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Cost sharing

Posted by supercat, 24 November 2009 · 169 views

Imagine that a restaurant were to announce to 100 diners--all strangers--that they would be splitting the tab. If a diner wanted to buy a $50 glass of wine, it would only cost him $0.50; on the other hand, it would also cost the other 99 diners $0.50. If the diner decided instead to have a $2 soda or a $5 glass of wine, he (and...


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Question for Obama supporters

Posted by supercat, 03 December 2008 · 319 views

Is there any reason why aspiring Presidents should not be willing to prove their eligibility for office as a matter of course?

If Obama was born in Hawaii, why would it not be in everyone's interest for him to authorize the state of Hawaii to officially say so? Note that they have said they have a birth record on file, but they haven't said what...


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I hope I'm 100% wrong about Obama

Posted by supercat, 04 November 2008 · 420 views

Really, I do. Because if I'm not 100% wrong about him, one of the world's largest nuclear arsenals will within a few years be in the hands of a third-world nation.

I'll readily admit that McCain was a pretty feeble candidate, but at least he would have let the country tread water until someone better came along in 2012. I believe Obama hates...


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Largest ever bank heist

Posted by supercat, 01 October 2008 · 353 views

Well, it looks as though the Senate is going to buy a getway car for the worlds' most expensive bank robbery. Unless Congress can stop it, the U.S. may commit economic suicide in the next couple days. STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID!

The novel-length Christmas-tree piece-of-Sith legislation the Senate just passed will do nothing to resolve the...


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Star Castle, anyone?

Posted by supercat, 03 August 2008 · 377 views

Here's a rough kernel test for the 'rings'. This should be quite workable in a real game if everything is flickered at 30Hz (player ship, one shot, enemy fireball, and two chaser mines). Hold player 1 fire to slow down the animation; hold player 2 fire to disable the shift-in data. Color/BW toggles 30Hz flicker. The funny 8x8 block in the...


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13-char Chimera-queue test

Posted by supercat, 30 June 2008 · 84 views

This is some very rough test code for a 13-character text display with Chimera.

(edit)Removed a vestigial 'include' and a couple of vestigial macro invocations.


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Obama (take 2)

Posted by supercat, 09 June 2008 · 51 views

I'm curious whether people who support Obama think:

-1- He is not a Marxist, or

-2- Marxism is a good thing;

-3- He does not really support Black Liberation Theology, or

-4- Black Liberation Theology is a good thing.

If you need to better qualify Marxism or BLT, feel free.


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BTP2 Music Specs (as seen in Stella's Stocking)

Posted by supercat, 09 March 2008 · 218 views
software tricks
In case anyone is curious about the exact specs for the music in Stella's Stocking (BTP2 music driver):


4 independent voices; two are output to each sound channel. The voices are otherwise isomorphic.
Two wave tables, which are used for "loud" and "soft". Normally most voices are shaped to start soft and get loud, or...


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Proposed "Magic Zeepy" banking method

Posted by supercat, 23 January 2008 · 81 views

Magic Zeepy banking is a proposed banking method to allow up to 32 zero-page pointers used within certain parts of the code to access up to 24K of ROM directly. It does put some restrictions on the code to be run, but for some applications the ability to access so much memory directly may be more than worth it. The scheme is designed around using a 22V10...


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Mega-bitmap demo

Posted by supercat, 14 October 2007 · 85 views

Here's a sample of what might be possible under Chimera. There's supposed to be another column of data (8 pixels wide) in the left-side red area, but the timing's not quite right so the sprite doesn't show up on a real system (it does under Z26, but Z26 has other problems; besides, what really matters is what a real machine does).

This...






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