Originally designed to provide a VGA output for a Commodore 64, the project’s grown and while it performs that initial task admirably, it has a near flawless emulation of the *entire* C64, provides SD card emulation of disk drives, REU emulation and even freezer cartridge emulation!<\/p>\n
It can also run other cores, and has suffiicent flash onboard to store 16 of them.\u00a0 So far, cores are available to emulate the C64, 48K Spectrum, Amiga (Minimig), and also a neat Game of Life core which makes use of the parallel nature of FPGAs to calculate an entire row of cells at a time.<\/p>\n
There’s also a hardware test core, which I used as a starting point for this project.\u00a0 To try it out, just use the Chameleon’s Chaco program to upload the .rbf file into a free slot, then launch the core from the Chameleon’s own menu.<\/p>\n
When it starts up, it will launch into a game between two computer-controlled players.\u00a0 To take over from one of the players, just click the left mouse button on an attached PS\/2 mouse.\u00a0 A second player can use a mouse attached to the keyboard socket.<\/p>\n The reset button resets the scores, and the menu button exits the Pong core and returns to the Chameleon C64 core.<\/p>\n Click here to download full source and binary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Creating a Pong-style game seems to be a “Hello World” style project for FPGA developers, and was one of the first projects I attempted when I started experimenting with VHDL. The platform for this project is the truly brilliant Turbo … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Pong.jpg\" "\\"Pong\\"")
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