The Philips Videopac G7000 (or Odyssey2 as it was known in America) was released in 1978 to compete with other cartridge based systems such as the Atari VCS. Powered by an Intel 8048 CPU and a custom Intel IC known as a Video Display Controller (VDC) generating all sound and video. The console did relatively well with more than 60...

Finally got Frogger sound working !!! There are many small differences between Scramble and Frogger boards - mainly address pin swaps, but there are a few hard to find ones. In Scramble one of the AY3-8910 sound chips uses bits 7,6,5 & 4 as inputs, but in Frogger it's bits 7,6, 3 & 4. "5" and "3" look really similar on...

Oh, I forgot to say I have put up Sean's Multipac on the Pacman page. You can now dynamically switch between Pacman, Pacplus, Pong, MrTNT, MsPac, Crush Roller, Eyes and Lizard Wizard. Enjoy...

I have ordered more of the 28pin Namco custom replacements, so these will be back in stock shortly. I've also got my hands on the very nice (thanks Eric) and it is pretty ideal for our gaming needs. I have Frogger and Scramble running but there are a few glitches that are taking a little longer to sort out than...

Well, hello again. Is it too late for Happy New Year? Well Happy Chinese new year at least then. I have been spending quite a bit of time in China lately, which is one of the reasons for not updating this website so often. I have been working on Wolfgang Foerster's 68K core, attempting to run it along side a real...

Minor update, I have released the Pacman code for the Xilinx Spartan3E Starter Kit board. Available on the Pacman page...

Sean Riddle has been working on extending the Space Invaders implementation to support multiple games, and this is now released on the Space Invaders page. A total of 16 different games are supported running from the Strataflash on the Spartan3e starter kit...

At long last I have completed the Bally Astrocade Hi-Res additions. It is available for download on the Platforms\Bally Astrocade page. Hopefully somebody will write some software to use it :)...