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Challenges & Competitions / Re: [ASSEMBLY] Chip16 challenge thread

« on: March 10, 2012 »

Bump!

I made a little sound demo to showcase the new spec. See thread for more details!

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Challenges & Competitions / Re: [ASSEMBLY] Chip16 challenge thread

« on: March 02, 2012 »

Hey guys,

It's been a while since I last posted. Chip16 has evolved a bit since then!
I am in charge of the project now. There is also a new version of the specification out. It includes:

- new sound, ADSR spec (similar to SID then)
- palette loading, if you don't like the default palette.

This is a perpetual challenge, so entries still welcome! 
(I started on Worms/Scorched Earth clone but got bored..)

Link to the new thread.

Have fun!

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General chat / Re: The most interesting thing I saw today

« on: October 30, 2011 »

see something cool

An Aston Martin being towed away for illegal parking.., 

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Challenges & Competitions / Re: [ASSEMBLY] Chip16 challenge thread

« on: October 20, 2011 »

No disassembler sorry
The assembler, though, is called tchip16. It's in the archive attached to the OP, or get it on my project homepage.
Have fun! 

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General chat / Re: Reversing the 6502

« on: October 19, 2011 »

This may also be of interest then: http://visual6502.org/
Full die shots of vintage CPU's and online visual simulators of a 6502 and a 6800! 

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General chat / Re: The Welcoming Committee

« on: October 18, 2011 »

I'll introduce myself more formerly I think!

Hi, I'm tykel. I have been programming for the past 6 years and am currently studying Computer Engineering in London.
I am interested in emulator design/coding and demos -- I particularly admire work done on 80s machines.
I have been looking around for a while, all I can say is the community looks very friendly!
Hopefully I will have stuff to contribute in the future   

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Challenges & Competitions / [ASSEMBLY] Chip16 challenge thread

« on: October 16, 2011 »

Hi DBF,

This is my first post so I'll introduce myself quickly -- I'm tykel, programmer and CompSci student, and interested in pushing computers to their limits
Now for the challenge:

Perpetual Chip16 demo challenge

What is Chip16?
You may have heard of Chip8, that VM from the 70s/80s which has been ported to pretty much any platform in existence. Chip16 is a community effort to draw up a successor, from scratch.
Now, the system's main premise is to be easy to emulate; indeed, that is my other main interest. So we have about half a dozen public emulators at least. What we don't have, however, is any AMAZING software.
I have coded a starfield; there are some fractals (Mandelbrot set, Serpinski triangle) and some games and examples, but nothing groundbreaking. This is where you come in.

What is Chip16, like, physically?
Specs are on the forum thread linked below.

CPU: 1Mhz, 16-bit
RAM: 64KB
GFX: 320x240, 16-colour
Sprite-based drawing system
No FPU

Rules
There are no rules. It must be a demo that runs on chip16, that is all.

Links?
The link below contains all extra information, including the discussion leading up to the system's current state.
Chip16 official thread

For your convenience, however, I have attached a zip with emulators, doc, source code and binaries:
Use cottonCx for emulation, as it is the only one fully up to date with the VM spec (no sound though).
Use tchip16 for assembling your programs, tchip16_debug provides additional info.
Use imgconv for converting BMPs to binary sprite data. img_conv is my command-line utility with less options.

I hope this gives you some material to have fun with