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Did the kernel provide any support for the tow bar? I would think integrating that into the kernel would be essential from the get-go, since the success of that would be crucial to the success of the overall project.

Did the kernel provide any support for the tow bar? I would think integrating that into the kernel would be essential from the get-go, since the success of that would be crucial to the success of the overall project.

The whole attached pod code was not implemented at this moment. IIRC I was still experimenting a bit with the physics back then.

 

If you follow the thread and the following ones, there where various suggestions discussed for displaying the tow bar.

Happy Anniversary, Thomas! What kind of information on TIA programming was available back then?

Happy Anniversary, Thomas! What kind of information on TIA programming was available back then?

Quite a lot of stuff. Some info was a bit irritating (e.g. some sources stated that WSYNC takes 5 cycles), but overall everything was there. Just a few coding tricks, developed or rediscovered since then were missing.

 

Besides the list archives, there was the Stella Programmer's guide, a few websites and, last not least, z26, which was emulating almost perfectly.