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What is a "toaster cpu" ? I've never heard of this before. Is this like replacing the 6502 in an Apple IIe with a faster one (ie, 1.79 Mhz -> 4 MHz conversion), but for the NES? I assume not, as that would seriously fubar all of the timed code paths. edit: OMFG... http://zedomax.com/blog/2...

Do professional monkeys get paid to fling their poo?

OT Yeah, but it's still fun to play around with from time to time. It's very educating to write your own memory managers and what not. Yes, it is. In hind-sight, I wish I had gotten involved in x86 OS development and NES development back when they were new (for the hobbyist) and cool. I read Marat'...

(Just an example - I don't have a firm opinion worth sharing yet.) The OS-Dev community has a simple home page with two major links, one for the Wiki and one for the BBS. http://www.osdev.org/ I see I'm not the only one lurking around that site :) Ha! I used to post there. I wrote a mini kernel but...

Tepples, are you a lawyer? Just curious.

(Just an example - I don't have a firm opinion worth sharing yet.)

The OS-Dev community has a simple home page with two major links, one for the Wiki and one for the BBS.

http://www.osdev.org/

(somewhat useless post) I know that this isn't what you are looking for (in fact, it is almost the exact opposite) (and it has no sound), but I thought that it was cool. http://members.aol.com/autismuk/nesasrc.zip This little NES emulator is written in x86 assembly. It can run Metroid on a 486 DX2 6...

This might be overkill, but maybe this is possible: 1) Remove the SPC700 from the SNES. 2) Designed an FPGA circuit that will sit between the SPC700 chip and SNES. 3) Rig is all up with appropriate connections. 4) Use the FPGA to spy on the activity between the SPC700 and SNES. 5) Add a function to ...

Suggestion: Change the format of how you save the project to be pure text to make it friendlier to revision control systems. The current format is a mix of binary and text - and I imagine would be a pain in the butt to try to use "diff" on.

A decent NES clone finally has been produced. It's part of the RetroDuo. (nes/snes clone) I'm not sure if the guys are hacking NESes to make these things, but CV3 WORKS. And apparently the audio is very close too. Those things are awesome. I bought one for my mother in law. I left my SNES at her ho...

In not math-related music, it seems that C is a reference note. All white keys on a piano can be played starting at C to one octave above that C to play the C major scale. Though I believe that A is the mathematical start of an octave, as it's 440 KHz exactly and almost every audible tone of A is a...

Hey Clueless, I'm glad you mentioned that because I just found FCEUX (I was like huh, FCEU has that stuff?). But it's not really clear to me what you're supposed to do with the code-data logger files. Can you look at them in FCEUX or a hex editor or something? Also, it occurred to me last night, it...

Here's my counter-proposal. Why not do nearly the same thing, that is divide the map into 16x16 blocks with a pointer to the start of each one, but use RLE within these blocks instead? And to improve locality lets store the tiles within these blocks in an alternative order, say according to a space...

Too bad that this forum software doesn't (that I know of) have a "kill file". Does anyone here remember the good old days of "usenet death penalty"? All of that aside... I see tepples point quite clearly. He's trying to mod the board using the rule of law, not mod rule. Jargon ma...

Crystalis does something like that. "Maps" are composed of a small M x N grid of block numbers and some palettes and music data. Each grid # represents a 16x15 screen of metatiles. This is why so much of the game looks repetitive.