Official BlackBox News Thread

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:00 pm

Can you make them so it doesn't have to be hooked up to the computer?

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Thu May 25, 2006 3:23 pm

Nick wrote:Can you make them so it doesn't have to be hooked up to the computer?

Hooked up to the computer? Explain please.

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:57 pm

Nick, iam7805 is building a simple video game console. Unless you consider the innards of the game console a computer, nothing in his project has anything to do with a computer.

Are you suggesting that he make the controllers for his console wireless?

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Thu May 25, 2006 5:03 pm

Yeah, i'm still wondering what he thought i was building.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Thu May 25, 2006 6:10 pm

I think he might mean VGA out.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu May 25, 2006 6:33 pm

Sorry for that stupid post of mine. I was kinda thinking that your game console would be a lot like XGameStation.

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:59 pm

so for us civilians what is the hardware progress?

Post by **Triton** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:00 pm

last i heard (earlier today) he was designing the schematic for the GPU, so its going pretty well

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:03 pm

so what all is done, and what needs to be done?

Post by **Triton** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:14 pm

i think he has designed the psu and controller board, workin on the gpu part of the main motherboard now, im not 100% sure what all is done yet

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Fri May 26, 2006 12:40 pm

Sweet, Hope I can have the privelage of working on the cosmetics later (because I have no training or study for the technical aspects of the system

)

Fanboy · Post by **Fanboy** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:44 pm

I'm going to work on the controller... I just need the board layout so I can design the prototype PCB. Gimme some of the specifics for case design, too.

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:07 pm

how does this controlleroperate?

with the "up-down" principle like the NES and SNES
like the Atari ans Genesis? (hopefully not)
something complicated like the playstation and xbox?
or one data line plus hot like the n64?

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:26 pm

Four pins on the controller:

Data
Clock
5v
Ground

Post by **Skyone** » Fri May 26, 2006 4:01 pm

iam7805 wrote:Four pins on the controller:

Data
Clock
5v
Ground

So you're doing an up/down interface? You should go NeoGeo and have a pin for each button, allowing the controller to be smaller.