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General Discussion / Re: making video games, where do you start?, how do you stay focus?
« on: July 31, 2008, 10:00:21 pm »
I do know assembly of a few older processors like 6502 and 68000 and Z80, but I never had the chance to use any of them. I've tried making demos for old systems but I always fall asleep programming them. Take for instance, a background scrolling demo, it seems really simple at first glance, but whenever I dive in I realize that I have to draw something, convert my drawing to numbers, set the GPU to the right mode, program it to load the graphic tiles, then to load the color palette, then to load the tile map, and to top that off I have to look back and forth through hardware documents to find what are the right registers to use for everything. Programming just doesn't seem rewarding for me. All this fuss just to display a picture.