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| Post #AvhZdo6XnDwvO1tttw by [email protected] | |
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| Nothing says UART like... video sync signals? | |
| Post #AvhZka7SBkEY2TYYd6 by [email protected] | |
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| I'm taking apart a "Mini DVD Player HDMI, DESOBRY 1080P HD Small Compa… | |
| Post #Avha1OFdZBuy9bOo3E by [email protected] | |
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| It's powered by a Sunplus SPHE8203R. | |
| Post #AvhaCFPqkwyJwALxuC by [email protected] | |
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| Sunplus calls this a "DVD Single Chip MPEG A/V Processor"https://w3.s… | |
| Post #AvhaDDY5BTCyR4fO4G by [email protected] | |
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| @foone this image is somehow powerfultruth coming out of her p-well to shame ma… | |
| Post #AvhaEqmmmpywPvK3VY by [email protected] | |
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| @foone i could build that | |
| Post #AvhaIzWMFgXufOc45A by [email protected] | |
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| @foone Sync-on-green RS-232. | |
| Post #AvhaaZBotDmCDLO3Oq by [email protected] | |
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| @foone Would love to see what the actual unit looks like, I remember seeing som… | |
| Post #AvhallKg5DDz3mrvYe by [email protected] | |
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| Naturally for a Single Chip system, it has four chips.Here's the next one, … | |
| Post #Avhb0MEbg96TZ1zMEy by [email protected] | |
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| And an AiP1628: This is an LED driver, which used to drive the front panel 7-se… | |
| Post #Avhb9fo0HfGErtzH1M by [email protected] | |
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| And here's a Winbond W25Q16JV: a 3v 2-megabytes SPI flash | |
| Post #AvhbHljm769ra9rz7o by [email protected] | |
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| @mgjetson me, apparently | |
| Post #AvhbPSMu0iHrpLpxCK by [email protected] | |
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| @foone They sanded the chip but stopped before it erased most of the markings? … | |
| Post #AvhbPSSZfcpA6wUU2S by [email protected] | |
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| @snowfox nah, that's the result of adhesive thermal paste | |
| Post #Avhbksld3V8lmbcS6y by [email protected] | |
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| The documentation of this is, of course, lacking. gotta keep your 2008 DVD deco… | |
| Post #AvhbnbAwuvDW5ml2u0 by [email protected] | |
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| @foone I'm gonna ask something stupid. How do you know all this stuff? Are … | |
| Post #AvhbsuUUWzKpRfQnXU by [email protected] | |
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| @fooneOh god it's got a NES emulator doesn't it | |
| Post #Avhbw6WoEUpxeC2Rdo by [email protected] | |
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| And the board design schematic lists pins GAME_D0, GAME_D1, GAME_LATCH, and GAM… | |
| Post #Avhc6InJTxYuaOcY6q by [email protected] | |
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| And Sunplus never seems to give any more detail on what this chip is powered by… | |
| Post #AvhcAOvwbBO8mic1pI by [email protected] | |
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| @fooneIf we had better docs, could it run 9front?! | |
| Post #AvhcEeozTCgrDbOCdk by [email protected] | |
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| they launched this chip August 30th, 2007:https://www.design-reuse.com/news/202… | |
| Post #AvhcpPZB9PBUcWWFto by [email protected] | |
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| I found some source on verysource, and while I can't download the whole thi… | |
| Post #AvhcvfWmifoPrSNp2G by [email protected] | |
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| They've got a tetris game in the source and also mentions of NES games? | |
| Post #Avhd0t0O2QPb6niWWG by [email protected] | |
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| @fooneCalled it | |
| Post #Avhd5WNLbOJCN7fPea by [email protected] | |
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| @yuriaugustus I'm mostly self-taught for EE, I went to school for comp-sci | |
| Post #Avhd8IJ2Mv3nbYyOoa by [email protected] | |
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| @ozzelot yup! | |
| Post #AvhdB2VJZntNSs1bYO by [email protected] | |
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| @fooneTo be fair it's a very obvious call | |
| Post #Avhddfi7Ovo9AafORU by [email protected] | |
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| man this thing has a lot of registers. They put a lot in this chip, it's a … | |
| Post #AvhdjIfhyKFXSBDtdg by [email protected] | |
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| @fooneDoes the "16" mean 16-bit? Surely not. Surely they don't ha… | |
| Post #AvhdmGqjCgOUfdnIMS by [email protected] | |
