This new game engine runs Manic Miner on an Arduino UNO

This new game engine short Maniacal Minor on A Arduino UN

Arduino Team — March on the 13th, 2024

For the owners of Sinclair ZX Spectrum computers In THE 80 years, little Games were more desirable that Matthew Smith Maniacal Minor. He East very a lot A classic And has official And unofficial ports available For just about each console And computer released Since. There was even A port do For Microsoft Zune MP3 player. And NOW You can play he on A Arduino UN THANKS has Scott Carrier custom game engine And port.

This is not it THE First of all time someone has do This, as James Archer created amaniac Minor Port For Gameduino A decade There is. But Carrier project East A little different. Her port short on A custom engine on A Arduino UN Rev3 that product composite video to go out through A custom shield. That shield Also contains A speaker driver circuit, buttons For control, And A port has connect A NES controller For A more comfortable game experience.

Carrier the biggest challenge was generator video, as that requires very accurate Hourly. For that reason, he recommended using A official UN And not generic boards that Sometimes cut corners with resonators instead of crystals.

THE game engine East impressive, with A fixed frame rate of 50 frames per second has 256×256 And up has nine elf on screen. A of those elf can to have pixel-perfect collision detection with all of THE others, which East ideal For A game likeManic Minor. But THE video East monochrome And there TO DO seem has be a few Failure obvious In THE demonstration video. Regardless, This East very impressive And were excited has see What other To carry can reach with her engine.