The retro corner. Slow news? Not in FPGA land — three things worth your coffee this week.
1. Analogue brings back the SNES and Genesis — properly
The Super Nt+ and Mega Sg+ are up for $219.99 each, with orders shipping this December. These are the hardware-accurate FPGA consoles that play your original cartridges, now with a generation of refinements on top. If your old consoles are in an attic, this is your hall pass.
Polygon
2. Sega Saturn, now in your pocket
A new openFPGA core for the Analogue Pocket plays Saturn games — it's a port of the MiSTer community's Saturn core. Panzer Dragoon on a handheld, no discs required.
Generation Amiga
3. Pinedra: a real GPU inside MiSTer
A new release called Pinedra brings a fixed-function FPGA GPU core to MiSTer: texture filtering, 32-bit color, 4x MSAA, and an OpenGL driver software can actually call. 3D acceleration inside the FPGA itself is a door that hasn't been open before — the 3D cores just got very interesting.
MiSTer forum
Summaries mine, reporting theirs. Got a favorite core, or a handheld nobody talks about? Below.
