ZPUino demo video with VGA

Jack made a wonderful demo video of ZPUino with VGA, running on Papilio One:

Watch it here.

Thanks Jack!

Sort of a demo

Sort of a VGA + ADC demo. This one is in simulator, I'll post pics later on it on real hardware.

Beta2 released

ZPUino Beta2 released

Download: http://www.alvie.com/zpuino/download.html

Release notes: http://alvie.com/zpuino/releasenotes.html

Have fun!

Working with simulator

I've been working on a real ZPUino simulator, one that can run all your sketches directly.

Although it's not a perfect one (proper timing is not implemented) it's fully functional, and I'm even putting out a GUI for it.

And it's a lot of fun! And it's rather easy to add simulation for your own devices.

Alvie

Beta1 released

Hi,

I'm proud to announce that ZPUino Beta1 release is now available:

Release Notes
Download

Good hacking!

Alvie

A Sponsor Appreciation

Hi,

Beta 1 will be available later today, but I would not release it before a short sponsor appreciation, which is entirely justified.

So, I'd like to give a very special thank you to Gadget Factory, and to Jack Gassett himself. They have kindly provided to me all of their hardware boards for no cost, thus helping a lot ZPUino development (I need boards to test, to develop on, and new additional hardware too). That included Papilio One 250, Papilio One 500, and some early prototypes, like Papilio Overshield and C/RAM Wing and other in-production wings, like VGA, Audio and Joystick. Development goes way more smoother when we have real hardware to test stuff on.

Jack has also been a Beta tester for ZPUino, and he even put some demonstrations online, which I also thank him very much for the time spent (and pacience).

For all this, a huge Thank You to Gadget Factory and Jack.

Alvie

ZPUino BETA to be released

Yes, that's true!

ZPUino 1st BETA will be release hopefully during this weekend. I won't disclose all details until then, but here's a quick overview:

• Wishbone compatible. You can connect any wishbone-compliant core to the IO module


• Improved bootloader and programmer, with a lot of sanity checks.


• A new Papilio One core for S3E500, with HQVGA(160x120, 8-bit color) support


• A new S3ESK core, with a HQVGA 8-bit color (but reduced to 3-bit due to no board support)


• SmallFS - a simple-to-use, small filesystem on flash


• A new library: VGA, to work with the new cores


• Full (yes, full) Microsoft Windows Support (subject to testing, of course!)


• An optional preliminary IDE based on upcoming Arduino 1.0 release


• Lots of bugfixes all around

Stay tuned!.

Alvie