{"id":51,"date":"2015-01-14T04:55:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T04:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2015-01-14T12:42:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T17:42:40","slug":"im-a-bit-new-to-waveforms-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-pwm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"I’m a Bit New to Waveforms, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the PWM"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid, my brothers and I played the fuck out of some Commodore 64, and later NES, games. We were forced to take turns (sharing sucks), and since some games were quick (Green Beret<\/a><\/em>) while others were not (African Adventure<\/a><\/em>), my brothers and I somehow agreed on 30 minute turns. That way, if we were playing a quick game (or died too quickly), we could try again without worrying about a brother playing a long-ass turn of Dragon Warrior. I was a software pirate then,\u00a0getting pirated games from friends who’d learned to copy games, and to use a hole-punch to turn a single-sided floppy disc into a double-sided one<\/a>\u00a0so we could save money on blank discs.<\/p>\n

One game that my brothers and I all agreed on, though, was World Karate Championship<\/em>, or International Karate<\/em><\/a> as it was known\u00a0before being licensed by Epyx. It was quite playable, and posed a decent challenge without being too difficult. Additionally, it boasted a killer score<\/a>:<\/p>\n