Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of DIY retro computers, but [Dirk Grappendorf] has created one of the most polished looking 6502 systems to date. His battery-powered portable machine utilizes a 4 ...

For Jim Scherrer, founder and president of the Compuseum, the 6502 microprocessor chip made Montgomery County’s MOS Technology the “vanguard of personal computing.” The 6502 chip was created by MOS ...

Making your own laptop can be a challenging project, but a doable one, especially given the large number of options available today for computing. Of course nothing says you need to use a modern ...

A Minecraft programmer known as [eloraam] has used her RedPower 2 mod to create a fully emulated 6502 computer. A Minecraft programmer known as [eloraam] has used her RedPower 2 mod to create a fully ...

PragmatIC Semiconductor’s recent announcement about developing a flexible version of the 6502 processor takes tech history buffs on the road to nostalgia. The 8-bit processor and its variants became ...

Microsoft released the source code for ' Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 ' as open source on September 3, 2025. While the 6502 BASIC source code had previously been distributed ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on GitHub. Microsoft has finally open-sourced one of its oldest products: 6502 ...

Acer is showing off a new laptop at IFA in Germany this week that’s of the first laptops designed for Intel’s not-yet-available Panther Lake processors. Microsoft has open sourced one of the very ...

imec in Belgium has detailed the design of an 8bit 6502 plastic processor developed with foundry PragmatIC Semiconductor and KU Leuven. The 8bit microprocessor detailed at ISSCC 2022 this week was ...

As if it wasn’t enough to construct a 6502-based computer on breadboards, its creator has now added a virtual reality peripheral. Well, you can color me impressed, because I just received an email ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from TechWorld. A team of chip archaeology enthusiasts is making headway on “imaging” for posterity the hugely-influential but now little-understood ...