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I don't think I've smiled this much in a long time, my cheeks are a little sore.

This weekend has be a mad time of making friends and meeting people for the first time IRL and learning cool stuff and thinking of MORE projects and interesting conversations and...

Just So Good.

Procul is getting better :D

Hello Sheffield

Suppose I should start packing for Sheffield, early start tomorrow.

A cool project from Pimoroni: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimoroni/32blit-retro-inspired-handheld-with-open-source-fi

So, who else from The Town will be in Sheffield this weekend for AlgoMech?

Ported Afiur to Swift.

#theWorkshop

Sync - Disasterpeace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylJ_IIvCQD4

#theStudio

This has been a week of experiments.

I've dabbled in GBA development with C, worked some more on my terminal mastodon client in Rust and now making the start of a companion app to another project for iOS with Swift.

Holidays are fun.

Making headway on removing old or unnecessary objects from my life. Right now I could probably fit my non-sentimental belongings into 2 large suitcases.

If I ever get a studio there will be a bed in it. Naps are the best.

Never mind, scratch the full multi-boot idea. Two carts were required for Four Swords multiplayer.

It might still be used for fast operations while in that mode but I just haven't dug that deep yet.

Hmm, the cartridge is technically multi-game with Four Swords included. And the SRAM is the right size to store a multi-boot image (a type of multiplayer mode where only one person needs the game, think DS DownloadPlay), so it could be a fast buffer for transferring the image to the other players and handling incoming data while the rest of the “server” is handled on device by the system ram.

Currently trying to figure out how GBA carts are put together, I think the one with the “Apex” sticker is a bootleg. It’s a Link to the Past cart I got on eBay, for comparison the other photo is of PKMN Red Rescue Team.

PKMN uses EPPROM for the saves while LttP apparently stores everything on a single EEPROM chip, game code and saves, there is an SRAM chip but it’s being used for something else...

#theFurnace

I might need to clear out my tabs...it’s gotten to the point that Safari is crashing every half hour.

A big problem with trying to find resources on GBA development is the impermanence of early 2000's hobby sites.

A lot of the pages that current guides link to are either tremendously broken on the wayback machine or just gone from the Internet all together.

Source code and examples, such as Link-Cable multiplayer code which was already rare, now doesn't exist anywhere and has to be rediscovered/redone.

A baby bird landed on my shoulder as I was leaving for work this morning.