Alrighty fine. Got the new Baldur’s Gate. #AnalogPocket

@ramokromok I’m building one for the #AnalogPocket. Will be 68000 based. Custom gfx and sound chip. Early days.

https://didier.malenfant.net/ProjectFreedom/

Thank you Analogue! It’s on now… I have to release a core 😂

#AnalogPocket #AnalogPocketDev #OpenFPGA

Look what’s waiting for me at home… 😍

#AnalogPocket #AnalogPocketDev #OpenFpgaDev #OpenFPGA

I figured out today the most nerdy way to get mobile access to signal tapping via jtag on my MacBook.

I can bring my Windows mini-pc in my backpack, direct plug it via usb-c/Ethernet into my MacBook and share the MacBook’s wifi via the Ethernet cable.

Plug the jtag blaster cable into the mini-pc, plug the #AnalogPocket via the jtag connector and Remote Desktop into the PC to run Quartus signal tap.

It just works 🤗 and it’s somewhat portable.

#OpenFPGA

Another full day of debugging and understanding more and more about the ‘Right Way™’ to do things in #Verilog and…boom! 💥

My gfx chip is now working correctly based on the 4 registers it exposes. I still don't have a working CPU yet but this is using a little FSM to drive the chip.

This is so much fun…

#AnalogPocket #OpenFPGA #ProjectFreedom #pfx1

👾 Just posted pf-dev-tools v1.0.6:

✅ Fixed a bug in argument parsing for pf clone.
✅ pf install and pf eject now take full paths for volumes.
✅ Added support for PF_CORE_TEMPLATE_REPO_FOLDER to use local core template directory.
✅ Improved some documentation in README.

https://pypi.org/project/pf-dev-tools/

#OpenFPGA #FPGA #AnalogPocket #ProjectFreedom #pfx1

I just added a new #OpenFPGA sample core:

Getting the Pocket running at 800x720 full resolution 🤓

Fun with PLLs, clock signals and Quartus project files…

https://github.com/DidierMalenfant/openFPGA-tutorials/tree/main/examples/04_FullRes

#FPGA #OpenFGPATutorials #AnalogPocket

👾 Just posted pfDevTools v1.0.5:

✅ Added better user feedback when docker image needs downloading.
✅ Renamed Environment to SConsEnvironment.
✅ Added an automatic check for when updates are available.
✅ Improved the way some error messages are displayed.

https://pypi.org/project/pf-dev-tools/

#OpenFPGA #FPGA #AnalogPocket

Just pushed a bugfix version v1.0.4 of pf-dev-tools.

I won't do actual release posts until a bit later so in the meantime, this is your notification…

#AnalogPocket #OpenFPGA #FPGA

And here it is.... my first two entries into the #SystemVerilog FAQ over at the #OpenFPGA tutorials wiki.

https://github.com/DidierMalenfant/openFPGA-tutorials/wiki/System-Verilog-FAQ

#AnalogPocket

Introducing pfDevTools 🎉

This is the toolchain I put together to build and package my fantasy console core on the pocket. It's entirely Python-based thanks to SCons which is built in.

Super simple Makefiles. One line core building/packaging/installing. Did I mention Python?

Anyway, it's also used in the sample code for the openFPGA tutorials.

https://didier.malenfant.net/blog/projectfreedom/2023/06/07/Introducing-pfDevTools.html

#AnalogPocket #OpenFPGA #FPGA #Python #ProjectFreedom #pfx1

Almost every #Amiga game ever made… in my pocket… 🤯

Amazing work @amiga_vision and Mazamars312!

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #AnalogPocket

👾 New blog post: Stars and Sprites 👾

I think I now have enough #Verilog knowledge to get started on the real graphics chip for the pfx-1 console.

Wish me luck!

https://didier.malenfant.net/blog/projectfreedom/2023/05/25/stars-and-sprites.html

#AnalogPocket #OpenFPGA #FPGA #IndieDev #ProjectFreedom #pfx1

Excited to announce a little side project to my pfx-1 fantasy console project: A set of tutorials and a wiki for those who would like to get started with openFPGA development.

This is basically everything I would have love to have when I got started, hopefully eventually all in one place.

This is just a start. I plan on adding more examples and growing the wiki as I go along.

https://github.com/DidierMalenfant/openFPGA-tutorials/wiki

#OpenFPGA #FPGA #AnalogPocket #GameDev #IndieDev #Tutorial

:analogue: Analogue Pocket Firmware 1.1 is out! 🎉

Some bug fixes and a few new APF bits and bobs.

https://www.analogue.co/support/pocket/firmware/1.1

#AnalogPocket #AnalogPocketDev #OpenFPGA

Hardware sprites, ultra-mini Copper, LFSR star field… I‘ve learned a lot so far. Next stop, reading data over the APE and interfacing with a couple of different types of RAM.

Oh working over different clock domains too!!

#OpenFPGA #AnalogPocket #AnalogPocketDev #ProjectFreedom

Did you know you can use the Intel Quartus tool chain on macOS? Even if you have an M1 or M2 Mac??? I didn’t… but now I do. 🤯

Sharing for anybody else who may benefit from this: https://didier.malenfant.net/blog/nerdy/2023/04/17/Using-Quartus-on-macOS.html

#FPGA #FPGAdev #AnalogPocketDev #AnalogPocket

Recreating some of @WillFlux ‘s tutorials on the :analogue: pocket in order to learn Verilog syntax…

#AnalogPocket #FPGA #Verilog

Got an update on #ProjectFreedom today too! Got my first #AnalogPocket core compiling and building from scratch. Paves the way for all this (hopefully) amazing hardware design that’s coming up…

https://didier.malenfant.net/blog/projectfreedom/2023/03/27/building-a-core.html

#FPGA #OpenFPGA