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videogame, music, and electronics nerd. NES developer/tinkerer since 1997.

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Text mode "splash screen" for IBM-PC.

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@JHochderffer @AIandDesign $20 on Copilot pricing 3 months ago, plausible. $20 with token based pricing, I doubt Opus could complete 2 prompts.

I'll be trying $20 with Deepseek soon, not expecting much quality though.

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@JBradenS31 @JCChristopher @sosumisubmarine 2017 Chevy Bolt can be had for like 8K. Try for private sellers rather than a dealer. Because of the recall, that model year has newish batteries and are still under warranty. I'm really happy with mine.

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@ninjadynamics LLVM-MOS apparently can link cc65 object files too. I hadn't tried that part of it, but might be helpful in the transition.

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@joaohrs2 @VEsoterica Yeah, look up Project Nested

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@HD64180 My older solution, I was surprised that a boot ROM can easily fit in a XC9536XL, using the "product terms" resource. That part went EOL, maybe good for another CPLD but I never built or tested it. The loader fits at $FFE0, providing parallel to SPI.

$4C boot ROM seems better.

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@HD64180 Have you considered 74xx245 buffer hardwired to $4C? CPU can be held running JMP $4C4C reading 3 bytes, until you disable the buffer, and substitute a reset vector for the last 2 reads.

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@iNCEPTIONALNEWS @scottastevenson Best advice I can give, find somebody's project with complete source (or a template is even better if you can find one). Get that to build successfully. That's how I first started with 6502 myself. Starting 100% from scratch can be intimidating for sure.

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@Scrappssss @pimthesmilefren @EBB1974 @nk4927 @redditrepostss You seriously don't know what at-will employment means, or what? Even union jobs have a probationary period where one can be fired for any reason.

Keeping "crap employees" is purely a management decision, they would deserve to fail.

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@MarganecD @Kirby0Louise @MarioBrothBlog It was a mid-late 90s mapper used by some unlicensed Hong Kong developers, it wasn't really available to anyone else.

Very capable though, and had obfuscation to make the games harder to bootleg.

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@ciii_ceee @Kirby0Louise @SonomSoft @MarioBrothBlog It's relatively easy to add background tiles with a mapper, sprite tiles though are always going to be limited to 256, unless you make vertical boundaries that can't be crossed - or remove/limit the ones that can appear at once.

The 8 per line is probably the deal breaker though

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@Gabe_McKinney @realelite_25 @signulll Face recognition software. There's at least one famous example, at Madison square garden, they ejected some lawyers who work with someone who's suing the owner of the arena.

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@dillchen @saintniko @PalmerLuckey First, tech manufacturing is hardly "the bottom", lol this is a high end luxury item. Second, this is "designed in the USA", which explicitly means manufactured elsewhere.

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@cosmickatamari @krikzz When the alternative could have krikzz dealing with a potentially moving target, seems probably for the best to get the actual release version.

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@TheMagneticGuy @davepl1968 EAROM, "electrically alterable ROM", by General Instrument. Kind of like EEPROM, but long since obsolete. 512 bits of storage I believe.

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@HD64180 Honestly, there's already a lot of variation with the official chip revisions. If those can work, and clone systems don't, clearly the fault is with clone system.

I saw what kevtris went through getting the hidef mod to work with everything, it's pretty intense.

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@colorblindk1d @MattBruenig First, a picture is redundant. The package is scanned at delivery. Scanner has GPS tracking.

Second, you should contact a postmaster or inspector, not a random clerk.

Third, if you are as unhinged IRL as you are on your profile here, it's unsurprising if you get no help.

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@retroaccess USPS maintenance has some good jobs. If you have some basic electronics knowledge, can pass a federal background check. I know there's a plant in Cincy, don't know if they're hiring as much as in Indy, but there's at least openings from people retiring.

https://t.co/bRumlx4v2Z

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@jvgraz @mazaiscubriks As a postal technician, I can verify that the stiffness detector lets a lot of stuff through. Even solid blocks of postcard sized wood. The cost of machine downtime isn't billed to the customer.

I do see blank business reply cards all the time though, do that instead.