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Building Consoles For Fun

Posted by timothy on from the hey-you-kids-cut-that-out dept.

tierra writes "Indiviuals writing their own games is one thing, but try building your own console. Russ Christensen, and his team put together in class, dive into the fun of using an old Nintendo system to house their customized XSA-50 Board. They also uses a XSA Extender to hook their personal console up to a monitor instead of a TV. They programmed Tetris and Space Invaders for their console using a system they call CASM."

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  1. Bah by RaboKrabekian · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're going to make the games yourself, and the console yourself - dammit, build the TV yourself too, you lazy bastard!

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  2. this aint news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    IN SOVIET RUSSIA ... YOU have to build everything yourself

  3. Feeling the pain by jhawkins · · Score: 5, Funny
    The Tetris Game I wrote. To see the game in action here is an 18MB Windows Media File. Or a 78MB MPEG File.

    For the love of God, what does he think he's doing?

    1. Re:Feeling the pain by jhawkins · · Score: 2, Funny
      I spoke too soon. Scrolling further down the page -

      Space Invaders game play footage. To see the game in action here is a 21MB Windows Media File. Or an 89MB MPEG File.

      Seriously, this is pretty cool, even if the resolution is only 64x30 with 2 bit color. Better than I can do.

      And no I won't provide you with a link to these ungodly sized mpegs!

    2. Re:Feeling the pain by Angry+White+Guy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well the graphics suck, but it's god Dolby Digital 5.1! Turn the speakers up!

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    3. Re:Feeling the pain by Professor_Quail · · Score: 5, Funny

      The next day:
      Russ: I'm sorry sir, I couldn't finish the paper.
      Professor: You better have a good excuse this time.
      Russ: Well, I put up a website about our project, but I ran a server for the 78mb MPEGs off my own computer, and then it got slashdotted.

  4. At school? by Dragon213 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, I wish I had the kind of classes that would let me build stuff like this in them....but noooo, all we could do is sit there, read the books, and take the tests. Never actually applying the knowledge that we just learned.......

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  5. In Related News... by Strange+Ranger · · Score: 5, Funny

    [flame off][humor on]
    "Our professor allowed us to take a different approach, using an ICDS Enhanced Hot Water Drill, a cage full of GM hamsters and some pantyhose we have created our own version of the worlds very first Wheel. We carved it straight of a rock wall! We call it Wheel Revolution. The wheel was a revolution, and it revolves, so we're getting double-usage out of the name. Bob is able to put his hands on the axis of the wheel while Pete holds his ankles and runs. We'll be holding a public demo for a few days so stop on over and try it out!"

    " Our engineering professor liked the idea of us really getting back to the basics."

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  6. credibility by imAck · · Score: 3, Funny

    The graphics: impressive.
    The nintendo for a case: most impressive.

    The fact that they use the word 'foo' in the tetris source code: pure credibility

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  7. Re:Wonderful! by FatalTourist · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wouldn't say that writing a compiler is easy. I took a compiler design course and it was quite a job! The idea of compiling the compiler with the compiler was interesting. Then you compile the compiler with the compiled compiler... It was a C compiler (which we wrote in C of course). Jeez! Compiler writing is so... recursive!

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