Atari 2600 recreated in a 35$ FPGA and in a SoC.

[M-S]

Hello, I have some piece of news I think some people on here will enjoy

A programmer called Renaldas Zioma made a functioning 2600 core for the iCEBreaker FPGA board, which sells for around 35USD on the internet, but that's not all, this core is going to be turned into ASIC form through the TinyTapeout project, making it similar to the Unicorn chips and the Flashback 2 console, which could lower the cost to slightly more than 20$ depending on the quantity manufactured. 

 

Apparently both the FPGA and the ASIC support VGA out, and this is all the info there is for now. I don't know if this will support original controllers or cartridges, this is more like a hobbyist's project rather than a commercial product.

 

Here's a video and the creator's announcement post on X.

And the Github page.