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| @foone Or another 6502 bastard? Just remember, the original Furby being based o… | |
| Post #AvheJu7qCHxA2Upu0O by [email protected] | |
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| anyone got some VerySource credits? https://en.verysource.com/item/8203r_rar-56… | |
| Post #Avhej5IRngxLvQnul6 by [email protected] | |
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| @foone *looks at pricing* are they charging... ten cents for this? | |
| Post #Avhf3Xirp3VrsYuuyu by [email protected] | |
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| @gsuberland yep | |
| Post #AvhfIB22T6lvqfrXHs by [email protected] | |
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| @foone at that point I wonder why they even bother paywalling it!d'you have… | |
| Post #AvhiVdQkUiCNYIWsdM by [email protected] | |
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| @foone some of these Sunplus dvd player chips have support for a proprietary fl… | |
| Post #AvhleJ0A7KiMf6v4vg by [email protected] | |
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| @fooneMaybe even a famiclone cause who knows, they might have had space on that… | |
| Post #AvhlfxgYLFEJ87XNAG by [email protected] | |
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| @foone SunPlus is known for writing their own CPU architectures, they had µ… | |
| Post #AvhlfxohqvkfXPLssC by [email protected] | |
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| @foone not that they *didn't* use ARM at all but i recall them using their … | |
| Post #AvhljuweTKgLmzxBlw by [email protected] | |
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| @foone Maybe that means it runs NES games better than the DVD player in https:/… | |
| Post #AvhlyuZ4AWPCxA4U7s by [email protected] | |
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| @foone That shits like 35 bucks who's buying these | |
| Post #Avhm1ff02Tkzb5A8cC by [email protected] | |
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| @foone IIRC Sunplus had their own ISA | |
| Post #AvhmAN9SDvNkncYZPs by [email protected] | |
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| @lion @foone @kbity OOOOO so there is emulation progress! I stumbled upon the l… | |
| Post #AvhmDqjMhmrBPG0mjw by [email protected] | |
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| @foone The baud rate is: Green. No stop bit. | |
| Post #AvhmDqq6IkFDk9AAEq by [email protected] | |
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| @spacehobo @foone Horizontal parity | |
| Post #AvhmGBS0di88FQ0TJo by [email protected] | |
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| @foone love the PS2 controller with the PlayStation logo sanded off | |
| Post #AvhmOSLhhCtyyQ0BDE by [email protected] | |
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| @foone you know what why the fuck not | |
| Post #Avhnj4L6G5p0Xn71No by [email protected] | |
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| @lion @kbity yeah! I saw native32 mentioned in some related datasheets. I'm… | |
| Post #AvhrgM1mR8hALr2KfY by [email protected] | |
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| @foone that smells suspiciously famicloney | |
| Post #AvhzuIb2n2ZpOggv2G by [email protected] | |
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| @foone ORCAD JUMPSCARE | |
| Post #Avi1pt4pvdg303eOnI by [email protected] | |
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| @foone Maybe the "serial" in question was The Twilight Zone? | |
| Post #Avi5wgDYXNx8xeDv3g by [email protected] | |
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| @foone a Sunplus SPHE variant was also in here, I did a fair bit of reverse eng… | |
| Post #AviAwT0u85IPmR1WRE by [email protected] | |
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| @foone @lion I think it might, I know at least some of the SPHE8202 do | |
| Post #AviMsln5ZbcyJAZ5ma by [email protected] | |
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| @foone Back in the days when the IFA in Berlin still was something™ | |
| Post #AviN85e42MskEHeIbo by [email protected] | |
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| @Rib ooh, definitely! | |
| Post #Avj9h6Dah6TfwS1ewS by [email protected] | |
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| @foone If you want some money for credits, let me know- I can send you a donati… | |
| Post #AvjpnCIBDiKGamlLAu by [email protected] | |
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| okay I've got a copy. Some fun stuff in here:void generate_registration_cod… | |
| Post #AvjqFacENc7s8dgCmG by [email protected] | |
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| there's code here to support PS2 mice? ON A DVD PLAYER? | |
| Post #AvjqNZ2Y7ahjZJnCNs by [email protected] | |
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| apparently you activate the UART by sending it "uart" | |
| Post #AvjqQOmgi0aod5j160 by [email protected] | |
