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Papilio Arcade

  • Robots Game Implemented On The Papilio!

    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,…

  • 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…

  • Game On: PacManicMinerMan Released

    Forum user Jim, AKA “Baggers” wrote in on the Gadget Factory forums to let us know that he’s finished with his rewrite of Manic Miner for the Pac-Man hardware. We will be working the game into the Arcade Blaster app shortly! Hi All, If you remember, a while back I was working on making a…

  • ROMGen v3.01 r4

    Papilio user Felix has started a new forum topic to share with us his his latest release of the romgen tool. He was able to add new functionality to do some simple bitswaps and handle different encryption types: “by including the -ini switch on the command line, it is capable of doing some simple bitswaps on…

  • Papilio Arcade Blaster V1.3 adds 15 new game variants and LogicStart MegaWing support!

    We just uploaded the newest version of the Arcade Blaster application. There are 15 new game variants and LogicStart MegaWing support for all PacMan variants. If you have a LogicStart MegaWing this is the easiest way to play video games on it! The Arcade Blaster is a multi-platform application that simplifies using Papilio Arcade kit…

  • “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…

  • 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…