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Welcome to the VES wiki! Here you can find out user-donated information on all sorts of programming info for the Channel F.
Channel F Information
Hardware
Programming:
Snippets
Homebrews
- Cannibal Slug Battle by e5frog
- F8 of Nations by Nycurt
- Full screen picture by e5frog
- International Karate by e5frog
- Lights Out by Sean Riddle
- Multi-Cart Menu by Sean Riddle and e5frog
- Pac-Man by Blackbird and e5frog
- RAM test by e5frog
- Scrolling Mountains by Curtdawg
- Test Controls by e5frog
- Tetris for 1 or 2 players by Peter Trauner
- Homebrew Music
- 256 Byte intro
Disassemblies
- Channel F Bios
- Videocart 1 - Tic-Tac-Toe, etc
- Videocart 2 - Desert Fox, etc
- Videocart 3 - Video Blackjack
- Videocart 4 - Spitfire
- Videocart 5 - Space War
- Videocart 6 - Math Quiz
- Videocart 7 - Math Quiz II
- Videocart 8 - Magic Numbers, etc
- Videocart 9 - Drag Race
- Videocart 10 - Maze
- Videocart 10b - Maze, code variation
- Videocart 11 - Backgammon, etc
- Videocart 12 - Baseball
- Videocart 13 - Robot War, etc
- Videocart 14 - Sonar Search
- Videocart 15 - Memory Match
- Videocart 16 - Dodge' It
- Videocart 17 - Pinball Challenge
- Videocart 17b - Pinball code variation
- Videocart 18 - Hangman
- Videocart 19 - Checkers
- Videocart 20 - Video Whizball
- Videocart 21 - Bowling
- Videocart 22 - Slot Machine
- Videocart 22b - Alt. Slot Machine
- Videocart 23 - Galactic Space Wars
- Videocart 24 - Pro Football
- Videocart 25 - Casino Poker
- Videocart 26 - Alien Invasion
- SABA Videoplay 1 - Mühle, usw
- SABA Videoplay 16 - Rat' mal
- SABA Videoplay 20 - Schach
- Democart
- Democart 2
- Werbetextcassette electronic partner
Contribute!
The VESWiki was set up as a repository for information related to the VES and VES programming. Some of the many things we'd like to make available are disassemblies, console or technical information, tutorials and guides for both software and hardware, code snippets, and complete games. We encourage you to add any information you have, or to make a page promoting your own game (which you can host here, if you like).
Getting Started
If you'd like to get started programming games for the Channel F, try downloading the
Development Pack (.7z, 2.8 MB).
It includes the DASM assembler, the MESS emulator and an early version of Pac-Man as a sample game that you can edit, compile and test. Just unpack it, preferably directly on root of your hard drive and doubleclick ..\devel\games\pacman\!compile+run.bat or the !run.bat in the same directory and it should start right up. Press Esc to leave the debugger.
It has been tested (and is working) on Windows XP Home SP3.
Here's a tutorial that might be helpful:
Beginner's guide to the Channel F
Read up on the guides and have fun!
Useful external links
(all links working June 21st 2020)
- Channel F Programming List
- Sean Riddle's Channel F Info
- Sean Riddle's Channel F Multicart
- Sean Riddle's Channel F Programming Info
- Lowell O. Turner's Home Page- Fairchild F8 Info
- Lowell O. Turner's Home Page- Fairchild F8 Instruction Set
Information in pdf:s
Here are complete Guides in pdf format on how to program a F8 processor system:
F8 Guide to Programming (.pdf, 7.57 MB)
F8 Guide to Programming b/w(.pdf, 3.42 MB)
F8 User's Guide (1976)(Fairchild) (.pdf, 13.8 MB)
These are a few shorter pdf:s with information on the F8 system and its circuits:
F8 general info (.pdf, 146kB)
F3850 the CPU (.pdf, 1.49MB)
F8 info by Terry Polhoff (.pdf, 698kB)
F3851+56 Program Storage Unit (.pdf, 1.5MB)
F3852+53 Dynamic and Static Memory Interface (.pdf, 720kB)
