This sound chip was first produced in 1978, and was in arcade and pinball games, the Intellivision and Vectrex game consoles, and in sound cards for the Apple II and TRS-80 Color Computer. How It Works Library A demonstration of the core functionalities...
Take This Job and Shove It Let me start this off by thanking you all for the support and rally you gave for the Lixie. I was able to quit my day job to make these full-time - I can support my family, the amount of time I have to continue development...
With some extra "stay at home" time on my hands, I was looking around for a retro project to work on (and have some fun by learning something). While I enjoy 8-bit CPUs and there are a lot of great 8-bit 6502 and Z-80 (and other) retro system projects...
People started playing games even before they became “people”. At least this statement is true for those, who support Darwin’s evolution theory, as scientists proved that primates play and have interactions that might be termed “games”....
I have been using Winamp as my music player since 1998 until today, and I still think it's really cool...I had an HP48GX calculator, and of course there was a Winamp plugin for my HP, allowing me to remote control Winamp functions from my calculator...
This is our third year utilizing Macrofab as our PCBA. Each year we've improved our own production process to identify failures as close to the badge production as possible. A major part of this is providing Macrofab with the tools they need to quickly...
I've posted details about a new retro-computer project board using the TinyFPGA B2. Check it out on the Hackaday.io project page: https://hackaday.io/project/29526-tinyfpga-computer-project-board
It was a year ago when I stumbled across the infamous 8-bit Guy video demoing the Gigatron. I was working on a retro arcade cabinet at the time, but building a video game system from scratch was a much more interesting challenge. It wouldn't be the first...
I got a junk camera surveillance component just by 300JPY. Indeed I had no information of it (just only logo "Kumahira") but I eventually got the connection pinout of this tiny CRT monitor.It is tiny but surely Cathode-Ray-Tube, meaning B voltage should...
Added some new features: Adjustable Screen Brightness; Add RTL8188CUE wifi module; Add PCM5102A as sound card; Use NDSi-like keys; Change display to a IPS 480X320 LCD; Change charger to MP2617;
Date: September 18th, Friday Time: 4:00 PM EST — 7:40 PM EST (~9:00 PM EST ONLINE) Location: ONLINE (SEE BELOW), LIMITED SEATING @ Sub Culture (260 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ) Meet-Up: https://www.meetup.com/DEFCON201/events/272716088/...
The performance of the retro handheld game console in current market is not so good, few of them are qualified to fluently run PS1 games. The performance of CM3L Computer Book of Raspberry Pi can not only fluently simulate PS1, but also can simulate...
PicoRAM 2090 A Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040)-based 2114 SRAM Emulator and Multi-Expansion for the Busch 2090 Microtronic Computer System. Final Demo Video on YouTube: I have written about the Microtronic here before, and done a few Microtronic-related projects:...
I've been working on this project for a few weeks now. In that time I did a fair amount of research, but mostly I was writing a Sol-20 emulator. I thought about using Jim Battle's Solace emulator, but it is Windows based and ultimately I hope to run...
Date: July 15th, Friday Time (IN PERSON): 7:00 PM EST — 10:00 PM EST Time (ONLINE): 8:00 PM EST — 9:00 PM EST Location: Helen’s Pizza(183 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07302) Meet-Up: https://www.meetup.com/defcon201/events/286768800/...