Gigatron Hackers

The clock speed will not change the edge of the video, it will only make the Gigatron spit out the signal slower or faster. The more it deviates from 6.25MHz, the more trouble it will give the TV/monitor to sync to the image. But when sync fails, you will get nothing, not just part of the image. Whe...

petersieg wrote: ↑23 Aug 2023, 20:32 @walter: Screen of online emulator still shows ROM v4?

Maybe you should reload the page or empty the cache?

https://gigatron.io/emu/ now uses ROMv6.

Yes, these are all great blasts from the past!

Here is the first release of Manic Miner written by Mathew Smith in 1983 for the Spectrum. It requires a 64k Gigatron. Wonderful! Many congrats, it's been a journey I believe :-) Unfortunately I haven't got a Gigatron here with the correct specs. Maybe somebody can upload a video of the gameplay?

That is fantastic. I just ran it on my hardware. Marcel would be chuffed to bits. MSCP was a bit part of his life.

Manic miner!! Looking forward to this!

Nicely etched. And a blue PCB.. I hadn't seen a blue one before.

Indeed I would see it as a nice way of having Marcel's work finalised in ROMv5a, which means that the new rom would be ROMv6.
But I can also live with it being called ROMv5. If Marcel had not passed away, it would have become ROMv5.

But before doing this, there are a number of questions that are best answered by the community. Is there agreement on the idea of releasing a ROMv5 at this point? There's enough that's happened to the ROM to release a stable version. How should it be called: ROMv5? ROMv5b? I'd call it either ROMv5 ...