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  Early Nintendo programmer worked without a keyboard zfkirone <zfkirone@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 23:35 +0200
    Re: Early Nintendo programmer worked without a keyboard scap61 <scap6161@yahoo.it> - 2017-04-28 07:01 -0700

#48960 — Early Nintendo programmer worked without a keyboard

http://sourcegaming.info/2017/04/19/kirbys-development-secrets/

<<At the time, the development tool that HAL Laboratory was using was 
the Twin Famicom, a console that combined the Famicom and the Famicom 
Disk System. A trackball made specifically for the Twin Famicom was used 
with the machine, which read and wrote data to a floppy disk and 
uploaded data to the floppy disks [during development].>>

<<Essentially, they were using a Famicom to make Famicom games. Sakurai 
told the crowd, “It’s like using a lunchbox to make lunch”.>>

<<Their development tools didn’t even have keyboard support, meaning 
values had to be input using a trackball and an on-screen keyboard.>>

CYA

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