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dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Sep 4, 2008
A little (very little) more history. I spent more time at Atari waiting for assemblies to finish than you’d probably believe. I mean, assembly language; how hard can it be? Yet the Assembler/Editor cartridge was …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Sep 3, 2008
Punchcards suck. I used to use Emacs at 300 baud. That’s how desperate I was to use a decent editor. The courses I was taking at school were on punchcards, and to avoid those horrible things, I: - Wrote a terminal …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Sep 2, 2008
Digging through some old disks I found the source to an old version of MadMac, a fast assembler I wrote just before I left Atari. It needed some TLC ( some of the tables were missing, and I had to recreate them). It …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Sep 1, 2008
I’ve linked to the middle, the meat, of How Atari BASIC Works. I really like the way that they crammed a pretty decent BASIC interpreter into 8K or 10K (depending on how you count) of ROM. In comparison, the first …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Aug 31, 2008
Curt Vendel (who’s been groveling through a bunch of old Atari backup tapes for a number of years) has found and posted the source code to the Atari 800 version of Donkey Kong. Here’s a pointer to the forum thread …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Aug 22, 2008
Your job: Merge the sea of undifferentiated objects that Joe’s been working on for a week into the sea of undifferentiated objects that you’ve been working on for a week. Repeat until you unbreak the build or run out …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Aug 19, 2008
I swear to God, if I see another story on NBC about “How I made it to the Olympics despite (a) my crippling neural disease, (b) stifling poverty and a crippling neural disease, (c) my whole poverty-stricken …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Aug 19, 2008
Scrum is supposed to be about getting repeatability. The thing is, you don’t get repeatability until you’ve actually repeated something. N == 0 Not repetition N == 1 Not repetition N == 2 Not so fast: you haven’t …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Aug 14, 2008
Here is C-Span’s political / Washington D.C. glossary. link [I was reading about a Thailand government official who was advocating that the publishers / developers of GTA be prosecuted for “copycat” crimes — I was …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Aug 12, 2008
More stuff that pops into my head during triage meetings. —- Oh, thars - Data-driven, Top-Down, Structured, Procedural and Agile Incremental, Bottom-up and Spiral (though it’s fragile) Rational will suck you in and …