Since we introduced our new banking logic to access 512k RAM, our glue logic is being accommodated by a Xilinx XC9572 (without XL) CPLD. This component has long been deprecated when we started using it. We chose it because it was what we had available. The upgrade path would be the successor family XC95..XL. Those have been rather expensive lately, and finally AMD/Xilinx axed their whole CPLD line in 2024, leaving us at a dead end. Where do we go from here? The market for CPLDs is not exactly growing. Only a few manufacturers are still actively producing them.

We talked to Martin Wolf from Golem.de about our Project, how it came to be, and of course about our version of Pacman.

Listen to our Episode (in German) here!

After we moved this website to Codeberg Pages, we now finished moving our Repositories to www.codeberg.org.

The resources page has been updated with the new URLs.

Our repositories on GitHub will remain available as push mirrors, but may vanish at some point.

Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects.

At this year’s installment of the Vintage Computer Festival Europa we talked about how the Steckschwein came to be in its current incarnation. Marko presented his feature complete implementation of Pacman - the only one for 6502 based systems that replicates the look and the behaviour (including bugs) of the original arcade almost completely.

In case you could not attend our talk or even VCFe, you still can download the Steckschwein slides and the Pacman slides.

This year’s installment of the Vintage Computer Festival Europa is - again - a special one for us: VCFe 24.0 will be focused around “50 years of 6502”!

So be prepared for lots of 6502 related and also unrelated exhibitions and talks!

We will of course be there, too, presenting Marko’s Pacman implementation - the only one for 6502 based systems that replicates the look and the behaviour (including bugs) of the original arcade almost completely.

We have indeed moved again. As of now, our homepage at www.steckschwein.de is no longer being hosted by Github Pages. Instead, we are now being hosted by www.codeberg.org.

Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects. We believe that a non-profit organization is a much better home for our project than a multi-billion-dollar multinational corporation based in the US.

Our plan is to move all our repositories from GitHub to codeberg.org.