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Hacking the NES With Lisp

Posted by Unknown on Monday February 6, 2012 @02:00PM from the covert-alien-technology dept.

Andy Hefner has a detailed blog post covering his quest to program an NES with the assistance of Common Lisp. He developed a new 6502 assembler, a mini-language for composing musical sequences, and a neat demo (rom image).

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a strange mix of nausea and admiration by decora · 2012-02-06 14:18 · Score: 5, Funny

on the one hand, this guy has re-implemented assembler with lisp syntax.
on the other hand, this guy has re-implemented assembler with lisp syntax.
1. Re:a strange mix of nausea and admiration by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-06 14:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  This reminds me of the old quote "Emacs is a wonderful operating system. All it's missing is a decent text editor."
2. Re:a strange mix of nausea and admiration by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-06 15:07 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  on the one hand, this guy has re-implemented assembler with lisp syntax.
  on the other hand, this guy has re-implemented assembler with lisp syntax.
  and on the gripping hand, it's the world's first assembler that requires you to start lines with seven parentheses and rewrites itself at runtime.
Re:Nostalgia is a powerful force... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-06 15:10 · Score: 5, Funny

Those NES boxes are quite comfortable with their sexuality, thank you very much, and just value their privacy. If they want to stay in the closet, who are we to disagree?