Sometris is a Tetris-like game that Papilio user Peter Ivanov has written for the Papilio One and Arcade MegaWing, the game works with DesignLab 1.0.8.
This is a tetris-like game for Papilio One 500K + Aracade Megawing.
You need a VGA monitor and optionally a Atari/Commodore compatible joystick.
I’ve used Papilio DesignLab 1.0.8.
The source code is available on Github.
Please feel free to comment or reply to the game forum thread.
This tutorial shows you how to generate custom clocks inside your FPGA using the simple Clocking Wizard. Easily create clocks at any speeds such as 100Mhz, 75Mhz, or 50Mhz from the 32Mhz oscillator connected to your Papilio FPGA. The Xilinx clocking wizard easily generates custom clock speeds with all of the Global Clock buffers and supporting circuitry automatically created for you. It is definitely the easiest way to generate custom clocks for your FPGA project.
Find this tutorial and more at GadgetFactory learn website.
We just completed a new release of DesignLab and RetroCade Synth.
DesignLab 1.0.8 has the following changes:
DesignLab 1.0.8 – 2017.01.04
[DesignLab Libraries]
-Added a new Video Audio Player example.
-Fixes for RetroCade Synth libraries.
RetroCade Synth 1.3 has the following changes:
1/4/2017 Version 1.3.1
-Fix for some LCDs that have contrast issues.
4/21/2015 Version 1.3
-Updated MIDI library to better handle NoteOffs.
-Moved to ZPUino 2.0 with a DesignLab schematic.
1/29/2014 Version 1.2
-Moved to Papilio Schematic Library and drew up a schematic of the RetroCade system.
-Added Analog mode to the LCD.
-Made joystick interaction for smallFS more intuitive. Cannot do the same for SD Card access without a lot of rework…
Inspired by the snake game our forum member Jaxartes has successfully managed to implement the Robots game on the Papilio Pro with the Arcade MegaWing using Verilog, his source code should be able to run on other FPGA platforms with comparable capacity.
It displays in 1024×768 on a VGA monitor, and is controlled by keyboard. Or, it can be controlled from the serial port for those without a PS/2 keyboard hooked up.
You could find the source code is Github and here is a link to the original forum thread to drop a comment.
Papilio user Larry McGovern just posted this beautiful design for a 3D printed case that turns your Papilio Logic Analyzer into a sleek device.
Here is the original Forum Post.
Hello Papilio fans today we got an awesome project to share with you! Our forum member jlcollado has managed to migrate the Grant Searle’s brillant work called MULTICOMP to the Papilio DUO, the final result is a very usable and complete Z80 soft-core based machine, running the venerable Digital Research CP/M 2.2 OS.
I’ve built the Z80 CP/M variant, complete with VGA & Keyboard terminal, Serial port, SD-Card and external SRAM. The steps I followed to accomplish this:
For an in depth look at this great work please visit the project showcase page here, the full project files are also available on the same page.
Feel free to express your thoughts about the project in the comment section or in the original showcase page.
Hello FPGA and Arcade games fans! A couple of weeks ago we posted about how to play the Snake game on your FPGA in fore easy steps, our community member mkarlsson was not totally satisfied with the amount of FPGA resources the Verilog code uses and decided to rewrite the game to make it use less resources and now it even fits an LX9 based board like Papilio Pro or Duo with a VGA wing:
The GadgetFactory blog page has this story about the snake game written in Verilog so I decided to take a look at it. Sadly to say it’s pretty much a textbook example of how not to write HDL code. However, this idea seemed pretty cool so I decided to do an almost complete rewrite of the code (basically the only thing left from the original code is the VGA controller) while still keeping all the functionality of the original code. The new version uses about a 1/4 of the FPGA resources compared to the original code when compiled for Spartan6 and it now fits an LX9.
Please visit the original forum thread here to share your thoughts about this project.
Source code is available on github.
By mkarlsson.
Over in the forums Ken Boak, James Bowman, and myself have been playing with a prototype shield (codename Evita) using the EVE FT812 chip and the Papilio DUO. Ken developed a nice board and James has been able to overclock the thing to output a nice crisp 1024×768 resolution through a VGA connector. Things have been coming along so nicely we have to ask ourselves, could this be the birth of the Gameduino 3? Do people want a Gameduino 2 with VGA output at 1024×768 resolution? If so then please drop by the forum and join the discussion, let us know what you like about the design and what you would like to see added to make it the perfect board for your needs. We’ve already broken the design down to it’s individual sections in the forum and would love your feedback!
Join the discussion at GF Forum and help shape what just might be the Gameduino 3!
Here is a video of it in action:
Here is a screenshot of the PCB Design:
Some specs from Ken’s post:
