Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: How did you get started??? Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 14:08:42 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 42 Message-ID: <354B612A.6708EE7F@mail.datasys.net> References: <354a636a.1323252@news.scea.sony.com> <354B4C4B.31F2@charlie.cns.iit.edu> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 314.dialup.datasys.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Ed Federmeyer wrote: > > Michael Klucher wrote: > > What's your story??? :) > > For years I got my hands on all the old console "grey area" > development info I could: Atari 2600, ColecoVision, NES, SNES, > Genesis, etc. > > Developing for these systems was a hacking dream come true, > but a software engineering nightmare! You litterally need to > do stuff like desolder ROMS from old game carts, and replace > them with sockets and EPROMs, etc. You needed to find cross > assemblers and cross compilers (only ever got a C compiler > for the Genesis, everything else was assembly!), and get it > all working yourself. You even needed to write all your own > graphics converters, music routines, etc. The technical > challange was awesome! I tried to do that to a Super Nintendo cart... But to my dissmay, when I was trying to de-sodder the battery(which was dead), the sodder seemed to be explosive! Everytime I tried to de-sodder it, it would keep spattering sodder everywhere, (Loud too, scared the crap out of me) so I decided to quit until I got some goggles. It wasn't the battery - the battery was intact. (Besides being dead) Kinda off topic, but I'm not going to get into another argument about correct and incorrect topics. :) -- 'Darco darco@NOSPAM@bigfoot.com Please replace "@NOSPAM@" with an "@" to email me. UIN: 1454810 (You can page me at http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1454810) WWW: (sorry, page is down) Voria: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/voria PGPKey: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/pgpkey.txt "Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean that they are not out to get me."