Introducing the Fuzebox
The Fuzebox is a fully open-source, DIY 8-bit game console. It is designed specifically for people who know a little bit of programming to expand into designing and creating their own video games and demos. A full-featured core runs in the background and does all the video and audio processing so that your code stays clean and easy to understand.
- Full 256 simultaneous output colors, 240x224 pixel resolution
- Tile & sprite support
- Two player ports, either with Super Nintendo or classic Nintendo controllers
- NTSC RCA composite and S-video out (PAL not supported at this time)
- 4 channel output mono audio for music and effects
- SD/MMC card support for future expansion
- Built on an Atmel AVR core, 64KB flash and 4KB of RAM
- Main microcontroller chip is preprogrammed with an STK500-compatible (sometimes referred to as Arduino-compatible) bootloader
- Write game code in C, using fully open source tools on any platform
Check out
the starting-out tutorials to see how easy it is to start writing demos & games
The Fuzebox is based on the
Uzebox project, by
Alec "Uze" B., and mods (such as the updated DAC) of
Clay Cowgill