SEGA vs Nintendo

[Duff Man]

1 minute ago, Fluter in Dakota said:

If you gave @dave u 2Mb of RAM to run this site, I reckon he'd just about get his logo uploaded.

He'd opt for a picture of his hair, I reckon.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Duff Man said:

He'd opt for a picture of his hair, I reckon.

He'd have to take the picture first, that could end up as a photo of anything.

[Lee909]

I think Nintendo just have that niche hook as a family friendly, cartoon style console and it helps them stay away from the Sony/Microsoft battle. 

 

Sega consoles was very good back in the day. The mega drive was a bloody workhorse I got mine when I was about 5 or 6 and it lasted me through to 14 with heavy use and never once had a problem. 

[Mudface]

16 hours ago, Fluter in Dakota said:

Back then the developers could access the systems nooks and crannies and do things that would cause shock, horror and alarm to modern games companies and system creators. That's pretty much why the whole industry moved towards game production engines (Unreal, Crytek etc) to prevent developers from getting a bit cocky with their platforms. Most games before that were created using machine code - it looks completely jibberish but as they experimented with it they could do all kinds of fancy shit.

 

   6      5     5     5     5      6 bits
[  op  |  rs |  rt |  rd |shamt| funct]  R-type
[  op  |  rs |  rt | address/immediate]  I-type
[  op  |        target address        ]  J-type

rs, rt, and rd indicate register operands; shamt gives a shift amount; and the address or immediate fields contain an operand directly.

For example, adding the registers 1 and 2 and placing the result in register 6 is encoded:

[  op  |  rs |  rt |  rd |shamt| funct]
    0     1     2     6     0     32     decimal
 000000 00001 00010 00110 00000 100000   binary

Load a value into register 8, taken from the memory cell 68 cells after the location listed in register 3:

[  op  |  rs |  rt | address/immediate]
   35     3     8           68           decimal
 100011 00011 01000 00000 00001 000100   binary

Jumping to the address 1024:

[  op  |        target address        ]
    2                 1024               decimal
 000010 00000 00000 00000 10000 000000   binary

 

 

God, I remember writing machine code to animate a sprite on the Atari 800. A week of head-scratching with reams of graph paper used to design the sprite pixel by pixel. All to get some monochrome 8x8 fella to run around the screen firing in all 8 joystick directions. 

[Baltar]

I voted for Sega since I owned a Game Gear and Mega Drive but being honest, the SNES was in a different league. Sega did well to compete with Nintendo for as long as it did. 

[Duff Man]

You seen From Bedrooms to Billions: The Playstation Revolution, @Fluter in Dakota? New film that touches on a lot of the things discussed in this thread. Worth a watch.

[Guest]

7 hours ago, Duff Man said:

You seen From Bedrooms to Billions: The Playstation Revolution, @Fluter in Dakota? New film that touches on a lot of the things discussed in this thread. Worth a watch.

Not seen that, I'll give that a watch...

[Guest]

Talk of a Microsoft purchase of Sega...