Category Archives: Coding

The Making of Pitfall

Posted on 2013-06-28 by M. Eric Carr

The story behind the making of Activision’s Pitfall on the Atari 2600 is fascinating. Here is true programming genius! Continue reading →

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Arduino on Steroids

Posted on 2013-04-18 by M. Eric Carr

The Teensy 3.0 is a cool little dev board. It’s Arduino-compatible (from a software perspective, anyway), breadboardable, and only about $20US. It also runs a 48MHz, 32-bit Arm processor, making it not only easy to use, but a speed demon. … Continue reading →

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‘Git’ along, coder dogies!

Posted on 2013-04-05 by M. Eric Carr

When working on nontrivial coding projects, it’s often helpful to be able to keep track of changes made, version by version. When more than one developer is involved, it’s also helpful to be able to coordinate updates among them. Several … Continue reading →

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BMP file format

Posted on 2013-01-02 by M. Eric Carr

It’s often useful to be able to produce an image file as output from a program. Bitmap (.BMP) is one of the easiest formats to write. Here’s how to output 24-bit .BMP files from your data. Continue reading →

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