Collaborate Disseminate
If you’re interested in circuit bent video but not sure where to start, the excellent guide [LoFi Future] has come up with for modifying the cheap and readily available GBS-8100 …read more Continue reading RAM Fiddling Turns VGA Converter into Video Synth
One thing about vintage computers is that they depend greatly on whether or not one can plug a compatible monitor into them. That’s what’s behind [Tube Time]’s Graphics Gremlin, a …read more Continue reading Retro ISA Card Means Old, Slow Computers No Longer Need Old, Heavy Monitors
Even as technology keeps progressing, we find ourselves coming back to the classics again and again. Pong is quite possibly the classic game, and the Raspberry Pi Pico is one …read more Continue reading Pi Pico Project Plays Pong Perfectly
Feeling nostalgic we presume, [Glen Kleinschmidt] set out to build a 640x480x64 VGA controller card from discrete logic chips. If we ignore the 512Kx8 Cypress SRAM video memory, he succeeds, …read more Continue reading VGA Graphics Card in 74xx Logic
The original Sony PlayStation was a nifty console for its day; that grey box may have only had a 33 MHz MIPS processor and 4 MB of RAM, but for the early to mid 1990s its games were some of …read more
Continue reading VGA Without The Hassle, From Your PlayStation One
Nostalgia aside, there are a few things an analog scope can still do better than a digital, with oscilloscope art being a prime example. The blue-green glow of phosphors in a real CRT just add something special to such builds, …read more
Continue reading Oscilloscope Learns How to Speak Japanese, and VGA
The later game consoles of the 8-bit era such as Nintendo’s NES or Sega’s Master System produced graphics that went beyond what owners of early 1980s home computers had come to expect from machines with the same processors, but they did so only with the help of powerful custom chipsets …read more
Continue reading A VGA Retro Console With Everything Generated From A Single ARM Cortex M0
Here at Hackaday we cast a wary eye at tips that come in with superlative claims. Generally, if we post something that claims to be the fastest or the smallest of all time, we immediately get slapped down in the comments by someone who has done it faster or smaller. …read more
Continue reading Super-Simple VGA Adapter Sports Low-Res Output with Only Four TTL Chips
A few years ago, [Mark] built an arcade cabinet into a low table. But once his new gaming buddy [Grayson] came along and started crawling, it wasn’t practical to have a low, pointy table around. Trouble is, [Mark] had already given [Grayson] his first taste with a Thomas the Tank …read more
Having been endlessly regaled with tales of side-channel attacks and remote exploits, most of us by now realize that almost every piece of gear leaks data like a sieve. Everything from routers to TVs to the power supplies and cooling fans of computers can be made to give up their …read more
Continue reading Exposing Computer Monitor Side-Channel Vulnerabilities with TempestSDR