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And then what was waiting for you? Another, slightly different loop Oh, yes, I remember those days! :D now but BITD ](*,) So, so proud :D I can't remember if this was me or Reuben, I wrote the entire game (*) but he did some of the faffery around it such as the screen designer, and he was far more ...

cmorley wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:19 am

In emulation yes, not on a real B with any of my LCD screens. Something is off in the 6845 timing, I just get a rolling screen.

Never heard that before. I've played it on real hardware plenty of times in recent years. Well, once it's open-sourced, you can fix it

One of the few games I own from BITD. Sadly none of my LCD displays will sync to the game, I just get a scrambled mess... perhaps that can be fixed. That's curious. Presumably the online version works? http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=556 [edit: link fixed, thanks lurkio!] Are there plans to add t...

My main memory of the Starquake code is the protection system! Getting it from tape to disk was a two stage process: stage 1 involved decrypting the loader by duplicating and executing lots of tiny little loops by hand which decrypted the next few bytes. This process took a few days! Matt Godbolt a...

Case in point of my pidgin assember - I thought STA cleared the zero flag, so I LDA'd again.
There's gonna be loads of refactoring optimisations like this...

Starquake revisited post here viewtopic.php?f=54&p=299804#p299804

Receiving Acorn: A World In Pixels has been a somewhat emotional experience for me. I love how Mark has expressed my thoughts in the published interview, and it's reminded me what a fantastic time of my teenage years this was. And with several decades of programming experience since, I'm sure it cou...

I can't find four with the display where it is :( Yeah, this was me drunk, I found two and said four... Only three, but at least it is faster ;) ; 22 bytes if it stays where it is ldx #&6D stx cls+2 ldy #0 tya inx .cls sta &6D00,y iny bne cls inc cls+2 inx bpl cls rts Immediately you found one more...

8e is never updated, so move the sta &8e after the lda #0 at the top of cls_l1? 2 bytes saved! Slower, though. Yes, easy two bytes there! Speed shouldn't matter, it's called once every 256 times. Turns out there's a "MAIN SCREEN CLEARANCE ROUTINE" in the ROM disassembly http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/BB...

lurkio wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:34 am

Do you and/or Reuben have any plans to resurrect the iOS Beeb emulator? It was brilliant!

Beeb stuff is back in the plans. We're on it

tricky wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 24, 2020 8:11 am

Its great to have you back and to see you at lat nights ABUG - I know it isn't called that, but I have forgotten the more inclusive name.

Cheers mate. I've spent the last couple of days looking at 6502 for the first time in over 25 years. Stay tuned

Do a pull request on the original github?

I have to say, the Idesine book is magnificent. It's been a catalyst for Reuben to decompile Starquake and for us to take a look at righting some of the wrongs - specifically, some of the features I had to remove due to memory issues, with a few decades' programming experience between us, we can fin...

Welcome to the Forum, Kenton . . . Enjoy . . . What an interesting first post! You don't say what you went on to do in life - apart from getting drunk in New York :lol: Dave H. I've done a lot of getting drunk since - indeed I write to you from Glasgow about to head west on a whisky tour of Islay a...

One showed up for a very reasonable price on ebay. I swooped on it because it is an interesting title. It also has interesting disc protection (looks like the work of Rob Northen?) It was Gary Partis. Kevin Edwards was too busy. As a community, I'm sure we can help sort out the original author of a...

[old thread resurrection alert] Well look what arrived today Where the hell did you get that?! Wish I still had one! I received an advance of £400, and later a further payment of £57.75.. I was on 10%, original version author Steve Crow on 10%. He was actually really helpful towards the end of the ...

I can't believe I only discovered this tonight. This is an absolutely epic piece of work, people. Congratulations to all involved.

Heads-up that I've got a new laptop with Android Studio running for the first time in five years, and I've got the rocks-and-gems Mole Miner compiled, rudimentarily changed and republished to Play Store so you can at least play it on modern hardware compliant with modern Play Store policies. I think...

Would love to join.

Hey mate, yes LFT as a company is no more, but I can still access the store listing, sign the APK with the LFT key, and update it on Play Store. Happy to try to resurrect the Github and pull requests. I sent you a PM with my contact details, let's get this show back on the road. Whilst we're here, h...

richmond62 wrote:I love the "in the next few weeks" . . . even I update my software products more often than every 18 months.

It's open source. Do whatever you want with it. I'll not pass comment further on the tone of this.

tricky wrote:Looks good, is there anywhere to give feedback, or is it too early yet?

Bit early yet. Would be good to get a requests/bugfixes website together, where the most popular features/bugs can trickle to the top. Any ideas for what to use for that?

helpful wrote:Thanks again to Kenton and Reuben for a fascinating evening

Thanks for inviting us and making us so welcome.

tricky wrote:Does this mean no more beebdroid updates?

Reuben's intent is to make the web app so good that you don't need a native app. Having said that, the native app could be replaced with a smart wrapper to the web app, to save you clicking the URL, and to remove the browser chrome.

Thanks to RISC OS User Group Of London for letting me and Reuben talk shit about eighties software development tonight. Reuben's latest BBC Micro emulator is semi-publicly available here. Mobile-friendly, browser-based, open it in your mobile's browser. Early days, but give it a shot. http://bit.ly/...

Hey, author here. I don't remember how this was done now, but Arcadian has all my source code disks so might be able to assist? The tape and disk protection were done later by (different) others, so the protection won't be on those disks. There's certainly no hidden levels on the disk version, sorry...

Not aware of this emulator bug. Can you point me to a reference somewhere? Ideally the code checkin.

It can basically load anything from STH, but the list of available games is hardcoded on STH. It's about 30 at the moment. Then the emulator needs to map keys. We're hoping to improve this process soon.

I've (*) just added Football Manager and Twin Kingdom Valley, they didn't require an update to the app. Any others, shout

(*) or rather, Dave Moore helpfully uploaded the updated available files list to stairwaytohell so the app can see it.

Hi y'all. Having a bit of downtime, I'm going through the email requests for games to be added to Beebdroid for Android. The master list of games is incidentally hosted here on STH. If there's anything you want, please provide the link to the disk image and the cover art, cheers!