i think i might have lost half my hair writing this program. not that it's overly complex, i'm just horribly disorganised. anyway, here it is, i'm still working on it, so feedback is appreciated.
http://mnsnsn.inpuj.net/zounds.zip
Could you please give some sort of description of you program? Downloading something just to find out I'm not interested isn't really fun. =)
EDIT: Bah, I'm too curious to wait! So it's a NES app to test the effects of writes to the sound registers, huh?
so whaddaya want, a screen shot? an instruction manual?
in the top left corner is a hex pair that is incremented with Left and Right (rapid increment with B button)
on the right are the four registers of the NES' first sound channel, the rectangular wave
when you press the A button, the hex pair is stored in the register to which the arrow (>)is pointing. this arrow's position can be changed with the Up/Down buttons. when the Start button is pressed, all the bytes displayed are written to their respective addresses. select writes $00 or $FF to the $4015 register.
i still have to confirm what i have just written...
I was kinda joking... It's just that throwing a link without describing what it is isn't the best thing to do. Your thread is even likely to attract no attention at all, unless most people are curious like me...! Anyway, I haven't checked the program yet, but I will (as soon as I can make noise in the room).
Reminds me of Snowbro's test ROM from long ago! However, I'm glad to see that you have arrows in yours! But, I think his source is included, which may help you expand your ROM.
My only comment would be to use a better font / palette. I can imagine it being close to unreadable on my old NTSC CRT television.
test roms! that's what you call them!
ya, i think i engineered the font for originality and funkiness, and specifically not legibility. i guess the graffiti aesthetics are better left on the streets. with a better color scheme it could be improved a little though.
i would have included the source, simply because i had no web hosting space and i was gonna tell people to go assemble it themselves. but my code is highly embarrassing, bloated and peppered with obscure comments and frankly, i was kinda shy to expose my n00bery and hereditary disorganised-ness to the world and that wouldn't be very courteous of me or convenient to anyone else. so i decided to omit it for now.