voxel / is on Nostr

Low bit and retro developer

itch.io: https://voxel.itch.io
blog: https://thomaspurnell.com
storage capacity: 1.44MB
pronouns: he/him

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2024-08-19 11:56:02

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it is double sided, and all pads on the left have the strip on the left, and all the pads on the right have the strips to the right 😅

2024-08-19 11:41:50

I'm trying to learn more about these (anti ESD?) thin tips on signal pads, full width on power pads. Any hints?
If you zoom in closely to my blurry picture, pins 1, 16 and 30 are wide almost all the way to the edge of the board, whereas the others are shorter, but then have a tinnny thin strip that extends to the edge
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/112/987/999/438/101/639/original/84dcbf9b4880ded4.jpg

2024-07-22 10:09:02

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not sure about spread gun but you can give yourself 30 lives by entering the konami code at the titlescreen - (Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, and Start). Apologies if you already knew this!

2024-06-06 06:23:38

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Let's gooo homebrew #gbadev project for #gbajam24 successfully deployed to hardware
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/112/567/763/463/926/839/original/c40540187fdc1166.mp4

2024-06-06 05:01:01

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These are neither pokemon nor ass, but hopefully they'll be reprogrammable 😳
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/112/567/438/857/222/203/original/e8dc39ab86c2dbcd.jpg

2024-05-29 11:43:43

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as if the web's degradation from public forums into little walled gardens with only limited search capabilities (discord, facebook groups, whatever) wasn't bad enough, the best sources of obscure technical information are being wrecked prematurely in order to help fuel automated generation of wildly inaccurate 'information' in the form of LLM vomit.
I should probably archive everything useful I read from now on

2024-05-29 11:37:00

One side effect of the current corporate AI fad is website users deleting their posts and accounts in protest. One prolific user of a site was responsible for posting sooooo much information that I've used to learn 'retro gamedev' on multiple platforms; and they've killed their account and every post as part of a wider protest against the site's new policy to explicitly scrape all posts for LLM training data 😢

2024-05-28 16:40:41

Intentionally ordering bootleg game boy advance carts from china because I want to reprogram them, and legit 'blank' carts cost over 10x more. So here's hoping the copy of 'Pokemon Ass' I just bought isn't genuine