Interacting with my emulator for the first time (Family Size VM #7) YouTube video by Damian Yerrick

Once I added a rudimentary SDL2 front end to my NES emulator, I could interact with it and play a game.
youtu.be/lQPIiWHBZgw
#FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator

I took the Super Game Boy code I made for Petal Crash GBC and made a code example that shows off booting custom SNES code and then having the Game Boy side send files to the SNES as needed.

Code and ROM (under "releases"): code.novasquirrel.com/Maffi/SuperG...

#snesdev #gbdev #gamedev

The Dangers of Context Collapse Context collapse is a favorite tool of Internet trolls and other disruptive influences​, but it has so many other implications. It’s important to avoid it, and to recognize where context collapse is l...

Sometimes it feels like social media operates in exactly this way. Our posts end up in front of people inclined to take them exactly the wrong way.
beesbuzz.biz/blog/3449-Th...

This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.

Nivins the white rabbit from Disney's Alice in Wonderland says "Today is Good Friday. Don't be late for gift basket day on Resurrection Sunday!" Made with Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories template in Death Generator by Alice Averlong

It is the anniversary of Jesus's death as payment for the sins of all humankind. The rabbits have prepared gift baskets filled with eggs, candy, and tracts.

#GoodFriday

My emulator draws a sprite (Family Size VM #6) YouTube video by Damian Yerrick

4 steps to draw #sprites in an NES #emulator
- copy the display list to OAM (memory in the PPU)
- scan OAM for sprites that overlap each line
- fetch their patterns from video memory between lines
- shift the pixels out during the next line
youtu.be/gSZAZ5pgVlI
#FamilySizeVM #emudev #timelapse

Occasionally, merpeople have to haul out onto the beach. They move on land by placing the tail and one hand forward and then scooting the butt up to reach them. They might operate a car with hand controls (Brodie knob for steering and gas/brake lever).

Regarding the question in alt text: I'll keep my arms.

Without legs, you still have two strong arms to scoot around on (pictured), and you still have fine manipulators to make and use tools (which is what makes us human).

Diddy Wishingwell, a purple cow with yellow headfur and no legs wearing a yellow sleeveless dress with blue floral print and an orange bottom, rings a triangle in front of a red barn to call the other Weebles to the dinner table. Still from Weebles episode "Mac & Cheese, Please! Beans & Franks? Thanks!" (2005)

Unless they happened to grow up in the mid-2000s, and their idea of a cow with no legs is Diddy from the Weebles cartoon.

Character Options Weebles x Bluey figure 4-pack

Or like the Bluey Weebles from 2022

Bobcats are kinda over rated don't you think? So from here on in I am gonna be drawing Star mainly as a Blobcat instead.

Parsing a command line in C is tedious (Family Size VM #5) YouTube video by Damian Yerrick

My #emulator takes a ROM filename on the #CommandLine, among other options. I use the #musl library's #getopt to parse the command in C. It makes me appreciate the libraries that come with newer languages like Python.
youtu.be/PAw478XJYWI
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Hell yeah, let chaos spread!

"In case of fire, break rules" reminds me of Wikipedia's official policy "Ignore all rules":
"If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

My emulator draws a background plane (Family Size VM #4) YouTube video by Damian Yerrick

The PPU in my NES emulator builds a background, renders it, and interrupts the CPU at vertical blanking.
youtu.be/Kq-QLCrzGps

#FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator

List of 2000s figures by bottom color "Red and yellow, they're my favorite colors / Green and purple, blue and orange too / I like rainbows filled with every color / Everybody has a favorite color they can choose" ― Birdie Lee Bright[sour...

There's a page on Weebles Wiki that lists all their names.
weebles.fandom.com/wiki/List_of...

Wally (brown hair, green button shirt) from Weebles House playset (1989) has invited over a few guests. Another Wally (blue vest) is inside the front door, Wendy (black hair, yellow shirt with purple flower) and Triggles (goose in green hat and pink overalls) are in the garden on the roof of the garage, Luca (brown spiky hair, glasses) is on the second floor behind Wally's dog Wiggles, Woodsman (green tunic and beret and yellow bow) is running the riding lawn mower, and Jill (red pigtails, yellow dress with white collar) and a They Roll Too girl (blonde pigtails, red dress, holding doll) are using the play equipment on the patio.

