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Understanding PONG

Imagesource: https://www.falstad.com/

From time to time the schematic of PONG appears somewhere in the net. Interesting because the original did not need a CPU but was based on an optimized number of discrete logic ICs only.

Not too many people know what to do with the schematic alone, but if you separate the individual modules and make them work in a circuit simulation, it gets really interesting.

That's exactly what Paul Falstad did, and he also made the results available online here.

If you are developing hardware yourself, you certainly won't find a tutorial here. But the ideas in PONG's implementation are an excellent basis for your own experiments. And the visual circuit simulation helps to understand more complex circuits. Well done.

In any case worth a look.

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