Anyone ever considered moving to Rhön-Grabfeld, Germany

[Bregalad]

So that you can have licence plates that starts with NES ?

[Movax12]

No, but I did see a licence plate here the other day that said N64 GEX. I thought that was amusing.

[tokumaru]

Here in Rio a lot of license plates start with "L", so it's not uncommon to see opcodes like LDA, LDX, LDY, LSR and LAX. Some times the 4 numbers that follow don't make much sense with the opcode, but it's pretty cool when they do.

Personally I'd like something like this instead of "NES"... I like the fact that opcodes are more subtle and not everyone will get the reference.

[tepples]

Shades of a Wii hacker's STRNCMP?

[ccovell]

One of the CDs I use at work has the disc length 65:02.

And last Saturday, I used the copier at work and my copy jobs were batch #s 6581 and 6582. =-DDDDDD

[Bregalad]

No, but I did see a licence plate here the other day that said N64 GEX. I thought that was amusing.

Funny.

Here in Rio a lot of license plates start with "L", so it's not uncommon to see opcodes like LDA, LDX, LDY, LSR and LAX.

Haha, very cool indeed !

Personally I'd like something like this instead of "NES"... I like the fact that opcodes are more subtle and not everyone will get the reference.

Well almost nobody would get the reference I think... at least with NES some people would get it.

Also in that particular region of Germany, you are 100% guaranteed to have "NES". For you it sounds like you'd need luck to get LDA, LDX, etc... Unless you can choose (at least partially) your plate number.

It seems in Germany after the region code there is 1 or 2 letters, then a number. So you could use 2 letters and do publicity for a particular NES game (if they allow you to choose the number, I have no idea if they do). For example : NES-VN to make publicity for Castlevania III or NES-XR to make publicity for Mega Man 2. That'd be very cool. Also I bet some people in this region does publicity for NES game without even knowing it. If someone ever got to this place it'd be nice to share.

Shades of a Wii hacker's STRNCMP?

strncmp() is a standard C function, nothing much to do with the Wii or any other system.
It's strange there is number plate with only letters. Here in Switzerland it's the opposite, it's only numbers (except the region code 2 letters). Pretty boring.
I could get '6502' but unfortunately they ask 2000 Swiss francs if you want a number below 10k (they are normally reserved for trucks and taxis).

[ccovell]

65C02 is greater than 10k if you consider it as HEX...

[tepples]

Shades of a Wii hacker's STRNCMP?

strncmp() is a standard C function, nothing much to do with the Wii or any other system.

It's the name of the standard library function that was mistakenly used in the first version of the Wii system software's digital signature verification. This "Trucha bug" allowed homebrew developers to sign anything so long as the first byte of the resulting hash value was $00, which takes a few hundred passes of automated trial and error. Wii system software 3.3 switched to the correct memcmp for discs, and 3.4 switched for all executables.

It's strange there is number plate with only letters.

In USA most states offer completely personalized "vanity plates" at a modest additional price.

[Bregalad]

65C02 is greater than 10k if you consider it as HEX...

As as said, in Switzerland you get only numbers, no letters. And the automobile service doesn't consider numbers in HEX anyway.

In USA most states offer completely personalized "vanity plates" at a modest additional price.

Well that's pretty cool actually, but I think only letters is really weird. It's easy to display messages, and that's not the role of an immatriculation place. I prefer greffing subliminal messages on existing systems

In my canton (swiss equivalent of an US sate) you can choose any free number between 10000 and 599999 for a little extra, but as I said if you want between 1 and 9999 you'll have to pay a huge extra which is really ridiculous.

Cantons are free to assign numbers as they want, so in other cantons it might be different. The closest I could do in Switzerland is move to Neuchatêl and have a number which start in 5, so that it looks like an S. For example I could have NE 56502. Unfortunately the spacing ruints it all

[ccovell]

Hate the 68000?

[Memblers]

I had couple fun coincidences. One time I made a chiptune in Fast Tracker that when saved, turned out to be 6,502 bytes. And yeah, it used all NES-style instruments. I later re-did it in Nerdtracker, not that it was anything special to listen to. Also one of my early NES projects, Roadkill, later on I had rewritten big parts of it and added music, on the date 6-5-02 (yeah it's US date format, but still).

[Drag]

I was thinking of getting a vanity plate that said "LDA 4016". Completely innocuous, looks exactly like the plates around here, but is pretty important when you're talking about the NES.

On the subject of vanity plates, you can choose 7 alphanumeric characters, and add one space or hyphen (because it's half the width of a character). In addition, most states have a selection of background pictures/designs you can choose from, and each state has their own overall style and "default" plate, and they're all unique, so it's always clear where someone's from.

[never-obsolete]

There's an apartment building that I used to drive by every day that has an address of 6502. Coincidentally, I drove by it this morning for the first time in a few years.

[WedNESday]

There's an apartment building that I used to drive by every day that has an address of 6502. Coincidentally, I drove by it this morning for the first time in a few years.

Bender has a 6502 for a brain. Almost died when that reference came up.

[ShaneM]

So that you can have licence plates that starts with NES ?

Wouldn't it be a little extreme moving there just for a license plate? Why not just import a novelty one?

Here in Rio a lot of license plates start with "L", so it's not uncommon to see opcodes like LDA, LDX, LDY, LSR and LAX.

What in the world is LAX???...Did some searching and found this:

"LAX - This opcode loads both the accumulator and the X register with the contents
of a memory location."

So, I'm assuming it looks something like this example:

Code: Select all

;LAX =
LDA $0971
LDX $0971 ;6 bytes total

I've seen weird ones like BLT which is = BCC. And ADD, which is = CLC then an ADC (immediate value). Nice to add another mnemonic to my vocabulary (even though it's illegal with ASM6). Thanks.

--ShaneM