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  1. MarcoJ

    Found a Flashback 9 basic at a flea market cheap. Got the SD slot working with ROMs, does the basic ROM types. Pretty cool.

    1. Intellivision Master

      Intellivision Master

      I used to have the Atari FB 9 with the SD card slot.  

  2. MarcoJ

    Writing Atari 2600 kernels is thrilling. Counting cycles, swapping things around, optimising. When it works the feels are good.

    1. Karl G

      Karl G

      Indeed. But then you have to write the game that uses your spiffy new kernel, and that's just a pain in the rear.  :P

    2. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      Indeed! I just use a text editor to count the steps. Do you use any special tools?

    3. MarcoJ

      MarcoJ

      @Karl G I know right, the fun wears off :) @bent_pin just plain old counting, and verification step by step in the emulator. 

  3. MarcoJ

    Happy New Year Atarians!

  4. MarcoJ

    Roasting hot in Brisbane, Australia

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    2. MarcoJ

      MarcoJ

      crisp

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      That's roasting for sure!  Always crazy to me to think you guys get Summer while we have Winter...

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      FWIW,  It's  -6.66C  (20F) here right now...

  5. MarcoJ

    still freeing up ROM bytes. It's like panning for gold specks in a river.

  6. MarcoJ

    saving ROM space from refactoring is an underrated pleasure

    1. carlsson

      carlsson

      Nothing compares to deleting large snippets of source code. I do that every now and then at work.

  7. MarcoJ

    Built another PlusCart. To save on contact wear from transferring between different consoles under test. (Totally not a laziness reason :p)

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    2. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      @Al_Nafuur

      Care to unload the duds?

    3. MarcoJ

      MarcoJ

      @Al_Nafuurouch, that’s some sunk losses. I hope they could be revived somehow. Have you tried transferring stm32 chips between the modules for cross comparison?

    4. Al_Nafuur

      Al_Nafuur

      @bent_pin if someone wants to pay the shipping (and the customs duties)🤷‍♂️

       

      @MarcoJ I really like tinkering around, but I have already wasted a lot of time with these boards and there are a lot of other parts of the project to work on. The reason I outsourced the soldering is so that I am not "wasting" my spare time with the "mass production" of PlusCarts.

  8. MarcoJ

    Playing Skyrim for the first time. 

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    2. ClassicGMR

      ClassicGMR

      See you in about 9 months. Don't forget to drink some water on occasion and have someone turn you towards the sun daily. 🤣

    3. MarcoJ

      MarcoJ

      OK, I feel like I'm replaying Fallout 4, but re-skinned for medieval times. Very cool BTW.

    4. ClassicGMR

      ClassicGMR

      The Elder Scrolls: Stealth Sniper Assassin Edition. 

  9. MarcoJ

    Replaying through Doom II (1994). 

    1. Keatah

      Keatah

      Fantastic! How are you playing? DosBox? Real vintage 486? Modernized engine/port?

    2. MarcoJ

      MarcoJ

      playing on a Pentium 1  IBM Thinkpad 760ED, with sound module upgraded to ES1868F. 

  10. MarcoJ

    trial of floating point instead of integer. will it perform?

    1. MarcoJ

      MarcoJ

      and they deliver! What a surprise.

  11. MarcoJ

    Happy New Year fellow Atarians.

    1. high voltage

      high voltage

      It's the year 2022....Soylent Green.....is people

  12. MarcoJ

    I want less commuting and less work hours to do more Atari 2600 development. 

  13. MarcoJ

    time to stereo mod my 2600

  14. MarcoJ

    bit shift. The poor man's multiply/divide.

  15. MarcoJ

    Optimization, Optimization, Optimization.

     

    1. Armscar Coder

      Armscar Coder

      There is probably a better way to give a status update.  Maybe only use "Optimization" twice.  That should still work.

    2. MarcoJ

      MarcoJ

      haha yes! There is irony in showing the same message 3 times.

  16. MarcoJ

    Woohoo! My arm code is finally compiling correctly after 2 weeks of linker hell. 

  17. MarcoJ

    Hmm, my latest idea didn't work to it's original intended extent. No worries, I have offered a sacrifice of functionality to the Atari Gods.

  18. MarcoJ

    What a difference it would have made if the 6502 had just one more general purpose register.

  19. MarcoJ

    Learning how to 3E+

    1. MarcoJ

      MarcoJ

      Wow! This is powerful. What a delight. Thank u TJ3E

  20. MarcoJ

    Writing kernels is thrilling

    1. Kiwi

      Kiwi

      Eating popcorn kernels not so much.

    2. MarcoJ

      MarcoJ

      200.gifoh yup, that pains.

  21. MarcoJ

    Hooray, was able to order a Pluscart! They are back in stock :D

    1. Al_Nafuur

      Al_Nafuur

      Yes, but shipping to Australia will takes 6 to 8 weeks. ?

       

      You might get one faster if you ask @Andrew Davie

       

    2. Andrew Davie

      Andrew Davie

      I have parts for 3 or 4, but printing shells will depend on my printer feeling up to the task.

      Essentially, the print surface is now a bit dodgy so the texturing might be a bit off.

       

    3. MarcoJ

      MarcoJ

      Hi Andrew and Al_Nafuur,

       

      Sorry for the late reply. That's great iit could come sooner. If the case holds together OK that is fine. If the fascia is a bit off, that's OK. I'll let you decide what's the best way to send it.

       

      Cheers

      Marco

  22. MarcoJ

    Early to bed, and early to rise...Makes a 2600 coder miss out on some dev time. 

  23. MarcoJ

    Studying Room of Doom's disassembly

    1. BydoEmpire

      BydoEmpire

      I always wanted that game based on a review, but never saw it in a store back in the day nor in the wild since.

    2. MarcoJ

      MarcoJ

      It's an amazing game. Only found out about last week. Never even heard of it. 

    3. DoctorSpuds

      DoctorSpuds

      Great game. Mines of Minos might also be worth your time if it hasn't popped up on your radar yet.

  24. MarcoJ

    Only 20 to go till my Dragonfly is ready!

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      WOOOHOOO!  They're Awesome!!

  25. MarcoJ

    Lookup tables save the day yet again!

    1. Ryan Witmer

      Ryan Witmer

      There is no problem that cannot be solved by adding a lookup table, except for too many lookup tables.

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