Video Tutorials

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Permalink Reply by Paulo Silva on March 2, 2010 at 4:17am

great work, but tutorials on Linux are very welcome as well! :)

Permalink Reply by James Derek Lomas on March 2, 2010 at 8:04am

We'd love linux tools. But someone would have to make them! Maybe you could identify some linux communities that would be interested in contributing...?

Permalink Reply by Paulo Silva on March 2, 2010 at 8:14am

i'm all the time coding converters, maybe i could do something using Python (also with Pygame, wxPython, PyCairo, etc., when needed) as well. Otherwise, there is a launchpad group also earlier started a Debian distro named PureDyne (much more impressive than UbuntuStudio, worth trying) - https://launchpad.net/puredyne - http://puredyne.goto10.org - which are very focused on academic artistic and hacklab tools, and i think they would get enthusiast with this Playpower project as well! :)

Permalink Reply by Paulo Silva on March 2, 2010 at 9:31am

anyway, yy-chr seems to work fine on wine (while there is no native Linux version), and khexedit seems to be a good hex editor - otherwise, help about 6502 asm compilers on Linux are very needed - C compilers i found CC65 .deb (Ubuntu, Debian) packages at http://debian.sur5r.net/cc65/ and .rpm (Fedora, Suse, Mandriva) at ftp://ftp.musoftware.de/pub/uz/cc65/RedHat/, but i have no idea about how to work with this... :( - and 'Pin Eight nametable editor' i also don't know what it is...

Permalink Reply by James Derek Lomas on March 2, 2010 at 9:50am

The Pin Eight nametable editor, aka name.exe, is one of the only usable tools for making a functional nametable (ie. background image for the game). However, the tool is in need of a lot of work. We're trying to figure out how to improve the feature set as it is...

Permalink Reply by Paulo Silva on March 2, 2010 at 1:22pm

well, i'm affraid i'm still understand the same as before: nothing... - hope i'm not disturbing you, do you can show, if possible, a screenshot of 'Pin Eight nametable editor name.exe', or a visual description of what it does? i can't even have an idea if it is a gui-based tool or a command-line tool...

Is the 'name table' the area where the 8x8 pixel patterns are arranged a bit like a text mode area? Most of the MSX screen modes (all of MSX1, for example) works this way as well, and from some NES documentation i readed years ago, i think NES display processor works a bit in the same way as well...

Permalink Reply by James Derek Lomas on March 2, 2010 at 5:54pm

go to about 11 minutes into part 3 in the above videos...

Permalink Reply by Paulo Silva on March 3, 2010 at 3:48am

yes, thanks - it's indeed the 'text' (pattern) area, seems to be almost 1kb or 4x1kb (i'm not sure - i think nes uses it for scrolling?), very similar to msx1, colecovision and sg1000 (TMS9928A video processor, which uses 768 bytes instead, 32x24 'characters' - this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1BvvQHbTDM (one very missing Konami game on NES...) shows that TMS9928A limitation that scrolling is only possible working on that 'name' area, easy to figure out with that 8-pixel scrolling 'jump')