tschak909

"Content I Posted In" is the closest

You can also customize these, save your customization, and set one as your new default if you'd like. 

noted. Ok. Thanks guys.

I'm no developer, but I would assume there's something private going on besides just arrogant bluster. Guesses: 

- what if someone sees my spaghetti code and laughs at it, or I get a reputation for doing stupid things? Or people see that I'm just not that good?

- what if someone steals my code, changes a tiny amount of it, and claims credit for something that is mostly mine?

- what if someone makes unauthorized reproduction cartridges with my code?

- what if I want to change it or keep my options open for commercial rights? putting out source would close off those options.

- it's MINE, I can do as I please with it. 

I know you had a particular case in mind when you wrote this -- and I totally agree in that case, but I can also see that the decision is deeply personal. That said, yeah, release the code, help others, make things better for everyone. 

50-50 share alike or the man is gonna get you from the night.

Yeah, releasing source code is the way you pay back for the free and open code, tools, and examples, that every community has.

Having released much homebrew code, I appreciate there's certainly an amount of humility involved in releasing it. One often rushes through certain sections of code, and not everything is pristine or perfectly architected. This is made much worse when you're less familiar with the problem-space that you're working in. Also, tight 6502 code is always going to be a bit spaghetti.

If the code works without bugs or performance issues, you don't bother going back. Or at least I don't bother going back. I consider my personal coding hours one of the system resources too, since I don't have an infinite supply.

I just hope that people reading my source code do so with a bit of generosity of spirit. If in the end they think I'm a dummy, oh well. At least I know I'm not.

IRATA.ONLINE is ambitious. As ambitious as the implementation is cool. I did a few demos of it at VCF West on my IIgs as per our conversation, but at the moment the complexity of the service - albeit necessary for all those interesting features - makes it a bit difficult for someone like myself who just picked it up a week or so prior (while preparing everything else for the exhibit) to demo it effectively. I got stuck in a few places at the event and wasn't sure how to continue aside from disconnecting and reconnecting.

I absolutely think this service is worth the time, but perhaps documentation and walkthroughs are where the next efforts might go to get more people using it. Even with the key equivalents printed out I get stuck from time to time. I can do reasonably high quality video capture from my system, so once I get the usage of the system down that might be an area where I can contribute.

Irata should be for M.U.L.E. 

I would love to do a version of M.U.L.E. for IRATA.ONLINE. I have the algorithms.

-Thom

At least you realized it was a futile effort and moved on. 2006? Ya, the dot com bubble had years ago burst by then even for most of whom made it at one point and then crashed.

There are reasons I hung on, that I can't go into. It was a very dark time in my life, and there were some very shady figures around me.

-Thom

Well at least you moved on and you can talk about it as part of your past which clearly has nothing to do with your future

That's the only reason anyone does anything.

And all this time I just thought you enjoyed that pain and suffering of the process... ?‍♂️

Hah, I had one of those!  Even the mini-expander, 16K RAM module, and joypads couldn't make up for the fact that I just couldn't get into it.

It was responsible for leading to a used 800 coming my way, though, so it wasn't all bad ?

(For as much as I may rag on the Aquarius, it does have a bit of a soft spot in my heart, and I can completely understand why people are into them.  I like Soviet / Russian ZX Spectrum clones, so have no room to speak as to individual tastes ?)

as I said, I love all retrocomputers. even...the Aquarius.

Looks good - you may be the only one developing software on this computer in 2019!

The 8-Bit Guy posted a review of the Mindset computer on 7/27/19 that was recently purchased from the Computer Reset store in Dallas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a_qJFD80_c&feature=youtu.be

I wonder if you are programming on this same machine?

It is the very same machine. It belongs to the Obsolete Geek (aka Rob Ivy).

Very nice job!!  NES would need more hardware(bankswitched CHR-RAM) to draw one unique bitmap, otherwise, it stuck with 256 tiles. 

Yup, this is a UxROM (mapper 2), with a sprite 0 raster split in the middle (and an interleaved palette), to maximize use of the existing tiles.

Now,  I don't know who this Hegel guy is,  but something tells me he's never been to our Jaguar Forums.

Hegels philosophy on the spirit of phenomenological videogaming…eh?

The only things that seem to be enduring are Emulation, FPGA, and Original Hardware.

It took a friend 3 years to find one on the cheap, of course you can get one right now off of eBay for around $100 from Europe.

It's not like it was in the old days, that's for sure.  I'd love to help out with more projects--and to finally get some work done on my own projects--but for me it always comes down to a lack of time.

Why do I need to code or develop to be a part of a retrocomputing community? I've used lots of these computers growing up and I like them now. I know very little about coding but I like fooling with things and playing games on them. That's just how it is. 

I am doing something that hasn't been done before: building an on-line system that stretches across to every single retro-computing community, and to date, to facilitate this access, have written a terminal program from a single code-base that stretches to over TWO DOZEN different retro-computing systems, to be able to access the same content.

...I'd just like some help, because I am fucking exhausted.