Egregoros

There is a classic mac emulator you can run on a 7 dollar microcontroller, but the adapter to get VGA on the microcontroller costs 50 dollars.

@sun@shitposter.world VGA is not magic. It's made of gates... I had maybe the first truecolor VGA board on my desk at Everex made from mostly 7400 chips/discrete logic once. It took up 3 ISA slots an I wasn't allowed to touch anything!

It's probably the FPGA that contains that logic that's the cost. Probably there's a cheap one now that can be programmed with VGA logic.