What is it?

This is one of the essential parts to build your own Planck 6502 computer. This board houses the 65C02 CPU itself, 32K of fast RAM, 32K of ROM as well as the address decoding for these.

To build a complete computer, you will also need the backplane as well as an output board (serial output or the planned VGA card)

What is included?

The card with it's edge connector, high quality sockets for all the chips, capacitors and resistors as well as the 65C02 CPU itself (a genuine WDC65C02S), a fast RAM chip (IDT71256) an AT28C256 ROM chip and the programmed address decoding chip.

The ROM comes already programmed with TaliForth 2, but you can program whatever you want in it.

Who is it for ?

This project is not for soldering beginners. It includes surface mount components, and while they can be soldered by hand, you will need at least some soldering experience to be able to build the kit.

Otherwise, if you have an intereset in retro computing but are bored by your commodore 64, I can't recommend this enough.

Some knowledge of 6502 assembly language will also be useful, although it's a fairly simple language with a great community, so it should be quick enough to pickup.