The Nintendo Entertainment System, released in Japan as the "Famicom" in 1983, and later in America in 1985. Arguably one of the most famous and influential 8-bit computers of all time, it runs on a custom 6502 based CPU.
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Fetch data from a middle of a big stack using searchAfter(jump to a specific page,)
I have a large data set around 25million records
I am using searchAfter with PointInTime to walk through the data
My question is there a way where I can skip records over the limit of 10000
index.max_result_window
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Why were square waves used in old hardware instead of sine waves?
This answer here postulates that to actually generate a square wave (or any other abstract wave-shape) you have to layer multiple sine waves on top of each other. Yet old hardware (Commodore, NES, etc) lacked sine wave channels and instead relied…
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What is the purpose of a N-byte 'magic' number?
When parsing NES roms, the first four bytes are a 'magic' number:
78/0x4E (N)
69/0x45 (E)
83/0x53 (S)
26/0x1A (DOS end of file character)
What purpose does this, or any other examples, provide?
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Does the Hapi.js websocket protocol communication need to use hapi.js for the client to connect to the websocket?
I am building an API using Hapi. I need WebSocket functionality and it seems that Nes is the most popular to be used with Hapi. This is fine since Nes makes things quite easy, for example, a test route might look as so...
// Register Nes.
await…
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6502 nes game's stack overflows when jumping to a subroutine
When I run this chrome dinosaur clone for the nes I wrote in 6502 assembly, it causes a stack overflow for some reason.
Here is the code:
1. isJumping = %00000001
2. isFalling = %00000010
3. isGameOver = %00000001
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5. collisionram = $700
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