Here’s this week’s roundup, sponsored by JLCPCB! Spend only $2 for 5pcs 1-4 layer PCBs ; PCBA from $0: https://jlcpcb.com/DRE The Roundup is available as a video and on all audio-only podcast services, such as iTunes, Google, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music and direct-download: https://anchor.fm/retrorgb If you enjoy these videos, please consider supporting this channel via monthly […]
MisTex Update The MiSTex project has recently showed off a video of Q-Bert running on an Artix 100T FPGA was. Hans, the developer, has also suggested using a Raspberry Pi Zero as the HPS due to its better software support. Also, a picture of the MiSTex cape attachment for FPGA boards on a DECA Board […]
Last week I got a chance to talk to N64 hardware hacker Konrad Beckmann. Konrad got attention last summer for his work on the “PicoCart64”, which was a very low cot N64 flash cart made mostly from a Raspberry Pi Pico. Konrad has since gone back to finish a previous project working on HDMI digital […]
GrimDoomer recently released a Beta version of a heavily updated and more streamlined version Open PS2 Loader (OPL). If you guessed PS2 you were correct. I now have fully working LBA48 support in ps2sdk which allows for HDDs > 2TB in size (up to 128 PB w/exFAT), and multi-partition support. Still lots of testing to […]
At CES 1987 Atari CEO Jack Tramiel unveiled his “Business Is War” philosophy, and how it was shaping the direction of the business he’d taken over in 1983. The founder of Commodore – a holocaust survivor and notoriously uncompromising businessman – had already been responsible for quite the turnaround at his old rival: in 4 […]
Here’s a review of the new Sega Dreamcast Component Video cables from Retro Gaming Cables. These use Mike Chi’s RetroTINK Transcoder technology to convert the native RGB and VGA outputs of the Dreamcast to YPbPr. The cables can switch between 480p / 31KHz modes and 15KHz mode (oddly labeled 576?), which outputs 240p and 480i. […]
Here’s this week’s roundup, sponsored by JLCPCB! Spend only $2 for 5pcs 1-4 layer PCBs ; PCBA from $0: https://jlcpcb.com/DRE The Roundup is available as a video and on all audio-only podcast services, such as iTunes, Google, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music and direct-download: https://anchor.fm/retrorgb If you enjoy these videos, please consider supporting this channel via monthly […]
Possible 3DO Core A user on the MiSTerFPGA forums, with software engineering experience, wants to work on an FPGA implementation for the 3DO game console. However, they are using a Xilinx-based FPGA board instead of the DE10-Nano. If the resulting core is open source, it could potentially be ported to MiSTer in the future. However, […]
This video tests the maximum advertised 40GBps bandwidth of Thunderbolt and finds real-world results of more like 30GBps. While this will NOT matter in most cases, if true, this will prevent reviewers & video analysts from recording lossless 4K60 4:4:4 via Thunderbolt. And it could also mean limitations for people using modern video cards externally. […]
Redherring32 designed and developed the world’s smallest portable NES that uses authentic Nintendo hardware. This project is called TinyTendo. While the size of the final product is absolutely incredible, the manner in which redherring32 achieved this is even more impressive. This is TinyTendo, a real hardware NES handheld that is the size of the original […]
