DE1 boards might get cheaper

[AndyKey]

http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/ ... o=53&No=83
is the DE1 page.

Might be interesting to watch this page over the next month or two.
Terasic have now released a later replacement DE1 SoC board for slightly more $.
So we might expect they'll need to lower the price of the regular DE1 to shift them.

REMEMOTECH uses a DE1 board.

[Dave]

Hi Andy,

REMEOTECH is really neat and features like the ability to drive two monitors are great.

However, even if Terasic drop the price somewhat, it will likely still be a relatively expensive outlay - not a problem for the Memotech nerds amongst us (who are they?) - but possibly a bit rich for most people.

I just wanted to remind people of the great low cost hardware solution that you and Bill (Brendling) put together, that is, the ability to run MEMU on a Raspberry Pi
http://primrosebank.net/computers/rpi/p ... memupi.htm

While not quite a powerful as REMEMOTECH, it is a low cost and fully featured way to recreate an MTX in hardware - complete with joystick support

regards
Dave

[Martin A]

For those that attended Memofest and saw my DE1, they did indeed get a little cheaper.

https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/ ... t2wseXE%3d

That price works out at around £150 including VAT and delivery. Still not cheap, but maybe an alternative to waiting for a cheap MTX to come up on Ebay or the like ?

[JonB]

Define "cheap" for me..