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ZuluIDE: A proper IDE device emulator for retro PCs

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Reply 160 of 161, by Mr.Hunt

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mbalmer wrote on 2025-07-23, 18:37:
You can buy the ZuluIDE with the DAC shield from several places. Check here and you can go directly to a shop based on region. I […]
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Mr.Hunt wrote on 2025-07-23, 17:49:

Hello! I am very interested in zuluide, but I have a number of questions. Please tell me, where can I buy zuluide with cd dac board? And how can you make a control board, preferably with buttons not with an encoder (I hate it). And the second question is, is the firmware for PLD publicly available?

You can buy the ZuluIDE with the DAC shield from several places. Check here and you can go directly to a shop based on region. If your region isn't listed, you can order it via the eBay listing linked on the "where to buy" page.

For the control board, there's only the one design at the moment.

Assuming that by "firmware for PLD" you mean the firmware for the microcontroller, then yes, the firmware for the RP2040 microcontroller is available on the Github repo.

Unfortunately, there is no DAC in all these stores, so I asked this question here. About firmwarefor PLD, I mean non RP4020, I mean PLD which is responsible for the communication between the IDE and the PR2040

Reply 161 of 161, by mbalmer

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Mr.Hunt wrote on 2025-07-23, 20:22:

Unfortunately, there is no DAC in all these stores, so I asked this question here. About firmwarefor PLD, I mean non RP4020, I mean PLD which is responsible for the communication between the IDE and the PR2040

Ah, I see. The DAC shield is out of stock at the moment, that's why it's not showing up. I know that we've had a bunch of hitches getting things from overseas lately thanks to tariffs and I could absolutely believe that that is the reason that we're out of them at the moment -- if the boards are hung up in customs, then we can't prep them to go out and that would also be why our overseas partners don't have them -- we finish them before sending them overseas to folks like Studio-Services.

As for the FPGA, the files to generate the core for the FPGA are not publicly available as they aren't strictly necessary to make changes or to improve upon the device emulation.