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The Buffee Project
Personal blog · buffee.caprogramminghardware
The Buffee Project is a personal blog at buffee.ca about programming and hardware. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link buffee.ca for The Buffee Project, a 68000-compatible drop-in processor and system, and for a post on PJIT, compared with Emu68 for running 68k code on ARM.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Home of the new 68K (and other stuff)
What Hacker News says?
https://www.buffee.ca Drop in replacement for the 68000 that boots in milliseconds (about the same as a real 68000) and leverages the whole rest of the system as is, but with 1000 MIPS of 68K goodness and 512MB of RAM.
Comment linking /
on “Apollo 68080 – Motorola 680x0 High Performance Processor in FPGA”Submitted My Thoughts on Open Sourcing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt appears to be JIT'ing, so presumably a significant performance difference compared to not JIT'ing. If you mean compared to a JIT with multiple backends, presumably not. EDIT: Here's an article about PJIT that compared it to Emu68 that gives more info: https://www.buffee.ca/Why-PJIT-Why/
Comment linking /Why-PJIT-Why/
on “Emu68: M68K Emulation for ARM”No, it isn't 64 bit at all. It claims to have 64 bit vector extensions, but that's worlds different from being a 64 bit processor. It's mostly marketing fluff. The people who made Apollo claimed for ages that FPUs necessary, then finally provided an FPU. They want people to target their proprietary extensions, but they don't even offer an MMU and emphatically claim, just like with the FPU, that it's not necessary. T…
Comment linking /back-to-fulltime/
on “Apollo 68080: high performance 68k processor on FPGA”