Ben Eater's "worst video card" implemented in FPGA by Stefany of C256 Foenix

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rje
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Ben Eater's "worst video card" implemented in FPGA by Stefany of C256 Foenix

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It's at "Create a simple video controller with a FPGA — Stefany Allaire" on Youtube.  This is from VCF East 2021, day 1.

 


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Prob only 5% of the fanbase here will be interested but if you look at Day 1 of VCF east (YouTube link), you'll see just that...  Ben Eater's worlds worst video card implemented in FPGA by Stefany of C256 Foenix.



 



 

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Ben Eater's "worst video card" implemented in FPGA by Stefany of C256 Foenix

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A chap called George Foot went on a bit of a mission and upgraded the Ben Eater design to increase the resolution and connect it up to a breadboard in a way that's synchronized with the CPU. Video series is here if you're interested. Pretty enjoyable to watch people doing stuff like this

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Ben Eater's "worst video card" implemented in FPGA by Stefany of C256 Foenix

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Mathias Kramm uses a Commodore 1541 disk drive to generate video, and sound: 





 

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