Last quarter I took a Machine Organization class as part of my required studies at UW.  Machine Org deals with how computers (and other machines) translate between voltage changes coming in, to discrete 1’s and 0’s and finally towards maintaining state and running the software and other functions that are asked of them.  I like the class a lot, but completely hated the book (I’ll probably get around to reviewing that later).  The more I got entrenched in the minutiae, the more exciting it became.  I decided to try my hand at building a working Game Boy game in C and/or Assembly, and dumping it to a working cartridge to play on an actual console. (more…)