Loïc Petit has expanded his CPS-2 board traces into a fully fledged backwards engineering project with the goal of creating complete CPS-2 schematics for repair and FPGA use. The project aims to describe the circuits of both the PCB and its custom chips. More details: https://gitlab.com/loic.petit/cps2-reverse
Fifty pages of complete engineering schematics for the Atari 7800 and its associated ICs have been released by Curt Vendel, the historian behind the Atari Museum History Project. The documents have circulated among private individuals for years, but this is the first time they have been publicly accessible. The schematics essentially provide a blueprint that […]
Furrtek, mostly known for his excellent work with Neo-Geo hardware and FPGA, just released a 36-page documentation depicting his process of reverse-engineering the original DMG-001. In a 191-hour meticulous process, Furrtek was able to draw schematics for the following: All APU logic. All PPU logic. All I/O and timer logic. All DMA logic. All interrupt […]
Xilinx revealed their new high-end FPGA, the Virtex VU19P, which will be the largest FPGA ever created. It comes from their line of 16nm UltraScale+ FPGAs and contains 35 billion transistors. It boasts the highest logic density and the input/output count (2,072) of any single device ever made, and is 1.6X larger than the Virtex […]
Jotego released Popeye and Commando arcade FPGA cores to his patrons, for both MiSTer and MiST. Both cores are open-source and will be made publicly available once complete. I debuted them live and found Popeye to be especially impressive. It is a very early application of interlaced graphics, which looks a little strange via HDMI, but […]
Terraonion just announced that their upcoming Mega SD romcart/FPGA device will support (through a future firmware update) the Genesis/Mega Drive version of Virtua Racing. Throughout the years, running Virtua Racing on clone systems, some emulators and FPGA cores often seemed to be problematic to say the least, as support for Sega’s SVP DSP couldn’t be […]
srg320 has written an FPGA soft-core for the Sega SVP chip for MiSTer’s Genesis core, to support Virtua Racing. This is the first-ever FPGA SVP implementation. Retro Nation posted a video of it in action in the video above.
Many older MiSTer arcade FPGA cores have been left behind from the overhauls and updates that console and PC cores received over the last year. Several were still on the old scaler and lacked new features. Alan Steremberg has made it his mission to bring every single one of them up to date and on […]
MiSTerAddons.com put several of the most popular 40mm fans for MiSTer head to head to find out which type is the quietest and keeps the DE10-nano the coolest. His test methods are scientific in that they take the ambient temperature and room noise into account, and he’s taken safeguards to standardize variables that may have […]
It’s been a few years since the release of the PlayStation SD device called the PSIO. As with any new product, it had some bugs at first, but consistent firmware updates now allow it to perform very nicely. Recent reviews from Voultar and My Life In Gaming showcased the device again and now that the “new” […]
