This isn’t clickbait, we actually managed to run the full shareware Doom on this old printer controller.
PC Archeology: https://youtu.be/2rAgdZ9zBuA
Part 2: https://youtu.be/iaiKg0bAWD0
Part 3: https://youtu.be/–LbJZPreNc
Part 4: This Part
0:00 Intro
4:26 How to reverse engineer a system
25:25 Hardware Overview
28:16 Full tour of our new Monitor ROM
33:16 Adding video and audio output to the Agfa
49:15 We have video!
1:06:17 Demos
1:17:44 We have DOOM!
NOTE: DOOM logo and title screen is a trademark of ‘id Software LLC’, a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media/Microsoft.
— Links
Purchase link for the VERAX at Joe’s Retro Sto’: (Use the discount count ‘ADRIAN’ for a 10% discount)
https://www.tindie.com/products/wavicle/vera-8-bit-video-card/
Github repo with documentation and AGFA-MON code:
https://github.com/misterblack1/agfa_compugraphics_9000ps/tree/main
BlueSCSI:
https://bluescsi.com/
GitHub for I/O board monitor ROM:
https://github.com/misterblack1/agfa_ebs_pnafati/tree/main
Dump of ROMs and hard drive:
https://archive.org/details/agfa-computgraphi-9000-ps
User submitted reverse engineering of ROMs:
https://github.com/fletto2/agfa9000/
Fractal Basic benchmarks:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sdh9vmm8RKGiE1-sTh9ThjFogLAoTg3M-5rL7LBWBUI/edit?usp=sharing
Enhanced 68k by Lee Davison:
http://www.6502.org/users/mycorner/68k/ehbasic/index.html
https://github.com/satoshiokue/EhBASIC68k-EMU
Adrian’s Digital Basement ][ (Second Channel)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbtwi4wK1YXd9AyV_4UcE6g
Support the channel on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/adriansdigitalbasement
My GitHub repository:
https://github.com/misterblack1?tab=repositories
— Instructional videos
My video on chip removal without damage:
— Music
Intro music and other tracks by:
Nathan Divino
@itsnathandivino
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