My relationship with code has changed a lot over the past 30 years. Giving an idea life on a computer screen has always thrilled me, ever since the time of staying up late writing MadLibs programs in QBasic with my friends. I've been writing code professionally for nearly two decades …
cat assemble.txt
I've made some pretty decent progress, I think, though at the same time I'm beginning to learn that I have a very long way to go before I can make a real full-featured game. The resource that gave me the biggest jump-start was definitely Famicom Party. Using that book as …
cat nes_dev.txt
I've set a new goal for 2022: to build an NES game. As I collect and play more games for the system, I've come to appreciate the amount of effort that goes into engineering software at such a low level. The kinds of challenges that programmers had to overcome while …
cat quake2.txt
Rolling around in a giant pile of nostalgia, I decided to dig through files on a pile of old hard drives I had lying around. My chief goal was to find my old Quake 2 installation so I could recover my former collection of player models, skins, maps, and game …