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| @fooneI was very confoozled as I just purchased my approximately billionth play… | |
| Post #AvjqTIce4jVqO4PXQu by [email protected] | |
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| @foone adminadmin | |
| Post #AvjqYX1JyHlYUQRosS by [email protected] | |
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| @foone I suppose that’s what happen when your device is just a hodgepodge of … | |
| Post #AvjqZ53HRVXG2LcreS by [email protected] | |
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| @foone not meart. uart. | |
| Post #Avjqf0F0F5yeqyvuNM by [email protected] | |
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| and these programmers were clearly paid by the IFDEF | |
| Post #Avjqhr34sMbnDFiNrU by [email protected] | |
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| that's how you know it's embedded as fuck | |
| Post #AvjqksY3kxVGjUeGcC by [email protected] | |
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| @fooneBetter than getting paid by the IDF | |
| Post #Avjqt9L1DUt57bUb0i by [email protected] | |
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| there's code here to score karaoke results. it mainly works via rand()or, t… | |
| Post #Avjr36HTRDf8XHZye8 by [email protected] | |
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| #ifdef SUPPORT_GAME_TETRIS TerisPolling(diff); #e… | |
| Post #Avjr9VELaa3HeYAaOG by [email protected] | |
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| @foone that makes total sense to me | |
| Post #AvjrF0PT5mZ1nmzmZE by [email protected] | |
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| @fooneApparently it was always meant to be Terith. | |
| Post #AvjrMNsKFMBkbd0mUi by [email protected] | |
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| @foone a friend who has worked at <huge embedded megacorp which makes silico… | |
| Post #AvjrMNyhrdICvPzsRM by [email protected] | |
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| @r wow | |
| Post #AvjrYytORY6Ct6WA5Y by [email protected] | |
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| there's a hardcoded "super password".It's 5168. What's it… | |
| Post #AvjrbyhnaxLJB0WWq8 by [email protected] | |
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| @foone Sorry I thought Tetris was like default. we need some games for this thi… | |
| Post #AvjrehWzuA7SmRlmy0 by [email protected] | |
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| @foone :blob_fucking_weird_cat: | |
| Post #AvjrhyfWe0YmngJxwW by [email protected] | |
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| @Canageek not tetris, teris! | |
| Post #AvjrpY5dLd7EgT8wFc by [email protected] | |
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| @foone ohhhhh | |
| Post #AvjsD6ZvHoqoJCXkA4 by [email protected] | |
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| // Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.wait what? | |
| Post #AvjsG6uaVHtmD9dsC8 by [email protected] | |
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| @foone Blum Blum Shub Bob, we called him. | |
| Post #AvjsJGAyW1s9oRoDJI by [email protected] | |
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| this is a SunPlus device, not SunPro. And SunPlus has nothing to do with Sun Mi… | |
| Post #AvjsNLJZLu4iuMm9Ka by [email protected] | |
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| okay, that's because they're using a sun-derived math library. | |
| Post #AvjsbgYt9XYcrJmR8K by [email protected] | |
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| @foone Yeah Teri wrote that polling code. Like how My wrote MySQL. | |
| Post #AvjtAylzR46nTYjnKC by [email protected] | |
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| There's code here to copy a CD to a hard drive. So I guess you could use th… | |
| Post #AvjtsRmBTiaNsaYVHs by [email protected] | |
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| @foone I love its huge (ground?) pins | |
| Post #AvjuPmTXXWqbdKjIhM by [email protected] | |
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| @amsomniac yeah! some motor drivers do that, because they make a lot of heat. b… | |
| Post #AvjuYFlmVaNunwImWG by [email protected] | |
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| @foone the SunPro compiler toolchain is still a thing for developing on Solaris… | |
| Post #AvjxrbHB4X2Irzu7Si by [email protected] | |
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| @foone SunPro and SunSoft were early Sun Microsystems subsidiaries. See msun ht… | |
| Post #Avk4TMU17TVrigIb4a by [email protected] | |
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| @foone Ah, that brings back memories. Sweet, sweet preprocessor abuse… 🥹 | |
| Post #AvkkTwpoA5uWXKSBdY by [email protected] | |
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| @foone SunPlus is popping up a lot in the MAME plug and play projects. It's… | |
| Post #AvngkrRhdLl0P6rr8a by [email protected] | |
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| @foone It's so weird how NES hardware emulators seem to be in absolutely ev… |