I've been lurking for a bit over a year now (had to recreate my login) and thought i'd finally get around to posting and saying hi. Name: Wendy Location: East coast US Programmer/ Writer/ catgirl age: old enough to have owned an atari 2600 when they came out. I found Assembler a while ago when I was searching for info on ps1 debug stations. Sheesh, that was forever ago. I still don't have one though, ended up just modding my normal psx. Gaming has been my obsession since I was little and my career for a few years ( at least it was for a while, must get back into the industry). -- Wendy
http://www.assemblergames.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1860&start=100 That's the introduce yourself thread, btw. Welcome. :smt023
Welcome to the boards! Were you by chance on here long ago, before the move to phpbb2 and the color/theme change before that? I thought I remembered someone named "Nekowendy" or something like that when I first joined/was lurking...
Hi and welcome. I normally don't ask this to girls on first encounter, but do you do any PSX dev? :smt043
Welcome to the boards gadget :smt023 It's great to have a female member. YOu may be the only one unless one of us regulars is one but keeping it a secret :smt045 Yakumo
Actually, that was my other account on Ezboard. That id pretty much died a while back. Yep, i'm the same Wendy. To answer AntiPasta's question about PSX dev, I used to do some when the ps1 scene first started. I did a few intros, hypnopuppy and some sprite tutorials. I ended up using some of that code to actually get a job doing game programming.
welcome on the assembler's forum! hope you'll enjoy and stay.smt023 it's rare to see any girls intersted in gaming collecting and/or dev. equipement, its fun to see you around. ;-) when will we see a sticky ''err...hot men'' thread now? :smt043 j/k cahaz ;-)
Thanks. I'm only into dev equipment because I like to code. I'm not into collecting for the sake of collecting, i'm got too much stuff already. I'm currently doing some stupid little coding for my pocketstation because I wanted a tomagotchi and thought I could do it better. Now I just need to find the time and energy to work on it About that hot men thread....meow! *purrrrr*
Are you still working in the gaming industry? The East coast isn't a hotspot for finding jobs in the industry unless you live in Orlando, FL, where I'm at but this area is changing everyday. I as well as many of us here can relate to having no time and energy in doing small projects on the side.
I'm hoping to get back into gaming soon. I moved back to the east coast to be around my family again after spending the past few years in the pacific northwest. Unfortunately, there's on EA in orlando and I seriously can't/won't work for them at this point. I'd rather do my own stuff. If you're in orlando, you need to pop over to the G.A.M.E.S. summit later this month. http://www.synergysummit.com/ [/url]
I wish I could go to that but do to my schedule pertaining school, work, and sleep - I can't and won't be able to go. Have you been to an IGDA Orlando chapter meeting? If I could go I'd tell the coordinator that I could volunteer in setting up the conference. Also, EA may be the top dog in this area but there's also a whole bunch of simulation studios here who work for the government and they aren't as demanding as EA is. Then there's N-space where they are working for a Nintendo game for the GC called Geist.
I'm actually one of the board members of the south florida IGDA chapter. There's a lot of good people in the IGDA and it's a great place to learn what the game industry is all about from those that have been inside it.
Ok. I know who you are now. Well, all I do know is that you're also gadget over at the igda.org forums lol. I haven't been involved in the community yet due to my schedule, but I hope to achieve a more involved role not just in the chapter but for the whole IGDA later in the future. I'm 20 yrs old, in college, having a part time job and just recently I started to work on something that might help me out a lot in the gaming industry. I also got in trouble at the igda forums for posting pictures of Dev hardware, like the pSP dev kit. Found it funny but pissed me off cuz it made me feel like information regarding to the developer hardware used to make games for current system shouldn't be known to the general public, which I feel, it should.
What tools are you using for that? I've been rather interested lately in programming for Nintendo's Pokemon Mini handhelds, but as they require one to make their own flash cart to run code on actual hardware, it's not a very useful thing right now. Pocketstation code, however, could be burnt to a disc and downloaded. Hopefully it's not as low-level as VMU programming. :smt009
I used to have the PocketStation 5D|< + emulator on my PC but I lost it :smt022 And VMU dev is fun BTW, gadget, did you use Ps*-Q or the bare metal? I'm doing everything with ASM and hardware-level I/O but there's some big holes in the unofficial docs and I never got the SPU to do my bidding :-(
I'm using the emulator at the moment along with a start-up asm file put together from random places. Enough to get the hardware up and running and interrupts working. There are no libs for this, it's basically just knowing what to put in the different spots in memory. I haven't messed with sound at all, so i'm not sure i'll be able to get more than a beep or two out of it. The docs don't have much info in that regard.
