Category: Platforms

  • DrunkenNES Details

    So about DrunkenNES. I had recently done a workshop for 8static and bought a bunch of sensors to show the basics of physical computing. I came across an alcohol sensor and thought it would be fun to play with – I hooked it up to a scope and showed it to a couple of friends I had over. A couple of hours we had a ROM with the sound pitching up as it detected more alcohol – which we really couldn’t stop laughing about. I got to leverage all the previous work in the NES communications driver I had written for the Arduino using an RBBB in an enclosure. We forced a friend to drink for science – we all did a lot of drinking for science. The thing is actually pretty accurate provided you didn’t have a drink in the past 3 minutes – it was fun having excel open “collecting data”.So alcohol sensor -> ADC on Arduino -> NES communications driver -> gameport #2 -> homebrew software on NES powerpak ram cart

    via Andy’s Electronics Projects: DrunkenNES.

  • master everdrive appeared

    this is a sd/mmc capable flashcart for the sega master system by krikzz.

    features:
    max supported ROM size of 8mbit (1mbyte)
    32kb FRAM for game saves
    support for SMS and SG-1000 games
    support for standard sega mapper and codemasters mapper
    cartridge can be used on the sega game gear using a game gear adapter
    operating system can be updated via the SD port
    RAM data can be loaded or saved from the SD card
    support for both SD and MMC cards
    SD/MMC cards are limited to a 2GB partition, with FAT16 formatting
    the FRAM will store game saves even after power-off. there is also no need for a battery for game saves
    addition support may be found on krikzz’ site here.

    via kitsch-bent — master everdrive (non-usb).

  • DigiBooster 3 public beta released

    After 4 years of work a public beta version of DigiBooster 3 tracker has been released. It comes in three versions: for classic Amiga machines, AmigaOS 4 system and MorphOS system. DigiBooster 3 can be downloaded here: Download

  • Amay- Aeriae

    http://www.portablefilmfestival.com – 8-bit animated clip for Aussie electronic producer Aeriae’s track ‘Amay’ from the album ‘Hold R1.’ Characters and props were animated with Scott Anderson’s 8-bit software ‘Fantavision’ running on an emulated Apple II computer. Distributed by Tubemogul.

    Via

  • TinySID on a 16 bit PIC

    Ater successfully getting the TinySID library running on a PIC32 [1] some time ago, I recently wondered, if the 16 bit MCUs from Microchip would also be fast enough to run the code. It turned out, that they are, at least the 40 MIPS models (PIC24H and dsPIC33F).

    A big hurdle is the (compared to the PIC32MX) small RAM on these chips. Since the SID tune must be loaded into RAM, only some small tunes will fit into the 8 kB of the MCU used on the Web Platform [2] I had at hand.

    However, the source code [3] and binary [4] are available from Google Code. The PWM output is on IO7, and IO8 is used to switch the tune when pulled to GND.

    Have fun,
    Markus

    [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNu0-M…
    [2] http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/W…
    [3] http://code.google.com/p/dangerous-pr…
    [4] http://code.google.com/p/dangerous-pr…

    Via: MATRIXSYNTH: TinySID on a 16 bit PIC.