VBXE project was started in 2005 by Tomasz PiĂłrek (Electron/TQA), and first public annoucment was made in March of 2006. It was far from where the project is now, but it was beggining

First 20 boards were manufactured in 2008 and this was it. That time i could not afford such expansion, but I knew one day i'll contribute to it one way or another

A year has passed, and I had a little more money to get involved, but I found out, that VBXE project is at stall, and Electron is unable to make any new boards since Video DAC chip used in first version was now obsolete.

After short mail exchange We decided to design V2 of VBXE, this time with Video DAC that will not become obsolete in a year, and change microcontroller responsible for FPGA core managment functions from PIC to ATMega48. That required me to write the code for MCU, but allowed to shorten core loading time from 6.5s to 150ms - PIC lovers should start chainging their religion

Project continued for another few months when i was assembling 60 units preordered on AtariAge forum, and finnishing the firmware for ATMega chip - now I can finally say I've contributed something to popularity of this board - and besides! thanks to this board i've got the job as PCB designer So it was rewarding after all