Tom Gambill
Added an MT32-Pi Zero to the Mister for Sound Support
Using the custom real-time OS created by maker Yavimaya, we can now use a Raspberry Pi Zero to emulate the Roland MT-32 Synthesizer from...
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Tom Gambill
- Aug 11
- 1 min
Great Showing for Games at SIGGRAPH 2022
Especially well represented was the game tech from Guerrilla Games Horizon: Forbidden West. They talked about their ocean and water...
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Tom Gambill
- Jun 22
- 1 min
Oxide Games Announces New Stragegy Game "Ara: History Untold"
A major client of ours, Oxide Games, have recently announced ARA: History Untold. A strategy game in which you can play through...
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Tom Gambill
- Apr 23
- 1 min
Vintage Computer Festival East 2022
This year's VCF East 2022 conference was in person at last. The first two days have been jam-packed with great talks and some amazing...
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Tom Gambill
- Mar 31
- 1 min
Ember CPU Interrupt Handling
It has been a while, lots going on as travel is a thing again and work picks up, but the next installment on the Ember CPU is up. Check...
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Tom Gambill
- Mar 23
- 1 min
IARI Technologies is back in person at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco
We are back live in person this year and loving it!
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Tom Gambill
- Mar 8
- 1 min
Meetup at the Game Developer Conference 2022 (GDC)
If you are attending GDC in San Fransisco this year and want to meet up and discuss 3D graphics or retro computers, let me know! You can...
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Tom Gambill
- Feb 13
- 1 min
The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 6: Jumps and Conditional Branches
The next post is up on the Ember Blog! Check out The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 6: Jumps and Conditional Branches!
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Tom Gambill
- Jan 31
- 1 min
The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 5: Load-Store and Memory Instructions
Check out the latest post on the Ember CPU Design!
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Tom Gambill
- Jan 27
- 1 min
Fun with FPGAs and CPU Design
I have been hard at work on the Ember CPU design, developing the FPGA hardware implementation in SystemVerilog for the Spartan Edge...
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Tom Gambill
- Jan 10
- 1 min
The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 4: Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
The latest installment is up, check it out! The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 4: Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
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Tom Gambill
- Jan 4
- 1 min
The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 3: Opcodes, Operands, and Instruction Encoding
The next installment The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 3: Opcodes, Operands, and Instruction Encoding, is up on Medium! Check it out...
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Tom Gambill
- Dec 20, 2021
- 1 min
The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 2: Registers
Check out the next installment of the Ember CPU design here on Medium. This week we discuss CPU registers for the new processor.
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Tom Gambill
- Dec 12, 2021
- 1 min
The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 1: Basic Requirements
The next Ember Design Post is up here!
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Tom Gambill
- Dec 11, 2021
- 1 min
16-Bit Computer Built Entirely Out of Discrete Logic
Now, this is truly an inspiration! And Truly "Old School"! Ember is completely virtual for now, but even in hardware, it would be built...
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Tom Gambill
- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
Masayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78
Kotaku reported recently that Masayuki Uemura passed away. He was an inspiration to many and will be missed. Many of us will only dream...
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Tom Gambill
- Dec 8, 2021
- 1 min
Project Ember Blog Post: Beginnings - Homebrew Retro Video Game Console Design
The second post on the Ember Blog on Medium is up. Check it out if you're following along! Friend Link: Beginnings - Homebrew Retro Video...
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Tom Gambill
- Dec 8, 2021
- 1 min
Project Ember Blog Post: Designing A Custom Homebrew Retro Video Game Console From Scratch
The first post on the Ember Blog on Medium is up. Check it out if you're following along! Friend Link: Designing A Custom Homebrew Retro...
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Tom Gambill
- Dec 6, 2021
- 1 min
Seeed Spartan Edge FPGA In The House!
We got a Spartan Edge Accelerator FPGA board from Seed all set up for some hacking! The plan is to first get basic HDMI support working...
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Tom Gambill
- Dec 6, 2021
- 1 min
Project Ember Blog - Now On Medium!
While the Ember Hackaday site is geared toward those more interested in the purely technical details, we will also be posting on our...
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