Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Inkbox" channel.

  1. I had no idea anyone reverse engineered these. Not that it would be necessary because emulators are really good now, but it'd be interesting if someone ported these so you could run them without an emulator. Maybe even merge them all into one game with the different story lines as chapters.
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  2. It's almost like there's some cosmic force pushing me to write a game. I have had some ideas floating around for a few decades. Though I'm not so sure I'd want to be limited by the NES, I suppose it would actually work for what I want to do.
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  3. I've always liked the at symbol, and it never made sense that in C and languages based on it that they went with ampersand to indicate address of. I guess if e-mail had become popular before C was designed that it would be the other way around, but for my own language I decided to break from the convention that C uses and instead use the at symbol for my address of operator. I think this video vindicates my choice.
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  4. So the short answer is "no" and the long answer is "yes". I like it.
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  5. I hope David sees this and showcases this project. I still remember writing my own word processor in QBasic, those were fun times. The examples were pretty helpful too, I was able to have mouse clickable menu bars and a status bar. I miss those days when programming was fun. Maybe I should write a BASIC interpreter.
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  6.  @yevgeniylankin7032  I'd love to see them all ported to as many systems as possible. Might have to look into what it would take, because I'm sure the code in its disassembled state could use a good refactoring for generic usage.
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  7. I'm curious whether there are any fundamental differences between their designs and ours. How did they solve all of the various problems they encountered? Are their designs RISC or CISC and do they include instructions in their CPU's that we don't and vice versa?
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  8.  @gabrielschilive7675  You could also look for a copy of Inno Pascal. It's open source and a very simple Pascal compiler that directly generates PE executable files. It doesn't have every feature of Pascal, but it's super easy to understand the code.
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  9.  @katrinabryce  I must be part British then because I understand pence.
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  10.  @InkboxSoftware  Indeed, people shouldn't be afraid to talk. Censorship shouldn't be a thing.
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  11.  @Catuzen  What makes you think I don't and that we haven't already gotten trashy games?
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  12.  @ArneChristianRosenfeldt  I've seen you commenting on a lot of videos. If you really think it's so easy, then put your money where your mouth is and write a game for either the NES or SNES and do it entirely in assembly.
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  13. Even though I can't read it, I can certainly appreciate the artistry of this. I am curious why you didn't simply post the source code on your website instead of coordinating through e-mail. It would be less hassle for you that way.
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  14.  @jrstf  Except that it didn't use it to dereference, but rather to denote that it was a variable, period. Using it for literally every manipulation of a variable is certainly tiresome.
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  15.  @nikdog419  A few years back they proposed getting rid of pennies and making nickels the lowest denomination coin. Thankfully they didn't do it because it would've led to extra inflation, but what we're seeing now makes it a rather moot point.
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  16.  @bellissimo4520  True, but modern day China is a bit more into copying than they were in the past, and I'd love to see what they came up with when they first got started. If the history of such things is even recorded.
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  17.  @TheOzumat  You mean with a fancy skin on. :P
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  18.  @Kycilak  I don't disagree that it is confusing to use the same symbol to declare a pointer and dereference it, but I'd actually rather not use @ for dereferencing, and instead look to a new symbol, such as $. Consider that what dereferencing really is, is acquiring the value at that address. Obviously using such a symbol would be a bit fraught, but for internationalization of my language it could be possible to use any country's currency symbol.
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  19. That is so cool. I wish computers could still be that simple today. And I'm glad you told me what that logo was because I thought it was the Wendy's girl's hair pulled off of her head.
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  20.  @elipticalecliptic481  You could program in C for the NES too, it'd just be a bit harder in some areas and easier in others.
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  21.  @illford  I was sort of making a joke here, because in truth they're merely different ways of implementing an algorithm. Software is basically incomplete hardware and hardware is the culmination of that effort to implement an algorithm.
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  22.  @kanucks9  Getting rid of pennies necessitates rounding to the nearest nickel, thus it causes inflation. I dare you to suggest that even a tenth of the companies currently operating will ever round down, and if even that many would, it would still have a massive effect.
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  23.  @belstar1128  Personally, I wish someone would develop an open source CISC chip.
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  24. Cool game. Took me a while to figure it out, and now I've achieved my goal of world domination.
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  25.  @Catuzen  Like I said, your response makes no sense.
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  26.  @spookycat4620  And the Pi400 and some others. Although I didn't mean the form factor. Computers will never be that simple ever again, for better or worse. Makes me nostalgic for those days typing in BASIC programs from 3-2-1 Contact magazines and playing Gorilla and Nibbles on school computers with friends.
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  27.  @ArneChristianRosenfeldt  What you're saying is that you (and not in the royal sense) can't write a whole game in assembly. Since you can't, why do you think it's so easy?
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  28. I don't care what anyone says, that was a great movie series.
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  29. If you were using C, it'd be awesome to have a C23 compliant compiler to handle resource embedding. Towards that end, the oscar64 project intrigues me. It's intended for the C64, but it shouldn't be too difficult to modify it for other 6502 based systems.
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  30.  @retrokoh  Interested in collaboration? I can't draw worth a spit, but I've got ideas and I can code.
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  31.    If you're referring to $, shell scripts use it to read the value and BASIC used it as a postfix designator for strings. I don't mind its usage in shell scripts since you don't need it for assignments. And you only need to use it once to refer to variables inside substitutions and arithmetic expansions. Like x=10; y=20; z=$(( x + y )); or at all in: for (( i=0; i<10; i++ )); do ... done # I don't want to copy BASIC's Hungarian notation, though.