I don't remember the egg-shaped Weebles from the 1970s, but I remember the Weebles from late 1980s, 2005, and 2016.

Hogie Wobnobbin figure from Weebles Weehicles 2-pack set (2004). Maroon pig with no legs wearing blue sweater with orange trim.

Hey I know that Weeble at top left. It's Hogie!

Passing 9000 lines of CPU tests (Family Size VM #3) YouTube video by Damian Yerrick

See how I made my NES emulator's CPU pass all 9,000 steps of Kevin Horton's nestest
youtu.be/xi9kISkxF3o

#FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator

Weebles: Welcome to Weebleville! (2005) YouTube video by Weebles Episodes

And for those who aren't hearing the Weebles jingle already:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSGW...

PROTIP: If you're bringing several dolls/plushies to bed for a special occasion, you can prop two of them on each of your spare pillows. This creates a bit of grade separation, like a separated bike lane.

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS GETTING READY TO GO TO BED NANCY:I THINK - - I'LL TAKE ALL MY DOLLS TO BED WITH ME TONIGHT P2-NANCY IS SLEEPING IN THE MIDDLE OF HER BED, SHE HAS THREE DOLLS LAYING ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BED NANCY: Z Z Z Z Z Z Z P3-NANCY BEGINS TO TALK IN HER SLEEP: HELP ! HELP! P4- NANCY IS DREAMING, SHE IS DREAMING THAT SHE IS SQUEEZED, LIKE SHE IS IN A TIN OF SARDINES

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 26,1945

I started making an NES emulator for Advent (Family Size VM #2) YouTube video by Damian Yerrick

I made an NES emulator in December and January. It took me 72 hours, and I recorded every minute of it. My time lapse starts here youtu.be/hJPl4q8k2mY

#emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator #RetroDev #FamilySizeVM

Sometimes it's the simple things in life that keep you going

animation by @potoobrigham.bsky.social

color by @hootbias.bsky.social

Tibby Wobnobbin (lavender elephant with no legs wearing a pink dress with yellow tutu and a teal bottom), Tooey Winkington (green turtle with no legs in red and yellow firefighting gear and a blue bottom), and Bumpus Wobbleworks (orange sheepdog with brown headfur and no legs wearing a purple shirt, green bottom, red ball cap with white insignia, and blue mailbag) discuss how to remove mud from the address label of a parcel that Bumpus is delivering. In the background on the other side of the town's central roundabout is a fire station, some other buildings, some trees, and a yellow sky with white clouds. Still from Weebles episode "Welcome to Weebleville!" (2005)

It'd be even more awkward if the outfit didn't have leg holes. Then you'd have to end up cosplaying the characters from Weebles.

Still of opening sequence from Weebles animated series (2016-2017), showing six 3D animated children with no legs lined up side by side in the park. From left to right: Willie (Caucasian boy with blue eyes, brown curly hair, red and white striped shirt, blue bottom, red and white backward ball cap) Willow (Caucasian girl with blue eyes, maroon hair with purple headband, lavender shirt with pink heart emblem, and purple bottom) Winnie (Black girl with brown eyes and black hair in twin buns with purple bows, purple and pink striped shirt, and yellow bottom) Winston (Caucasian boy with green eyes, red glasses, blue shirt with green frog emblem, and red bottom) Wally (light brown boy with brown eyes, curly dark browm hair, white shirt, dark blue vest, red bow tie, blue bottom) Wendy (Caucasian girl with purple eyes, straight black hair with purple streak and green bow, yellow shirt with purple flower emblem, and green bottom)

Or HHA's Weebles.

Born Without Legs, But Unstoppable 💪 Zion Clark’s Incredible Story YouTube video by NekoFy

Maybe you can't walk without legs, but Zion Clark can
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VehI...

They still have two hands and a bottom

And given that we’re kind of near tornado season, I thought it would be smart to use this time to go over what is a watch and what is a warning.

The first photo is a waffle watch: Conditions are ripe for a possible waffle.

The second is a waffle warning: We have a verified waffle in the area.

My best guess is putting your fists on the ground and then swinging your body between them.