dustmop

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Yes, "inverse" could perhaps be more clearly stated as "inverted". I've heard the term used this way before, but it's not common.

dustmop

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

If only there were a single word that could convey "difficult to translate without using more than one word", alas the closest we have is "untranslatable".

dustmop

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Yes, a few folks in the NES homebrew scene have managed it. Here's a cartridge my team released this year: http://starversus.com (currently sold out, hope to have more soon) and there's many more at RetroUSB: http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?cPath=30&osCsid=ff2d40cb26...

dustmop

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

A crying face is called "ever"

    #define ever (;;)

    for ever {
        // do something
    }

dustmop

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Wow, Super Mario Bros Special looks terrible. Very strong evidence that the main reason the NES was so successful was its easy to use hardware scrolling. Just one write to a memory mapped register and you were set (sort of).

dustmop

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

A couple of years ago jwz did something similar, getting the original Mosaic browser to talk to the modern internet: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-brows...

Here as well, a proxy was used to get around the Host Header problem.

Submissions

Painting with Math Formulas in Google Sheets [video]

Technical Breakdown of a new NES game written in Lisp

Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper [video]

Building NES homebrew with makechr.exe

NES Graphics – Part 3

NES Graphics – Part 3

Discrete Arctan in 6502

Graphics Analysis of an NES Game's Select Menu

Graphics Analysis of an NES Game's Select Menu

NES Graphics – Part 2

Stupid NES Tricks – Screen Wrap Detection

NES graphics – Part 1

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