Pac-man on a chip update
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unbibiumA while ago, I posted about FPGA Arcade, which sought to reduce the entire circuitry of an arcade game into a single chip, using hardware technology so new and cryptic, it uses FOUR-letter acronyms instead of three!
At the time, the only game posted was Pac-Man, but in the time since I last posted about it, they've posted links to two more projects: a Galaxian chip and a Space Invaders chip.
You may wonder why you should care about this.
Simply put, it means that anyone with enough eggs in his head can now build an arcade machine completely with off-the-shelf components from Fry's Electronics. So instead of paying $800 for a Pac-Man PCB on eBay, you can make your own, or buy one made this way. If it's not cheaper now, it will be before long.
The question does remain of where you're going to get the arcade cabinet, the monitor, and so forth. Now that anyone can make a PCB, demand for used arcade cabinets, joysticks and monitors is sure to take off.
At the time, the only game posted was Pac-Man, but in the time since I last posted about it, they've posted links to two more projects: a Galaxian chip and a Space Invaders chip.
You may wonder why you should care about this.
Simply put, it means that anyone with enough eggs in his head can now build an arcade machine completely with off-the-shelf components from Fry's Electronics. So instead of paying $800 for a Pac-Man PCB on eBay, you can make your own, or buy one made this way. If it's not cheaper now, it will be before long.
The question does remain of where you're going to get the arcade cabinet, the monitor, and so forth. Now that anyone can make a PCB, demand for used arcade cabinets, joysticks and monitors is sure to take off.
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Just don't let THIS happen to YOU!!1!
Date: 2002-10-10 02:46 pm (UTC)Man dies after playing computer games non- stop
October 10 2002
A 24-year-old South Korean man died after playing computer games nonstop for 86 hours, police said yesterday.
The jobless man, identified by police only by his last name Kim, was found dead at an Internet cafe in Kwangju, 260 kilometres southwest of Seoul, they said.
Quoting witnesses, police detective Oh Myong- sik in Kwangju said the man had been virtually glued to the computer since late last Friday and had no decent sleep and meals.
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Re: Just don't let THIS happen to YOU!!1!
Date: 2002-10-11 05:40 pm (UTC)