Asteroids Game on Scope Tube

An Asteroids arcade game implementation on an Spartan 3 FPGA. Display is an old scope tube with vector rendering, deflection by 12AX7 tubes. As seen on www.ct-lab.de

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• FPGA
• Asteroids
• arcade
• scope
• Clock
• diy
• electronics
• gadget
• video
• game

[bigshrimpn]

To those who may not know. FPGA is not emulation, it is more like an exact recreation of the original hardware housed inside of a chip.

For example, emulation is like having a person try to impersonate a celebrity, whereas FPGA is like taking an exact copy of the celebrity's brain and transplanting it into a "blank" person.

[porcorosso81]

Yeah, why bother to learn and do something to improve your skills...

[archon808]

Why does this look like a raster display. Look at the jaggies when it is in clock mode

[gjc82071]

@mrt1r Cool/Thanks for the clarification. Anyway, I like & admire your scope tube setup. Have you tried any other vector type games on it? Also, is that a generic asteroids game, or the real thing? I love most vintage/retro technology that involves gaming. I'm a total "retroholic" & emulator man myself. With the exception of my (packed away) modest vintage consoles collection (16 consoles/200+ carts), I am strictly into emulation. I collect emulators/ROMs & have 50+/60,000+ respectively.

[mrt1r]

@gjc82071 Emulation, as understood by most people (referring to your MAME example) is a re-implementation of a piece of hardware, in software such that the "emulator" is able to execute an original piece of software code from the hardware.

[gjc82071]

@bigshrimpn You over-simplify emulation a little. Emulation is a little more/better than that. Maybe like....taking the celebs exact twin brother & using him as the impersonator? I mean, MAME, it faithfully reproduces the games as near as exact as possible. You can't tell the difference in play/sound, graphic. All they are doing is running the game program on a faster chip. Unless, you mean strictly FPGA (I don't know what that is) & not ALL emulation in general?

[Muslim2888]

crt.... xD 

[YRUIM]

Oh my god! where can i get such a thing?

[noodleking456]

why?



[kinmanyuen]

reminds me of teh VECTREX

[unebonnevie]

where do you get the scope display?

[FlyMario2]

Wow now that is neat! I am about order a Spartan 3e board. Pretty excited. Could likely implement the hardware inside an Apple II and Atari... ahh the memories.