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Puck Man PCB (Namco)

The Arcade Blogger about 1 month ago

44 years ago (22 May 1980 to be precise), the first Puck Man machine was placed in an arcade in Tokyo’s Shibuya district, starting a worldwide global videogaming phenomenon. Today, Namco’s Pac-Man remains one of the most recognisable video gam …

PC 486SX (ao486) • 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released

MISTerFPGA about 2 months ago

Another DOS game collection? Why not! This one has a slightly different focus than Exo/Flynn, and DOSContainer projects.We originally published the “Special Sauce v0.0.1” collection a little while ago, and Limi (of AmigaVision fame) reached out to say …

Emojis and more: Pangomonium 1.0 released

Amigans about 2 months ago

Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present a massive new plugin release for Hollywood: Pangomonium - The Ultimate Text Engine for Hollywood. Pangomonium is a plugin of epic proportions and the first plugin only availab …

Games • Loading tape games from disk

Defence Force about 3 months ago

I remember I asked this question a long long time ago, but could not find the thread with the answer, so I'm going to ask here again.Assuming a Microdisc or Jasmin drive and the access to the overlay memory, and a single load game, what I'd like to do is: …
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Vector plug boards, edge connectors and wire wrap tool

VCFed about 3 months ago

(3) Vector plug boards (2 still in original packaging) (5) edge connectors for above (1) plain board (1) wire wrap tool All free to a good home if you pay for shipping. Dale …
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Analogue Pocket And MiSTer Now Have A Vectrex FPGA Core

Time Extension about 3 months ago

What's your vector, over.The Vectrex is certainly one of the most unique home gaming systems of all time.Launched in 1982, it is the only vector display-based console ever released, and came complete with its own built-in screen.Read the full article on ti …

Mystery Memory Board

VCFed about 3 months ago

See attached photo for my mystery memory board. Does anyone recognize the board? I purchased this board as part of a five card lot on eBay. I bought the lot just to get a fairly rare Vector Graphic 8080 CPU board. - The top section is all MM2102 1024x1 …

Vector Graphic Precision Analog Interface Info Needed

VCFed about 3 months ago

I just purchased a Vector Graphic - Precision Analog Interface board. I want experiment with both inputs and outputs. Does anyone have documentation on this board? Thanks, Marvin …

MS-DOS Reading keyboard port (60 61) without interrupts

VCFed about 4 months ago

I'm adding joystick support for my engine, and It is simpler to read joystick and keyboard at the same time after waiting for vsync. All keyboard functions and info I find, suggests I should read 0x60 port by inserting a custom function in interrupt vecto …

Calculate PI to 1000 decimal places on your vintage computer in BASIC

VCFed about 4 months ago

I saw posts on the Facebook BASIC Programming forum on various programs to calculate PI and decided to port one to Tektronix 4050 BASIC. Tektronix 4050 BASIC was introduced in 1975 with their 4051 vector graphics microcomputer. The 4051 and the second ge …
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Extra colors for hires graphics wanted ?

Apple Fritter about 4 months ago

As we all know, the Apple II can produce four colors in the HIRES mode, plus black and white (which are not "colors", but "shades". But what can I complain. Some computer folks are so uneducated that they pervert the meaning of words all the time. Such as …
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Other Computer / System Cores • Soyz-Neon PC-11/16 (UNEON) Core

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

Soyz-Neon PC-11/16 (UNEON).Soviet Personal computer with an advanced graphics subsystem, multitasking and compatibility with the PDP-11 architecture.Core for MiSTer and MiST.github.com/xolod79/UNE... the IDE-HDD to work, you need to replace Main_MiSTer …

8-bit acorn hardware • Failed model B - empty data bus.

