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| Varvara / Uxn for Analogue Pocket | https://github.com/tsalvo/openfpga-varvara |
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Bunnymark:
305 🐰 (existing 0.0.4 core)
355 🐰 (WIP 0.0.5 core)
I’ve been learning some Verilog, and attempting to rewrite the Pocket Varvara core.
The design is a little simpler than before. It’s also a little faster and higher res now
It still doesn’t do everything the PipelineC version of core can do, but this rewrite may prove worthwhile in the end. Lots of catching up to do still 🙂
The screen test ROM is looking pretty good though, except for the top and left edge
@ann3nova I was so fascinated with the 5th gen consoles. PlayStation and Saturn seemed like such a leap over the SNES and Genesis, in a way that I don’t feel like I’ve seen since. I remember being so excited about what was suddenly possible
4th gen is a very close second though! The SNES was home to some of my favorite games of all time, and I’ll never forget how magical it was to be able to play Super Mario World for the first time, or play Street Fighter II at home 🙂
Small update for Uxn / Varvara core for Analogue Pocket:
- Mouse toggle in Core Settings
- Performance improvements
https://github.com/tsalvo/openfpga-varvara/releases/tag/0.0.4
I went back to working on the Varvara core for the Analogue Pocket this weekend, and I got some progress on implementing the “datetime” device. Hopefully this will be in a 0.0.3 release sometime soon 🙂
The Pocket has a real time clock that the Varvara core can read from once when it boots. Then, we can use the vsync signals every 1/60th second to keep the time.
This should help for games that need to generate random values, and the “catclock” ROM 🐈 ⏰
#uxn #varvara #AnaloguePocket
