WillFlux

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by WillFlux 5y ago
I also have a post on Verilog Lint with Verilator: https://projectf.io/posts/verilog-lint-with-verilator/
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by WillFlux 5y ago
I can empathise. I was aware of Verilator for ages before I started simulating my own designs with it. The Verilator documentation is good, but it can do so much that it's hard to know where to start.
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Verilog Simulation with Verilator and SDL(projectf.io)
76 points by WillFlux 5y ago|34 comments
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by WillFlux 5y ago
I've just published December 1985: https://systemtalk.org/post/macintosh-history-8512/ A few quotes from this issue: "In the old days, the ignorant confused Lisp with 'Artificial Intelligence'
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by WillFlux 5y ago
I believe I've fixed it; give it another go. The problem was that "application/rss+xml" was being encoded as "application/rss+xml". This worked on NetNewsWire, so I didn't notice.
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by WillFlux 5y ago
Thanks. I’ll look into that.
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by WillFlux 5y ago
Thank you. I’ve already started work on the December ‘85 post.
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by WillFlux 5y ago
That’s an interesting question and one I don’t know the answer to. PageMaker is the first serious DTP package, but it wasn’t capable of laying out a magazine in 1985: for one thing MacUser is in colour! The Macintosh II with colour support
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by WillFlux 5y ago
Thanks. A creative era when a mainstream Mac magazine has could cover everything from Excel to 68000 assembler, role-playing games to icon design, and Lisp to desktop publishing. Computers and their users have yet to be confined to silos.
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by WillFlux 5y ago
Original author here; thanks for visiting my new blog. The post discusses ExperLisp for Macintosh, but I’ve never managed to find a copy. If anyone knows the whereabouts of an ExperLisp binary, I’d love to try running it. I’ve only written
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by WillFlux 5y ago
Ah, I misremembered. Wikipedia's Macintosh II page says: "The machine shipped with a socket for an MMU, but the 'Apple HMMU Chip' (VLSI VI475 chip) was installed that did not implement virtual memory (instead, it transla
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by WillFlux 5y ago
A 32-bit CPU with MMU is not a prerequisite for multitasking. The Amiga (and others) managed preemptive multitasking on a Motorola 68000. For designs that wanted an MMU, you could use an external one. Sun had external MMUs in their early wo
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by WillFlux 6y ago
I’ve written an introduction to FPGA development with a couple of Xilinx-based boards: https://projectf.io/posts/hello-arty-1/ It’s hands-on rather that theoretical.
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by WillFlux 6y ago
The Digital Antiquarian is also worth reading on the history of Lemmings: https://www.filfre.net/2017/10/games-on-the-mersey-part-5-th...
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by WillFlux 6y ago
We’ll see :D Forthcoming posts will cover simple 3D modelling with texturing and lighting in hardware. But that’s still a long way from a GPU.
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by WillFlux 6y ago
It’s something I’m looking into. The font seems to render thinner on some platforms, making it hard to read.
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by WillFlux 6y ago
PLLs are common to many electronics system, if you’re looking for a primer, try https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/articles/phase-loc... However, from the point of view of these designs, the PLL is an
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by WillFlux 6y ago
Alas, this is a surprisingly hard question to answer, at least for FPGA design. Here are a few sites that helped me learn: * https://www.fpga4fun.com * http://fpgacpu.ca * https://www.nandland.com/ver
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by WillFlux 6y ago
If you're referring to the original URL https://projectf.io/posts/fpga-graphics/ , then there are no sprites involved. We define a square mathematically, then check whether it has collided with the edge of the
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by WillFlux 6y ago
I’d strongly encourage you to finish your write up and post it. As you say, there is a dearth of decent FPGA material, especially for hobbyists and those trying to learn hardware design.
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by WillFlux 6y ago
SystemVerilog has several useful additions for FPGA engineers, but tool support has been slow to materialise. For the moment, I’ve kept to the few features that Xilinx Vivado and Yosys http://www.clifford.at/yosys/ are
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by WillFlux 6y ago
I assume you’re talking about FPGA Ad Astra? https://projectf.io/posts/fpga-ad-astra/ The first sprites post, https://projectf.io/posts/hardware-sprites/ does include 4-bit sprites, but
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by WillFlux 6y ago
Original author here. I’ll do my best to answer any questions. Be gentle; this is my first time on the receiving end of Hacker News. :)
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by WillFlux 6y ago
“The end of CentOS could have the unintended effect of undermining the demand for ultra-stable ‘enterprise’ distributions in general.” That seems possible. Perhaps like the UNIX of old, Solaris et al, the ultra-stable ‘enterprise’ Linux dis
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by WillFlux 6y ago
Both great demos. I recommend watching Eon from the Revision 2019 Amiga compo stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwoyfH7TgEQ&feature=youtu.be... Hearing the crowd react definitely adds to this one!
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by WillFlux 6y ago
“This method has been used by the author (along with another program that optimizes code emulating state machines) to write the C library function printf in only 500 bytes.” I wonder how big libc would have been if they applied Superoptimiz
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by WillFlux 6y ago
Where did that number come from? Looking at https://www.simulant.uk/shop/amiga-addict-magazine it says 341 more orders required, so 159 orders so far.
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Tape Loops: Recreating the Sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop(webaudio.prototyping.bbc.co.uk)
3 points by WillFlux 6y ago|0 comments
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by WillFlux 7y ago
If you want to see what an Amiga 500 can do in the right hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwoyfH7TgEQ&t=3270s Eon by TBL from Revision 2019.
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by WillFlux 7y ago
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which st

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