wedNESday #3

Posted on Wed 18 January 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, emulator, python

Goals and Detours

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 …


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wedNESday #2

Posted on Wed 11 January 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, emulator, python

Keep up

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 …


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wedNESday #1

Posted on Wed 04 January 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, emulator, python

Forewords

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 …


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The First Post

Posted on Sat 20 February 2016 in misc • Tagged with startover

This is not my first attempt to write a blog, nevertheless, shall be the last. However, in this brief time lapse before the next attempt I must overcome the mistakes that lead previous blog to fade after the "First Post".

One early mistake is the actual "first post". Usually, in …


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