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Re: Stuffs to read before going to bed

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 3:02 am
by Charles MacDonald
An in-depth description of how to make a DRAM controller with programmable logic that supports FPM/EDO DRAM:

http://datasheets.chipdb.org/Intel/8096 ... 262801.pdf

Written for the i960, but it applies to the 68020 and any other CPU that provides indicators about sequential memory accesses to the DRAM controller.

And here's information about designing a regular DRAM controller for the 68030 using programmable logic:

http://opencollector.org/history/freeco ... roller.htm

Re: Stuffs to read before going to bed

Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 1:31 pm
by MooZ

Re: Stuffs to read before going to bed

Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 12:54 pm
by Tanuki
Thanks for the link ! :D

Re: Stuffs to read before going to bed

Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 12:49 am
by Gravis
awesome. i'm going to be using fourier transform for a project based on audio decomposition and this looks like a good place to learn about it. :D

Re: Stuffs to read before going to bed

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:30 am
by MooZ

Re: Stuffs to read before going to bed

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:31 pm
by Charles MacDonald
How the copy protection in Spyro: YOTD was implemented:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3 ... at_bay.php

I wish there were more PS/PS2 developers willing to discuss their methods, it's fascinating stuff.

Re: Stuffs to read before going to bed

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 1:02 pm
by MooZ
Cool!

Here're documents about an older game : Ultima VI :)

Re: Stuffs to read before going to bed

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 3:30 pm
by MooZ

Re: Stuffs to read before going to bed

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:00 am
by MooZ

Re: Stuffs to read before going to bed

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:43 am
by Charles MacDonald
This is the homepage of Ryuichi Takahashi, one of the designers of the NEC V60 CPU:

http://homepage3.nifty.com/alpha-1/index.html

He describes his time at NEC amongst other things, and has a lot of insight about microprocessor design. Almost everything is in English, though the sections are quite small.