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NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) • Turbo File Support?

MISTerFPGA about 20 days ago

Any idea if the ASCII Turbo File is supported on the current NES Core or if there's any plans to implement it?(Looked through the input - periphery options and didn't see anything so I'm assuming it's not supported but could be missing something)There's a …
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Top 12 Disney Games on the Sega Dreamcast

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 1 month ago

The Sega Dreamcast's short lifespan (relatively speaking) didn't lend itself to a large number of "big" licenses coming to the console. Alongside Sega's own franchises, we received a third-party lineup that was - again, relative to other consoles - not hug …
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The promotional Super Mario Bros. Plumbing website used to promote the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

The promotional Super Mario Bros. Plumbing website used to promote the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie from February to October 2023 contained an Easter egg in its code where checking the source code of the “Error 404” page revealed an ASCII art i …
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Analogue Pocket Is Getting An MSX FPGA Core

Time Extension about 3 months ago

"Guess who is coming to the Pocket!?".FPGA developer Boogermann has revealed he is about to release an MSX core for the Analogue Pocket.Created in 1983 as a standardized home computer architecture, MSX was a joint venture between ASCII Corporation and Micr …
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SNES Hidden Gem 'Melfand Stories' Receives Full English Fan Translation

Time Extension about 3 months ago

The game was released in 1994 by Sting & ASCII Entertainment.The 1994 Japan-exclusive hack 'n slash title Melfand Stories has just received a new fan translation, allowing players to experience the SNES hidden gem entirely in English for the first time eve …

Z80 EMACS for CP/M (2.2)?

VCFed about 4 months ago

I've spent a lot of time trying to get Ralph Betza's version of EMACS working with a VT100 terminal, but so far have been unsuccessful. It looks like his code is set up to work with either an "ASCII" terminal or an "ANSI" terminal (his …
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Character Generator Tester

Apple Fritter about 4 months ago

AttachmentSize Schematics482.91 KB BOM112.39 KB Short movie25.82 MB Popular Electronics April 1974 article673.28 KB Last year I developed an ASCII Keyboard Tester (see https://www.applefritter.co... and https:/ …
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Powering-up Apple 1 Replica for First Time

Apple Fritter about 4 months ago

Hi Everyone,  I've recieved lots of help over the last 3 months from people on this forum while I collected the components and built my first Apple 1.  I've followed Mike Willegal's "Apple 1 Mimeo Computer Assembly and Bring Up Guide", and am now at the …
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Feature: The Incredible Story Of Satellaview, Nintendo's Satellite Modem SNES Add-On

Time Extension about 5 months ago

An unorthodox radio station, exclusive games, and a bitter breakup.Few aspects of Nintendo's history are as fascinating to us as the Nintendo Satellaview. Nintendo R&D2 designed the Japanese-exclusive Super Nintendo add-on back in the mid-'90s, with th …

Floating Point to string/ASCII conversion

VCFed about 5 months ago

First some background: for years I'm busy developing my own OS, Pascal compiler and Basic interpreter. These are very slow projects. To handle numbers, I need to be able to handle Floating Point. Converting a string/ASCII to single or double precision is n …

MSDOS software to generate printable ASCII calenders

VCFed about 5 months ago

I seem to remember there was a simple MSDOS application that would generate a printable monthly or yearly calender as a text file. I may be thinking of pcal for Linux consoles. Anyone know of a simple command line app that generates a text calendar like …
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Another little teaser...

Apple Fritter about 6 months ago

Because you guys love teasers, right? ;-)After my ASCII Keyboard Tester  I am more and more curious to understand the actual workings of the Apple-1 (and ][).Check out my latest contraption below, what will it do?Still working on it, I will add some more …
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Scene • Graphics routine - Basic wedge

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

This adds the following commands to basic HGR Hires Grahics On HGROFF Hires Graphics Off HFCOL Hires Fore Color HBCOL Hires Back Color HCLS Hires Clear Screen HLINE Hires Line HPLOT …

Can Tektronix 4051 Serial COMM be added to the 405x Emulator?

VCFed about 6 months ago

@daver2 I think adding Serial COMM to the 405x Emulator would be extremely helpful. It would allow your original 405x Emulator to be used to load and save ASCII programs or data using Serial (@40: ) commands as a second storage device. I currently have …
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Unified Retro Keyboard for Apple 1 or misc. ASCII $120

Apple Fritter about 6 months ago

For sale is one "everything but keycaps" best used with an Apple 1 replica or 1970's-era computers with ASCII interface, though it is also compatible with Apple II, II+, it will not fit in their cases because of the full set of keyswitches that are install …
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Unified Retro Keyboards for Apple II $120

Apple Fritter about 6 months ago

AttachmentSize iface-front.jpg1.92 MB For sale is two "everything but keycaps" for earlier Apple II, II+ and Replica 1 computers (not compatible with later apple II models!). $120 ea, FIFO sale as pictured :) a2-front.jpg …
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General • Buddy 64 Memory Map

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

Hi there, I was looking at the manual for Buddy 64/128 by Chris Miller 1990. I have two questions, first, what are things to look for when trying to determine to location where a program resided in the C64 memory. Chris gives a little more information at …
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Happy Halloween for IBM PC

VCFed about 7 months ago

There are animated "card" type programs for crassmas, but not so much for Halloween. So I threw together a quick and dirty batch file with a few ASCII art images ripped off of the Internet. Intended to run from floppy disk on a ~4.77mhz PC. …
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Virtual Boy 'Wizardry' Game Revealed In Previously Unseen Pitch Document

Time Extension about 7 months ago

"It's such a shame that it wasn't released".Wizardry Online is one of the many titles in the series produced in JapanMasaki Nakagawa, a former employee at ASCII Corporation, has unearthed a pitch document for a Wizardry outing on the Nintendo Virtual Boy ( …
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Help & Support • Creating DEL files with VICE

Lemon64 about 7 months ago

Does anyone know whether (and how) one can create empty DEL files in a directory listing using the VICE emulator software?I recall from the old days on a physical C64 creating such "ASCII art" (or I should probably say PETSCII-art). So, thinking it should …

looking for Mbasic Cross reference tool

VCFed about 8 months ago

I'm looking for a tool called PMAP made by "software house" around 1982/83. It would parse a .BAS(ascii) file and generate a comprehensive cross reference listing of that file. I've looked but I can't can't locate it. there are similar tools fo …

How to share some MBASIC-80 programs

VCFed about 8 months ago

Hi! I've been brushing up on my MBASIC and developed some interesting programs. One is a hurricane tracking tool that provides a projected path storms/hurricanes on an ASCII map with a range of relevant data, save/load data, etc. It also afjusts the tra …

ASCII Keyboard Tester PCB and Kit

VCFed about 8 months ago

Hi all, As discussed on Applefritter (see https://www.applefritter.co... I have finished the testing of my second revision of the ASCII Keyboard Tester. This tester can be used to test early parallel ASCII keyboards and has Ap …
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ASCII Keyboard Tester PCB and Kits

Apple Fritter about 8 months ago

AttachmentSize ASCIIKeyboardTester.pdf291.82 KB ascii-keyboard-tester-bom-r... KB Hi all,As a follow up of my post here (https://www.applefritter.c... I have finished the testing of my second revision of the …
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Help & Support • Stupid ASCII q.: clear screen char.?

Lemon64 about 8 months ago

Hi! I'm working on improving my printtok routine and have an issue: I want to route the PETSCII clear screen character to a value between 1 and 31. I'm using cc65, so I can use the #pragma charmap to do the routing. I believe the PETSCII value is 147 d …