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  1. Kinda happy I get to take a break from work and program again!

  2. Back after a small hiatus. Going to try to go through everything I missed, wish me luck

  3. Taking a small break from the retro community to go into robotics, wish to come back after the season ends

    1. CPUWIZ

      CPUWIZ

      Cool, do you make your own?

    2. doctorclu

      doctorclu

      Nice! I want to make a robot dog.

    3. TheTIGuy

      TheTIGuy

      M'k, have fun.

  4. Replaced the polystyrene caps (in my 2600) with mica and the 4.7 electrolytics with mylars. Only thing I'll have to recap in 20 years is a low-ESR panasonic

  5. My 3d renderer finally draws to the full screen! It's much better looking than before

    1. BillyHW

      BillyHW

      It's cool!

    2. Iwantgames:)

      Iwantgames:)

      Looks pretty sweet!

  6. I'm replacing the regular 82pf polystyrene caps(2600) with high-quality Mica caps. Has anyone else done the same?

    1. zylon

      zylon

      Haven't tried those yet. I know ceramic ones sucked.

    2. Gip-Gip

      Gip-Gip

      Wouldn't doubt it. Their capacitance decreases with voltage and they're subject to microphonics. The micas can be used in the same areas as plastics (from what I know), but they're more expensive.

  7. After I clean up VePseu's code I'll push the full-screen version to the master branch! Afterwards I'll add more features and eventually get started on a game!

  8. Going to bed finally. Going to clean and optimize some code tomarrow, then implement some requested features for once

  9. I really like the idea of a welded and bolted Atari cart, would anyone agree?

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Sure why not? My friend (who was also a guitarist in our punk band for a bit) made a pickguard out of diamond plate on his black guitar...Looked cool! He used the Air Force's plasma cutter to make it the right size...

  10. Spent the entire day learning (through trial and error) how sprites work, just to get a minimap on the screen!

    1. save2600

      save2600

      Can already tell you're not taking about the TI. Sprites are extremely easy to program on that system. :-)

    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      You should make a sprite of a 7-Up can...Then you'd have a 7-Up sprite.

  11. Just now pushed a "playable" demo for my 2600 renderer! It's really disorienting, but that can be fixed with a compass and a bigger veiwport

  12. Got a semi-working renderer out! Not much more to do but finish it, slap on a few controls, and optimize the code!

  13. Finally making progress after learning I made a simple syntax error

  14. It's always great to find a bug in dasm (directly using #111000 works but FOO=#111000 doesn't)

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    2. Gip-Gip

      Gip-Gip

      Assigning immediates to macros worked for the rest of the program, which is kinda weird. And yes, I meant binary

    3. SpiceWare

      SpiceWare

      Weird - I'd typed FOO=<PERCENT>111000, looks like that gets mangled by the status update routines... Try again: FOO=1000

    4. SpiceWare

      SpiceWare

      Yep, the % gets mangled for some reason.

       

      for FOO=value, FOO is a symbol, not a macro. Symbols are defined as

       

      symbol = exp

       

      exp is evaluted as a 32 bit integer. # is meaningless for an expression.

  15. Nvm. It just doesn't work in stella at all now. It does work in Z26 though

    1. Keatah

      Keatah

      File a bug report.

    2. SpiceWare

      SpiceWare

      What is nvm? Does it work on real hardware?

  16. It wouldn't be so frustrating if Stella actually gave me consistant results

    1. Keatah

      Keatah

      It does give consistent results.

    2. Gip-Gip

      Gip-Gip

      It will work if I use 265 scanlines, but not 262. It's not a clean-memory thing either, and it works in Z26.

  17. It took me 30 minutes to figure out that I forgot to put my arguments in my parentheses

    1. 7800fan

      7800fan

      Vs a woman? Won't make a difference.

  18. Everyone else's code sucks, mine is superior and 100% readable

    1. Bryan

      Bryan

      I found this status update very readable too!

    2. CPUWIZ

      CPUWIZ

      Not commented well enough though.

    3. JamesD

      JamesD

      Yeah, but you used spaces instead of tabs. Or was that tabs instead of spaces. Either way your code sucks!

       

       

       

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