In a video that has now amassed over 112,000 views, Kyle, known online as Shadowman39, debuted the Arithmetic and Logic Unit, ...

To the 8-Bit Guy, the Pi is just a Linux computer. Other retrocomputing projects of a similar scope to this dream computer also fail: The Mega65, a project to resurrect the Commodore 65, will be ...

Dmitry Grinberg decided to see if he could build a simple Linux computer around an 8-bit microcontroller. Just to be clear — this is not what the ATmega1284P microcrontoller was designed for.

Kyle Hovey has decided to build his own 8-bit CPU from scratch, out of breadboard, NVRAM chips, surface-mount transistors, and lots and lots of wire -- and he's blogged his experience, so you can ...

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic ...

A postage-stamp sized $10 computer now has enough speed and memory to emulate a bunch of these old machines all at once. The SWTP has been on our pages before.

There’s no way around it: Atari’s 8-bit computer lineup was terrific for gaming. There were several thousand titles made for the platform, and of those, at least 300 to 400 were worth playing.

Despite the compact size, the computer has a display, keyboard, and 8-bit microcontroller. It’s not exactly a powerful computer by modern standards, but it can run some simple tasks thanks to a ...

It has a brand new 8-bit 65C02S CPU at 8 MHz (yes, WDC still produces them), 512 KB banked RAM, 512 KB ROM, Yamaha YM2151 sound chips and a custom module named VERA for video and additional sound ...

I can see if I have any old manuals for that sort of thing. I think I've actually got the computer here somewhere.<P>As for 8-bit chips to build around, I'm partial to the 6809 from Motorola.

What is impressive, however, is when someone builds their own 8-bit computer using a plethora of wires and what is known in the do-it-yourself hardware programming community as a breadboard.