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi All,I'm gradually working my way through the possible causes of a dead model B and I would appreciate the wisdom of the forum at this point.Story so far, I got hold of an issue7 model B a couple of months back, all working when I got it, RIFA capacitor …

other vintage hardware, software and languages • Elite on the NES, fully documented and explained

Stardot about 5 months ago

I have just finished publishing my latest analysis project: Elite on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).As this project was inspired by a suggestion on this very forum, I thought I'd post the details here. And it turns out that about 30% of NES Elite …

For Sale or Trade

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hi, Boards I am looking for: Cromemco 32K ByteSaver Processor Technology VDM-1 Morrow Thinker Toys Disk Jockey II CompuPro RAM 17 SSM IO4 ExpandoRAM 64K board WameCo EPM-1 EEPROM board Sol-20 System/Buss Probe board MITS Altair 88-MU1 Systhesizer Board …

I need a 32K ByteSaver board ... a VDM-1 board ... and a Thinker Toys Disk Jockey II board ...

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hi, Boards I am looking for: Cromemco 32K ByteSaver Processor Technology VDM-1 Morrow Thinker Toys Disk Jockey II CompuPro RAM 17 SSM IO4 ExpandoRAM 64K board WameCo EPM-1 EEPROM board Sol-20 System/Buss Probe board MITS Altair 88-MU1 Systhesizer Board O …
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UNCLE BERNIE'S TIMING HAL SUBSTITUTE

Apple Fritter about 6 months ago

Hi fans - today I made some progress with substituting the timing HAL of the Apple IIe and IIc.Here is what happened so far: Weeks ago I took the equations from Jim Sather's book and plugged them into my PLD design software.I then turned loose my proprie …
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Scene • Graphics routine - Basic wedge

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

This adds the following commands to basic HGR Hires Grahics On HGROFF Hires Graphics Off HFCOL Hires Fore Color HBCOL Hires Back Color HCLS Hires Clear Screen HLINE Hires Line HPLOT …

Homebrew S100 - CPU Board

VCFed about 6 months ago

Well, after many months of digging through documents, schematics, and websites, I have finally gotten my CPU card designed, and built. Part of it is based on the STD bus Z-80 board I use in my development system and the rest is based on designs from Ithaca …

Modern Vector Art on the Tektronix 4050 microcomputers

VCFed about 7 months ago

I am intrigued with the Modern Vector Art on the Plotterfiles.com website that had the Jack O'Lantern Face. Thanks to @stepleton's post of a Jack O'Lantern Face that he had ported to run on his Tektronix 4006 Terminal - I checked out that site and was imp …
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California Extreme Arcade Expo 2023

The Arcade Blogger about 7 months ago

I promised I’d share some pictures from my visit in August this year to the California Extreme arcade expo, so, here we go! This year marks the 27th Anniversary of the California Extreme Expo! Hosted at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Santa Clara, t …

SOS! Tektronix 4006-1 terminal on the fritz right before the show!

VCFed about 7 months ago

Hi folks! I have five days (full of regular job) to repair a just-failed Tektronix 4006-1 vector graphics terminal before next weekend's Retro Computer Festival at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. Far enough off that we can try to fix it but …

Vectrex Repair (another no buzz 3GE version)

VCFed about 7 months ago

Hi to all, i have readed all other post of MIATA user and the last is the same of my board. I have a strange issue, similar to one of Vectrex of miata but with other type of board. The attached image is the problem, i have the vector concentrated on cente …
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Games • Games with vector based graphics

LemonAmiga about 7 months ago

I would like to have a list of games with vector based graphics, both transparent and filled objects, like Starglider / Starglider 2. Keep them coming.3D Galax3D Kit Game3D-Motoradd3D Pool4D Sports DrivingA-10 Tank KillerA320 AirbusAir SupportAir Strike U …
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Retro Rewind: October 1983 in Computer & Video Games

Retro Arcadia about 7 months ago

After a bit of an experiment with the pilot episode of this feature back in August 2023, it seems like I’m not the only one who likes having a look back at old copies of magazines from forty years ago, and while I’m still not quite ready to go monthly …