Another 8-bit machine in the making

I watched the video is really amazing that vira vdp can make 2 background layers/planes with scroll and sprites.
I wonder if that VDP board can be used in a MSX Computer.

65816 is not the cpu of snes?
They are 16bit, right?
in 8bits we already had the kiwi which is very interesting

I've become a bit tired of the self-constructed calculators. I don't want to question the engineering performance, but the technical limits seem arbitrary.
So I see no difference to program a game retrodesigned on a modern PC or on such a homebrew computer.
Nice to see and marvel at, but I don't want to delve deeper into this matter.
As you mentioned, with the Kiwi there is already a powerful model, to get lost in details now has no attraction for me.

the 65816 is sort of 16 bit... and YES, it's used by the SNES (also the Apple II GS)

I believe it still has an 8 bit address bus, but it's registers are full 16 bit width - so call it 16 bit if you want!... it can run in 6502 mode - I've never switched it into 16 bit mode for my SNES tutorials yet - they're all pure 6502 code

I'm hoping to go more into the 65816 next year in my tutorials, but to be honest it's a pain, as you have to tell the assembler when the CPU switches mode between 6502 compatibility and full 65816 (and even certain registers), as the ASM compiles to different instructions

It’s clock divided /2. The YM2149 has a built-in /2 clock divider which can be activated with a pin.