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by Jubatian
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:39 pm
Forum: Uzebox Derivatives & open source consoles
Topic: TinyNES - open source NES clone
Replies: 1
Views: 15

Re: TinyNES - open source NES clone

I like the idea of this, neat little thing. Also would add that compared to finding an original NES, this one has all new components apart from the two original chips, so wouldn't have ageing or wear related issues possibly surfacing. So could be a nice thing for someone liking the idea of using the...
by Jubatian
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:13 pm
Forum: Uzebox Emulator
Topic: cuzebox runs great on my TV box
Replies: 27
Views: 6825

Re: cuzebox runs great on my TV box

A bit old thread, just maybe useful still. The performance of the emulator is dominated by two things in my experience. One is the AVR ALU emulation (on this my guess is that around a 700MHz P3 should be the minimum to do it), the other is getting the display data onto the screen. Surprising as it i...
by Jubatian
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:00 pm
Forum: Uzebox Derivatives & open source consoles
Topic: Insane Contraption
Replies: 16
Views: 18504

Re: Insane Contraption

This PCB was very conservative with trace widths, so is quite inefficient overall indeed. Had a better one printed since, but didn't get there with motivation yet to start working on it. The idea with the daughterboard for the SCART is modularity: You could swap that to a board doing NTSC with the A...
by Jubatian
Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:46 pm
Forum: Games & Demos
Topic: Outpost in the Dragon's Maw
Replies: 30
Views: 12187

Re: Outpost in the Dragon's Maw

Hi Clymax, nice, glad you gave it a go! :) This game has quite some tricks to get efficient with it, I tried to set up the difficulty ramp so it should hopefully be rewarding to try pushing things further! ;) And yes, the suggestion is valid, and was on my mind, unfortunately I miserably ran out of ...
by Jubatian
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:53 pm
Forum: Uzebox Derivatives & open source consoles
Topic: Insane Contraption
Replies: 16
Views: 18504

Re: Insane Contraption

Looking around here I realized I never posted this thing. P6197489.JPG This is a direction where this thing ended up evolving, which I might some day complete. The system there is an ATMega1284 acting as Video and I/O, combined with a 32KByte SRAM (this part is the same as the solder-spaghetti-monst...
by Jubatian
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:30 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Change my mind: plug-and-plays > kits, to attract gamedevs AND end-users
Replies: 9
Views: 146

Re: Change my mind: plug-and-plays > kits, to attract gamedevs AND end-users

I think streamlining of the web emulation would go a long way. Personally I like Uzebox because it's niche, and the interactions here I find to be high quality versus what I see other places that have a lower barrier to entry. Not saying we shouldn't ease things to new users, just that there are 2 ...
by Jubatian
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:01 pm
Forum: Games & Demos
Topic: Outpost in the Dragon's Maw
Replies: 30
Views: 12187

Re: Outpost in the Dragon's Maw

Thank you! For gconvert, a tileset generator could be added, I think Mode 13's might even work as-is, maybe the only thing to do is to make sure the tileset has a 256 bytes alignment. Megatiles are not included in Mode 74 itself. Thinking more in Python tools to be fair nowadays, it is less of a has...
by Jubatian
Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:26 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: SPI memtest
Replies: 2
Views: 43

Re: SPI memtest

It isn't something which would need much testing: Its simple interface is pretty much a guarantee that if it appears to work trying any of the SPI RAM graphics examples, it can't be wrong. The Uzeburn was/is a thing with a somewhat different goal: it was aimed to demo a library for verifying AVR ALU...
by Jubatian
Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:21 am
Forum: Games & Demos
Topic: Zelda 2 on Uzebox
Replies: 57
Views: 38752

Re: Zelda 2 on Uzebox

That video is believed to be for the Uzebox, and apart from the music sounding maybe a bit too clean, in overall it is in the realm of possible with the appropriate skill and attention. He may have not used a map editor at all :P (Had you seen Flight of a Dragon? ... The map editor for that was putt...
by Jubatian
Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:12 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Change my mind: plug-and-plays > kits, to attract gamedevs AND end-users
Replies: 9
Views: 146

Re: Change my mind: plug-and-plays > kits, to attract gamedevs AND end-users

It would be nice indeed, but I feel many of us might just not be in any position to be able to run such. If I had a stable home, I would probably look into trying to set up some reasonable manufacturing as I even have other hardware ideas. But I am just not in that situation. Accessible emulator I f...