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Zorchenhimer

@zorchenhimer.com.bsky.social

I do computer things, mostly retro or retro-adjacent.

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Working on my #NES #Tetris ROM on stream. Two player garbage attacks is today's focus, come take a look!

www.twitch.tv/zorchenhimer
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13.07.2025 17:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Well, the jump doesn't work perfectly, but you can't infinite jump anymore, also made movement smoother.

#gamedev #inidiegamedev #BRdev #BrazilianGameDev #homebrew #homebrewdevelopment #retro #retrogamedev #assembly #assemblylanguage #gameboy #Celeste #CelesteGame

06.07.2025 20:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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These are some of the reference pages I used for hand-assembling 6502 machine code programs. I learnt 6502 machine code on the CBM PET in 1979 and needed these sheets to look-up the opcodes for the instructions. I can still remember a lot of them today! Here's a test for you...A9, 4C, 20, EA, 85.

29.06.2025 13:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation There are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzieโ€™s classic piece on names, here a...

Tagging @ramiismail.com as he might get a chuckle out of this. But it's a great read for all programmers!

07.06.2025 10:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Finally back to making progress on my #NES version of #Tetris. I got T-Spins working!

#nesdev

26.05.2025 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I finally finished all 5 shots of this little animation practice sequence. Had so much fun to combine Procreate, Clip Studio, Blender and After Effects to explore this style.

23.04.2025 18:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1354    ๐Ÿ” 368    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
Gunnerkrigg Court, Vol 2 Hardcover

Gunnerkrigg Court, Vol 2 Hardcover

The signed page showing this is book number 2 of 1,000.

The signed page showing this is book number 2 of 1,000.

Gunnerkrigg Court limited edition book came in the mail today. Wasn't expecting NUMBER TWO

24.04.2025 00:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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When I worked at Software Creations we used an in-house Editor/Assembler to create our NES games ( PC-ED ). This video shows NES Wolverine ( 1991 ) being assembled. The NES development system was attached to the PC via a parallel link and the object code was deployed to the NES for testing.

05.04.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Zorchenhimer - Twitch I do computer things. Mostly 8-bit assembly for the NES on stream. ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

Back to some software dev today. Working on some retro dev tooling, focusing on graphics stuff.

www.twitch.tv/zorchenhimer

30.03.2025 18:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Undercover Shot is a 2-player social deduction game that uses one standard controller and one Nintendo Zapper controller. Made by @pirateprincessjess.bsky.social

Order your physical NES copy during this 30-days pre-order campaign on Homebrew Factory:
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29.03.2025 13:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Real programmers use simple text editors. And no, that's not what defines them. Quite the opposite. If you start using simple text editor you won't become one. You become one when you realize that generating MBs of text per second is not real programming. It's just API plumbing.

22.03.2025 21:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 108    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Playing some Momodora: Moonlit Farewell cuz I'm too burnt out from work to code.

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21.03.2025 22:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the most important aspect of kernel development is to make sure your driver freaks the fuck out whenever the system resumes from sleep

19.03.2025 15:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1005    ๐Ÿ” 72    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 34    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Zorchenhimer - Twitch [6502 ASM] More NES Tetris Clone Stuff

I'm gonna try and get wall kicks working again today. Let's see how far I can get.

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16.03.2025 18:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Zorchenhimer - Twitch I do computer things. Mostly 8-bit assembly for the NES on stream. ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

So I picked up some soju tonight...

www.twitch.tv/zorchenhimer

14.03.2025 22:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Program output with "Licence will expire in 3 days" repeated 32 times.

Program output with "Licence will expire in 3 days" repeated 32 times.

I think my license expires soon. Just a hunch.

12.03.2025 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I've been making a lot of progress on my NES Tetris project.

This is versus mode. I'll be implementing sending garbage rows soon(tm).

08.03.2025 19:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks, I hate it.

05.03.2025 05:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tech is kindergarten. All devs are children. And we need adults in the room to clean up all their toys.

28.02.2025 14:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 107    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Zorchenhimer - Twitch I do computer things. ฬถMฬถoฬถsฬถtฬถlฬถyฬถ ฬถ8ฬถ-ฬถBฬถiฬถtฬถ ฬถaฬถsฬถsฬถeฬถmฬถbฬถlฬถyฬถ ฬถfฬถoฬถrฬถ ฬถtฬถhฬถeฬถ ฬถNฬถEฬถSฬถ ฬถoฬถnฬถ ฬถsฬถtฬถrฬถeฬถaฬถmฬถ.ฬถ ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

I need to post more. Anyway, I'm refactoring more 6502 assembly to be faster. Come hang out.

www.twitch.tv/zorchenhimer

22.02.2025 00:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Tetris - invisible Level
YouTube video by TVshowsVideo Tetris - invisible Level

I've thought about having an "invisible" mode, where once a block is placed it is no longer displayed (ignore the potato quality): youtu.be/W6Y858742uY?...

If I were to try and implement this I think I'd try to get some kind of fade going for each piece.

17.02.2025 00:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Apparently I have the memory of a goldfish. You were the first to reply when I originally posted this on Discord last month. Whelp.

16.02.2025 04:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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After having one of these for a while, I finally got around to taking decent pictures of the boards last month. I've been told this is a revision 1 boardset.

Full resolution images can be grabbed from here: zorchenhimer.com/pics/titler/

16.02.2025 04:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A little late today cuz work was a dumpster fire.

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08.02.2025 00:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Tetris, but all blocks are T blocks.

Tetris, but all blocks are T blocks.

So i heard you like T blocks.

Live in 10 minutes: www.twitch.tv/zorchenhimer

02.02.2025 18:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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E3 2010 is in 1 hour at magfest. Panel room 6.

26.01.2025 03:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 520    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Twitch Twitch is the world

Sake and assembly. What could possibly go wrong?

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25.01.2025 00:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The screen shake makes the hard drops feel so much more aggressive.

12.01.2025 16:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Zorchenhimer - Twitch I do computer things. ฬถMฬถoฬถsฬถtฬถlฬถyฬถ ฬถ8ฬถ-ฬถBฬถiฬถtฬถ ฬถaฬถsฬถsฬถeฬถmฬถbฬถlฬถyฬถ ฬถfฬถoฬถrฬถ ฬถtฬถhฬถeฬถ ฬถNฬถEฬถSฬถ ฬถoฬถnฬถ ฬถsฬถtฬถrฬถeฬถaฬถmฬถ.ฬถ ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

I'm live. Come say hi.

www.twitch.tv/zorchenhimer

05.01.2025 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I got ghost pieces working last night! There's still a long way to go, but it's mostly playable. This works on real NES hardware, btw (colors and all).

04.01.2025 18:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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