Ian Hanschen

I needed a way to test my FPGA designs, so I built a PCI validation platform with a custom PCI bridge board. Here it is hosting the VGA core from ao486, and of course it runs DOOM.

dual cpu abit bp6 running beos with bebox style blinkenlights on an x86 over smbus.

if this 100% FPGA demo is passing for a shader, that’s probably my cue to release it. this is an early demo of my own work to replicate the 3dfx sst-1 pipeline in systemverilog. there is a non-canon geometry engine driving it from within the FPGA for kicks.

In the past I’ve used palette snooping to implement hardware projects that visualize VGA palette updates in MS-DOS games. When you are the video card you don’t even have to snoop the palette!

with artemis ii my code has left earth orbit, but so has candy crush

Visualizing VGA palette tricks in Wolf3D, DOOM, and Quake with an FPGA video card