486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board

system2 9/13/2025|

When you say "credit-card-sized," I expect the thickness to be as thin as a credit card, too. Isn't the Raspberry Pi credit card sized too?

sitzkrieg 9/13/2025|

rpi are, and always have been a little bigger (and much taller) than credit cards. more like altoids tin

devinbernosky 9/13/2025||

so this will run half life 2 if I'm not mistaken?

Philpax 9/13/2025||

For those not aware, this is a reference to an audience comment at the HL2 E3 2003 presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ddJ1OKV63Q&t=200s

accrual 9/13/2025|||

Half-Life 2 was but a twinkle in Valve's eye when the 486 arch was introduced in 1989. ;)

ant6n 9/13/2025||

Could maybe run HL1. Maybe.

sitzkrieg 9/13/2025|||

some og binaries with software rendering would probably slide show it along nicely

pezezin 9/15/2025|||

Nop, HL1 uses the Quake engine that requires a fast FPU. The minimum CPU for any kind of decent performance is a Pentium.

spankibalt 9/14/2025|

Now put it, together with some other useful boards, into a good non-plastic Amiga 600-sized wedge/keyboard case.