Texas Instruments is stupid (and driving controllers)
Entry posted by atari2600land in Atari 2600
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So I found my TI84+ graphing calculator. What I didn't find was its SPECIAL cord it needs to communicate with my computer. I hate that. Why can't electronic companies just agree on ONE STANDARD FOR EVERYTHING? I guess in my case that wouldn't work since it was made 20+ years ago. Am still looking for a version of Tetris I saw a kid play in middle school. It used [] for blocks. He was a programming genius. A whiz kid with computers. He could do anything. I envied him. I went to his house a few times. He had a readerboard. I wanted a readerboard! He's the kid that introduced me to the Sega Genesis. But enough with my middle school memories. I found a TI84+ program I had made that was stored on my computer. So I know it's possible. I know I can connect to it. But not without that cable. So I bought a new one off eBay. It was only $8.
Now that I'm done with Uncle Hairy's Nosehair, I'm looking for a new 2600 project I can do. I found my driving controller. I think it's about time for a new Driving Controller game. IIRC the last one was Stella's Stocking in 2007. That was 17 years ago. But there's something stopping me: I have no ideas. I found this on minidig:
lda SWCHA tay eor last ; 01 or 10 (else: abrupt twist) sty last dey ; -> y = -1..2 cpy #2 sbc #1 ; -> a = -1, 0, 1 beq .right .left:
So I'm hoping that will work if/when I get an idea. So I gather from this code that "last" is the value gotten from SWCHA and it's either 01 or 10 (1 or 2?) I suppose last is then stored in y, massaged a bit so it's either -1, 0, or 1 and then I can go from there?
So...does anyone have any driving controller use ideas?
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