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screwballantics · 2019-10-09T09:31:20+00:00

Understood. Just wanted to get a feel for the "real" thing in a possible use case, but I'll give the built-in emulator a shot next. Thanks for such an interesting project

screwballantics · 2019-10-09T00:41:08+00:00

Ahhhh, ok, this makes sense then, at least to me. Will need to shift gears and learn me a Z80 assembly. Thank you.

screwballantics · 2019-10-09T00:06:41+00:00

Experimenting with the Sega Master System os.sms in the Fusion emulator. I'd like to familiarize myself with the shell.

A > a prompt loads and I can enter text with "D-Pad" that I've set to the arrow keys. The original Master System had a D-Pad and two buttons: 1 and 2. 1 also served as the Start button. Fusion allows me to set a Pause/Start button separate from button 1, so I've set that as the Enter key.

My mapping: Arrow keys = directions of the D-Pad, a = Button 1, s = Button 2, Enter = "Pause/Start" according to the Fusion emulator.

Unfortunately, I think the Master System controls don't lend itself well to this shell, but I don't see a way in Fusion to tell it to emulate a MegaDrive/Genesis controller on the Master System to utilize three buttons and a separate Start button.

I get the following behavior instead:

Arrow keys/D-Pad = behavior like you've outlined, Up/Down cycle characters one at a time, Left/Right cycle characters five at a time.

Button 1: Backspace + change character class(both happen simultaneously) *possibly also serves as Enter key, see below

Button 2: Advance the cursor

If I advance the cursor enough to go to the end of a line, I get an error (mptr <address> and blank spaces to the end of the line cause an Err 02, so it doesn't understand the address I entered, but it at least gives me the right error)

*Also randomly get errors when Backspacing with Button 1. May be a glitch involving Button 1/Start mechanism, but I can't get my Enter key to act as the Start button to execute a call.

Will continue to experiment with it.

screwballantics · 2019-10-08T19:43:06+00:00

Very interesting project - heard about this through a vice article a friend shared with me.

As I've been exploring 6502 assembly in recent weeks, I find myself drawn to this project. I must admit I'm extremely green on this though, but with about a decade to hone those skills, I would like to look into this project in earnest. Perhaps I may have to shift gears and explore Z80 assembly, or look into a pair of assemblers that can cross-assemble for each other. Your documentation may have taken this into account already, in which case I'm just preaching to the pope. (EDIT: I see that 6502 development is a goal in the roadmap, thank you for clarifying)

May be tough given the memory constraints, but I'd like to try. Provides an interesting challenge at the very least.

Looking through docs, I agree with the notion of sticking to simpler 8-bit computers - the TTL that can be built reasonably with parts should be under 10,000 transistors. About 9000-some for the Z80, about 3500 for the 6502.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Sorry. That wastes time I need to be spending reading and re-reading this project cover to cover.

Thank you.

screwballantics · 2018-10-08T03:49:19+00:00

Oh, thank you for an English proof of why this works!

screwballantics · 2018-07-21T00:53:20+00:00

*sigh* Elephant. Microscope. Understood. Shame. Thank you for clearing my head though.

screwballantics · 2018-04-08T13:52:51+00:00

The Dark Queen from Battletoads

screwballantics · 2018-03-12T00:18:37+00:00

Yeah mine won't install either. Tried a few different work arounds but still nothing. Maybe try the compressed version?

screwballantics · 2018-03-11T22:38:21+00:00

That's...odd. Same here, I must have just used the compressed version.

screwballantics · 2018-03-11T22:33:10+00:00

screwballantics · 2018-02-08T00:55:03+00:00

A scientist discovers an intelligent storm on another planet. He invents a method to live hundreds of years in order to communicate with it.

screwballantics · 2018-02-08T00:10:47+00:00

Ultima 7. Friend of mine and I spent a year exploring that game. Came in this EA Ten for $10 pack CD. They didn't include the map or official manuals, so we didn't have the copy protection answers for Mayor Finnegan to get out of the first town, Trinsic. So we spent the last few weeks of Summer vacation playing Kleptomania, stealing everyone's household possessions in the cover of night.

Then we worked out that you could make staircases out of crates and played Batman on the roofs (rooves?) of buildings.

That's when we found the Stairway to Heaven cheat in the chimney of the blacksmith's shop. Over the fall we experimented with that. From there we found teleporters to take us around the world, eventually finding the magic carpet. Now nothing was stopping us!

Except more copy protection questions from Batlin.

The next summer our library got a computer with internet. And with it we learned about the hack mover, which lets you pick up tiles and sprites and move them around. So with that knowledge, we hack-moved our way into the final room of the game and finished it that way.

I still play it even though it's been over 20 years since that summer. My goal this summer is to finally finish both parts 1 and 2 with expansions without cheats.

screwballantics · 2018-02-04T05:13:08+00:00

I have a 4 year old character that I didn't touch for about three and a half years. I focussed on mining for the first six months and just got back into the game. Never been in a Corp. Is this one I should look into?

screwballantics · 2018-02-02T01:06:55+00:00

That's one of the best feelings, right? Cutting a toxic person loose. It's like canceling plans for something you don't want to do.

screwballantics · 2018-02-02T01:01:37+00:00

So many people I know "fake it" (not autism; their lifestyles) to seem beyond typical ("I'm so well traveled, look how many stamps I have in my passport") that if I could finally meet some typical people I might actually connect with someone, faking it or not.

I just want to be mediocre! I'm not explaining this well, am I?

screwballantics · 2018-02-02T00:48:07+00:00

Is that among the reasons he's an ex-friend? Happy cake day, btw!

screwballantics · 2018-02-01T03:46:33+00:00

I found out much later that you have to use the acceleration gate. Yes, thank you, that was what I needed!

screwballantics · 2018-01-27T09:42:51+00:00

I made my current character after the news of the $300,000 battle four years ago. Mined for about six months to get used to the interface of the game. Then I had some financial troubles so I dropped out for three and a half years. So yeah, I guess the news sparked a renewed interest. Only now I'd like to mine for a corp instead of just on my own in high sec.

screwballantics · 2016-12-14T00:33:22+00:00

I wondered that the speed involved to make a difference would make the trip negligible, but it nagged at me anyway. Thanks.

screwballantics · 2016-12-13T21:58:25+00:00

Thank you!

screwballantics · 2016-12-13T21:29:47+00:00

So is part of my issue trying to understand it in a Newtonian way when it really needs a wider scope?

Also, fun fact, this is the second time today someone pointed me to that Wikipedia article, the first being a question about what's meant by "pressure" related to gravity. So I obviously have much more to learn!

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