AgonLight Week Programming Challenge – ISSUE 3

Published: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 10:43 | Comments: 0
AgonLight Week Programming Challenge – ISSUE 3

Here we go to the Third issue of the AgonLight programming challenge. This time taking into the account the feedback we got from Facebook we will extend it to be 1 week long, not just weekend! So rules are changed: What is WPC? It’s a small coding challenge that you have to solve for 1 […]

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ZX-ESPectrum emulator tested with ESP32-SBC-FabGL, The Mensch computer with W65C256 got VGA display and Keyboard

Published: Wed, 31 May 2023 10:32 | Comments: 3
ZX-ESPectrum emulator tested with ESP32-SBC-FabGL, The Mensch computer with W65C256 got VGA display and Keyboard

https://github.com/EremusOne/ZX-ESPectrum-IDF is the next repository we try with ESP32-SBC-FabGL. At first it didn’t build but after Twitter consultation the problem appear with PlatformIO which was searching for obsolete version of ESP32 tools, after adding one line in platformio.ini the project compiled and show on the screen, there are still some annoying things like menus not […]

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ESP32-SBC-FabGL tested with RunCPM 5.7 and 6.0, TinyCPC Amstrad, TinyNes, TinyMCUME

Published: Mon, 29 May 2023 13:35 | Comments: 3
ESP32-SBC-FabGL tested with RunCPM 5.7 and 6.0, TinyCPC Amstrad, TinyNes, TinyMCUME

When I posted about ESP32-SBC-FabGL some people start asking, will it run runCPM? will it run TinyNES so today I found some time and tested few projects found on GitHub: https://github.com/guidol70/RunCPM_VGA32 tested RunCPM6 and RunCPM5.7 both works but there are few things to change: both require SdFat library but do not compile with latest library […]

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New Open Source Hardware design is verified: ESP32-SBC-FabGL single board computer based on FabGL library with PS2 keyboard, mouse and VGA display with many retro computer emulators

Published: Thu, 25 May 2023 14:11 | Comments: 10
New Open Source Hardware design is verified: ESP32-SBC-FabGL single board computer based on FabGL library with PS2 keyboard, mouse and VGA display with many retro computer emulators

I learned about the FabGL library when we started manufacturing AgonLight2. The ESP32 was used as a graphics, sound, and IO keyboard co-processor for Bernardo’s Z80 design. Upon checking the library, I discovered that the author, Fabrizio Di Vittorio, had already created several emulators for Altair8080, VIC20, and even old DOS PCs! This is how […]

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