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I've used this toolchain for several projects in the past and it works great. I've always just used a simple text editor, but for larger projects sometimes I wish I could use an IDE of some sort. Is there a way to make this work with an IDE like Visual Studio or CLion? Apologies in advance if this i...

Thanks! That's what I needed.

Mask Of Destiny pointed out that it can be simplified a bit with No lea needed.

progress.

Now the program prints a single letter 'm' and then appears to hang. I changed the vblank subroutine to this:

I'm able to compile the rom but when I run it I just get a black screen that does nothing. Here's my main C file: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include "hw_md.h" void putChar(char character); void advanceCursor(); void putNewline(); void WaitForVBlank(); void readControllers(); char xPosit...

Thanks a bunch for this Chilly Willy. I've been working with the toolchain and was able to put together an XBAND keyboard test rom using the same keyboard read and write functions from the XBAND source code. To keep my main loop running at 60 iterations per second I wrote a WaitForVBlank function (m...

hey Sig, I watched a few of your MD development videos on youtube several years ago; they were helpful for understanding the basics.
Hi! ( ^_^)／

The folks over at TASvideos.org set up a system where an original Nintendo could be powered on remotely via a python script. It was created so that multiple people could collaborate on tool assisted speed runs and make sure that they work properly on actual hardware. You can see it in action at 14:3...

The keyboard was advertised via XBAND news and was available to order by phone directly from Catapult Entertainment. http://www.geoffledak.com/xbandkeyboards/pics/keyboard.jpg http://www.geoffledak.com/xbandkeyboards/pics/keyboard-box.jpg http://www.geoffledak.com/xbandkeyboards/pics/manual-front-co...

I just thought I'd add that the keyboard definitely made it out of the prototype stage and was available for sale back in the day. There's a guy in the XBAND facebook group who posted some pictures of his Genesis keyboard. I sent him a message asking some questions about it and he says that he order...

I've been continuing work on my project of trying to use an Arduino Uno to simulate the xband keyboard. I bought an xband modem on ebay and I have some pins from the Arduino connected to a DB9 connector which is plugged into the Genesis. So far it's been quite an enlightening learning project (I've ...

I think I just found what I was looking for.

/Database/DBConstants.h contains this:

/* Hardware Keyboard ID */
kESKeyboardID = 0x030C0609,

And yeah I had gone over the keyboard code long ago, it relies on an adapter to connect an AT keyboard to the console: REQUIREMENTS: - TH and TR are always output - TL is always input - Other bits depend on action HANDSHAKE: - Set TH and TR high ($60) - Wait a bit (two NOPs) - Read bits 3-0 (should...

That particular snippet seems to be resetting the stack (i.e. removing everything that was on it). Is that some sort of init code or the like? EDIT: also no, no idea which compiler it is =P Yeah it's some code to reset the stack at the very beginning of main() in ROMMain.c. I just grabbed it as an ...

Here's a good tutorial on basic physics and floor collection detection using 68k assembly on the Genesis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kalmryn9_sE

Sowwy (・ω・`) (though I may redesign the UI a bit) Very impressive. I may be passing several questions your way. Something that I was curious about that you might know the answer to: I noticed that some of the XBAND source code includes inline assembly which uses a simple syntax with the asm keyword...