Hacker News: riverg

New comment by riverg in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

riverg — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 22:50:20 +0000

I write about programming, mainly around emulation, graphics, and game development. I'll soon be writing about my experiences learning Japanese.

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New comment by riverg in "Gamedev from Scratch 1: Scaffolding"

riverg — Sun, 14 May 2023 06:08:42 +0000

I found Pico-8 to be an enjoyable entry into finishing a game. I’ve just released my first finished game today using it (https://ferm.itch.io/centauri). The limitations helped me to define a scope and really helped towards the end to determine what a completed game would look like. When I would think to add a new cool feature, I’d remember I was near the token limit and prevent myself from doing that.

New comment by riverg in "Cowgod's Chip-8 Technical Reference"

riverg — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 16:55:20 +0000

Wow, wish I had seen Matt's writeup! I found Cowgod's guide to be ambiguous in several places (BCD and sprite loading especially) when I documented my emulator https://riv.dev/emulating-a-computer-part-1/

New comment by riverg in "Yuzu (Nintendo Switch Emulator) Progress Report January 2021"

riverg — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:21:49 +0000

I wrote up a series [0] documenting a CHIP-8 emulator I wrote that I hope explains how to get something like this working from the ground up, albeit for a much simpler system.

[0] https://river.codes/emulating-a-computer-part-1/