Wow, blast from the past! I was on the architecture / micro-architecture team for the 29K and 29050, and your story of writing and debugging the emulator brought up similar memories of working on the performance simulator for these chips.

Very impressive work -- congratulations!

The breadboard computer from 1997 deserves it's own post.

F 15 Strike Eagle, Infiltrator and 688 Attack Sub were some of my first games.

And then came Leisure Suit Larry and the tweenage years.

Thanks Oscar - as always, a very very nice writing style - a good read!

You sir, are a rockstar!

Very interesting article, I wasn't aware of the Am29000.