Building Consoles For Fun 128
tierra writes "Indiviuals writing their own games is one thing, but try building your own console. Russ Christensen, and his team put together in class, dive into the fun of using an old Nintendo system to house their customized XSA-50 Board. They also uses a XSA Extender to hook their personal console up to a monitor instead of a TV. They programmed Tetris and Space Invaders for their console using a system they call CASM."
Bah (Score:5, Funny)
this aint news (Score:0, Funny)
Feeling the pain (Score:5, Funny)
For the love of God, what does he think he's doing?
At school? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Feeling the pain (Score:2, Funny)
Space Invaders game play footage. To see the game in action here is a 21MB Windows Media File. Or an 89MB MPEG File.
Seriously, this is pretty cool, even if the resolution is only 64x30 with 2 bit color. Better than I can do.
And no I won't provide you with a link to these ungodly sized mpegs!
In Related News... (Score:5, Funny)
"Our professor allowed us to take a different approach, using an ICDS Enhanced Hot Water Drill, a cage full of GM hamsters and some pantyhose we have created our own version of the worlds very first Wheel. We carved it straight of a rock wall! We call it Wheel Revolution. The wheel was a revolution, and it revolves, so we're getting double-usage out of the name. Bob is able to put his hands on the axis of the wheel while Pete holds his ankles and runs. We'll be holding a public demo for a few days so stop on over and try it out!"
" Our engineering professor liked the idea of us really getting back to the basics."
Re:Feeling the pain (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Feeling the pain (Score:5, Funny)
Russ: I'm sorry sir, I couldn't finish the paper.
Professor: You better have a good excuse this time.
Russ: Well, I put up a website about our project, but I ran a server for the 78mb MPEGs off my own computer, and then it got slashdotted.
credibility (Score:3, Funny)
The nintendo for a case: most impressive.
The fact that they use the word 'foo' in the tetris source code: pure credibility
Re:Wonderful! (Score:2, Funny)