How to write code on your no-toolchain, no-documentation, and no-storage 1990s Chinese <del>totally-legal Famicom game console</del> educational home computer? No worries! You can find useful assembly routines on your own! Just dump the whole BASIC cartridge ROM via PEEK using this handy 6502 decoding script! The next section also gives you a typed-in ROM monitor. Absolutely disastrous learning experience. But you know it's truly only possible on a 6502 - the disassembler fits in just 4 pages. Steve Wozniak is going to either be amazed or have a heart attack if someone told him this was how 1990s home computers worked in China. #retrocomputing #小霸王学习机
How do pirated Nintendo N-in-1 game cartridges work? In the 1990s China, it was not a NESdev page for people with too much time, it was Serious Business! With its own textbook reviewed by EE professors at a top university. Because as we all know, they were for <del>game consoles</del> educational home computers, so the engineering knowledge is of uttermost importance! #retrocomputing #retrogaming #NES #小霸王学习机
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