Points Cont'd, Asteroids Game in C#

[JoJo]

Talking of Asteroids - I got the FPGAarcade VHDL simulation of the original Asteroids Deluxe hardware working on a Spartan 3 dev board.

Is there any additional hardware or ROM-code necessary?
Do you think it can be ported to an Altera Cyclone II board?
I would like to try it.

Joachim

[mikkojay]

Hey, I got my easylase in the mail today!
Some quick porting to the easylase dll and a couple of tweaks later ended up looking like THIS

[Laser Ben]

That is so cool!~!!

I wish I had an easy lase. Any way for someone to export a clip of this to .ild?

[uk-laser]

Is there any additional hardware or ROM-code necessary?
Do you think it can be ported to an Altera Cyclone II board?
I would like to try it.

Joachim

Hi Joachim,

The only additional hardware is 2 10 bit DACs for X & Y + a 4 bit DAC for beam intensity. The original program ROMs (all 2k x 8) have to be downloaded from a MAME site and placed in ROM primitives (Xilinx S3 has 18kbit blockrams which can be pre-initilaized) I'm sure Altera have something similar.

PS where can I get a cheap easylase ;-)

Best regards,
Robin

[mikkojay]

Hey Laser Ben, the first post has a zip file that is an ILD file with frames from the game. When I modified the game to pipe output to the scanner, I hacked out the part that writes ilda, as to not slow the game down. I saved the code though, because I might want to create a program that generates ilda frames programmatically- like a 3d landscape or something like that.
-Mike

[stanwax]

Hey, I got my easylase in the mail today!
Some quick porting to the easylase dll and a couple of tweaks later ended up looking like THIS

hey any chance of a file to download this - I have easylase too but im no coder

Rob

[carmangary]

I modified the C# Asteroids to work on the Moncha DAC. I also added the sound back in.

[Zoof]

current state of lasertennis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhoEKCUxEzQ

[cruch]

WOW!!! NICE work duuude

[carmangary]

Very good. Two thumbs up.