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Posted on 09-06-08 08:23 AM, in I've come accross a few interesting 6502 ASM things... Link | Quote | ID: 89974


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Everyone must start at the very beginning, anyways. But doing everything in the black doesn't help. When you don't know how something works, you can hardly make changes to it without breaking everything. So the exact uderstanding comes handy when you want to actually hack the code and modify the game's behavior...

A stack is exactly what it's called. Like a stack of plates. But instead of plates, it's bytes. You push values on the top, and take back the values later. It's a system of the type "first in, last out". When you add a plate on the stack, you must put it on top, you can't "slide" it in between other plates. And when you want to take a plate from the stack, you have to take the one on the top...

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Posted on 09-06-08 08:34 AM, in Debt and Equity Link | Quote | ID: 89978


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Oh?! Now what? Menaces? Is the banking system getting on your nerves that much?
NightKev, tell me something. Is it actually possible that you could be wrong about something?
Do you think doubt is a good thing?

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Posted on 09-06-08 10:32 AM, in Debt and Equity Link | Quote | ID: 89991


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Trolling? Where do you see me trolling?
This has SO nothing to do with the current discussion...

I'm inclined to tell you the same thing I told Kawa. If you want to take part in a thread, post something relevant. If you don't want to, go look somewhere else. It's that simple...

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Posted on 09-07-08 03:01 AM, in Debt and Equity Link | Quote | ID: 90027


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Once you deposit your money into the bank, its theirs and they can do whatever they want with it. You're account stores how much you're entitled to withdraw from the overall sum.

What are they doing with it except buying more money?


Your daily income.

If everyone is in this situation (and it's the case right now), there will be a lack of money at some point. If all the money is created by the banks, then for each 100$ the bank creates, you can only repay 100$, not 105$. We are facing a mathematical impossibility...


I just fucking told you, the bank adds it to the amount of money it wants back as a fee for using their money.

Assuming this is true, they are buying money, then. You must buy 100$ money from them at a price of 105$...


The fee exists to stop people from using the bank's money for everything.

Money exists for the sole purpose of exchanging products. Unless you are a numismatist...


What you're saying is like saying that grocers are buying money by marking up their shelves.

Grocers exchange money for food. They don't buy money...


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Posted on 09-07-08 03:22 AM, in I've come accross a few interesting 6502 ASM things... Link | Quote | ID: 90029


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The stack is userful for functions embedding. It's a way the program "remembers" what it was doing when another function is called. Like Kawa said, it's a part of memory. On the NES, it goes from 0x1FF down to 0x100 (correct me if I'm wrong). Suppose you have functions A B C. In pseudo-pseudo-code, it would go like that:

- Execute A.
- Halfway in A, I must do B, so I need to remember my current position in the program, so I can come back later.
- Push current position to the stack.
- Execute B.
- Halfway in B, I must do C, so I push my position on the stack again.
- Execute C.
- When C exits, pull back the last position and go on.
- Pull and continue with B function.
- When B exits, pull back again.
- Go on with A.
- Etc...

In plain language, here's how JSR works:

- Add 3 to the program counter
- Push the least significant byte of the current PC (Program Counter) on the stack
- Push the most significant byte of the current PC (Program Counter) on the stack
- Jump to the address stated by the operand.

Example:
E212: 20 34FC    JSR $FC34
- Push the value E2 on the stack
- Push the value 15 on the stack
- Jump to $FC34

And how RTS works:

- Pull value from stack and set it as the most significant byte of the PC
- Pull value from stack and set it as the least significant byte of the PC
- Go on with the resulting PC

When the $FC34 function hits a RTS, the PC is set to $E215 and the program goes on...


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Posted on 09-07-08 04:55 AM, in Debt and Equity Link | Quote | ID: 90034


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Where does money come from, then? Black Lord said the opposite a few posts ago. And even if we assume they use the clients' money (which is probably not true), they are still making money with fantom money, which should be considered illegal...

