abferm Posted January 19, 2012 Posted January 19, 2012 Hey everybody, I'm taking an intro assembly language class and my professor decided to teach the Motorola 68000 assembly language. My problem with this is I like to have physical hardware to run my code on. Does anyone know where I could get a fairly inexpensive computer with a Motorola 680x0 CPU? I've done a little looking, but don't know exactly what kind of device to get. Something I could turn into a Linux box would be nice. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Quote
jobdone Posted January 19, 2012 Posted January 19, 2012 a few 68000 things I can think of - atari ST , Amiga series and Mac's of a certain age. all cheap - 'nix capable on a the amiga with a bit of expansion and the mac of course , I'd assume the atari too, however emulation is also possible of 68000 on x86.... Quote
abferm Posted January 20, 2012 Author Posted January 20, 2012 I could get by with emulation, but am hoping to find a physical device. Would I be better off building my own? Somewhere out there I saw a DIY single board computer that had an 68000. Quote
nix-7 Posted January 20, 2012 Posted January 20, 2012 68k assembly I would recommend the Atari ST or the Commodore AMIGA. I'm sure you can find these relatively cheap. If you have a floppy drive kicking around still, MS-DOS could read and write Atari ST disks, same format. So software should be pretty easy to come by from the internet..... Quote
abferm Posted January 20, 2012 Author Posted January 20, 2012 The problem is that people think they are worth more than they are. I don't want to go over $100 for one. I'm watching ebay, but most of them have starting bids of $150 and up. Are there other sites I should look on. Quote
jobdone Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 Look more at the base models , these are alot cheaper! especially the Amiga 500... over here I'd estimate them at £10 to £15 and the last time I bought an atari 520 I paid £8 and it just so happened I had some of those old 30 pin 1MB sticks which fitted nicely into this model also as described above the disks could be written in DOS - I can't remember what I used to write these disks from images but I remember I used 1.44MB floppies and blocked the hole up as amiga's and atari's use DSDD's.... Quote
jaykruer Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 You could try to pick up an early NeXT box. They run bastardized FreeBSD, but it's still Unix. Let us know what you get if you find anything! :D Quote
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