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  • Tetris-like game for the Papilio and Arcade Megawing

    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…

  • Lose Yourself in the LED Timer Game with FPGA

    Hey FPGA lovers! If you have ever been a fan of arcade games, here is a chance for you to re live the glory days! The LED timer game with FPGA consists of an LED-button interfacing with FPGA. The project is really simple to implement and it is a great first project for FPGA aspirants.…

  • 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…

  • Pengo game running on the Papilio Pro.

    Papilio user and longtime Papilio arcade contributer Alex has managed to get the Pengo game running on his Papilio Pro board. Here is a quick demo video of the game running on the Papilio Pro: Alex writes, “The Pengo hardware is very close to the Pacman hardware but annoyingly it has just enough differences that…

  • New Arcade Blaster App 1.2 Release!

    Here at Gadget Factory we’re happy to announce that a 1.2 version of the Arcade Blaster application is now officially released and available for download from the new download center! The Arcade Blaster is a multi-platform application that simplifies using Papilio Arcade kit and eliminates the need to directly work on HDL sources and it…

  • “Crazy Ivan” gives permission to include Mr. Do’s Nightmare with the Papilio Arcade!

    Hey everyone, great news! The author of Mr. Do’s Nightmare, Crazy Ivan, gave us permission to include his game with the Papilio Arcade. This means that we can provide you with a bit file that already includes the ROMs! This was very generous of him and we are very thankful for his kind contribution. We…

  • Jet Set Willy remake for ZPUino running on the Papilio One

    After releasing the ZPUino 1.0 Alvaro Lopes has managed to add a VGA adaptor to his processor and then he wanted to make something special to test the adaptor and try to display some nice graphics. Then he got the idea to remake one of his favourite games that he enjoyed so much back in…