[XCSSA] Hardware Hacking and Weird Stuff

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Aug 3, 2008, at 8:48 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio  
wrote:
>
>  I saw in the mailing list about hardware hacking being a part of  
> XCSSA
> now.

Yup! Pretty fun stuff!

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>
>   Is there any way to get Amiga working on modern hardware like the  
> new
> Cell processor in PS3?

I read some articles about people doing such things with the newer  
Amiga design - the newest AmigaOS releases run on PowerPC hardware,  
but if you want to run an old Amiga, I would emulate it. On the PS3,  
you simply "install alternate OS" (probably a Linux flavor of some  
sort is what I would recommend) and then install an Amiga emulator on  
top of it. I do not remember the names of the Amiga emulators in Linux  
off-hand, but I'm sure a big of Googling will point you in the right  
direction. Depending on what Linux distribution you install on the  
PS3, it may already have it ready to go for oyu.

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>
> How can I learn more hands on digital fundamentals?

Come to our meetings :) Though there are other things you can do that  
others man know about. I sort of learned by doing by working on things  
with the MidiBox Project. It really only teaches you what the hobbyist  
needs to know, so you may also want to consider taking a class on it  
or something. It all depends on how deep you want to go. If you want  
to build things using microcontrollers, etc., you can pick that up  
pretty easily by playing around with it. If you want to know how to  
build things using logic gates, etc. you may want to take an  
introductory EE course. Perhaps the other members can recommend a book  
or something as well.

Tim