Woot! I have one week of vacation, that I will spend quietly at home.

I want to spend a good amount of time working on my hardware project.

The FPGA section should be updated quite often during this week. I already did the serial controller, and my previous work on PandaForth has helped me much to make up my mind on the upcoming processor's instruction set.

Will I manage to have the processor core up and running this week ? Hmmm... maybe. Stay tuned :)

YAPFU stands now for Yet Another PandaForth Update :) But this one is a bit special, as it introduces a new section on my site, dedicated to Nintendo DS.
I still want to do many things with Forth (I think a STC version for ARM will be a good idea) but well... that's enough for the moment. I seriously want to get back to hardware design, so watch out the FPGA section.

There is now a GP32 version of PandaForth, that uses USB. What will be the next one ? A DS version, with a virtual keyboard involving the touchscreen ? Hmmm well, maybe...

Two updates of PandaForth :

• The GBA version now has support for Xboo cables, and WinterMute's Xboo Communicator features a new console mode that you can use to communicate with the interpreter.
• devpsx offered me a Wyse terminal that I will use for my future system (see FPGA section). For now, it is used to communicate with the Java "emulator".

Woot! I just got a Nintendo DS !
Although I am not very convinced by the opportunity of innovative commercial games for it, and a bit disappointed by its raw performance, I must admit that this is a homebrew coder's "wet dream"... Two screens, Touchscreen, microphone, wireless, and tricks have been discovered by some well-known console hackers to run some code on it. Wonderful !


In the following weeks, a DS section should appear on this site, as I already have some ideas of stuff to do on this new little gizmo.
Stay tuned !

I added a GP32 section. It contains a small demo, which objective was to provide a proper "template" for future projects.

Finally, I spent more time on Forth, because I thought that it would be funny to have Forth on GBA, and to code directly on hardware :)

Maybe a GP32 version using USB could be done too...