Pong - retro tennis, soccer and squash TV game in a CPLD.

This is a close emulation of the AY-3-8500 chip manufactured by General Instruments and fitted to many TV games consoles during the late 1970s.

Four games have been implemented; Soccer, Tennis, Squash and Solo, with two ball speeds and bat sizes. The ball deflection angle depends upon which part of the bat the ball hits.

The code was written in VHDL and fits into a 256-macro cell XILINX coolrunner 2 CPLD.

Watch this space for a breakout clone in colour.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• PONG
• VIDEOGAME
• CPLD
• FPGA
• VHDL
• ELECTRONICS
• ARCADE
• XILINX
• COOLRUNNER
• PROJECT
• AY-3-8500

[hairyf00t]

Has breakout been abondoned?

[retrocores]

@hairyf00t

I'm porting breakout to an Altera Cyclone FPGA; the CPLD simply did not have enough MACRO cells to store all the bricks. This will be finished very soon. In the meantime please watch my new video - me abusing an old osilloscope!

[hairyf00t]

Whats happened to Breakout?

[retrocores]

@hairyf00t It will be here soon...

[DARKMAGOZ]

you can send The catch in the VHL?

[DARKMAGOZ]

you can send The catch in the VHL?

[hairyf00t]

Has breakout been abondoned?

[ZXRulezzz]

Hehe... In Russia, we have AY-3-8500 equivalent - K145IK17. IK17 comes in DIP-24, there's just one pin to switch games... But the game is totally same.

[ecke1010]

That's awesome. Is there any more info on this project?