Goon's Tilemaker - NES tile hacking software (MacOS software)

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goon

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Mar 4, 2026
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Hi,

I am working on tile hacking software in-ROM.

It's MacOS (Monterey) based and uses glut from the Xcode install, so it is OpenGL based also.

The software is OSS and available now as goonstilemaker-nes-0.1.20.tar.gz tarball at

Do read the README and Makefile (the latter in the make directory).

You can compile a glut demo (using a file of floating point numbers) on the command line with :
'make -f make/Makefile testglut3'. You can/must bootstrap it in XQuartz as glut is X11R7+ software.

glut can also be found in freeglut or IIRC http://mesa3d.org/

Enjoy!
 
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goon

New Tinkerer
Mar 4, 2026
5
5
3
Hi,

I am working on tile hacking software in-ROM.

It's MacOS (Monterey) based and uses glut from the Xcode install, so it is OpenGL based also.

The software is OSS and available now as goonstilemaker-nes-0.1.20.tar.gz tarball at

Do read the README and Makefile (the latter in the make directory).

You can compile a glut demo (using a file of floating point numbers) on the command line with :
'make -f make/Makefile testglut3'. You can/must bootstrap it in XQuartz as glut is X11R7+ software.

glut can also be found in freeglut or IIRC http://mesa3d.org/

Enjoy!

I will output files to a Mac PICT format. I have the library (4 bit as in a NES PPU tile) available at http://sf.net/p/goons-programs/

the file is named libpict4-0.1.8.tar.gz now.

Enjoy!