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I literally just wrote my first ROM that displays a green box on a black background working on my retropie machine last night. The NES homebrew scene is pretty
by agentultra 9y ago
I literally just wrote my first ROM that displays a green box on a black background working on my retropie machine last night.
The NES homebrew scene is pretty cool and the tools and languages have come a long way. One interesting avenue that might be work exploring is to use code generation and CSPs to generate and shrink code.
It's a lot of fun. It's why I like the PICO8. Constraints are interesting.
I just wish I still had my old BASIC code for games I made on my Amiga back in the day...
- ansible 9y ago> Constraints are interesting. Constraints are also helpful when working towards a sense of mastery. Look at a modern operating system (or console) for that matter. So much capability, so much complexity. You'll never learn it all, never be able to master it. Heck, just truly understanding the machine code of a modern processor, and knowing everything it does and can do is quite a daunting task. These older 8-bit systems (NES, C64, etc.) in contrast are much easier to completely understand. If you are willing to live within the limitations, you can create something really awesome, and be able to leverage the full extent of the system's capabilities. That provides enormous satisfaction to some.
- agentultra 9y agoJust understanding the intel instruction set is basicallly impossible for a mere mortal. How thick is that reference manual now?