user submissions
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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…
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Virtual 7-Segment Display Generator for the Papilio Arcade
Here’s some more user-contributed code from reader Alex, this time on making a virtual 7-segment display on the Papilio Arcade in VHDL. The 7-segment display is outputted to VGA, and can be used to superimpose alphanumeric characters on top of any video already coming out on VGA. The position, size, and color of the…
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Translating Verilog to VHDL for Galaxian
A little while back, we received some user contributed code from reader and Papilio user Alex, for converting Verilog code to VHDL. The article illustrates the conversion for the game Galaxian. If you’re learning VHDL, or are interested in Verilog to VHDL conversion, Alex’s article lays it out nicely for you with examples from Katsumi Degawa’s Galaxian FPGA project. With…