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Show HN: Tamagotchi P1 for FPGAs

https://github.com/agg23/fpga-tamagotchi
53•agg23•6d ago
After being thrust headfirst into FPGA development thanks to the Analogue Pocket, my first from scratch creation was a gate level implementation of the original Tamagotchi toy.

The core, running on both the Analogue Pocket and MiSTer platforms, lets users re-experience the very first Tamagotchi from 1996 with accurate emulation, but modern features. The core has savestates (which is much harder to do in hardware vs software emulation), high turbo speeds (1,800x was the max clock speed I've reached so far), and more.

Learning more about hardware and FPGAs is something I've wanted to do for many years, and I highly recommend it for any programmer-brained person. It's a very slightly different way of thinking that has vast consequences on how you look at simple problems.

Comments

ozarkerD•5h ago
That's insanely cool! I love fun applications of FPGA like this.
crims0n•4h ago
This is awesome, nice work!
FredPret•4h ago
1800x turbo?

What happens if you fast-forward a whole lot, any easter eggs?

brian-armstrong•3h ago
Very cool project!

Anything surprise you about working on this? Any tips you found about implementing for FPGA?

magicalhippo•2h ago
Man, I'm kicking myself for not having a backup, but there was this game programming contest around early 2000s where they had to make a game in a day or less.

It was either hosted by flipcode[1] or linked to from there.

One of the entries was a faithful reimplementation of Tamagotchi for Windows, except instead of a small creature to look after it was a small rock, and the game was called Tamagraniti (I'm pretty sure).

You could do all the same things, water your rock, give it a pet pebble and such.

I just really loved the silliness of it, and the implementation was really well done in that it mimicked the little device with the LCD screen.

Been trying to find it but seems gone...

[1] https://www.flipcode.com

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Show HN: Tamagotchi P1 for FPGAs

https://github.com/agg23/fpga-tamagotchi
53•agg23•6d ago•5 comments