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The Latest Happenings

Oxide Games Announces New Stragegy Game "Ara: History Untold"

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

Apr 1
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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IARI Technologies is back in person at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco

Tom Gambill

Mar 24
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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Meetup at the Game Developer Conference 2022 (GDC)

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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The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 6: Jumps and Conditional Branches

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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The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 5: Load-Store and Memory Instructions

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 28
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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The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 4: Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)

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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The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 3: Opcodes, Operands, and Instruction Encoding

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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The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 2: Registers

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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The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 1: Basic Requirements

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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16-Bit Computer Built Entirely Out of Discrete Logic

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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Masayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78

Tom Gambill

Dec 11, 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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Project Ember Blog Post: Beginnings - Homebrew Retro Video Game Console Design

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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Project Ember Blog Post: Designing A Custom Homebrew Retro Video Game Console From Scratch

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 7, 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 7, 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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Tom Gambill

Dec 5, 2021
1 min

Project Ember Hackaday.io Page is Live!

We're only getting started, but we now have an official Project Page on Hackaday! For those more technically inclined, this is where you...

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Tom Gambill

Dec 2, 2021
1 min

Remoticon 2 Videos Posted

Videos for the Remoticon hacker/maker conference are now up on YouTube. They are just the saved live stream, and unedited, but you can...

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Home of Project Ember

The Latest Happenings

Oxide Games Announces New Stragegy Game "Ara: History Untold"

Vintage Computer Festival East 2022

Ember CPU Interrupt Handling

IARI Technologies is back in person at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco

Meetup at the Game Developer Conference 2022 (GDC)

The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 6: Jumps and Conditional Branches

The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 5: Load-Store and Memory Instructions

Fun with FPGAs and CPU Design

The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 4: Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)

The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 3: Opcodes, Operands, and Instruction Encoding

The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 2: Registers

The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 1: Basic Requirements

16-Bit Computer Built Entirely Out of Discrete Logic

Masayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78

Project Ember Blog Post: Beginnings - Homebrew Retro Video Game Console Design

Project Ember Blog Post: Designing A Custom Homebrew Retro Video Game Console From Scratch

Seeed Spartan Edge FPGA In The House!

Project Ember Blog - Now On Medium!

Project Ember Hackaday.io Page is Live!

Remoticon 2 Videos Posted

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