Boss pigeon can make you an offer you won’t be able to refuse 😉 I was visiting the city centre, trying out my new lens (a Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG Macro HSM II), and I came across a group of pigeons frolicking on the grass beside the river. There was this one pigeon that really stood out, being the most round and fearful looking. As I was taking the photo it even came closer to me and…
On this day 10 years ago, Dennis van Weeren made the first recorded commit on his then new project, Minimig (see Changelog here), so this makes today the 10th anniversary of Minimig. The project started as a sort of proof-of-concept, showing that it is possible to re-create Amiga custom chipset in an FPGA. In around three years, Dennis made a fairly complete implementation of the OCS chipset. Amiga community – with history of disappointments behind it –…
So, to continue from Part 1, the rest of additions in Denise. Denise bitplane updates First, of course, the bitplane count needs to be upgraded from ECS’ 6 bitplanes to AGA’s 8 bitplanes, together with everything dependent on it, like collision detection for 8 bitplanes, two additional bitplane output buffer registers, playfield support, etc. Quite a lot of code changes in this step, but not hard to do – basically, I just followed the existing code and…
