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Awesome! A huge amount of work must have gone into this. I did some playing around with VGA graphics from the Pico when it first came out (wrote a simple libra
by gchadwick 5y ago
Awesome! A huge amount of work must have gone into this.
I did some playing around with VGA graphics from the Pico when it first came out (wrote a simple library to produce SNES like graphics, wrote it all up on my blog https://gregchadwick.co.uk/blog/playing-with-the-pico-pt6/ https://gregchadwick.co.uk/blog/playing-with-the-pico-pt6/). It felt like Doom should be doable but I figured you'd need an off chip RAM expansion interfaced via the PIO. Clearly not.
The Pico really is a very fun board to play around with. Could be a great target for a retro style mini console thing.
- jrockway 5y ago> Could be a great target for a retro style mini console thing. I've been playing with this thing. It's quite neat: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picosystem?variant=32369546985555 https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picosystem?variant=323695... (Note that it's a dev board; if you just want to play AAA games, not the thing to buy. If you want to program a game and show it off, it's what you want.)
- klelatti 5y agoThanks for highlighting this - looks awesome.
- kefabean 5y agoThese are truly fab little devices - i bought a couple for my kids to play simple (not too addictive) games and hopefully get them in to programming. question is, how would one go about compiling Doom for the Picosystem? that would be so cool…
- jlundberg 5y agoThe PicoSystem is really neat and has awesome build quality. One thing I really like about it is the super quick boot compared to all normal devices that need to boot an operating system first. Highly recommended.
- codetiger 5y agoI built a retro style game console for myself and now working on building games on it. Never thought doom is possible without lot of external hardware for RAM and storage https://codetiger.github.io/blog/building-a-retro-style-game-console-in-2022/ https://codetiger.github.io/blog/building-a-retro-style-game...
- officeplant 5y ago+1 for build quailty. I love my PicoSystem even if my goal of learning to program a game for it has fallen flat, ha.
- niutech 5y agoCosting £58.50 it's way too expensive. ESPlay Micro is only $32 and has better specs.
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- erosenbe0 5y agoFun VGA experiment -- thanks for writing it up. I've done VGA with FPGAs but I like how Pico is way cheaper with an open tool chain and great accessories.
- niutech 5y agoFor a retro mini console, VGA32 based on ESP32 with FabGL is a better choice.