Back in 1984 we had real gates. You soldered them. Now I look at this FPGA stuff because my nephew said it's the only way to play Pac-Man properly without "lag". But I open the program and it looks like C but worse. They call it VHDL. I tried to compile it and my computer made a sound like my old Buick's alternator failing. If it's a physical gate, why am I writing code. This feels like a scam by the chip companies to make us write their layouts for them. I just wanted to wire up a simple shift register like we did on the PDP-11. How do I get the schematic view. The buttons on this website are too small.