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Video: NES Programming #39 – OMG ATTR

Michael Chiaramonte shows us more NES Programming.

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So, more attribute programming… I know. But, we made some really good progress! We have a better handle on loading the attributes and where we have performance issues that are impacting our NMI code and giving us a problem. To be continued on Thursday!

The Retro Hour EP129 – The History of Hacking (misc)

The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

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We chat to legendary โ€œphone phreakerโ€ John Draper AKA Captain Crunch about hacking, the Homebrew Computer Club and how he helped Woz and Steve Jobs start Apple.

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/the-history-of-hacking-with-captain-crunch-the-retro-hour-ep129

Video: NES Programming #38 – More Attributes, And Then Some

Michael Chiaramonte shows us more NES Programming.

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In this stream, I got the attribute loading working…er, mostly. It’s loading somewhat but there’s obviously something that’s not quite working out. After a decent amount of debugging and testing, I’m still not sure exactly what’s wrong but good progress was made and we needed to wrap it up. Monday we’ll finish up the attribute loading completely, I believe, and move on to the next topic: map collision.

Video: NES Programming #37 – Attributes! Attributes everywhere!

Michael Chiaramonte shows us more NES Programming.

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In this episode we re-visit the level loading code and handle the simplest case of up to 4 palettes and loading the initial attributes for the first fully-loaded screen. In Thursday’s stream, I’ll tackle loading the attributes in real-time as we update the nametable rows. Thanks for watching! See you Thursday.

The Retro League Podcast – Episode 441 โ€“ A Coin To Enter

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.

This week:

This week we are joined by a couple of special guests from Mega Visions magazine. Theyโ€™re working to create a Sega-focused magazine thatโ€™s worth keeping, and they had some hands-on experience with some upcoming retro game consoles. There might be a toaster that will burn the image of a famous console mascot into your bread and our listeners left their consoles on for a long time in this episode of the Retro League.