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As a sidenote: Maker Faire 2007 - Homebrew CPU O____O

Or if one wants to go really _old_ school: Meccano Difference Engine \o/

Funny things apart: AVR ftw (would be nice if flt's hw was opensource)

or... here's a crazy idea: code a gamecube demo!

broderick: he published everything including source and circuit. see link in op

Wow, good to know :)

It would be more fun to have a competition where people have to develop their own hardware, and then demo on it. We could have a $10 demo compo instead of a 4k or 64k, where the parts cannot cost more than 10 bucks :)

Firecrackers!

very few is still too much.

Okay, now THAT is a great idea. That would really bring out the low-level hardware hacks.

Actually I really need to mention how fucking fantastic the AVR emulators and IDE are: I was able to get several projects working on an AT_TINY 4k chip very, very quickly. Since Atmel makes both the hardware and the emulator/IDE, it's all just perfect. You can build, compile, and debug your program even before ordering your chips : D

Of course, the "only pure hardware is pure" whiners will refuse to use this. I'm not sure why.
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=2725

nonsense. i just partook in my first gba demo at breakpoint and can tell you for certain that both VBA (in a horribly bad way) and nocash (in a minor way) screw up the demo. VBA just does lots of things completely wrong (and has waay below full framerate - because we used VBA for sync, i often had to reduce the size of the scene significantly before i could run is fast enough on VBA to set the parameters), nocash generally is pretty tight but still managed to be half a beat off with sync on our demo. half a beat is a pretty long time.

if you *must* use emus, use nocash (and NEVER vba), and make sure the demomaker agrees and has test-ran it on nocash. a gba-to-tv-hack is better, though (except when the video gets upscaled with bilinear filtering and the whole boatload of crap of course :( )

We may be losing our favorite geeky wild-demo platform. The microsoft of the microcontroller business is trying to buy out Atmel.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/10/microchip_along_with_onse.html

knos: Capturing GBA demos is no stress at all once you have a GBA2TV or GBA TV Transverter (two very similar products)...

Oh, and as has been pointed out: GBND is completely wrong. The GBA emulators are not at all good enough to make decent captures.

I tried to score the gba2tv or gba tv transverter but they're not that easy to fetch.. plus isn't at least one of them only working on the gba advance classic?

They both only works with the classic GBA. What's the problem with that? And yeah, they can be a bit tricky to score :)

yeah exactly.. I sold my gba advance classic for a sp a long time ago

Well, the adapters pretty much turns your GBA into a hacked beast anyway, so you'd want to have a separate GBA for capturing anyway. I don't see the problem with that.

BTW, i'm seeing cheap GBA flashcarts on dealextreme. Grab? They have some EFA lite ones (they might be clones/fakes though), besides a myriad of nonames.

Anyone encountered a GBA Transverter yet or is selling one? I'm still trying to find something to capture GBA demos...

*bump*

eye: I ordered an EFA lite from dealextreme some time ago. Works well, but has to RTC (which you probably don't really need anyway...).

I have one (currently not working because i accidently broke a diode) avr "prototyping" pcb which i made myself. It was a fun thing to do :P

I wanted to make a TV-Pong but i never got the timings right, could be because of the clock source tho.

Yes, the clock is the critical thing =)

xrl: rawkz! "simple" 2d fx are totally underrated, anyway.. :)