Today I Built A Games Console

Psyk · 11 Apr 2006 at 15:02

What media does it use? How do you load the games onto it?

Chaos · 11 Apr 2006 at 15:18

Psyk said:
What media does it use? How do you load the games onto it?

The board has a 4 pin header which you connect a sx programmer to,
its basically a little device that connects to the unit and the other end
connects to the pc serial port. You then write the code in windows and
flash the compiled code directly into the chip.

The cool thing about the programmer is that its compatible with all the sx chips, so I could stick in a better one and I could still use it to program the chip.

Suppose thats one thing it has over current consoles, power up and game is loaded in nanoseconds

daz · 11 Apr 2006 at 18:40

I imagine something based aroudn a Zilog Z80 would be much easier to program for... but good work.

Edit: maybe not, the Ubicom Sx28 seems pretty well supported.

Chaos · 11 Apr 2006 at 23:41

daz said:
I imagine something based aroudn a Zilog Z80 would be much easier to program for... but good work.

Edit: maybe not, the Ubicom Sx28 seems pretty well supported.

Id like to try that chip at some point and a few others like the classic 6502 used in the 2600, commodore 64 and nes.