Heck yeah. I bet an Arduino would be fast enough to emulate them. They should make a miniature 3" high TRS-80 Model I kit with all the old software library included.
That would be cool, but I guess there would be cheaper ways to do it - a TRS-80 CoCo is more or less as complex as a C64 and that requires just an FPGA. You could build the whole TRS-80 line inside one chip.
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Heck yeah. I bet an Arduino would be fast enough to emulate them. They should make a miniature 3" high TRS-80 Model I kit with all the old software library included.
That would be cool, but I guess there would be cheaper ways to do it - a TRS-80 CoCo is more or less as complex as a C64 and that requires just an FPGA. You could build the whole TRS-80 line inside one chip.
The point is not to do it the cheapest possible way, the point is to do it in a way that appeals to hackers, makers, and other tinkerers.
Still, an FPGA could be even cooler than an Arduino if it were reprogrammable.