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Conclusion and Future Direction

Future Direction

  • Port More HDL games
  • Port Uzebox
  • Port Full Game systems
    • Atari 2600
    • Colecovision
    • NES
  • Expandability with more Wings
  • SVideo/Composite Video Wing
  • Wireless Controllers?
  • VGA with more color depth.
  • SD Card for game storage.

Other Papilio Uses

The Papilio One is a flexible FPGA board that can be used for purposes other than the Papilio Arcade Kit. Some of the other uses that are either available or in the works are:

Existing
Future
  • Papilio Synth Kit – Add a MIDI port to the Papilio One and use it as a 8 voice 32 Oscillator Synthesizer that lets you experiment with different sounds. Based on the excellent Gateman Poly project.
  • Papilio Multimedia Kit – Play MP3 and other media files from an SD card. When the Papilio Arcade is not playing a game let it run a picture slideshow.

Conclusion

The Papilio Arcade Kit is an exciting and expandable classic Arcade system that allows the study of classic Arcade game design. Experimenting with the Open Source HDL code allows a deep understanding of 8 bit design. The powerful and expandable hardware design allows for custom Arcade projects that are not possible with static motherboards.

Appendix A - Attribution

  • MikeJ at FPGA Arcade has done a tremendous job of making many Open Source Arcade projects available on his website. MikeJ wrote the Pac-Man design among many others.
  • Dan Leach at Bradley University wrote the NES On-A-Chip design.

Appendix B - Links

  

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