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Awesome! I saw it already on Twitter of course

What was your epiphany late last night?

Good work by the way Kelvin, I though I was nuts when I started using multiple sprites for printing...... glad you're doing the same ! Great to see what you are doing as well, Neil. I believe using pre-shifted sprites is quite common, especially on machines with no hardware sprites and an odd scree...

kieranhj wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 11, 2020 10:53 am

In the spirit of improvement, please feel free to PM me with one thing that might have made the session better / clearer / more useful for you, so I can take this onboard for next time.

Can't think of a single thing. You were born to be a teacher.

tricky wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 11, 2020 1:15 pm

How inspiring?

Very

What a great session! Huge thanks to Dave, all presenters and participants.

I got to show my 8-bit shenanigans to not 1, .... not 2,.... but 3 Acorn legends from the 80s! Talk about dreams coming true!

Of course!

I would like to give a short update on my nameless game for the Acorn Electron.

Nice!!

Good for you Dave! I was ready to be one of the first 100 backers but of course ended up being the 737th backer
And so the long wait begins....

If some of us share this on social media I'm pretty sure we'll see some new faces indeed! I will retweet

I would like to buy one, Roland

I'll be there. Looking forward to more in depth interrupt trickery. I would like to give a brief update on what I'm working on at the moment (yeah, yeah, new project): a very first working prototype of a platformer on the Elk.

I'll be there! The last one was amazing so I have great expectations of the next one

Brilliant!!

You keep on surprising us lovely bunch of Elk owners
It goes without saying I am really interested in this and other extended functionality you come up with!

Fantastic!!!

Very enjoyable and very interesting, thanks everyone!

Edit: for some reason I now have a strong urge to play Leisure Suit Larry again

Can confirm. I use this code all the time. Combine with *FX 200,2 or *FX 200,3 (clear memory on BREAK) and your own BREAK intercept handler to have a really hard reset on pressing BREAK. I add this to all my demo effects (that take over the entire Elk) to properly reset the machine on BREAK. I remem...

I will be there! I am looking for some fresh ideas/guidance (all Electron related of course :mrgreen:) in at least 3 areas: 1. I've picked up 1-bit sound again (firstly, playing a sampled sound, e.g. speech) and have been experimenting with cycle accurate Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) with 5-bit reso...

Very interesting, thank you!

Elminster wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:30 pm

0xC0DE wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:23 pm

Pledged! Am I still welcome on this forum after this?

Did you get an Early Bird?

£450,000 in first 30 mins. Not pledging myself, just watching.

I tried but the pledge timed out. So I went for the accelerated version. I am backer #737. That's how fast it went

Pledged! Am I still welcome on this forum after this?

I use HxD all the time on Windows: https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

I won't be there for the kick off session tomorrow evening, but I may be interested in attending future dev sessions. I strongly prefer having some structure to (most of) the session, just like the all-day sessions.

Thanks for the links, tricky. Strangely enough, those links are not working for me (404).
But if I rewrite the URL a little (the first link for instance) then it works --> https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=cHkXg0ZueoY

The ElkSD64 is extremely useful! The extra RAM is a bonus to me. I use it for my own programs or to load a ROM into.

New and improved! With carefully selected colour combinations this time. Now produces almost no flicker on a real machine. Don't try it in an emulator because it won't look good. Red and magenta also work well but I decided that they would disrupt the "colour flow" too much in this example. colours2...

Thank you everyone for organising this wonderful day! Especially to all the presenters and the moderators and to Dave (Arcadian) for recording/editing/publishing all the videos!

Me please!

Thanks Roland and Kieran! I can't stand the flicker either unless I watch it through my eyelashes

But... I am pinpointing the colour matches that work best (less flicker!) and putting them in a separate demo that is much easier on the eye.