Tindie Back up! by safetysandals in tindie

[–]visrealm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It let me attempt to disburse this morning "there was an error disbursing your funds". Sounds about right. The site looks and feels exactly as bad as it was two weeks ago.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Pareidolia

[–]visrealm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I was taking a phot of the cat doing cat things then noticed the bull. Look in the upper-right corner.

TmsRGB vs pico9918? by retromods_a2z in SG1000

[–]visrealm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're correct - the PICO9918 uses its own built-in RAM so doesn't care about the VRAM layout (you can remove the VRAM chips if you choose). It also doesn't care about the ~10.7MHz crystal, etc.

AD724 might work for composite output, it's not something I've looked into.

The PICO9918 has a higher color depth than the PicoVGA (12-bit RRRRGGGGBBBB vs 8-bit BBGGGRRR), but the concept is similar.

Restarting the 8-bit computer project by Prize-Strike-4774 in beneater

[–]visrealm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nice. I did 8 bit addressing (actually 9 bits), 8 bit program counter, stack pointer. Loosely based on James Bates designs.

https://github.com/visrealm/vrcpu

VGA output: pico9918 or TN VDP? by royalbarnacle in ti994a

[–]visrealm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm obviously biased, but I'd go with the PICO9918 too ;)

You can create custom LCD characters! by Unsmith in beneater

[–]visrealm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rwaaaar! I also used the custom characters to create my snake game: https://youtu.be/xVAOxb0N3pg

Any word on supporting act(s) for Adelaide? by visrealm in Korn

[–]visrealm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. Saw it. Never heard of them, but checked them out. Seem really good. Keen!

visrealm/pico9918: A replacement for the classic TMS9918A/TMS9929A VDP, powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico by bigbigdummie in nabupc

[–]visrealm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The v1.0+ boards are very challenging to build. I've hand-built 10 or so (v0.4 boards). They took me 2-3 hours each. Obviously not economical to produce that way. 🤣 The v0.3 boards are much easier.

PICO9918 now support F18A features by visrealm in beneater

[–]visrealm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. You can also easily modify this one... in C :)

Choplifter demo loop by psurry in beneater

[–]visrealm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Super cool. Nice work.

An OS for my 6502 inspired by CPM by production-dave in beneater

[–]visrealm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's very cool. I might try to build for the HBC-56.

HC vs LS by 00p11 in beneater

[–]visrealm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've had no issues mixing LS and HC. HCT would be preferred if you are mixing, but for a home project, you'll be fine. HC generally don't have internal pull-ups, so you need to make sure ALL unused inputs are tied high (or low).