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Heya….

I am still alive, just having a busy time at the moment. I will probably get back to Pokemon Mini and my MP3 player soon. The player is already built (using the flat iron for soldering ) and looks good, but so far I did not have time to connect to the ARM (with JTAG). I guess I will take some pics of it before I blow it up.

The reason for my absence is that I started working as an apprentice in an electronics company, it’s quite some interesting work here but taking most of my time.

Expect something new here, very soon

Oh yeah… I am so going to start working on Zelda Mini :)

I wrote a few macros for DarkFaders assembler that allow to use unlimited (almost ) 16 bit registers without any limitations!

This set of macros provide the easiest way to code for PM without any restrictions! The program flow instructions aren’t complete yet, but i wrote an example that shows how easy the instructions are to use!

See for yourself how easy PM coding can get:
Stack CPU example 1

Today i have ordered most of the parts to build my MP3 player, only the special crystal is hard to get and it will take a while until i find someone who can order it from DigiKey (i can test without it anyways).

Current status of the player can be seen in these images:
<removed, old shit…>

Board size is 3,5×5 cm. The controller does the decoding and should work at 48 MHz (55 MHz is max). RS-MMC is the storage media of choice for this player because of its small physical dimensions. The input will be done with a 4 way + 1 button mini joystick!

I can’t wait to get this thing running! (if it works at all )

Currently i only have the power management ICs, RS-MMC card slot, DAC and ARM microcontroller here.

Pong…