Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

I feel like Tilemap Town is reaaaally overdue for a new client, or at least new HTML for one. The JavaScript's probably fine, but it needs to be friendlier, work on FIreFox, and so on.

I only just now realized Wario is missing a mustache.

Shrinky dinks. They really did get incredibly small after baking. You'll see bad attempts at Wario, Gwonam, Billy Mays, etc.

@MapleDeer I didn't originally think I was going to want one for almost the entire time I've been in the fandom, and then being surrounded by cute fursuiters in person at cons convinced me otherwise. It seems like a really great way to really just get into your character's head and feel like the cute animal you want to be.

I notice a lot of squirrels outside and that makes me smile.

Even though it takes me a long time (my own fault since I need to learn how to do it efficiently) it's always 100% worth it to shave my face for the ability to just see and feel smoothness there, like there should be.

With that plus my hair a little long (being able to see it behind my ears seems important) I actually don't mind looking into the mirror at all.

It absolutely drives me up the wall just how bad most of my friends are at being responsive. I have to deal with people not replying for days or even weeks (often while reading all my messages and making it even worse) and I've gone through countless times where I finally find someone I can reach out to and talk to only for them to start going silent for a week or more. I have no idea how to make reliable friends like other people seem to have and it feels hopeless and futile.

@maple you really should! I wanna see more Maple art

@Saxxon Before IndyFurCon I looked around and tried to find other people who were going too, and made my own list, but didn't really end up using it since none of the people were ones I really knew (only person I really really wanted to see couldn't make it).

I did end up hanging out with some other people from a sober furs group chat though which was nice.

@maple That's even worse than my friend who powered a Commodore 64 with nails he soldered to in place of a connector he didn't have.

@woob I know that feeling. I'm still putting off getting a food processor and paying the price every time I need to chop up onions.

I feel like Nova's the kind of person who, when exploring other worlds, would be very interested in seeing what kind of common everyday technology they have.

@Saxxon Now the 6502 side is basically the NES except with more RAM. :p

Things to consider:
1. Putting the external space next to the ROM is a good idea because you can map ROM in there for a contiguous 40KB if you want.
2. If it's fine to have cartridge-side registers (ROM bank, etc.) write-only, they can overlap ROM without eating up any address space and be very easy to decode hardware-wise.
3. 8KB is plenty for save data for most genres and could be banked for more.

@Laroka There's no reason I can't, since homebrew publishers already get games shipped in boxes.

@Saxxon The more ROM is visible at once, the better you can simplify the code because you can put related code/data together and simply JSR or read what you want more often. RAM on the other hand doesn't help so much if you have enough to fit all the state you need, and 16KB is very generous for an 8-bit game console (Most seemed to have 8KB at most?). For something that's not a computer and won't be holding large BASIC programs or documents, this seems ideal.

@Saxxon I guess the real question is how you want to lay out your address space. While 2KB was sufficient for many NES games it's kind of cramped for a lot of genres and I think 16KB would be pretty roomy while providing a lot of space for other things. Something like this:

$0000-$3fff : 16KB RAM
$4000-$7fff : 16KB I/O and other things
$8000-$ffff : 32KB ROM, some sort of bank switching

@Laroka I'm more focusing on the cartridge label for now but yes I should!

I'm finally commissioning some actual box art for Nova the Squirrel to knock one of the obstacles to a cartridge release out of the way. Here's a rough sketch that's making me giggle a whole bunch.

Artist: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/fluffylinn

@Laroka And you're stuck with them too. And stuck against a squirrel's chest. :p