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Are you sure about that - I didn't think Wine had a 16-bit emulation so how does it work?

Nice. For me it was my grandfather. I clearly remember taking the train trip with him over to Waitara to pick up our Microbee.

Read -> Experiment -> Fail.

Repeat until Read -> Experiment -> Success.

They say experience is what you get when the unexpected happens... so I guess it's the Fail step that's important.

Not at the moment, I want to finish off/clean up a few things first. Yes, there was a Swedish version of the Microbee and they were popular with schools here in Australia so I'm not surprised to hear you had them in Swedish schools too.

I couldn't agree more.

As a software developer I've always had a vague understanding of how computer hardware works, but after building fpgabee I have much deeper understanding. eg 1: I always knew what a VGA controller did, but had know idea how. Now that I've actually built one (albeit in code) it's pretty clear to me now. eg 2: I never really understood why hardware can't be just clocked to higher and higher frequencies... but now I totally get it.

Thanks!

Not at the moment, but I'll probably add it at some point.

Interesting idea! Though as I understand it, the limiting factor atm would be that FPGA cores are considerably slower than real silicon. So even if you had a huge FPGA, loading an identical circuit to a modern processor would not be anywhere near as fast.