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Wait, two C compilers released less than a week apart? What's this, the year of the C compilers? That being said, that's awesome.

I know some members here would like to see some code examples, like what the equivalent of a hand coded memcpy in C looks like in assembly once compiled.

I can't agree more with this. Programming is something you learn by doing it. It really helps when you have some environnement where you can freely experiment and do things that works or that crashes and burns — both are valuable experience. Back in college, I learned assembly (self-taught) on PIC m...

Rounding? What the values look like?

Vim. The first thing I do when using a new IDE is to find a vim plugin. The one in CLion is decent, though I still edit files with vim when using this IDE because there are things it does way better that anything.

Simple question: why is SDL not used on Windows? Is it because it's harder to integrate into window controls? I ask because SDL should be usable on Windows and there would be no need to maintain 2 different rendering codes.

Let's not forget that bit reversing the frame counter can be useful to allow subpixel velocities without having to store the subpixel position, as explained here.

Thus I won't go into detail about it. So much for completeness... I honestly have no idea what you're referring to, so I can't even research on my own. Don't worry, he's just talking about the SO (set overflow) pin that exists on the stock 6502. It's most known as one obscure feature the C64 CBM dr...

lidnariq wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 25, 2020 12:34 pm

What does the 26,06 mhz crystal on the nes motherboard do?

"Everything".

Recently, Chuck Ingerham Peddle, one of the main designer of the 6502, passed away. While he isn't with us anymore, the 6502 and all it enabled at the time (the NES, the Commodore 64, the Atari 2600, the Apple II and a myriad of other computers and video game consoles) will remain forever as a impor...

Different object types, such as moving platforms, like you mentioned, may need different properties, and I handle that by giving each object in the object definition table a "parameter" byte. If 8 bits are enough to represent an object's type's attributes, great, if not, those 8 bits are used to in...

Some Sunsoft games used short triangle bursts like za909 posted. The croaking frogs in Gimmick!, or some sound effects in Fester's Quest, etc. I think Metroid also used it for the "bubble" sound in the Tourian area music. It's not very common, though. Famitracker never supported it (though I dunno ...

tepples wrote:

bytestorm wrote:Is there any good softcore around of the RP2A03?

I can think of Bubble Bath Babes, Hot Slots, and Peek-A-Boo Poker.

Oh you, tepples. I actually giggled at that one. Good one!

You need 2 background palettes: Color 00: black; Color 01: white; Color 10: black; Color 11: black; Color 00: black; Color 01: black; Color 10: white; Color 11: white; The first palette honors bit 0 of the color index and ignores bit 1, the second palette honors bit 1 and ignores bit 0. This allows...

... and that's essentially what a Global Offset Table (GOT) is.

ARMv6-M (the core of Cortex-M0) is a bastardization; it's a stripped down, not very orthogonal copy of ARMv7-M (Cortex-M3). For instance, on the ARMv6-M, much of the instructions can only act on r0-r7, and the destination is forced to be the same than one of the operand —very few instructions can us...