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  • Mario Redux

    Posted on September 21st, 2009 Administrator 1 comment

    XMOS mario demo running in NTSC.

    mario_ntsc

    The aspect ratio is somewhat off because of the slightly higher frequency and the colors are 3 bits per component instead of 5. All in all though, kinda nifty to be able to generate NTSC video in software :-)

    Lights out…

     

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    • Have you seen the XShell / XGS project on xlinkers?

      XShell / XGS Specification

      * Processor: Xmos XS1-L1-128, Single Core, 400 MIPS
      * Memory: SDRAM – 256Mbit, 32M x 8; Serial FLASH – 4Mbit, 512K x 8
      * Display: VGA 640×480 with 256 colours; Text Only
      * Storage: SD Card using FAT16
      * Interfaces: PS2 for keyboard/mouse, Joystick, 1-bit speaker/audio
      * Software: Shell, Text Editor, Simple Language Interpreter

      A lot of synergy here for the idea of a single chip game system


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