Pretty incredible: Tom Salvo is porting the cult game Wipeout (the one with the best soundtrack) to Playdate. It's mostly a tech demo due to legal fuzziness 😌 …but doesn't it look sweet?
I’m going to try running
some FPGA simulations in GHDL for some basic test ROMs, and compare output logs to the Uxn software emulator. The simulator runs many thousands of times slower than the real thing, and is a pain to set up, but I think I can no longer guess my way through it. Too often I’m trying random ideas, waiting 10 mins for a build to finish, and then seeing if it worked on the Pocket 😅
@mcc RISCV core would be amazing, and would open up the Pocket to so many other applications. Maybe Uxn would be much easier to get fully up and running that way!
Something really cool that dropped on the FPGAming discord this weekend: Someone named Tom Salvo is making an FPGA core for UXN! (That's the 100 Rabbits fantasy console: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html) This allows UXN to be run on Analogue Pocket and potentially later on MiSTers. This is the first pure-hardware (well, gateware, but that counts) implementation of a UXN execution environment I am aware of.
@mcc thanks for the shout out 😄 I will be asking for some pointers on the discord if I get really stuck! Last week, the core ran enough opcodes to draw one pixel, which took a couple months to even get that far. so I feel like it’s moving along pretty well now! I still don’t know how to properly debug, but I can simulate with ghdl and print what’s happening, which has been good enough so far!
I’m determined to see this through, even though I’m not always the best at finishing things 😅
@christianselig Apollo was one of my top 5 favorite apps, and without it, I’m just not even bothering to use Reddit anymore. It’s clear that they don’t understand the value of having a top-tier client on their platform. Thank you for all you have done, and I wish you all the best with whatever you focus your talents on next!
@christianselig this sucks 😞 I’m so sorry to hear that. I can’t imagine using Reddit without Apollo. This seems so unbelievably short-sighted of Reddit to drive away their best client app.