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  32.  @theleonpasta7336  A lot of the reason why they didn't include them all for each game was size limitations of the platform and the cartridges themselves. They could certainly include a lot of them, but as time went on they grew a bit more than the portable platforms allowed for. Now they could easily get all of them in one game and with full 3D graphics too. While backporting to the 3DS would be cool, I'd prefer to not be as limited and just look forward to bigger and better platforms. As for SM64 and OOT, those were actually reverse engineered, the source code wasn't leaked. They are remarkable projects and part of their goal was to make it possible to regenerate the original ROM from their reverse engineered copy, and you can indeed do that. Because of their immense work there have been some really cool forks where they've fixed bugs and slowdowns in the original games even allowing it to run on the original hardware in a fixed state. You should look up the SM64 port to PC and give it a play.
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  33.  @ezequieloliveira6826  I didn't know anyone wrote an emulator in Flash, but it doesn't really surprise me, there were a lot of really cool games written in it. And of course the oddball things that I really loved like Hamlet. If you know who Chris Coutts is and have seen that Hamlet, it's the best version that exists.
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  34.  @Irreve-rsible  This is definitely true, and they have many times in the past, but if they weren't a factor I'd love to see it happen.
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  35.  @lilwoodiewood3457  The emulator is a program that runs on top of the hardware to emulate other hardware. By their very nature, such programs are going to be less efficient than to directly run a program that has been compiled for the platform you're using. What a "console" can run is irrelevant, as that's not the point. Modern consoles are nothing more than computers and really have been for the past 23 years anyway, but you missed the last line in my post about merging story lines.
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  36.  @lilwoodiewood3457  Given that no PS2 emulator will play at full speed for me I'm going to say playing a game specifically compiled for my system is a better option. You say you're a programmer, okay, what languages do you know?
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  37.  @lilwoodiewood3457  Since reading comprehension is not a skill you have, I'll explain it a different way then ignore you henceforth. I want a native build, and I want merged story lines. Failing that, as in someone not putting such a version of the games together, I still want to play them and would be willing to do so with an emulator. Original hardware is not still being built and using it decrements its lifespan. All circuits degrade with usage, so using original hardware is a no no for me other than to ensure it's still working after regular maintenance, like changing capacitors. If you still don't understand, and based on your language skills I'd be shocked if you did, I won't bother responding further.
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  38.  @Freddisred  Interesting. It says something about requiring the ROM's to play. Have any idea what they do? Is it just an emulator that networks the way you could with the link cable or do they do something more?
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  39. @ArneChristianRosenfeldt There are C compilers for 6502 processors. But I'm thinking that you probably couldn't do that either, because I keep seeing you say `bok bok`.
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  40. Is there a way to do something like the Linux shebang with Windows cmd.exe ? Or would you have to wrap it in a batch file? It just seems kind of annoying to have to manually call the Python interpreter to execute a program instead of just calling the program directly and having the shell figure it out. And in case anyone doesn't already know, yeah there are builds of various Linux shells that can be used on Windows, including a full set from either MingW or CygWin, but I'm wondering about solutions that don't use third-party tools.
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  41.  @OrangeDog20  Um what? Declaration and use are most definitely not the same. Consider: char *s = "foobarbaz"; s += 3; printf( "%s\n", s ); // doesn't include the * symbol to dereference at any point or to manipulate the address; Also you could access individual elements of the string with s[index]; and not use the * symbol there either.
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  42.  @Qazqi  True, and it still doesn't, technically. However, it is included in ASCII and has been since before K&R's book was published, thus both could have been added. Of course I wouldn't expect the committee to add them at this point, for anything, but they'll certainly be in my language.
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  43. I thought the old joke was for "why isn't there an OS/3?". Although, It'd be even more awesome if you recompiled Doom from source and added some modern improvements such as being able to handle a modern gamepad, but while still running under an old version of DOS. Cooler still if you could write a TSR to enable any DOS game to see a modern gamepad as a keyboard.
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  44. @pshalleck Do they replace the cryptography acceleration with their own because they backdoor it, or do they have different implementations of the same algorithms that maybe they think are better?
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  45.  @Catuzen  No, it really is the best version of Hamlet. The music choice is top notch, and it's hilarious.
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  46.  @Catuzen  Why were you saying "that sounds terrible"? I have no context and have to assume the post it's in reference to, so I picked the most recent because none of the others fit either.
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  47.  @Kezzic  Sure, if you have a flash cart, and if that's the way you want to play it. Of course, I don't have a flash kart and I'd rather not play on original hardware. I'd rather emulate or play a native build for the computer.
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  48.  @Trixtoxia  Maybe. I can't seem to get a clear answer on what precisely that is. It looks like it's just an emulator that you plug all the ROM's into and allows you to use an internet connection for link play. If I'm wrong on that, I'd like someone to tell me what it actually does, because otherwise I could do the same without registering just by using RetroArch.
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  49. I wish I could play it offline. I sunk a whole bunch of hours into playing it, then had to go on a trip with no internet. Have to leave again today and won't be able to play. In a way, it reminds me of games like FFT, even without the individual chess board players.
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  50. Awesome. Now do the smallest Linux binary. I wonder how small Nibbles could be.
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