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Papilio Arcade

  • Sega Master System on the Papilio Plus

    Papilio user Ben Leperchey has successfully managed to run a Sega Master System on a Papilio Plus prototype and he has started an interesting topic in the forum to share with us his work. If you want to try this project on your Papilio Plus prototype you must have these wings: [checklist] Joystick wing VGA wing…

  • Coming Soon! Atari 2600 on the Papilio Arcade.

    Good news, the Open Source Atari 2600 project, A2601, is now working on the Papilio Arcade hardware. We got some time to work on the NTSC to VGA conversion and we have some video of the A2601 with VGA output in action. We hope to have the code cleaned up and ready for release very…

  • Stand Alone YM Music Player with ZPUino 1.0 release.

    Hey everyone! To celebrate the release of the new MIDI Audio Wing and ZPUino 1.0 we are releasing a slew of new audio examples. In fact, we made a whole new Wiki dedicated to audio applications for the Papilio. Check it out over at http://audio.GadgetFactory.net. The first example is a stand alone ym player that…

  • Arcade MegaWing back in stock at Seeed Studio

    Great news! The Arcade MegaWing is back in stock at Seeed Studio and can be purchased for the low price of $19.99. Or you can bundle it with the Papilio One 500K FPGA and get both for $84.99. The Arcade MegaWing gives you everything you need to recreate and hack on classic and homebrew arcade…

  • Check out what it takes to recreate the Bomb Jack game in VHDL.

    Alex, who did this writeup about translating Galaxian’s Verilog code to VHDL is at it again with an exciting new project. He decided to see what it takes to recreate one of his favorite Arcade games (Bomb Jack) using only VHDL, the games schematic, the Open Source T80 Soft Processor, and technical information available on…

  • Papilio Arcade now easy as MAME with Arcade Blaster App

    Here at Gadget Factory we’re happy to announce that the first release of the Arcade Blaster application is now officially available for download! The new Arcade Blaster application makes it easier then ever to load games to the Papilio Arcade hardware. It works just like MAME, simply provide ROMs that you own and it takes…

  • Fractal Viewer For Papilio, Controlled By Papilio Arcade

    Mike Field has written a Mandelbrot fractal generator/ viewer that runs on the Papilio platform, and he’s controlling the zoom and scroll functions with the Papilio Arcade MegaWing.  We found an article over at Hackaday about this that sheds some light on the technical details of the project: “Calculations to generate the shape are being run…

  • Pac-man Running On Papilio Arcade Using Linux

    Thanks to reader Sowbug, who sent us this nice tidbit about how he got Pac-Man running on his Papilio Arcade via Linux.  Sowbug says, “Just got the Papilio on Sunday and was going through converting the Windows-based .bat and tools for merging/loading the Pac-Man bitfile. The first time I ran the loader with the bitfile, it…