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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. Wonderful! by Junks+Jerzey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I love projects like this. May just the fact that they succeeded inspire others to try the same thing.

    On a tangent, this is the kind of thing that's been very possible for some time, but most people blindly assume that it's much too difficult. Similarly, writing a compiler for a high level language is a relatively easy project. You could do it in a semester course, or a month of spare time, but mention "writing a compiler" to the great majority of programmers, even those with lots of experience, and they run away in terror.

    Personal chip design reached critical mass back around 1994.