ASM

                                                 6502 chip


I've been cleaning out my closet the last few days and found interesting stuff. Most of all , i found an old article i printed out in 2001 titled "how to be a game designer"  and old japanses lessons from an old site "the planet namek"/"planet namek", from when i was a Dragonball Z lover..still am just not as much. I thought it was strange because these are things i've returned to doing learning about intensively. I would think "what took me so long" but i've been exploring and doing many other things since then.

Now since i've been doing tons of programming and looking for a machine to dev on or for. I've been looking and looking. along the way i rediscovered the NEC Turbografx 16/Pc-Engine (in japan). It's such a neat machine and has tons of cool games, and good aesthetics and made me wonder why doesnt' any developer make games like these anymore? They are simple yet really fun(i guess thats another post). So i've been doing tons of research on the homebrew scenes and found some cool/intersting things about this machine. it used the 6502 cpu which was also in the NES,SNES,Atari 8-bit computers, Apple II, and Commodore 64. And this chip can be programmed using it's assembly language. I joined some forums and found lots of helpful info. I definately dont' think i'll be able to match the quality of any of the real games, i'm looking to do something simple and see how it goes from there.

It looks like i'll be giving 6502 assembly a shot and see what i come up with. This is one machine that i could easily get my hands on it's cheaper than the meggy jr and the bugbase(not that i've stopped working on them). For now i'd have to do more with emulation since i can't really afford to pour all my money into it right now...i'm trying to save for school fees for when/if i get into grad school (fingers crossed). Also i'm working on making a shooting watch with python when i get a working version i will post it here for anybody to use/learn from. Links and Links and Links galore below!!!

                                 

                    

                                                                                      

note* images : Turbografx 16, Pc-Engine,  "Hucards/Turbochips , the unique cartridges/rom chips for the machine", had problems getting things aligned

6502 , Turbo/Pc-Engine , PCenginefx(good site,commercials,forum info) 

related but not related:

retro game ads (fun, full of nostalgia)

SATSUI NO HADOU!!!!!!

...somewhat drifting further from the real purpose of this blog. I just came from participating in a tournament to promote the realease of Street Fighter IV. It was a great time...even though i lost. It really cool to have about 40 other all excited over the same thing. Since i lost ..i guess i have to start "training" again for the next one in march, this one isn't official or anything. Despite losing it was still fun.

 Shoryuken, National tournament