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<whitequark>
TD-Linux: pokepoke
<whitequark>
can you read your bad (E)EPROM again but this time edit the applet so that OE is always active?
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<whitequark>
TD-Linux: also a histogram?
<Lord_Nightmare>
Foone: IMHO the famous unreadable text on the plaque on the stone star in the fountain in super mario 64 is these two lines of text
<Lord_Nightmare>
the top line, with some really bad kerning and compression artifacts says "Eternal Star" in the standard sm64 english font
<Lord_Nightmare>
the lower line is the same font yet again with crappy kerning but a smaller font pitch and i believe it says "The Protector"
<Lord_Nightmare>
and all this L is real luigi bullshit is exactly that
<Lord_Nightmare>
and 'the protector' was supposed to be a cute easter egg, since in most mario games the power star makes you almost completely invincible
<whitequark>
Lord_Nightmare: TD-Linux: so, i implemented write support for atmel flash/eeprmo
<whitequark>
turns out the atmel eeprom i have? it is actually broken
<whitequark>
not just bitrotted, but actually if i rewrite it, it has roughly the same number of errors
<whitequark>
only works at 4 V or so
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<Sarayan>
wq: Did you try rerwiting it at 200V or so? ;-)
<whitequark>
nah
<whitequark>
that's boring
<whitequark>
instead i put it on a hotplate and heated it up to 170°C
<Sarayan>
oh yeah
<Sarayan>
replaying the droid torture scene from star wars 6?
<whitequark>
haven't watched
<Sarayan>
it's only 37 years old, I understand you may have missed it ;-)
<cr1901_modern>
Last leak-related post... the Star Fox code is a doozy... Dylan wasn't kidding... there's a threaded interpreter in the code that handles game control logic. Even if SuperFX does the heavy lifting, guess I overestimate how slow an purpose-built interpreter is...
<whitequark>
a threaded interpreter is easy and gives a very nice benefit
<cr1901_modern>
It's indeed easy enough to understand and has an escape hatch to go to assembly if needed. It's an on-rails shooter; the levels are implemented by hand-writing out assembly-macros-as-interpreter-insns.
<cr1901_modern>
It might not be a novel idea, but reading it gives me ideas to make writing retro code more palateable
<whitequark>
yup
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<andlabs>
threading systems are more common than you would think
<cr1901_modern>
You mean in games or just in general?
<andlabs>
yes, in games
<andlabs>
in retro games
<cr1901_modern>
Well if the slow as hell SNES CPU can handle a threaded interpreter for a resource-intensive game, then I guess I shouldn't complain EVER again about the perf penalty of interpreters
<cr1901_modern>
'It doesn't get much slower than SNES...
<andlabs>
TI 99? =P
<cr1901_modern>
Clock speed is higher than the SNES in non-fast mode and B-bus mode (3Mhz vs 2.68/1.79MHz)
<cr1901_modern>
does TI 99 CPU take multiple cycles to do memory access?
<Foone>
TI99's memory architecture is weird
<Foone>
it's got a very small local 16bit ram, and a bigger main ram that has to be accessed over the 8-bit bus
<Foone>
so it ends up having really slow RAM, as it's a half-width peripheral
<cr1901_modern>
this sounds similar to the SNES CPU- 8 bit external data bus, but no on-chip RAM
<Foone>
wow. TI launched the TI-99/4 at 1,150$ in 1979, and by 1982, the TI-99/4a was selling at 200$ (plus a 100$ rebate)
<Foone>
no wonder they lost 330 million $ on the thing
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<TD-Linux>
whitequark, so I never actually attached OE when switching to the shift registers