Hello 6502 lovers,

Anybody knows what happened to www.free-ip.com (they used to offer an open source VHDL synthesizable model of a 6502 core)? Their WEB site disappeared a few days ago. It is not only not responding but there is no route to host anymore!

Best regards.

Not too sure, but I distinctly seem to recall a small handful of 6502 clones on http://www.opencores.org. There also exists CPU cores for Z-80 and 6809 8-bits too, plus a completely original 32-bit RISC architecture heavily inspired by both PowerPC and MIPS architectures, called OpenRISC.

Maybe they merged? It's hard to tell.

[Sprow]

> Anybody knows what happened to > www.free-ip.com (they used to > offer an open source VHDL
> synthesizable model of a 6502
> core)?

There's a copy which I added BCD support to on my website.
http://www.sprow.co.uk/fpgas/

Sprow.

[Renaud]

Thank you Sprow. I downloaded it.

Best regards.

[GARTHWILSON]

Quote:

There's a copy which I added BCD support to on my website.
http://www.sprow.co.uk/fpgas/

That link is apparently dead now. Use http://www.sprow.co.uk/dump/#Free6502 instead.