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Tech and Homebrew => Turbo/PCE Game/Tool Development => Topic started by: DarkKobold on May 10, 2022, 08:41:44 PM

Title: Huge new development for homebrew: Affordable TG-16 HuCard publishing!
Post by: DarkKobold on May 10, 2022, 08:41:44 PM
https://twitter.com/RetroStage_PCB/status/1524174309488353280

Coming very soon!
Title: Re: Huge new development for homebrew: Affordable TG-16 HuCard publishing!
Post by: Necromancer on May 11, 2022, 01:25:22 AM
Interesting.  Even though there's not much room for the pcb, I assume there's no issue with rom sizes nowadays, at least not if you stick to 8 megabit or less and don't need a mapper.
Title: Re: Huge new development for homebrew: Affordable TG-16 HuCard publishing!
Post by: DarkKobold on May 17, 2022, 12:42:14 PM
Interesting.  Even though there's not much room for the pcb, I assume there's no issue with rom sizes nowadays, at least not if you stick to 8 megabit or less and don't need a mapper.

He even has plans for a mapper version. One of the biggest problems with this sort of stuff is most chips are made for 3.3V instead of 5V. The industry really only makes 5V stuff for legacy systems like these, so finding parts becomes harder. The mapper version would include an FPGA that does both the mapper stuff and voltage translation, because finding an appropriate sized 5V chip at that size is near impossible.