I was lucky to come across some old Super 8 film reels that my parents took when I was growing up in the 1980's. Most of the film that was shot was taken using Kodak Kodachrome Super 8 film, with a few on Kodak Ektachrome. Unfortunately, these reels won't last …

Last time I wrote about the Chip 8 interpreter, and how the first 512 bytes of RAM were used for the built in font set. In this post, I want to go over all the instructions for the Chip 8 interpreter, and discuss how they actually work. I also wanted …

Last time I wrote about the Chip 8 interpreter, and how the first 512 bytes of RAM were used for the built in font set. Now that I have a little more experience writing simple emulators, I figured it was time to revisit the original reason why I started down …

Last time I wrote about how to draw pixels on the Chip 8 screen. We went over how the DRAW command uses an XOR method to turn pixels on and off, as well as how to draw an n-byte sprite to the screen. To quickly recap, here are the steps …

In a previous post, I discussed how to set up Atlassian Bamboo to build unit tests as part of an Android project. In that post, I went through the steps needed to install the Android SDK on a Bamboo build server, and configure a Bamboo build project to build and …