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Bob

BigPEmu Debugger & Noesis Demo

Rich Whitehouse recently released a video walking you through how to use his new debugger for his Atari Jaguar emulator.  This works in tandem with his Noesis tool, that allows you to preview and convert between hundreds of model, image, and animation formats.  In short, if you’re interested in developing for the Atari Jaguar, these […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

Recent Revelations Shed New Light on SEGA of America’s Fate

Just within the past week and half, a massive amount of new information regarding SEGA of America’s struggle during the Saturn era has come to light. Back on July 3, 2023 an Internet Archive contributor by the name GoldenDreamcast posted an enormous information dump consisting of 289 pages of previously classified internal documents from SEGA […]

Bob

Ms Mad Lemon ‘Paradox’ Album Released

Ms Mad Lemon has just released her latest album, called Paradox – A follow up to last year’s album “Zaman” that was created all on an Amiga.  While an original Amiga was used in the creation of this album as well, Maddie also utilized the Polyend Tracker and vintage synths like Yamaha SY22 & DX7/TX7, […]

Bob

Weekly Roundup #365

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Lu

MiSTer FGPA News – Nintendo 64, Sega Pico, NARC & More

NARC Sad news for the NARC core. It looks like there isn’t enough bandwith to cover everything in the core, so Pramod has to use dual SDRAM. Pramod said that he will TRY to work around the bandwidth limitations, but warns us that it might not work. Post : https://twitter.com/pr4m0d/status/1676557145834225666 pram0d Twitter: https://twitter.com/pr4m0d pram0d Github: https://github.com/psomashekar?tab=repositories   FPGA’s […]

Bob

Philips CD-i Replacement Thumbstick Caps

Has your CDi’s thumbstick gone floppy?  Maybe it’s frayed or cracking from the thirty-plus years it’s been dominating your living room as the ultimate multimedia entertainment machine?  Well, no more loosing sleep over how you’ll repair it, Erik Jacob (LevelUp.ErikJ on Discord) created a replacement for only $5 plus shipping!  It’s available in black to […]

DisplacedGamers

NES Sprites, OAM, and the Battle for Priority – Behind the Code

Sprite limitations and flicker define what the NES is. They are a part of history. This video dives into Object Attribute Memory – OAM – to explain why the system is limited to eight sprites on a scanline as well as how both sprite limitation and sprite priority are used by programmers to add some […]

Bob

HD15-2-SCART Back In Stock

CastleMania Games has just received stock of the HD15-2-SCART adapter.  This device has two modes:  The RGBs mode is designed to prevent higher voltage sync from dsub connectors for passing through to SCART devices.  This mode is perfect for things like MiSTer I/O and Direct Video, or Analogue DAC to SCART.  The second mode uses […]