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Tuesday, April 28 2009
Tuesday, April 28 2009. Computer
Who has never wanted to build his own computer with a few parts ? Grant Searle is the owner of this great project. All the details are here: http://searle.wales Characteritics 6502 à 8HMz 32K RAM 19200 Bauds serial interface Input and Display from the serial link Built-in Microsoft BASIC […]
Tuesday, April 28 2009. Home automation
Le but premier de ce projet était de mettre en oeuvre un afficheur graphique de téléphone portable Nokia. Le montage présenté ici est un petit thermomètre autonome, permettant d'une part d'afficher toutes les secondes deux températures (intérieure et extérieure) et d'autre part, de visualiser sur […]
Friday, April 24 2009
Friday, April 24 2009. Graphical routines
This application is used to generate random mazes. The attached package contains the source code. The implementation uses my own graphical library (Gfx). Enjoy! Buzz […]
Friday, April 24 2009. Graphical routines
This C++ application is used to demonstrate how to quicly identify a cell in an hexagonal mesh. The algorithm is only based on line equations which describe the hexagonal mesh. It is fast and simple. The attached package contains the source code for two different graphical implementations. The […]
Monday, April 20 2009
Monday, April 20 2009. Emulation
This application can be seen as a set of functions to "emulate" Basic routines of the TI99/4A and as a collection of original Basic games translated in C language. To be more precise, this application is a TI99/4A framework (main screen, key & joystick management ...) and a set of C […]
Monday, April 20 2009. Emulation
This 48K Spectrum emulator is a Windows port of the emulator I've made originally for Linux with Allegro library. This time the interface is more comprehensive and has been developped with the fantastic Juce graphical library (http://www.rawmaterialsoftware.com/juce). 48K ZX Spectrum Snapshots […]
Monday, April 20 2009. Emulation
This application is my first Nintendo DS homebrew. It is here about a Spectrum emulator port that I've made for Linux/Windows, adapted to work on Nintendo DS. Some features : Full emulation of the 48K ZX Spectrum Support of snapshots files on SNA format Sound management Virtual keyboard managed […]
Wednesday, April 15 2009
This interface allows to connect a digital joystick (Atari) and/or two analogic paddles. The informations are transmitted both on IR (IRDA SIR mode) and serial (TTL). The interface corresponds to the first release. A little more elaborated version has been made (IRDAJoy V2.1). This interface is […]
Wednesday, April 15 2009. Graphical routines
This source code (see attached) contains a set of basic graphical routines for the LCD LM213, based on the HITACHI HD61830 controler. The routines are usable on a PC (both on Windows or Linux) and the display is connected to its parallel port. Furthermore, the routines are usable on a PIC […]
Wednesday, April 15 2009.
Whoever you are, developer, do-it-yourselfer or simply curious, I hope you will find here a whole lot of information, tricks, useless or not. I discuss a few technical things in this blog: routines, microcontrolers, tools, emulators, PCB... In short, all that I have been able to test, develop, […]
