Gigatron Hackers

Another idea of Gigatron development is to make a board with an opportunity to upgrade with better functionality.
Basically only AC X Y and even may be no ADD. And few ways to upgrade possibly with more registers. better instruction, ect...
with conditional generator of system ROM.

Hello there. I though Why not to make matrix style interface between different board. For it to be unified hardware interface though which different boards could be connected. As for example one is making sound other one producing video, yet another possibly managing network yet another managing fil...

If you have reports about compliance problems. give please.
Concerning SMD is another task.

I already attempted ones to redesign SMD version with more "regular" components. But SMD suggests new resolutions. Good idea to replace 16 bit ROM with two 8 bit flash chips, or may be even 3 of them with elements of VLIW architecture implemented. With connector on board to flash them. If ...

Hello. Thx for your efforts! Here is a attempt to make it KiCAD5 compliant: https://github.com/flypie/Gigatron It are lots of changes Between on KiCAD 5* and KiCAD 7* as those who ones tried newer KiCAD couldn't wish to use the older one. To have them both on same system may make conflicts. And I h...

Hi there. Attempting to consider why Gigatron is stopped in its development, I came with strange conclusion. It was stopped because of KiCAD versions change and Gigatron, design files became not compliant with new versions of KiCAD. Here is a result of my attempts to make Gigatron to be compliant. h...

Why no multiplication and division? As for example when I needed envelop for wave table sound synthesiser on ATMEGA I used reduced 4-bits or 5 multiplication applied on fixed saw wave table voices. It took more just 5 or 4 bits multiplication took more processor performance then rest of the sound sy...

I only begun to read about your intentions. If so why not to use some RISC-V as for example latest ESP module base processor for all of that your ideas? What is Gigatron? Gigatron has every part of modern days personal computer but every as much primitive as it could only fulfil its function. Instea...

Now about computers. What if apply some kind of video-acceleration to this minimalist's design? If you believe it's too complex, believe video acceleration may be even simpler then then without it. What if make some kind of processor, with instruction made for video only. as Jump to Address set colo...

I decided to write this story. Actually on some phorums (forums) I posted the idea of such computer, and actually it were often exactly Dutch forums. The computer without processor. Actually the Gigatron is not the only implementation of such idea. It was yet another one. Basically when I needed to ...