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• Post #2760732

  Once I let the user map keyboard and joystick presses to emulated buttons, save settings, and save SRAM, I called Family Size VM feature-complete. https://youtu.be/v9YBDkoBBlA #FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator #joystick #MVP

• Post #2760731

  I made a test ROM for the Oeka Kids drawing tablet for Famicom based on the description at NESdev Wiki. I had someone with a tablet try it. It didn't work. The tablet's slow microcontroller requires a lot of waiting in the read routine. The MCU turned out to be so slow that reading a pen position took 67 scanlines, or one-fourth of an NTSC frame. Neither Mesen nor FCEUX modeled this slowness. It took three revisions before I had a read routine I was happy with. All for a silly...

• Post #2557563

  Sumit Khanna reports that the cost per gigabyte of memory for desktop computers has had no net improvement since 2009. The present RAM shortage has erased a decade and a half of gains. How do we get application developers to use more efficient frameworks? https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-high-price-of-ram/ #dram #RAMShortage