2026 Retrocomputer Challenge: Vectron65 Plus Puts the Emphasis on Plus

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2026 Retrocomputer Challenge: Vectron65 Plus Puts the Emphasis on Plus, according to Hackaday. [Nick Bild] evidently has a soft spot for the 6502, given that his Vectron65 Plus home computer project operates with at least one of them, depending on the add-ons. You see, he hasn’t just made a homebrew computer, he’s also produced multiple expansions.

One of which, the VGA Plus Text Mode , has its own 6502 co-processor. He’s also produced two versions of a VGA graphics card capable of 640×480 output.

The V2 VGA card can work in tandem with the Text Mode card to write 40-column text to the screen without using up all the 6502 CPU (the general-purpose processor at the centre of a computer)’s cycles, offloading them to the second 6502 on the card with the help of a character ROM. You can check out the whole suite in action in the demo video below.