TµEE co.™ Happenings

2005.06.20 - I (Tiido Priimägi) graduated 9th grade!

2005.10.XX - I got a new computer - Celeron @ 400MHz with 96MB of RAM

2005.11.12 - My birthday - I got 16 !!!

2005.11.30 - I finally uploaded my web-site !!!

2005.12.02 - My Sega Mega Drive fried...

2005.12.24 - I got a 17" LCD @ 4ms - too slow for games.

2006.01.12 - I updated this site

2006.01.13 - I got my first Assembly pre to work in QB !!!

2006.01.XX - Major update on this site

2006.02.12 - Another update (downloads)

2006.03.0X - Hard drive failure - luckily I managed to recover most of the data but
Alien Killer and lots of other games I have (~400) got damaged.

2006.03.13 - I got a new SEGA MEGA DRIVE !!!!!!!!!!!! Too bad that it is MD2...

2006.03.16 - I successfully overclocked my MEGA DRIVE 2 which has HD68HC000CP8 !!!!!!!!
14MHz was too much for a 8MHz CPU but 13.4MHz is almost fine. Duke3D runs like hell !!!

2006.03.24 - Another update.

2006.03.29 - Yet again another update.

2006.03.31 - I have playied 181 games to "THE END"

2006.04.04 - I created my first working raycaster !!!

2006.05.24 - Site updated

2006.07.25 - I started to write a tiny game programming library for QB, 100% ASM

2006.09.11 - I wrote my first Mega Drive program ... in pure ASM !!!

2006.10.08 - I built a multipurpose memory burner (super-duper EPROMmer) as an ISA
card, but my computer was too fast for it, luckily if I interfaced it
to LPT port it started to work. I just love LPT port...

2006.10.22 - Site updated, Mega Drive section added

2006.10.24 - Now, Mozilla firefox displays this site almost correctly and
all "Nothing" buttons are replaced with "Mega Drive".

2006.10.25 - Now, Opera displays this site almost correctly too. MSIE and Opera users
can hear some "music" at the first page, MSIE sounds best.

2006.10.26 - Mozilla firefox and Opera display this site correctly, finally.
Minor changes in Downloads and Mega Drive sections.

2006.10.27 - I got a new computer - 1GHz Celeron with 384MB of RAM, Unfortunately
I don't have its drivers and I can't use its 3D accelerator.
Great about it is the presence of ISA slot, I can play DOS games with
Sound Blaster compatible hardware not emulation software.

2006.10.29 - I have beaten 200 games, applause and fireworks please !!!

2006.11.12 - My birthday !!! I got 17 !!! I didn't do any programming at that day !!!

2006.11.19 - I wrote a MD program that displays 512 colors simultaneously.

2006.11.20 - I improved above program and now it displays 960 colors !!!

2006.11.22 - This site will be added to Sega Genesis Dev Ring (www.genny4ever.net) !!! (soon, I hope)

2006.11.24 - News changed to Happenings, more items in MD section

2006.11.29 - One of my HDDs started to die, it contained tracks recorded from my dad's
tape player (one which plays 1/2 KM rolls). ALL the tracks got damaged...a lot.
This forced me to repair that player and already I've recorded one roll:
2x 450MB WAVs (both sides 45min+45Min).
Overall tuning of the site, should be more compatible with Firefox

2006.11.30 - Site updated and it got added to Sega Genesis Dev Ring !!!

2006.12.01 - I joined the "Katkise Puu Ordu" (KPO), "The Order Of The Broken Tree"

2006.12.02 - I started to design a MD cartridge reading/writing device which I call
MultiPurposeComputerPeripheral (MPCP) as it can do lot more than
reading and burning all kinds of memories

2006.12.03 - Board is finished (holes drilled, tracks drawn), started to etch it

2006.12.04 - Whole thing is assembled together (components in place) and can be
connected to my PCs LPT port.

2006.12.05 - First cartridge reading software written. Thing works perfectly, it does bit
perfect ROM dumps !!! It took 45 seconds to dump 2MB cart (Sonic & Knuckles)
while the code was being interpreted in QB45 IDE, compiled version was not
much faster, maybe due to directly to disk method (in 128 byte blocks).

2006.12.06 - I burned my first EPROM, with MPCP !!! I made another cartridge reading
program which stores everything in memory (XMS) and writes it to disk in the end.
Guess what, that lousy 1 extra second or speed wasn't worth the trouble I faced
when messing with XMS. Speed limitation is probably caused by the slowness
of LPT port and the way MPCP is used and connected with it.

2006.12.07 - Writing documentation for MPCP is much harder than I thought + I need to write
some debugging/testing software and I should finish GBMD too.

2006.12.08 - MPCP documentation version 0.1 is finally finished (and so all software) !!!

2006.12.10 - I built a 256KB/2Mb SRAM cartridge, I tested out my programs with it and most
of them started to work, including Glass Breaker MD !!! I wrote TMSS patcher which
adds TMSS to games without it.

2006.12.17 - X-mas is coming and I'm getting a new HDD which is so big that I can copy all
the data from my current HDDs, CDs, DVDs to it and about 200GB more !!!

2006.12.19 - Added some sources into MD section.

2006.12.20 - History is going to be replaced with "Who am I"

2006.12.24 - Merry X-Mas to everyone !!! New item in MD section : Emulator detector,
also I updated GBMD because it is practically finished.

2006.12.25 - I found 2x 256KB Flash chips and as soon as I get to electronics store and get
some PCB I'm off to build 512KB Flash cartridge. 2007.12.03 I'll get my 2MB
Flash chips and start to build a 4MB Flash cartridge.

2006.12.26 - Added more stuff into MD section, E-mail addresses are now on a image to
prevent any possible E-mail finder/spam bot shit whatever issues.
My hot.ee E-mail account is being filled with large amounts of spam !!!

2006.12.29 - I made my first particle stuff. Will be used as blood in some of my games

2006.12.30 - I added 4 items to the Downloads section - 3 versions of my speech synth and
my particle shit that will be used as blood spiller in my next games

2007.01.05 - I persetama("Estonian word", no English translation, relates with sitting)
with the rest of the KPO next to the Katkine Puu (The Broken Tree).

2007.01.07 - I started to write my part of the huge Mega Drive 20th anniversary demo.

2007.01.09 - I wrote my first Z80 program for MD !!!

2007.01.13 - I realized that I'm beginning to hate Z80, it is quite pain to program for.

2007.01.15 - Z80 WAVPLAY is finally working correctly !!!

2007.01.17 - Glass breaker MD now has sound effects, Z80 is not so bad after all.

2007.01.20 - Started to build my 4MB / 32Mb Flash EPROM cartridge.

2007.01.21 - TSOP adaptors are finally finished, PCBs are hard to make,
least chips are really easy to solder on board.

2007.01.28 - The flash cart is finished, it has some problems (possible shorts).

2007.01.30 - All the problems solved, I played Sonic 1 to the end and tested Ristar.

2007.01.31 - SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT !!!!! I managed to fry one flash chip on my cart !!!

2007.02.05 - Glass Breaker MD is FINALLY finished !!!

2007.02.08 - First ROM of my new game for MD: CA the meowian !!! It will be gibbiest and
guttiest homebrew action/adventure game ever !!!

2007.02.24 - Estonia's "4th of July", almost finished my 2ch Z80 digital audio.

2007.02.25 - 2ch Z80 digital audio mixer sucks, started to optimize it, and I got blazing
37KHz 1ch playback with Z80 !!! Thanks to 8bitWizard, I know how to display
DEC numbers in my MD stuff !!!