Because I was looking for the pixel clock value of the PV1000, for some reasons, I’m now currently tracing the schematics of the PV1000.
As always, I can’t accept a value coming from nowhere, I had to understand where it comes from.
I think I’m a little nut 😉
The Casio PV-1000 is a very strange machine.
It looks like a blue Megadrive so I immediately fall in love for it.
After that, I tried to learn more about it and, well, what a shame : on sell for a few weeks only (too expensive, nothing compared to competitor, …), it’s another saint graal for some rich “gamers”.
Another system I like I won’t ever buy 😉
So what is inside ?
A good ol’ brown PCB made of wires and TTL chips -> the inside isn’t what the outside let me think 😉
3 NEC Chips : a Z80A clone, a VDP/APU all in one nobody knows about and a RAM
Good news, 2 emulators support it : MAME and ePV1000 by Takeda…with their source available online
Bad news, 13 games only were released, which doesn’t give us a lot of chance to explore the full capacities of the beast (ie they probably didn’t push it to the limits at start)
Ok, let’s make a emulator for it, I need to understand what is this !!
Like I already shared, Megadrive is no longer my main focus.
For several reasons (browse Twitter, Spritesmind or this WordPress), I take a rest.
I found several systems lacking of love from developers I’d like to work on.
Here are the few, by my priority order
More exists, it was already difficult to select only these ones (sorry P/ECE and Loopy !)
So don’t be surprised to read more posts on them from now !
