Posted by Danika

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Triangle, star or heart?

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I'm going to go with the heart, it has the most emotional connection.

That also means it wasn't a good idea to replace favoriting's star with it, but I'm not in charge of the Twitter Corporation.

Welcome to the board! Always good to see an unfamiliar face around here

Posted by Darkhero

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Do you wish there were more blobcat emojis?

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At work on Slack we have a "meow party blob", a flashing dancing blobcat emoji, it's great and it needs to be everywhere

Posted by AtomicAstro

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What game would you say has your favorite pixel art/sprites?

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Phantasy Star IV for those sweet pixel-anime cutscenes

Posted by Danika

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Chrono Trigger better than EarthBound?

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Definitely, no question.

That's not a slight on EarthBound, though. Chrono Trigger is just amazing.

I caught Quote! Better me than Nicalis, I suppose

Posted by Danika

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On a scale of 1 to 10, how scary is this?

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What the?!! !@$12jkh 940904-0s

Posted by Danika

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Who do you usually use your Tabs on in Chrono Trigger?

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I haven't done a serious CT run in over a decade

Posted by Epele

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Best use for VHS?

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Throw away all your useless Blu-rays and replace them with D-Theatre, of course!

Also they probably make decent doorstops until the plastic cracks

Sunday Bunday, the best Wisdom Tree game

Posted by Danika

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Would you have a 5.25" floppy in your main computer for fun?

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My main computer is an ultra-small form factor, but if that wasn't the case yeah sure, why not?

Though I have nothing that can read PC-formatted 5.25" floppies... (well it's probably possible to have the Apple ][ do it since the drive is 100% CPU-controlled)

Hope you have a good day! Birthdays should be fun.

Posted by Danika

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Would you have one of those SCSI CD changers in a computer?

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I don't trust SCSI for superstitious reasons

Posted by Danika

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Bad luck with an old Mac?

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Wow how'd you know

One of my parents' cats is named Billie, and she's a girl

Posted by Epele

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Hey, Nicole, I think Dani's obsessed with your cat.

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She's not alone; everyone loves a furry cat

I caught Doomfist.

A character who when I first heard of I assumed was fake because he has such a ridiculous name.

Posted by Danika

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Other than capacitors, what was the worst thing about working on old Macs?

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Definitely the integrated CRT, but I guess that is technically a capacitor... so I'll go with SCSI; having a trustworthy boot disk is essential for debugging literally anything else, and SCSI just isn't trustworthy... and the old Mac disk format basically nothing writes anymore, even though they're technically 3.5" standard disks, so a hard disk should be the way to go...

What I did to learn 6502 was start not on the NES, but on the Apple ][... seems like an odd choice, and it has some serious downsides, but there are a lot of resources on archive.org for finding beginner assembly resources. The Apple also has a built-in ROM monitor, which is kind of a pain to get used to, but it does help in early debugging since you're dropped right into it when your program crashes, and can look at memory and the like. There are plenty of emulators for it (I've heard the later Commodore machines like the Plus/4 and the 128 also have the ROM monitor)

Not sure I'd recommend that route 100%, but you might want to poke around some of the first few chapters of the books even if you don't write anything for the Apple.

Some more general purpose-resources:

• When I'm coding 6502 I always have this reference for quick lookup.
• The Nybbles and Bytes youtube channel just started a series "Nybbles and Mouse Bytes" for 6502 basics, definitely worth checking out, I hope she continues it (the main series is good too, she's making a Commodore 128 game)