resurrecting IBM 5150

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I would like your advice about how to program FPGA to enable 8086 cpu to function exactly like IBM 5150, the first IBM PC.

The chips involved would be:

8086
FPGA chip
1 MB SRAM chip
720kB NVram chip; this is where the application is stored.

Hopefully the FPGA can process the video so it can directly connected to VGA monitor.

This is for class room purpose, not commercial. I have tons of application from PC/XT era I would still like to use in my class.

I also have lots of PC/XT keyboard still functional which I also want to keep using them.

Thank you
Toni
 

look at www.opencores.com? i think 8086 was implemened in some project. may be... if i'm not wrong... :?: but to decompress video - this is not so easy. and what is the compression of video?
 

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