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Ao486_MiSTer: i486 core for the MiSTer FPGA gaming system | Mar 2023

Icestudio sounds similar to what you're looking for, but I'm not sure if it works with existing code.

https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio

Comprehensive list of FPGA development boards | Oct 2022

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This is crazy helpful for beginners: https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio

They have drag and drop FPGA programming using visual gates and cores with very well documented examples.

Comprehensive list of FPGA development boards | Oct 2022

BTW This is very cool: https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio

MEGA65 – highly advanced C64 and C65 compatible 8-bit computer | Oct 2021

I am slowly moving off my retro computing hobby. The last straw was recent chip shortage and crazy prices. I bought myself a copy of "The 8088 Project Book" and I wanted to build the presented 8088 breadboard computer. Guess what? The only factory that was building compatible 8088/8086 chips caught fire (Renesas factory fire). I had to order 20 year old chips for the price x2 of the new chips. But not only that, some chips are either unavailable or crazy expensive due to a lot of recent interests in retro-comp.

In other way, the hobby became unreasonably expensive for me. So I decided to move my interests into FPGA. The fun is almost the same, but the cost is way lower (you only need to buy a good board and a book, and you are set up). I started with this extremely simple IDE: https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio

As for this build, I have mixed feelings about using FPGAs to revive old computers. Can't we create something new out of it? It would be fun to have a _modern_ FPGA based SBC with easy to program graphics (memory mapped) and with simple device interface (I think USB is way too complicated for hobbyists). Just something powerful enough to create games, yet simple enough so that teenager can write a simple OS in his spare time.