60fps Video on a CGA? - The GlyphBlaster
GlyphBlaster The GlyphBlaster in action - is that a cat in text mode?? There's a certain genre of retro-hardware hack that everyone recognizes is technically cheating, but has a certain audaciousness to it that merits respect regardless. I hope that this one falls into that category! A few years ago, I was impressed by TheRasteri's PiPU project - basically, a Raspberry Pi Pico -powered mapper for the NES. Of course, it can play DOOM: The Raspberry Pi Pico has reinvigorated the retro-computing hobby quite a bit, enabling such devices as the PicoGUS , PicoMEM , PicoIDE , and most recently, the OneROM . It was the latter device that got me thinking. I recently used a OneROM to replace the font ROM on my CGA card, and subsequently I was able to replace IBM's classic 8x8 font with a custom one. Here's Frogblock by Polyducks: The "Frogblock" font loaded onto a OneROM replacing the CGA's font ROM The programmability of the OneROM intrigued me - especially its p...