https://fotino.me/tags/consolite/ Recent content in Consolite on fotino.me Hugo en-us Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:52:18 +0000 https://fotino.me/the-consolite-compiler/ Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:52:18 +0000 https://fotino.me/the-consolite-compiler/ <p>In my <a href="//fotino.me/breakout-in-assembly">previous post</a>, I created Breakout in my custom assembly language, <a href="//github.com/rfotino/consolite-assembler/blob/master/docs/assembly.md">Consolite Assembly</a>. Writing a game in assembly was a fun challenge, but I am used to writing code at a higher level of abstraction. To make it easier on myself, I created a compiler that takes source code in a C-like language and converts it to Consolite Assembly. The source of the Consolite Compiler, written in C++, <a href="//github.com/rfotino/consolite-compiler">can be found here</a>. A rough specification for the language, which I will refer to as <strong>Consolite C</strong>, <a href="//github.com/rfotino/consolite-compiler/blob/master/docs/spec.md">can be found here</a>.</p> https://fotino.me/breakout-in-assembly/ Sun, 30 Aug 2015 23:40:37 +0000 https://fotino.me/breakout-in-assembly/ <p>Technical details follow, and while I&rsquo;ve tried my best to make it interesting and accessible I know that some of you just want to play the game. <a href="#play">Here is a link</a> to do just that.</p> <p><strong>Consolite</strong> (coming from &ldquo;console lite&rdquo;) is the name I&rsquo;ve given to my recent project of making a tiny hobbyist game console and associated toolchain. My end goal is to write a custom microprocessor and video controller that I can put on my <a href="//numato.com/mimas-v2-spartan-6-fpga-development-board-with-ddr-sdram.html">Mimas V2 FPGA board</a>. For prototyping purposes, I have first written an assembler and an emulator so that I can test out how writing games will work while easily making tweaks to <a href="//github.com/rfotino/consolite-assembler/blob/master/docs/assembly.md#instructions">the instruction set</a>.</p>