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Member Since 27 Nov 2003
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MIPS HEAVY INDUSTRIES > 2600 Homebrew Author Impromptu Gathering

Posted 03 December 2010

Wow, just through sheer good fortune I got to meet in person with cd_w. Since vdub_bobby is close by, the three of of us got together last night to talk shop and have a beer. :-)

cd_w on the left and vdub_bobby on the right. Chris was visiting Seattle and just happened to be doing work at my company. Through some small talk about homebrew he...


MIPS HEAVY INDUSTRIES > Hello Again

Posted 29 January 2008

Hi, everyone. Yes I have returned. I guess I wasn't gone that long after all. I took a break, everything worked out, and now I feel refreshed.

MIPS HEAVY INDUSTRIES > Turning off the lights at factory

Posted 28 July 2007

Well, I'm just letting you know that I won't be around here anymore. It was great to hang out and talk shop on a semi regular basis but I'm retiring from active duty.

Take care everyone.

- David

MIPS HEAVY INDUSTRIES > ATAN2 in 6502

Posted 27 May 2007

Some code rolling off the heavy industries math line today.

I've implemented a straighforward version of a CORDIC ATAN2 routine.
I've taken a few shortcuts. The #'s are normalized by shifting left 4 (x16) and I've limited the iterations to 8.

The accuracy is around 1 binary radian. (Binary Radians or BRADS : 0 - 255)

The...


MIPS HEAVY INDUSTRIES > Mega Man 2600 post mortem

Posted 04 May 2007

Mega Man 2600 post mortem

It was cool how Mega Man 2600 blew up on the Internets.

It was very fun and hearkens to a time when I thought game programmer was going to be something like rock star. I distinctly remember hero worshiping the Kitchen brothers. The benefactor of this game (iam8bit) had assured me of a modicum of notoriety and it...