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Native
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I'm taking on Robotron as my next AI project... and I'm super impressed with Codex this morning! I fed it the original 6809 assembly files for Robotron, sent to me by one of the game's authors (LED). Except no current 6809 assembler I could find would accept William's old assembly syntax. So, Codex wrote me a front-end to pre-process the assembly into something my assembler could handle; it then created scripts and makefiles to assemble this 54-year-old code. And then recalculate the internal checksums, the whole deal. It even renames the ROM images according to what MAME expects to find. It's hard to overstate how much work that saved me - it would take me a couple of days minimum to recreate the entire 1982 dev stack and get it to produce ROMs matching the original machine. But it's already done! I then went in and simply edited the original 6809 assembly, added "HELLO WORLD" to the Robotron splash screen, ran it, and confirmed it there! Now I'm REALLY dangerous :-). Time to start instrumenting the game...























