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Learning by Scanning

Thoughts Thoughts Thoughts.......Human beings are very visual people. If I was a 5 year old kid in a very remote part of Nigeria (I'm Nigerian, so not picking on any country), I would want a way to scan everyday items onto a device with a screen, and have the device tell me all about the item I just scanned in my native language.Example: I'm 5 years old, and my mum asks me to bring her medicine. I'm not sure what this medicine accomplishes (even though I'm young, I want my mum to take the right…See More
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Finally coming around here. First plan of action is to read the docs on the $10 computer... This should be fun!
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I'm Aaron.

Hi, I'm Aaron. Just turned 18 from Ohio. I know 6502 and NES programming and have worked with everything the NES has to offer except for sound, heh. I am working on a ton of projects now and want to work on getting a real game of mine released for the NES before I help more on some PowerPlay projects, but if anyone would need some stuff cleared up on NES programming you can shoot me a PM or comment or something and I'll be glad to help you best I can. :) Thanks!See More
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Judith Odili Uchidiuno

Learning by Scanning

Thoughts Thoughts Thoughts.......

Human beings are very visual people. If I was a 5 year old kid in a very remote part of Nigeria (I'm Nigerian, so not picking on any country), I would want a way to scan everyday items onto a device with a screen, and have the device tell me all about the item I just scanned in my native language.

Example: I'm 5 years old, and my mum asks me to bring her medicine. I'm not sure what this medicine accomplishes (even though I'm young, I want my mum to take the right things) - I scan the Chloroquine (popular malaria medicine) on a device and I get this feedback.

- A picture of the medicine on the screen

- The use of the medicine via the speakers

- The side effects of the medicine via the speakers

- The correct pronunciation via the speakers

Same thing should apply to other everyday items.. a comb, a broom, a mop .. Give me feedback with picture, correct use, side effects or dangers, and…

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Posted by Judith Odili Uchidiuno on January 17, 2012 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

Rachel Weil

.CHR fonts

Here are some .CHR fonts that you are free to use and modify for game development.

Gumdrop and Sprout are 8x8 fonts with four variations each. Chickpea is a 16x16 font.

DOWNLOAD fontsnackpack.zip

Posted by Rachel Weil on December 2, 2011 at 11:26am — 5 Comments

Sebastien Van Damme

Family Basic manual

The translation of the Family Basic manual has been completed and is available below:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/w5t0lz

 

Here's a short video of a simple game called "Spinner Attack". I found it's source code in an old Japanese book.

Posted by Sebastien Van Damme on November 23, 2011 at 4:30am — 2 Comments

Marcel Cevani

Scratchalan beta preview => ready for testing

Hi,

Rudla and me are happy to show you an beta version of the Scratchalan NES development system.

Its based on M.I.T Scratch and generates with the ATALAN compiler executable rom's that run on emulator or on the real Hardware.

 

The programm runs on Windows systems.

 

This version is still limited and can contain some errors on the IDE side or in the compiler.

We hope you have fun with playing with it.

 

In the tools folder is an background editor included called NESST (coded by Shiru).

Visit http:// shiru.untergrund.net for more information about it.

 

An simple tutorial for creating an simple game will follow soon.

 

But for the first time, do these simple steps to load an example project.

 

1) deRAR file in a local folder on your HDD

2) go into the Scratchalan folder and execute the Scratch.exe

3) then go to the Filemenu and select Open

4) seek the…

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Posted by Marcel Cevani on October 19, 2011 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

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3GenGames

I'm Aaron. 2 Replies

Hi, I'm Aaron. Just turned 18 from Ohio. I know 6502 and NES programming and have worked with everything the NES has to offer except for sound, heh. I am working on a ton of projects now and want to…Continue

Started by 3GenGames. Last reply by 3GenGames Jan 14.

Constantin

Getting Playpower Hardware 13 Replies

Hello PlaypowerCommuntiy, I'm currently trying to get my hands on some hardware that is similiar to any of these 10$ Computers (with keyboard and mouse, if possible)...The link to…Continue

Tags: Order, Hardware

Started by Constantin. Last reply by Bernhard Jung Jan 4.

Paulo Silva

Boriel's zxbasic-compiler fork for NES compatibility 5 Replies

Is someone here skilled enough and interested to fork Boriel's zxbasic-compiler project to aim NES results?I'm asking this because i got really amazed with the results from there:…Continue

Started by Paulo Silva. Last reply by Paulo Silva Nov 22, 2011.

Michael Daylon Cates

6502 for a newbie: Where do I begin? 7 Replies

I have no programming knowledge whatsoever, but I have recently fallen victim to a strange curiosity of this 6502 assembly language.  I have always dreamed of creating my own games with my own…Continue

Tags: programming, beginner, language, assembly, 6502

Started by Michael Daylon Cates. Last reply by Paulo Silva Nov 18, 2011.

 
 
 

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