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Based on the MIST Project, the Mister program takes what was done on development boards and finalizes it on an evaluation board. Many cores have been developed for the Mister system. What I am reading/seeing, one can have multiple cores (CPUs/Systems) on a single board by storing them on an SD Card and then program the core you want on the FPGA chip. I have to be wary of that because FPGA chips have a limited number of writes like an EPROM, FlashROM, CF/SD cards; but how many is writes one has is unknown. Many of the Mister cores have been work on to near perfection, including Amiga, 8 Bit Commodores, many game units (Sega, Nintendo, Atari, etc), and arcade units. More cores are being added almost daily. Running in the GHz scale, there are many hacks and modifications to the hardware core programming that fixes a lot of issues of the original systems like video glitches, program slow down, unresponsive controllers, etc. But the most interesting thing is the cost. An FPGA evaluation board to run a minimum set of cores will only cost you around $90. Compared to $400 - $1200 for a development board, this brings down the price greatly! I will put up links to this later as I am still studying the technology.
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