Blog Posts on Lazy Stripes

Back when we were Playing with Palettes, I justified the whole exercise with my desire to write a little more about old school game design.

Or “why did I spend a month writing a lexer to display words in pretty colors?”

For literal years, there was a bug in my emulator that was just sneaky enough to kinda break a few games…

How much difference a bit makes when forgetting it makes your ROM simply not work on proper emulators or original hardware.

Writing an emulator is really cool, but what about writing ROMs for a Game Boy emulator?

Directly writing data to a texture isn’t trivial, but it makes for interesting pictures when you get it wrong.

I was tired of spending more time fighting WordPress than actually writing, so I got rid of it.

Wow.

A quick article describing a funny bug, and a nerdy warning against premature optimization.

We are so close!

All right, it took a few extra months, but we’re finally getting somewhere.

After a long hiatus, I went from outputting crappy sound to outputting crappy sound in stereo.

The actual emulator I wrote and which prompted that series of articles on this very blog is finally functional enough that I decided to publish it on GitHub.

Do you know how sound works?

A quick wrap-up of the last article, with bonus GIFs of the final result.

Another article that took longer than I planned because of palettes, but that I tried softening with more pictures, and actual screenshots this time!

A much longer — though heavily illustrated — read built on top of the previous article’s code, in which we finally get to show tiles on a low-tech display.

Where I try using crude animations to distract you from the fact I’ve put a lot of effort into turning a program that crashes into one that just hangs.

A promising start in which, after about 2000 words, I finally get to execute literally three bytes of machine code.

TL;DR: I started writing a Game Boy emulator in June 2018 and since then, at least three distinct people have expressed mild but polite interest in the details.

It’s been a while since I wrote anything and my usual platform isn’t really suitable anymore, so of course I have set up some overkill self-hosted solution to correct that.

Summer isn’t my kind of season.

Glimpses of an old Python parser for custom tags in MU* logfiles.

I like the fact the NaNoWriMo website now stores statistics.

Honestly, what’s the worst, here?

How do you call something that’s been working so perfectly for the past ten years that nobody ever felt the need to touch it?