Hello :) I’ve moved to California, it’s been going well so far. How about you?

Too late for me. Run save yourself oh wait…

Of course, needless to say, the real hardware is _way_ smoother than the emulation but the emulator does a pretty good job of approximating it well enough.

Here you can actually see a bug. When I run the 'play' sample the VCP program wasn't terminated so it keeps running on the VCP unit, simultaneously with the CPU :D

The devices the emulator can imitate at the moment:
- VPU (Video processing unit, all video modes)
- PAL (Color palette unit)
- APU (Audio unit)
- VCP (copper unit and its CPU)
It has internet access via QEMU's built in network device emulation and runs Petalinux (I wish I had time for a custom OS)

Well that went quite well. Got audio and VPU (including all video modes) up and running. VCP is going to give me a bit of a headache due to pixel timing but we'll get there.
Since it's QEMU network works out of the box but USB keyboard doesn't. We'll get to that after all's done.

Snap fits are also notoriously fragile depending on material / printer / orientation. So yes, screws are my go-to until I run out of the box I have :)

Also that red PETG was horrible, I think I’ll stick with the orange one.

That’s just 640x480 at 16bpp if you can believe it. fbterm and a good font choice does wonders.

Ofc the first thing to do is to make sure I can boot this whole thing on a vanilla QEMU without petalinux SDK shenanigans

I am not sure where to begin with the emulator work. I am going to use quemu and need custom devices running. Probably easiest to start with video scanout.