It’s time for gaming! Firmware version 3.25 for the BMOW Wombat adds support for ADB game controllers, joysticks, and gamepads, making them available to modern computers. Support includes the popular Gravis Mac GamePad and Gravis MouseStick II, as well as…
Visit bigmessowires.com → RSS feedOn Hacker News Nov 2014 – Jun 2024
Hardware & Electronics 4Systems & Performance 2Tech Industry & Business 2Society, Policy & Culture 1History & Retro Computing 1
What does it take to build a little 68000-based protoboard computer, and get it running Linux? In my case, about three weeks of spare time, plenty of coffee, and a strong dose of stubborness. After banging my head against the wall with problems ranging from the inductance of pushbutton switches to memory leaks in the…
Apple II disk controller cards are weird, there are a crazy number of different types , and many are rare and expensive. Can an FPGA-based solution save the day for retro collectors? You bet! Nearly all the existing disk controllers connect the same 8-bit bus to the same 19-pin disk interface, so a universal clone is…