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Posted on 09-07-08 04:56 AM, in board2 Town Square: Typos leave me bothered Link | Quote | ID: 90035


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My favorite color is blue... No... Yellooooooow!!!

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Posted on 09-07-08 09:36 AM, in Debt and Equity Link | Quote | ID: 90048


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This is getting even stranger. So, the money comes from US Treasury. It is created there when you contract a loan and the bank is allowed to add a percentage on it in interests, in exchange of nothing. But, at the same time, the bank uses the clients' money for transactions. What kind of transaction? If it's transactions that involve only money, the allegation still stands: banks are allowed to buy money. And if a bank can lend the same amount of money more than once, they really are lending "fantom" money...

NightKev, if you don't like this thread, don't post in it...

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Posted on 09-08-08 03:52 AM, in Can this board get anymore in-active? Link | Quote | ID: 90108


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So the name of the board is "Board2" ? I still call it ACMLM's Board from habitude...
I didn't know there were people who really thought this board is not about ROM Hacking...
When the board will not be about ROM Hacking anymore, I will stop posting in it...

My opinion is that, since this board is about ROM Hacking, people talking in it are expected to be ROM Hackers, and they don't come here on the sole purpose of talking about random subjects. If you compare this forum with, say, RHDN Board, the difference in activity is not THAT apparent. It's just that RHDN is more focused on ROM Hacking only...

Anyone whining about the lack of ROM Hacking related activity should make the first step and throw something relevant in the pot. Activity will ensue by itself...

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Posted on 09-08-08 03:53 AM, in Movement for Realisticly Active Staff [or, new staff plx] Link | Quote | ID: 90109


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What's the definition of "useful thread" ?

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Posted on 09-09-08 10:59 PM, in The shit you find on the internet... Link | Quote | ID: 90210


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It's nothing compared to this very thread...

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Posted on 09-10-08 04:38 AM, in New Banner Submission Thread Link | Quote | ID: 90239


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Well, there's the "No Name" brand, and noone cries over it...

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Posted on 09-10-08 04:52 AM, in SMB Graphics Workshop Link | Quote | ID: 90243


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It's good, but the NES PPU has only 2 tables of 0x1000 bytes each, not 3...
Where does the third one come from?

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Posted on 09-10-08 05:06 AM, in When I was... Link | Quote | ID: 90250


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When I was a kid, egoism was not a desirable trait...

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Posted on 09-10-08 05:54 AM, in When I was... Link | Quote | ID: 90267


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No, it's still majorly capitalism, but for some reason, I became a socialist pig...

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Posted on 09-11-08 03:27 AM, in Debt and Equity Link | Quote | ID: 90304


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Let's assume they take from their "big pile of money" and lend a sum to you. All banks in the world do this, and expect their clients to repay the loan, plus some interests. The interests come from nowhere, they are added to the load arbitrarily. So how do you expect to repay it?

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Posted on 09-15-08 03:16 AM, in Can this board get anymore in-active? Link | Quote | ID: 90517


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I'll always prefer a banner that doesn't allege outdated hypocritical perceptions of the board by their own administrators. In other words, I prefer a banner that conveys the message "Hey, this board is cool and intersting", instead of "bah, don't lose your time here, we are losers". See what I mean?

My (very old) bookmark leading to this board reads: http://acmlm.no-ip.org/board/

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Posted on 09-15-08 03:29 AM, in Your Face Link | Quote | ID: 90518


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Hmmm, that's bizarre, Xeruss seems to not exhibit any particular characteristics...
Which is particular in itself...

My best shot, as usual:



Sorry, couldn't resist...


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Posted on 09-15-08 04:24 AM, in Your Face Link | Quote | ID: 90529


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At least some people can appreciated the aesthetics of my ass...

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Posted on 09-16-08 06:27 AM, in Question about RAM Link | Quote | ID: 90591


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Well, 1 GB to surf on the Internet is more than enough. You may need more to play a game with settings in the carpet, but I'm not sure if it's justifiable only for that specific purpose. If you said you want to make video editing, that would be another story...
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