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title: "Vintage Canadian Video Hardware Becomes Homebrew Computer"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/vintage-canadian-video-hardware-becomes-homebrew-computer-gixfzjozd
source_url: https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/vintage-canadian-video-hardware-becomes-homebrew-computer/
type: article
source: "Hackaday"
published: 2026-02-14T21:24:22.585Z
updated: 2026-03-15T04:04:22.354Z
tags: ["hardware", "retrocomputing", "reverse-engineering"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
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# Vintage Canadian Video Hardware Becomes Homebrew Computer

**[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A vintage 1980s Canadian video titler called the Scriptovision Super Micro Script has been repaired and reverse-engineered into a programmable 8-bit computer. The device, originally designed to overlay text and graphics onto video streams, uses a 6502 CPU and 6847 VDG video chip. The restoration involved repairing the hardware, decoding scrambled address and data lines (an anti-cloning measure), and implementing a bit-banged serial port for uploading custom programs at 19.2 kbps. A MAME emulator called SMSBUG was also created to enable software development and allow others to experiment with the platform, available on GitHub.

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