> No offense to you, but you're a little late to the party on this thread. > > And not to minimize jotego's work, but saying that he "reverse-engineered the > hardware" is ridiculous. Reading the published schematics for these boards and > transcribing them into VHDL or Verilog isn't reverse-engineering any more than > looking at the published audio schematics for various arcade boards and transcribing > them into a netlist is reverse-engineering. > > What he did for CPS1 and a number of other systems? Absolutely reverse-engineering. > Reading schematics? No.
I suppose you're right. The pre-cps stuff probably didn't require much more than schematics. I just figured the hdl might provide information to the original poster in a different form that maybe he would find interesting.
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