SmokeMonster

Furrtek Maps the PC Engine HuC6270 with John McMaster

Furrtek decapped the PC Engine platform’s (PCE/TurboGrafx-16/CoreGrafx/SuperGrafx/Duo/etc) video generator chip, the HuC6270, back in November, and then sent it to John McMaster for photographing and imaging. John just published an extremely high resolution map of the chip that can be used for reverse engineering. Decapping is the process of removing the casing of an integrated […]

Rany Battikh

Reverse-engineered schematics for the original Game Boy by Furrtek

Furrtek, mostly known for his excellent work with Neo-Geo hardware and FPGA, just released a 36-page documentation depicting his process of reverse-engineering the original DMG-001. In a 191-hour meticulous process, Furrtek was able to draw schematics for the following: All APU logic. All PPU logic. All I/O and timer logic. All DMA logic. All interrupt […]

Bob

Furrtek’s Neo Geo FPGA Core

Furrtek has just posted a Neo Geo FPGA progress update on his Patreon page:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/progress-january-24218461 The post is subscriber-only, so I don’t want to share the whole story…but it looks like Furrtek has games running!!!  At the moment, it’s video only, but he thinks he’ll be able to integrate Jotego’s YM core pretty easily. Please consider supporting […]

Bob

VirtualTap Pre-orders Close THIS SAT!!!

Just a friendly reminder: Furrtek is closing sales of his VirtualTap TV-out mod this Saturday, December 1st.  He’s already released the open-source design file on github, but this is your last chance to support the creator and buy direct!  Show some VB love and place your order here:  http://furrtek.free.fr/virtualtap/   Virtualtap: 5 days left to enter […]

Bob

Furrtek Releases VirtualTap Schematics

As previously promised, Furrtek has released the schematics for his Virtual Boy TV-Out project called the Virtual Tap.  He’s still taking orders for the current batch he’s making, but only until the end of December:  http://furrtek.free.fr/virtualtap/ https://github.com/furrtek/VirtualTap   Code, schematics and layout, as promised 🙂 https://t.co/X2csOy6gHwI'll be taking orders for kits until the end of December, […]