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Just *how* questionable is the performance? I'm not planning to do a lot of special raster effects or anything; I just need it to work with my FDS adapter.

I don't really do what I do for fame. (Although it certainly wouldn't hurt... ) I do it for the good feeling I get seeing my creation running on a real or emulated machine. Seeing others' accomplishments does motivate me, and I'm a little envious of their skills, but that just pushes me to learn more.

The one I'm planning to buy (I wrote "bought" by mistake, I haven't yet due to tight budget, college expenses, you know the drill,) is the Neo Fami on this page. It looks to be a pretty reputable company from what I can tell; has anyone here used one? As for skipping the PCB, that's an eve...

So I bought an FDS RAM cart and a quality Famiclone online, with the intention to build the parallel-port->FDS cable and use it for homebrew purposes. My question is, has anyone here done this before, and if so, do you have any advice? Obviously, the wire and parallel-port connector are a cinch to g...

If you can find the time to implement a two-controller mode as well as a Power Pad mode, I'm sure the DDR fans who can't afford a Power Pad would appreciate it.

This article lists their reason for not going licensed. Essentially, they just didn't want to go through all the rigamarole involved in becoming Nintendo's bitch, so they went unlicensed. (The fact that they were a small, small company at the time and couldn't really afford to take the risk probabl...

Here's a thought I had today on combining word-lookup with DTE and regular ASCII. Suppose we have each word in our text be represented by a two-byte pointer to a zero-terminated string in the ROM. We'll assume that nobody's going to store a text lookup in zero-page, so if the high byte of the pointe...

Hmm...if Bard's Tale for NES is not like Bard's Tale for other systems, I just might give it a try...

Quite a number of emulators have a wave-record function, so it's largely a matter of finding one that runs on a Mac.

Is there any significant difference between that and the other versions of Bard's Tale II? You could just get VICE and a C= 64 disk image of the game...

Also, eagerly awaiting a Lagrange Point translation...

Yeah, that is funny. The thing I like best about Superior is that it alters the temperature of its surroundings, so Duluth is always a few degrees cooler in the summer or warmer in the winter than Moose Lake.

...? Are you just saying you want to use professional music software to create 8-bit style songs? If so, I'd just use ModPlug Tracker rather than pay money for higher-level software. For creating 8-bit-style music, there's really no need for high-end music software.

That's cool that people actually meet up when they meet on somewhere like NESdev. The closest someone here lives to me, I can't remember his name, he's newer, and he lives in Moose Lake. I thought that was kinda cool. That'd be me. If Google Maps is to be believed, Tofte is on the way up to Grand M...

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Quietust - See above. Asking for ROMs is bad, but telling people where to get them is even worse.

If you want an easy, small, at-hand 6502 reference, buy yourself a copy of the VIC-20 Programmer's Reference Guide and tear out everything except the "introduction to assembly language" part. It has a full instruction list and an explanation of the addressing modes.