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Hi, I am an online IDE for 8-bit programming!
Steven HuggA new blog post about "versatile playfield kernels" -- a weird but efficient way to draw backgrounds on the Atari 2600 which probably has been done before but I've never seen it given a name.
https://8bitworkshop.com/docs/posts/2025/versatile-playfield-kernel.html
Wow, the Lattice iCEstick FPGA dev board now costs $152 from the manufacturer. Pretty spendy for 1280 LUTs.
The Olimex iCE40HX1K-EVB may be a good substitute at $19, though it has a larger footprint and a 34-pin connector instead of PMOD.
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/olimex-ltd/ICE40HX1K-EVB/6580754
I've been endeavoring to finish some blog articles I started last year. Here's one about 16-byte Atari 2600 ROMs.
https://8bitworkshop.com/docs/posts/2025/tiny-vcs-kernels.html
@makerhacks Looks cool! Forks are fine with me, if it's in a public Github repo the GPL should be satisfied. Have fun!
It's been eight years since the first 8bitworkshop book about the Atari 2600 -- now, we've finally got a book about the Commodore 64!
A contributor released a C-64 graphic adventure on a Marina64 cartridge (1 MB capacity):
Atari Scene NewsPitfall! remake with box art graphics https://youtu.be/DFhqvcd2fbg #atari #retrogames #retrogaming #adobeflash
Pitfall 2024! - Flash Homebrew - Beta 1.0 Full Playthrough
@thezoq2 the XML output was just for debugging the parser... i had to add some "stuff" to make it good enough to generate code, dunno if it's still in the main branch ;)
@thezoq2 The IDE actually converts the XML output of Verilator to a WASM module (it used to convert it to JS via a bunch of regexes.) The source code is the best reference, but there's a little bit about it here: https://8bitworkshop.com/docs/posts/2021/webassembly-vs-javascript-emulator-performance.html
