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Posted by Thomas Jentzsch, 02 November 2009 · 146 views

Thrust 10 years stella mailing list
Exactly ten years ago, I made my first Thrust post to the [stella] mailing list.

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SpiceWare
Nov 2 2009 4:03 PM
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supercat
Nov 2 2009 5:20 PM
Did the kernel provide any support for the tow bar? I would think integrating that into the kernel would be essential from the get-go, since the success of that would be crucial to the success of the overall project.
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Thomas Jentzsch
Nov 3 2009 1:40 AM

supercat, on Tue Nov 3, 2009 12:20 AM, said:

Did the kernel provide any support for the tow bar? I would think integrating that into the kernel would be essential from the get-go, since the success of that would be crucial to the success of the overall project.
The whole attached pod code was not implemented at this moment. IIRC I was still experimenting a bit with the physics back then.

If you follow the thread and the following ones, there where various suggestions discussed for displaying the tow bar.
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Zach
Nov 3 2009 4:22 PM
Happy Anniversary, Thomas! What kind of information on TIA programming was available back then?
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Thomas Jentzsch
Nov 3 2009 4:32 PM

Zach, on Tue Nov 3, 2009 11:22 PM, said:

Happy Anniversary, Thomas! What kind of information on TIA programming was available back then?
Quite a lot of stuff. Some info was a bit irritating (e.g. some sources stated that WSYNC takes 5 cycles), but overall everything was there. Just a few coding tricks, developed or rediscovered since then were missing.

Besides the list archives, there was the Stella Programmer's guide, a few websites and, last not least, z26, which was emulating almost perfectly.
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