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- MiSTer FPGA project on GitHub: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Wiki_MiSTer/wiki (you can find there as well a link to MiSTer FPGA Discord with a section for developers)

- MiSTer FPGA in 2022: A Primer Guide to Retro Gaming's Hardware Emulator / MY LIFE IN GAMING: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhT6YYRH1EI

- FPGA dev videos by Mister Retro Wolf: https://m.youtube.com/@misterretrowolf1464

- FPGA design books recommended by one of retro FPGA devs: https://archive.ph/Q30Xf

retro_guyon Outer Ridge – open-source 90s DOS Game for 386 3D engine in assembly [video]

On GitHub: https://github.com/camperjohn64

About the engine: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eUL6H2XIyGY

retro_guyon Nuked-MD-FPGA – Emulating Sega Mega Drive chipset using decapped chips photos

If you are interested in more than 2D images, you might find this article interesting.

- The X-Ray Tech That Reveals Chip Designs: https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-x-ray

retro_guyon Another World ported to FPGA

See as well:

- Infernal Runner for Amstrad CPC reverse-engineering and JavaScript port by cyxx [title from creator of Another World, both games utilizing virtual machine architecture]: https://github.com/cyxx/infernal_js

- The Virtual Machine Architecture of Infernal Runner presentation by Norbert Kehrer (in German with English slides): https://media.ccc.de/v/vcfb20_-_146_-_en_-_202010111400_-_th...

- The Story of Another World on the Amiga | MVG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iz9PJbs5rE

- Nintendo 64 port of Another World: https://github.com/jnmartin84/aw64

- Another World PlayStation 1 port: https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/rawpsx

retro_guyon Flora Incognita – free AI-supported plant identification university project

Check out as well Merlin Bird ID: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

retro_guyon Flora Incognita – free AI-supported plant identification university project

See ShroomID - https://shroom.id/

retro_guyon Flora Incognita – free AI-supported plant identification university project

It is also worth noting that they have recently greatly improved their AI: https://floraincognita.com/blog/2023/04/18/press-release-new...

retro_guyon Flora Incognita – free AI-supported plant identification university project

I had not much success with Seek when it comes to plants. However, its variant iNaturalist is not bad for identifying insects if you take good photos and spend some time sifting through the results suggested by the app.

Flora Incognita is more like the PictureThis app with focus on the plants growing naturally in local ecosystems.

retro_guyon Basic 10 Liner Contest – program a game for 8-bit computer in 10 lines of code

An English description is in the second part of the website. You can see the previous entries by clicking through the years at the top.

retro_guyon Automated Taxonomic Identification of Insects with Expert-Level Accuracy

Check out as well, "Deep learning and computer vision will transform entomology": https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2002545117

retro_guyon Portal Demake for Nintendo 64

- project on GitHub: https://github.com/lambertjamesd/portal64

Check out as well:

- Nintendo 64 Architecture -- a practical analysis: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-64/)

- Awesome N64 Development: https://n64.dev/

retro_guyon NokiX – open-source firmware modding tool and SDK for classic Nokia phones

Check out as well:

- Vintage Firmware Modding Nokia DCT3 Phones video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7tkjJ-F95U

- video demonstrating various homebrew games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APcUPL1Xb-o

- homebrew games and applications for old Nokia phones (including source code examples): https://sourceforge.net/projects/nokix/files/NokiX%20scripts...

retro_guyon My Favorite Software Subreddits

Yeah, r/retroprogramming is not a very active sub... Check out r/retrogamedev

retro_guyon PSXFunkin – Friday Night Funkin' on the Original Playstation

On GitHub: https://github.com/cuckydev/PSXFunkin/releases/

retro_guyon Behind the Pixels: Starduino – 3D Gaming in 28KB

Check out as well

- 3D Rendering on an Arduboy: https://www.a1k0n.net/2017/02/01/arduboy-teapot.html

- General overview of Arduboy — open-source homebrew 8-bit platform, and its community: https://www.inputmag.com/reviews/arduboy-fx-review-no-quirk-...

- Some people make their own Arduboys: https://www.hackster.io/contests/arduboycontest

retro_guyon Snesdev Game Jam – Super Nintendo 30th anniversary retro coding event

And the Game Boy Advance 20th anniversary retro coding jam is currently in progress: https://itch.io/jam/gbajam21

retro_guyon I'm building a Minecraft clone in hardware, on a tiny FPGA with 143kb of RAM

Talking about the N64 and FPGA, do you know that someone is working on an FPGA implementation? Link: https://twitter.com/ufp64

Hmm… Hardware Minecraft… I do also wonder what would it take to create a PICO-8 (popular fantasy console) implementation in hardware with a Lua CPU…

retro_guyon The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs

Maybe you will find this article about Large-Scale Field-Programmable Analog Arrays [FPAAs] interesting as well: https://hasler.ece.gatech.edu/FPAA_IEEEXPlore_2020.pdf

retro_guyon The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter

Hmm… I wonder what would it take to create an FPGA hardware version of the PICO-8 fantasy console…

Baremetal projects are truly fascinating -- I cannot wait to read your documentation. There's also a hardware Z-Machine: https://hackaday.com/2014/11/29/the-zork-virtual-machine-imp...

And this dev is working on FPGA Another World: https://github.com/felipesanches/AnotherWorld_FPGA