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  • Old School Graphics: How did they work? (Part II)

      More content on graphics for old school gamers in this great video, especially for Apple II and Atari 2600 aficionados. It details how graphics worked on monochrome screens and color screens using 8 bits of memory. Apple II graphics used only 16 colors in low resolution mode and 6 colors in high resolution mode, not…

  • Old School Graphics: How did they work?

    Many of us spent hours, if not days in front of Ataris, Commodores, Nintendos and other old school gaming systems. Playing colorful games was then  possible on 8 kB, 16kB and 32 kB video RAM. An excellent video from digg.com shows how colors were coded on those early gaming consoles and also details how pixels sprites were…

  • Papilio DUO on Signal Path RGB Clock

    On his Youtube channel Signal Path presents a nice RGB Clock controlled by a Papilio DUO

  • Run your ROMs on Papilio Arcade hardware with ROMVault!

    The latest project from GadgetFactory has just been finished and we’re very happy to show you ROMVault! Running old school video games on a Papilio Arcade hardware is a thrilling experience for old time gamers and a good challenge for technology enthusiasts. There is sometimes an issue while running those games: It is not always easy to determine…

  • Hacking the OV7670 camera module (SCCB cheat sheet inside)

    Here at Gadget Factory we’ve been thinking about the best way to provide support for the OV7670 Camera Wing that we have. This page we came across provides a treasure trove of information about how the OV7670 camera works.       The OV7670 is a low cost image sensor + DSP that can operate…

  • Build A Simple Cloud Using the Open Hardware Technology

                      An interesting article for creating your own cloud with a few raspberry pi’s via resources.infosecinstitue.com

  • Atari devs dissect Yars’ Revenge, Adventure, Atari’s woes

    Here is a very interesting article about the development of some of the early Atari 2600 games. It’s fun that we can recreate these classic games on an FPGA! “I’m going to tell you about the design of Adventure for the 2600, a game I designed in 1979,” Warren Robinett said simply and plainly to…

  • PyroEDU

    Pyroedu has posted a video course on FPGA’s. Since it based on Altera FPGA some of the portions are not 100% applicable, but there is a bunch of good basic FPGA info in the lessons. It makes a nice addition to hamster intro to FPGA document, especially for those who learn better from watching a…