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• new game : dragon's lair !

  Makapuf • 02/24/2016 at 14:14 • 0 comments

  Ah .. such a nice game to play on the Bitbox ! (see Angry Video Game Nerd or Joueur du Grenier reviews ;) ... )

  This game / engine is aimed at reproducing the dragons lair game on the Bitbox. It's only compatible with the standard bitbox since the data is streamed from SD card.

  It's currently 200LoC / 40k flash / 128k RAM + a 70MB data file
  

  See github release : https://github.com/makapuf/bitbox-fmv

• ZX Spectrum emulator

  Makapuf • 05/15/2015 at 15:20 • 0 comments

  Hi ! now the Bitbox has a ZX spectrum emulator (on top of the Game Boy one)

  Spectrum hardware is quite simple and regular, so it's actually quite simple, based on an existing Z80 CPU emulator, to build a spectrum on it !

  Much of the needed info is here : http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/reference/48kreference.htm
  

  See details at http://bitboxconsole.blogspot.fr/2015/05/zx-spectrum-emulator.html and https://github.com/makapuf/bitbox-spectrum

  Want to see other emulators ?
  

• BB micro updates

  Makapuf • 05/07/2015 at 13:29 • 0 comments

  a few updates on the micro BB, BB dev will go on a bit for now.

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• Thinking about bitbox micro ...

  Makapuf • 04/15/2015 at 12:26 • 0 comments

  I'm in the process of thinking about making a bitbox micro, cortex m0-based console. The idea is to be smaller, cheaper and maybe more challenging to write games than bitbox, while retaining enough similarity to keep experience and be able to port games simply. Original Bitbox will still be the bigger brother with USB, high def vga, expandability, bigger memory & faster core.

  So far the design choices are :

  • when in doubt, prefer small, cheap and simple
  • stm32f0, 128k flash /16k RAM chip - 48MHz
  • VGA out, jack for sound
  • nunchuk controller
  • USB for reflash and power
  • around 1x2 inches
  • a few megs SPI flash chip (no microsd since it adds to the price)

  stay tuned !
  

• some news

  Makapuf • 01/04/2015 at 23:09 • 0 comments

  Well the project is still ongoing well (see the blog maybe). More code,games are coming and quite a lot of simple graphical modes and sound/music related work from me and others.

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