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Man, the 6809 was an incredibly fun processor to write for. I'll let you know you were in good company. At Williams (pinball/video game company, later became M
by koz1000 5y ago
Man, the 6809 was an incredibly fun processor to write for.
I'll let you know you were in good company. At Williams (pinball/video game company, later became Midway) that exact same hack was used in almost every game that used the 6809. We definitely used it in all the dot-matrix pinball machines to blit large pieces of data in RAM.
- faitswulff 5y agoRandom, but have you seen the documentary Insert Coin on the heyday of Williams and Midway? I'd love to hear your stories from working there.
- koz1000 5y agoI contributed to Josh Tsui's Kickstarter. He did an excellent job on that, all the people in that video are exactly like I remember them. There's another documentary called Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball by Greg Maletec that describes what we were going through on the pinball side near the end. It's streamable on a few services. The stories themselves? Way too many to relate. But it was certainly like the doc. A cutthroat company where anything could happen. But probably the most talented and creative group of engineers I've ever worked with.
- faitswulff 5y agoAwesome, thanks for the documentary recommendation!