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I have other things to do in computer time (yes I'm a child and I'm only 13) but they are no more useful than this. Anyway I don't know enough. Yet.

But what else would I do in that time? This teaches me skills do I can become a programmer when I'm older.

Every month or two? Well, I'm making one anyway

What a front page could be:

NesDev
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Hopefully that answers your questions.

As I said (many times) I'll use forced blanking for more PPU communication time. What you said about RAM is a good point, but I enjoy programming so the time thing isn't relevent for me.

Well, 512 bytes are reserved so it's fine The CHIP-8 only has 3.5KB of usable RAM, so the figures are perfect. Anyway, isn't that what NesDev is about? By the way, I'm not saying this is the best way, I'm just discussing how it could be done.

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Original title: There should be a NesDev magazine (Poll)
You could subscribe and it would have advice and info. I don't know what else to say...

Progress: Example front cover made (attached)
I used https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/ ... -cartridge

And CHR-RAM would need PPU access anyway. I need to read posts all the way through...

But we only need 3.5K. Anyway it should only take a few instructions to access and I can program, just in Scratch (very well) and Python (not so well). Scratch is like any other language, but people think it's simple as it's block-based but if you try hard enough you can even do proper polygon-based...

And software is free. Hardware is not.

Ditch the crazy RAM layout though, there's no way that'll work. OAM isn't even a full 256 bytes you can use, since the unused bits of the sprite attribute bytes aren't even stored. But that's the fun part... :( Anyway, 2KB of onboard RAM, plus 1KB for the unused nametable. I need 16 full-width rows...

While this isn't the simplest thing to do on the NES, it isn't the most complex either. There's actually very little NES-specific stuff involved... once you figure out the screen drawing and input, the rest is basically pure 6502 logic. Ditch the crazy RAM layout though, there's no way that'll work...