Build on it

The parts you can use: a chip that answers over HTTP, a cartridge format, a registry that re-runs what it publishes, and the bytes from a real Geiger tube.

  1. Create

    The console with every tool on one desk: the screen, the code, the CPU, the memory, the palettes, the sprite editor, and a recorder whose runs the flow tools read back, each a window you can move, size and close.

    /nes/create

  2. The 6502 API

    A transistor-level MOS 6502 over HTTP, one half-cycle at a time. The reference, checked against the running service.

    /6502/api6,375 words16 links out

  3. Cart

    Mint a token, build a cartridge by hand or by AI, play it, publish it, and the chip measures it.

    /6502/cart211 words12 links out

  4. Builders

    Everyone publishing cartridges for the transistor-level 6502, and what they have published.

    /6502/builders118 words8 links out

  5. Programs: assembled, explained, and run on the silicon

    The programs this site runs, as source rather than hex: assembled in the page, annotated line by line, and executed on a transistor-level simulation of the MOS 6502.

    /6502/programs527 words9 links out

  6. The hotbits API

    The Geiger TRNG's own schema, rendered and then checked against the running instrument.

    /hotbits/api39 words7 links out

  7. MCP

    Five tools, each one a whole errand, because a model cannot hold 2 KB of hex.

    /docs/6502/mcp715 words7 links out

  8. Cartridges

    A ROM, its tiles and the contract it was written to, in one gzipped JSON file.

    /docs/6502/cartridges1,334 words7 links out

  9. The registry

    Builders and their pages, where publishing measures rather than believes.

    /docs/6502/the-registry1,307 words9 links out

  10. The calibration cart

    One cartridge of our own whose every screen is built to be measured, off a real console and off the model through the same decoder. The plan, the build, the screens and the blank boards.

    /nes/cart257 words13 links out

  11. Style guide

    Two grounds, a measured palette, and the kit that follows from them.

    /style2,380 words8 links out

The words and the links beside each page are counted off the page itself, by the crawl that keeps the site's map. A page with a lot of words and few links is something to read; one with many links is another list. A page can be behind two doors: an instrument is a thing to watch and a thing to build on. Every address here is the one it has always had.