Recently a new Famicom/NES-focused book titled "I AM ERROR" was published. It's a combination of history of the system and its technical workings, combined with the social aspects (ex. emulation, societal impact, etc.); hard to describe, really. The author is on Twitter.
For those that are regulars, the reference and bibliography section contains many mentions of nesdev and emulation folks (ex. kevtris, tepples, myself, Disch, Memblers, ccovell, Landy/Alex Krasivsky, Brad Taylor, BootGod, Matt Conte, RST38h/Marat Fayzullin, and of course the entire nesdev website especially the wiki).
I picked up a copy which arrive today, but won't have time to read it for a while. It's about 330 pages of actual content, with the remaining 110 citing references, bibliography, etc..
P.S. -- There is an actual 4-page explanation provided (citing references) regarding the FC/NES's CPU and the lack of decimal mode. It'd be too much to type in here, but it boils down to Ricoh/Nintendo deciding to remove 5 transistors, effectively disabling decimal mode rather than removing it, solely to avoid violating the patent on the CPU that MOS Technologies (Commodore) had at the time. As said previously, too much to type here...
For those that are regulars, the reference and bibliography section contains many mentions of nesdev and emulation folks (ex. kevtris, tepples, myself, Disch, Memblers, ccovell, Landy/Alex Krasivsky, Brad Taylor, BootGod, Matt Conte, RST38h/Marat Fayzullin, and of course the entire nesdev website especially the wiki).
I picked up a copy which arrive today, but won't have time to read it for a while. It's about 330 pages of actual content, with the remaining 110 citing references, bibliography, etc..
P.S. -- There is an actual 4-page explanation provided (citing references) regarding the FC/NES's CPU and the lack of decimal mode. It'd be too much to type in here, but it boils down to Ricoh/Nintendo deciding to remove 5 transistors, effectively disabling decimal mode rather than removing it, solely to avoid violating the patent on the CPU that MOS Technologies (Commodore) had at the time. As said previously, too much to type here...