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Mr. Covell is alive enough to post this . How many chest X-rays is one day of Fukushima radiation worth? xkcd has the answer More food for thought: http://understandinguncertainty.org/node/1272 the US National Cancer Institute has estimated that 29,000 americans will get cancer as a result of the C...

When I first got into Linux in 1995, we would do stuff like "cat randomfile > /dev/au" (Sun audio device semantics on a sound-blaster on a PC).

Banshaku,

We are glad to hear that you are ok. Our thoughts are with you and your nation. Take care brave sir.

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The imagination of people on the internet continues to astound me.

Todays example: Someone took mspaint.exe and turned it into a PCM .WAV file and then played it.

Fixed. Thanks for pointing that out.

Tepples, I suck a wikifing things. Are you willing to massage my post into a usable wiki article?

Tonight I was trying to determine where in my code a screwed up value was being written to a specific memory location. Specifically, I wanted to know when the value '$#ee' was being written to ZP memory location '$28'. I was unable to find any comprehensive documentation on the full syntax of what c...

I've noticed that lots of NES music sounds like snips of 70's and 80's rock music. I'm not really good with titles (of music), and I've not written any down, but I do recall that Castlevania II has some background music that sounds like a riff from a Heart song (or was if ELO, 'Don't get me down Br...

Looks nice and clean. I must admit, however, when my eyes scanned the title of your post, I thought that you had hooked up an IDE interface to the NES, and written demo code to read sectors from disk into the NES. (The NES CPU should be able to handle this. A similar project for the Apple IIe was co...

(Subject line truncated) http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/03/11/vo.whirlpool.earthquake.nhk?hpt=C2 I was hoping that one of our Japanese speaking members would be willing to roughly translate what is being discussed on this news footage. The giant whirlpool looks like it is close to a sho...

I know that you've already solved your tokenizer / EBNF problem, and that you tried lex/yacc (or equiv) already. But I wanted to let you (and anyone else into writing their own language tools) that there is another parser that is quite nice. The "lemon parser" is used to generate the parsi...

Then it would become turtles, all the way down.

Wow, that's only $9 more, it saves me a lot of re-wiring / re-routing, and as a bonus I get 32K of battery-backed WRAM. Yay! Now that I think about it, I'll have 32K of CHR-RAM as well. Can I bank-swap CHR-RAM? I can think of a few compelling uses for that off-hand. Do any emulators support this? I...

Although your plan is less expensive than what I am about to propose... The following would be easier, as you won't have to cut + rewire any traces on the PCB: http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?cPath=24&osCsid=447537be007af2a8f48878ff7a188c42 1) MMC1 PCB = $9.00 2) Ciclone lockout chip = $4.00 3...

Hello Overkil, Welcome to the forums. I like to write my own tools too, but I've not written a new assembler macro language. I find ca65 just fine for my needs. To each his own. Guys (and our one gal), I've seen Overkil's games (PC version, both of them). They are really cool. Uses an entirely new g...