jaymcgavren

Q:

in super mario bros for the nes, are walking, running, and jumping speeds identical for both small mario and super mario?

A:

No, the speeds are not identical — small Mario and Super Mario have the same walking, running, and jumping speeds in the original NES Super Mario Bros., but there is one critical difference: small Mario dies on any enemy touch, while Super Mario shrinks to small Mario first.

Let me verify this more specifically about the actual speed mechanics:

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❯ make the `foobar` repo public

⏺ Let me check the current state of the foobar repo before changing its visibility.

⏺ Bash(gh repo view foobar --json visibility,name,owner)
  ⎿  {
       "name": "foobar",
       "owner": {
     … +5 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

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❯ In smbdis.asm, what functions are stored in the fixed bank? What functions are instead stored in bank 0?

⏺ Let me explore the project structure to understand how the code is organized.

  Searched for 4 patterns, read 3 files, listed 1 directory (ctrl+o to expand)

⏺ The map.txt file should have the exact addresses. Let me check it.

  Searched for 6 patterns, read 2 files (ctrl+o to expand)

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Compiling Super Mario Bros.

To compile assembly code for the NES's 6502 processor, you'll need the cc65 toolchain. That will provide the ca65 compiler and ld65 linker used by these scripts.

On Mac you can install cc65 using Homebrew:

$ brew install cc65

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 ▐▛███▜▌   Claude Code v2.1.143
▝▜█████▛▘  Sonnet 4.6 · Claude Pro
  ▘▘ ▝▝    ~/dotfiles

❯ Convert this dotfiles repo to use chezmoi

⏺ Let me start by exploring the current dotfiles structure to understand what we're working with.

  Searched for 2 patterns, read 4 files, listed 2 directories (ctrl+o to expand)

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'json'
require 'base64'
require 'pathname'
# require 'mime/types'

# Perplexity.ai prompt:
# Write a Ruby script that accepts multiple files as command line arguments. It
# should output an array of JSON objects, one for each input file, with these
# attributes:

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<!--
ChatGPT prompt:
Create a simple app that resides entirely in a single .html file. It should
take three images from browser storage and animate them bouncing around the
screen. Each of the three images should have a distinct sound, also loaded
from browser storage, that plays when it bounces.

Refinement (because ChatGPT didn't use localStorage like it should have):
When the user selects an image or sound file, store it in browser storage
using "window.localStorage.setItem". When the page loads, load images using

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    ;                 4-nixie-2-K155ID1-up-down-asm-source
    
    ; this program will use a PIC16F887 microcontroller, two K155ID1
    ; driver chips and MPSA42/MPSA92 transistors to control four 
    ; nixie tubes. MAXIM DS1302 RTC chip
    ; 20MHz resonator for 200nS instruction cycle
    ;   
    ; pin 1 RE3: reset pin
    ; pins 2-5 RA0/3: outputs to anode control transistors

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