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- 19 Jul 2020, 23:17
- Forum: Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
- Topic: Gigatron ASIC and the Gametron Handheld
- Replies: 37
- Views: 28470
Re: Gigatron ASIC?!?
If this is truly going to be an iterative process with multiple opportunities to add USB at a later date, we could do w/o USB first time through, but no NVM seems like a show stopper. Maybe just have it be a 64kx16 SRAM that loads via SPI each power-up? Coming up with an NVM compiler for this ASIC'...
- 19 Jul 2020, 14:14
- Forum: Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
- Topic: Gigatron ASIC and the Gametron Handheld
- Replies: 37
- Views: 28470
Re: Gigatron ASIC?!?
So each of the chips comes with a RISC-V on board which is part of the standard harness that efabless would design, so I'm more confident in your ability to port Babelfish over to the RISC-V and do away with the Arduino all together than I am in my ability to slap on an AVR core from Opencores and ...
- 19 Jul 2020, 13:33
- Forum: Kit assembly gallery
- Topic: GT1 Repository
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6510
Re: GT1 Repository
That sounds like a great idea!blaknite wrote: ↑19 Jul 2020, 09:57 I was also thinking of writing a python script that wraps the loader and has a mapping of the gt1 files in the github repo. I figured a simple util that can list and load any gt1 by author+name would help make things more accessible.Code: Select all
./gtRun.py blaknite/puzzles
- 19 Jul 2020, 04:21
- Forum: Kit assembly gallery
- Topic: GT1 Repository
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6510
GT1 Repository
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/jylsok8l14xmxjeizx348/h?rlkey=u4auop5fhl89e4lngw6nt9was&dl=0 This link contains easy access to all *.gt1 files/games/applications that I know about. It's purpose is to make it easier for newcomers and oldies alike to find .gt1 files for uploading to emulators or ha...
- 19 Jul 2020, 03:26
- Forum: Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
- Topic: Gigatron ASIC and the Gametron Handheld
- Replies: 37
- Views: 28470
Re: Gigatron ASIC?!?
This is a fantastic idea, I personally have no ASIC experience and my FPGA experience is starting to get rusty; but whatever I can help with I'm available to try and make this a reality. All the extra features you mentioned sound great to me, the only thing I would add, (seeing as this is effectivel...
- 19 Jul 2020, 03:22
- Forum: Hardware and software hacking
- Topic: vCPU instruction frequency
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3644
Re: vCPU instruction frequency
And yes, the "pixel burst" OUT instruction (superimposing the first two bits for the sync and incrementing X to pass to next pixel) is by far the most used, since the gigatron is spending most of his time generating the physical VGA signal! Regarding the comparison will be very easy: I've...
- 19 Jul 2020, 03:12
- Forum: Hardware and software hacking
- Topic: Raspberry pi loader
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10316
Re: Raspberry pi loader
Hi, everyone! I feel like I've joined so late in the game on all this fun! I finally got my Gigatron put together (felt like quite an accomplishment for me since when I started, I didn't even know how to solder! lol) Welcome and congratulations on getting the Gigatron up and running; it really is a...
- 19 Jul 2020, 01:52
- Forum: Hardware and software hacking
- Topic: Puzzles - A gem matching+smashing game
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10775
Re: Puzzles - A gem matching+smashing game
Excellent work Blaknite works great in emulation and hardware on my end and is hella fun to play!
- 19 Jul 2020, 01:42
- Forum: Hardware and software hacking
- Topic: vCPU instruction frequency
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3644
Re: vCPU instruction frequency
It's extremely interesting actually, as PucMon's code was generated by a compiler and it's fascinating to see where the hot-spots are. What would be even more interesting would be to compare compiler generated vCPU to hand generated vCPU. DavidHK did something similar, but at the native instruction ...
- 17 Jul 2020, 07:37
- Forum: Hardware and software hacking
- Topic: Invader
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10790