Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Gameduino Brings Vintage Gaming Back

If Kickstarter is today most appropriate place to find new (or upcoming) toys to mental condition about, Gameduino is may a of the most extraordinary pieces of hardware I've seen hosted there. The block mounts its own FPGA able of 80ies type graphics and sounds for formulating old-school, 8-bit video-games, pre-loaded with countless sprites and set up for easy connection to a VGA display.

Gameduino is a diversion adapter for Arduino – or anything else with an SPI interface – built as a singular block that stacks up on tip of the Arduino and has plugs for a VGA guard and stereo speakers.

The sound and graphics are unquestionably old-school, but interjection to the ultimate FPGA technology, the goddess capabilities are a step on top of the in machines from the past .

video outlay is 400×300 pixels in 512 colors

all shade processed internally at 15-bit precision

compatible with any typical VGA guard (800×600 @ 72Hz)

background graphics

512×512 pixel disposition background

256 characters, any with eccentric 4 shade palette

pixel-smooth X-Y wraparound scroll

foreground graphics

each goddess is 16×16 pixels with per-pixel transparency

each goddess can use 256, 16 or 4 colors

four-way stagger and flip

96 sprites per scan-line, 1536 texels per line

pixel-perfect goddess impact detection

audio outlay is a stereo 12-bit magnitude synthesizer

16 eccentric voices 10-4000 Hz

per-voice sine call or white noise

Have a look at the good anxiety print , its minute hardware anxiety or its set of representation programs and library.

support this plan on [ Kickstarter ], around [ CrunchGear ] [ BoingBoing ] source [ ExCamera ]

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