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Today's been... really fun!
A little backstory: my older daughter has a science fair project coming up that she's been really dreading getting started on. Earlier this week, I had an idea: it'd be super cool if we programmed a NES game together. She's expressed interest in that sort of thing since we were dinking around with PICO-8 last year and has an affinity for making digital art.
So, after clearing it with her teacher, we're making a game for her science fair project! Much excite.
Related: I got a retired laptop from work for a pittance.
The kids spent the night at C.'s folks' house, so this morning I wound up putting Ubuntu on this laptop so that my older daughter could work on it. On one hand, it was *super* fast to set up-- took maybe 15 minutes. On the other, Canonical et. al. have *really* overcomplicated Linux for the sake of "simplicity." It's... user friendly enough. Like ChromeOS, I suppose. But I swear they change things just to change things and I can't keep up with where things move to as an experienced user.
Anyway, after I got that laptop going, I wound up installing 9front on my ThinkPad X220. I'm really excited to have it running on actual hardware! Lookit!
We picked the kids up and took them to the park to get some outdoors time in. Saw some turtles and butterflies! When we got home, my older daughter and I spent some time getting acclimated to Git so that we could share things back and forth. Also got Nasu, Devine Lu Linvega's .chr sprite editor, up and running on both our boxes.
https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/nasu
Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to figure out how to actually render sprites from 6502 assembly language. That way I'll get a better idea of what sort of constraints she'll need to consider when making her sprites.
Until next time, be well!
kvothe.
