I would assume FPGA as the origianl custom support chips : ANTIC, GTIA, SALLY and POKEY aren't mass available. One guy I saw online in 2017 was selling chip pulls from excess BallBlazer carts from the 7800 he had.
I thought so too, but it could also be software emulation...
OTOH, in the Commodore scene, there are lots of replica chips available these days so that you can build a complete C64 from scratch using the original Motherboard (and even on the Amiga some of the rarer chips are being re-created, like the Agnus)
Of course, that's not much different than using an FPGA to just emulate everything, but the one-chip-at-a-time approach has the advantage that you can swap in original chips that you might find, and only replace those that you're missing...
I saw this about 6 months ago when the site said “coming late ‘23”. Now it says z”coming very soon”. I so want this to be real. The nuc576 is cool but this has all the nostalgia going for it
I search for computers released in 1983 but could not find anything resembling this one.
I first thought of Atari ST or Amiga 500, but those were released later (1985 and 1987 respectively).
Is this based on the original machine (mainboard + original chips, or modern replacements of chips)?
Or is it just an FPGA board with an Atari core running on it?
Or is it software emulation on an ARM board, similar to the C64 Maxi aka TheC64?
https://x.com/rm_800xl/status/1714336578619707408
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/268697-how-rare-are-atari-.../
OTOH, in the Commodore scene, there are lots of replica chips available these days so that you can build a complete C64 from scratch using the original Motherboard (and even on the Amiga some of the rarer chips are being re-created, like the Agnus)
Of course, that's not much different than using an FPGA to just emulate everything, but the one-chip-at-a-time approach has the advantage that you can swap in original chips that you might find, and only replace those that you're missing...
Nuc576 is here: https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atar...