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Lightning Amiga Performance With PiStorm
There has been some very exciting accelerator projects recently. Of course the TerribleFire and Vampire accelerators are incredibly popular but there are some new kids on the block such as Buffee (the Vampire slayer) and PiStorm. I recently obtained a PiStorm and this is how I set it up. Read more
Design of the Amiga 500 CPLD RGBtoHDMI
The RGBtoHDMI project uses a Raspberry Pi Zero to generate an HDMI output based on the video signals from a classic computer. A CPLD is used to convert these signals into a common format for the Pi to read on the GPIO. This post goes into why and how I developed an Amiga 500 variant… Read more
Designing the Amiga 2000 RGBtoHDMI V2
There is a project called the RGBtoHDMI project which is quite popular at the moment. Put simply it a project that pushes raw digital RGB data into a Raspberry Pi Zero which then spits that out on its HDMI to produce a low-latency, pixel perfect representation of the image. It was originally designed for Acorn… Read more
Repair of Another Amiga TF534 Accelerator
One of my friends from the local Amiga users group has a TF534 accelerator that one day decided to fail. This post documents my repair of it. Read more
Building a Digilent Based Xilinx JTAG Programmer
In a previous post I mentioned how to build a Xilinx programmer using a Raspberry Pi Zero for their basic XC9500XL CPLD range. This has worked great on some projects. But I’ve had a few issues with it so I decided to upgrade my programmer. This outlines why and what I use now. Read more
Compiling Xilinx CPLD Verilog in Linux Command Line
I mostly edit my Verilog files for basic Xilinx CPLD devices in vim, so it is a pain to launch the entire Xilinx IDE just to compile the thing. After doing a bit of research I managed to figure out how to compile from the command line too. Read more
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