Gigatron Hackers

qwertyface wrote: ↑22 Jul 2020, 16:04 Didn't the eevBlog have red ones for the four-layer ones?

In de design phase, I believe you see some red stuff. But the 4L boards he made were green:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crs_QLuUTyQ

I've now seen the original green, white, and black. I believe red, yellow and blue are the ones still not having been made

bmwtcu wrote: ↑20 Jul 2020, 14:32 Hi Walter, for me personally, it's a learning exercise.

Ok that's cool It will be an interesting ride for sure!

Interesting stuff. I can imagine this is a project that will be a lot of fun to do and it would be very rewarding to have Gigatron ASICS. Is the goal just to learn about these systems and have fun while doing so, or do you see the resulting Gigatron ASIC as something others would be interested in? W...

It is not yet completely clear to me when gems disappear and when not.

If, say a double blue block is dropped and disappears as a result, and another double blue block is then dropped onto the empty "floor", it also disappears, which I think might be a bug?

Another nice game, thanks!

bmwtcu wrote: ↑17 Jul 2020, 16:54 That's excellent news! I hope they will be able to continue supporting the community with hardware and software revision updates.

Budgetronics is just selling kits, any hard- or software updates should come from the community..

The Gigatron lives on! Dutch company Budgetronics is offering Gigatron kits. They are a bit different to what we used to ship though: - No wooden enclosure included - No game controller included - No manual included (you can download & print yourself) - Black PCB instead of green Since there's l...

Again, a very nice piece of software!

I hate it when the last invader goes so incredibly fast, I need to underclock the Gigatron to get a decent score.

I've put a version of the emulator with an Invader-only ROM online as well: https://gigatron.io/emu-invader/

Those games came out in a time where people had to put effort into writing very lean code, possibly using some dirty tricks as well. It's funny to see that the Gigatron requires you to take on that mindset again. I did not know this was really the first blockbuster arcade game. When I spent time in ...