[NTLK] Can the Newton's ARM processor ever be upgraded?

[Tom]

On Saturday, 29 November 2025 23:17:22 Greenwich Mean Time Doug wrote:
> Spitballing… could an Arduino or RaspberryPi or some powerful PLC ever
> be programmed to substitute for the StrongArm? I could see the core
> code blazing, but having its serial communication throttled
> appropriately.


There's a project doing this for the custom ROM chips in the Vic 20, Commodore 64 etc :
https://onerom.org/[1]
And was recently on a podcast talking about all the neat tricks you can do (wifi ROM updates, bank switching, ....):
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/08/floss-weekly-episode-850-one-rom-to-rule-them-all/[2]

At least, it's a similar-ish era.

-- 
Tom
MessagePad 110, 2100 owner and, in case it's not obvious, geek.

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[1] https://onerom.org/
[2] https://hackaday.com/2025/10/08/floss-weekly-episode-850-one-rom-to-rule-them-all/