Posted on Wed 22 February 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, double dragon, wedNESday, review
Not in the mood to code today, so let's play a classic: Double Dragon. It's hard to explain nowadays what a phenomenal game it was back then. So before reviewing the NES version, which I'm going to play, let's first talk about the game’s history.
At the end eighties …
Posted on Wed 15 February 2017 in nes • Tagged with 6502, nes, python
One thing that I noticed on opensorce projects, it's more than just coding. Indeed the code itself is the center on wich everything else related to the project gravitates, but there is lot more. Today made some tweaks on my travis continuos integration, and also had a lot of reading …
Posted on Wed 08 February 2017 in nes • Tagged with 6502, nes, python, MCP23017, raspberrypi
Blender Bigger Brain*
On last week's post, I had a "to do" list over the comments of the "upcoming improvements". So Toshimitsu Kamei came to the rescue again with the IO expander stuff. He sent some study material and sugests a small proof of concept just by following some internet …
Posted on Wed 01 February 2017 in nes • Tagged with 6502, nes, python, raspberrypi
First of all, I must thanks Toshimitsu Kamei, without him this post wouln't be possible. Some time ago, he helped me up connecting the RasberryPI's GPIO along with W65C02S. It was fun, although I was kind of clumsy in this meantime, and them now I have to reattach everything. So …
Posted on Wed 25 January 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, emulator, python
Posted on Wed 18 January 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, emulator, python
One of goals this week was to create a fake PPU, so that we can start testing it and playing with it and create a Pull Request in the py65 project with some tests. Although, while writing some tests in order to reach the first goal, I …
Posted on Wed 11 January 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, emulator, python
I've refactored the tests and extracted to CPU6502Spec, and them start playing with py65. Didn't take long to have most of the test working. Now I have the same test spec running with either ApplyPy or Py65 6502, and that's amazing. Although, let's keep in mind that the …
Posted on Wed 04 January 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, emulator, python
I've been hacking the NES for quite a long time, and since them, I've always been asked for writing an emulator. Although it was never a priority, everytime a question like that stands, I usually answer: "Why not?".
Let's think over. Why should I, and why you should to …
