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by jargon
Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:24 pm
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: PowerPak wish-thread
Replies: 62
Views: 20181

#1: In game menu, add a header info view button to help with debugging #2: Set the B button to go back to last screen or add a link in the game menu #3: Filename fix would be nice, I like the idea of dropping middle characters (unless you can set the filename that the cursor is pointed to to scroll...
by jargon
Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:15 pm
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: The Social Mutiny NES Expansion Module (SM-NXM)
Replies: 36
Views: 15210

atari2600a wrote:You know you can get LED's for free these days, fresh from the manufacturer, right?
that was a marketing scam in the 80s where if the LED failed they would replace it for free.

the scam was they always claimed the user fried it theirself.
by jargon
Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:37 am
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: The Social Mutiny NES Expansion Module (SM-NXM)
Replies: 36
Views: 15210

Why do you keep showing pictures of dusty old hardware? What do those boards do, exactly? You're being very vague and confusing... prolly because i actually don't have much of a clue what i am doing to start. no i have not researched what the chips on that board actually do yet. :shock: all my elec...
by jargon
Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:31 am
Forum: Newbie Help Center
Topic: Proposal for a sticky of exercises for N00bZ
Replies: 37
Views: 12049

never-obsolete wrote:i thought i understood boolean logic until i saw that.
i guess what you knew is obsolete :P
by jargon
Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:54 am
Forum: Newbie Help Center
Topic: bit-shifting and ANDing(masking)
Replies: 31
Views: 11266

%0000 thru %1111 is the binary truth table for each boolean operation. NULL is FALSE Identity is TRUE. the water in the beaker is neither a nor b (%0001) the orange represents input b. (%0010) the apple represents input a. (%0100) the purple overlap between the apple and orange is %1000 in the truth...
by jargon
Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:25 am
Forum: Newbie Help Center
Topic: rom extension naming.
Replies: 13
Views: 5895

rom extension naming.

why is the extension for a NES/FC rom .NES
but a SNES/SFC extension is .SMC?
by jargon
Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:03 am
Forum: Newbie Help Center
Topic: Proposal for a sticky of exercises for N00bZ
Replies: 37
Views: 12049

i donate the usage of the gif89a version of this poster for NESdev's newbie survival guide thread.
(Provided that it is unmodified and no derivatives are made.)

Image
by jargon
Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:41 am
Forum: Newbie Help Center
Topic: Bounding Boxes
Replies: 10
Views: 5099

Ellipses/Ellipsoids too..

MediaPlague :: Keal's Collision Methods (btw if you haven't already i highly suggest setting JavaScript for mediaplague.com turned on in your browser's exceptions list) btw i ain't writing the C code for ellipses, it's too much work, i suggest using the normal bounding box method in the prior post ...
by jargon
Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:48 am
Forum: Newbie Help Center
Topic: Bounding Boxes
Replies: 10
Views: 5099

My own personal best method to do bounding box collision: Sorry no 6502 version of mine. :( Elliptical/Ellipsoid method is on the way tho. :D btw both 2d and 3d for both Blitz Basic and C source return 1 for a collision and 0 if not. x,y,z is position in pixels. w,h,d is size in pixels. remember if ...
by jargon
Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:17 am
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: The Social Mutiny NES Expansion Module (SM-NXM)
Replies: 36
Views: 15210

Wait, reverse engineering? Dude the NES has been completely documented, no reverse engineering necessary! i meant the roms, not the nes. sorry for the confusion. using the SM-XC-CF it will be possible to use the FPGA in the PowerPak to pipe state info into the ram drive in real time, seeing as how ...
by jargon
Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:00 am
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: The Social Mutiny NES Expansion Module (SM-NXM)
Replies: 36
Views: 15210

Apache Reclamation files sorry if i confused "Secure Digital" for "San Disk", when SD cards first came out San Disk was the primary manufacturer iirc. and i have never seen any other product for sale under the manufacturer name San Disk. i just made the connection San Disk is an...
by jargon
Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:14 am
Forum: Newbie Help Center
Topic: bit-shifting and ANDing(masking)
Replies: 31
Views: 11266

EOR is the same as XOR, it means exclusive or. perhaps this chart i frickin had to REMAKE DUE TO LOSING THE ORIGINAL FILE.... will assist you :) Timothy Robert Keal's Boolean Beakers Poster :wink: i remade it using GIMP 2.2.17 the original version which is now lost to the ages i had made using Photo...
by jargon
Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:02 am
Forum: Newbie Help Center
Topic: binary numbers: 2's complement
Replies: 16
Views: 6596

it actually makes perfect sense. This works logically because when you clip to 8 bits, adding 255 is the same as subtracting 1. Example: $63 - $01 = $62 $63 + $FF = $62 (really $162, but after clipping to 8 bits you're left with $62 because the $100 is lost) 2's compliment matches this logic *perfe...
by jargon
Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:37 am
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: The Social Mutiny NES Expansion Module (SM-NXM)
Replies: 36
Views: 15210

yes the Social Mutiny logo is in fact a skinhead redraft of the SS logo It looked more like an angular version of the Screen Gems logo to me. Parts Legend: SM = Social Mutiny - XC= eXpansion Cable - CF = Compact Flash S4021 = Strobe 4021 SD = San Disk SanDisk, or Secure Digital? San Disk. Also I or...
by jargon
Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:30 am
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: The Social Mutiny NES Expansion Module (SM-NXM)
Replies: 36
Views: 15210

You're a pretty weird guy; I have no idea what you're talking about in your posts and I don't think anyone else here does either. You may want to actually explain what all this stuff you're babbling about is because it sounds like you're just making random things up on the spot which is very confus...