| One of the most famous names in the
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| | Hardcore professional gamers had worked
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| gaming world, Atari, changed the face of
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| | hard on creating their own arcade game
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| the gaming industry and introduced what
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| | versions using FPGA circuit boards, and
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| is an ingenious piece of engineering for
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| | playing the games at home. However, this
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| its time. Atari had created the first
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| | was not until much later in the nineties
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| coin operated Pong electronic arcade
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| | onwards, as the programmable devices used
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| machine in 1972, bringing in modern
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| | in arcade games today work in a different
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| gaming technology, popularizing computer
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| | way to what was used emulate games the
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| games and putting arcade games on the
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| | eighties and consumed more power than the
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| map. Pong along with Pac-Man and Space
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| | standard devices today. Modern
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| Invaders became an addictive electronic
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| | programming devices are in use mainly to
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| entertainment and is the influence of
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| | recreate old games and to act as an
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| computer consoles today.
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| | excellent for games emulation, whereas
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| Prior to the coin operated machines,
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| | the programming devices used in arcade
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| arcade games were in the form of basic
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| | machines in the eighties were merely to
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| mechanical machines, mainly accessible in
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| | act as a solution to minor graphical
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| amusement parks during the 1920's. These
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| | issues.
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| were very basic pinball games, shooting
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| | Pac-Man was used from a Z80 CPU, which
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| galleries and ball toss games. It is
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| | was very popular for its time. Pac-Man
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| thought to have been one of the major
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| | had a dedicated hardware installed for
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| influences of the electronic arcade
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| | video sprites (two/three dimensional
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| machine of the seventies. The arcade
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| | images/animation integrated into a larger
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| machines were emulated through basic CPU
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| | scene), however, the Z80 CPU was not
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| units and it was not until the early
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| | powerful enough to draw up all of the
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| eighties that saw a change in graphics of
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| | sprites so a new device was needed to
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| each game, when the FPGA was used and
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| | resolve this issue.
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| re-used by gaming experts, to play older
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| | Those intending to play old arcade games
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| games from home.
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| | such as Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey
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| FPGA (field programmable gate arrays) are
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| | Kong or even Galaxians need to research
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| controllable programmable devices that
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| | for a suitable FPGA device, as well as
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| can be used to function in any specific
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| | understanding how to install the vendor
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| way. They are an excellent source of
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| | onto the machine. Some purchased devices
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| vector emulation for arcade games and
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| | come with a batch file to install, so a
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| were used to play older games on modern
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| | separate file will not need to be
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| machines. Pong was originally a blocky
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| | downloaded from the web. Other emulating
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| black and white image, whereas Pac-man,
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| | programmes such as MAME (Multiple Arcade
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| Ladybug and Space Invaders were more
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| | Machine Emulator) made it possible to
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| demanding in terms of colour, resolution
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| | preserve the antiquated arcade games on
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| and images - each of which were not
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| | the modern PC, however unlike FPGA's they
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| possible to play on home PCs without a
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| | are subject of much controversy due to
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| little tweaking with a modern
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| | copyright violation issues.
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| programmable device.
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