68000 microprocessors appeared in the earliest Apple Macintoshes, the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST, and the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive among other familiar systems. If you were alive during the 16-bit ...
It’s yet another update to the Hackaday 68k, the wire-wrapped backplane computer that will eventually be serving up our retro site. This is also a demo of Hackaday Projects, our new, fancy online ...
If you’re like me and happen to have a bunch of vintage Macs powered by Motorola 680×0 CPUs lying around, then you probably like to tinker with them. And what better way to tinker with obsolete ...
The 68K was king of the 32-bit microprocessor hill. As the first 32-bit microprocessor standard, many tried to emulate it. The 68K was a classic, an architecture for the ages. Designers of the 68K did ...
Back in the 1980s, a friend of mine wrote his first commercial program for a gaming machine that ran on a Motorola 68000 processor. The chip got its name from that fact that it had 68,000 transistors.
James grew up in the arcades of the 80s and has played games on everything from the Milton Bradley Microvision to the PlayStation 5. He worked in gaming retail during the PS1/PS2 eras, and even had a ...
Austin, Tex.&#151 In a move to one-up its competition in the increasingly competitive microcontroller chip business, Freescale Semiconductor is launching a new 68K/Coldfire microcontroller core, that ...