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0xC0DE wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 29, 2020 11:24 am

Animation is still smooth.

What an understatement!

It's looking silky smooth - seen the animations scrolling past on my Twitter lurking. And so much happening on-screen as well!

As usual you guys are miles ahead of me!

Don't think you've left any bugs for me to find.

I've finished one level but seems I have some way to go ... my time was 1.29 (no, not seconds!)

Looking good (the game, not my playing!)

+1 for Mark at RetroClinic.

aerworuld wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 18, 2020 12:50 pm

Thank you for asking about the elk - she's in the great care of Dave H at the moment so will live again!

I was going to ask in the other thread about your Electron but sounds like I'm not the only one wondering how the patient is!

Good effort

My RISC OS machines gathering as much dust as my other retro machines at the moment, but great to see this sort of thing.

Mmm....definitely something which can read a lot of files into a buffer and then write them out again when the buffer is full (just like RISC OS filer operations do) would be good. One in, one out seems a bit 1975 MS DOS to me. Linux/BSD/Windows/Mac etc. will all use buffers, as will your drive's e...

Looking good and nice to see you are both still going strong despite 2020's best efforts!

I may have some BITD boxes ... somewhere ... so if need another set of measurements I'll have a look ... but I may get lost in the piles of junk treasure

What Stephen said. If you need to do 100 operations to read the files and 100 operations to write the files then you aren't going to save much by buffering - it's still going to be a total of 200 disk operations (which is going to be slow on spinning rust). Plus any metadata changes. Migrate everyth...

Good to see you again, Stu. :D I've got at least a couple of unhappy Electrons that I've not got around to (aka don't know where to start!) looking at, so can send those (probably directly to Dave H. so he can make them happy again.) But let's keep that as a plan B ... you should be able to find som...

I thought the illegal opcodes were more to do how the aliens were drawn, not so much to do with the explosions.

Have to go rummage around and see.

Do things like Planetoid and Snapper etc. work OK? I'm trying to think of games that tickle the 6522 - think Planetoid does that.

My memory not much cop these days, but pretty sure Asteroids was the first arcade game I laid my eyes on.

Didn't have much spending money in those days so I didn't waste much on it!

Yes ... not sure how this is going to work out.

Apparently there are going to be promises made about HQ being kept in the UK etc. but ... we'll see ...

Doesn't feel like there is going to be a happy ending.

Thanks, roland & dave. We can cross the shipping-to-NZ bridge when we get to it, so give me a prod when we get to that point. But definitely interested (and used to paying $$$s for stuff to get to NZ.)

Thinking I'm dragging things a bit off-topic (moi?) but are you meaning things like PWA? In which case, yes, Apple wants to make sure they get their 30% cut and "real" apps will be better than web apps. But on the other hand Google wants everyone using Chrome as the one-and-only web-browser (that's ...

Incidentally Mark I tried different web browsers but had no joy. You would think Chrome would be ok..... If this is on Apple devices then they (Apple) force every browser to use their web browser back-end. So it's not really Chrome: https://www.howtogeek.com/184283/why-third-party-browsers-will-alw...

roland wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 10, 2020 10:36 pm

please keep asking .... I want to know if I have to order 5, 10 or even more additional boards

Oh, you've convinced me then! Yes, please. No rush, and we'll have to sort out postage to NZ if you're OK sending it this way.

But ... you also need a Master Compact, an Electron, a B+64, and a B+128K.

Lardo Boffin wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 09, 2020 2:10 pm

Another reasonably priced book in virtually perfect condition.
Even has the original receipt.

That looks mint. I have my copy from BITD and it's a bit sad ... the glue in the spine and the paper quality not the best, I don't think. But I can still read it ... carefully ...

That's good news!

Maybe next year I can visit.

But if you don't fancy building anything, Mark @ Retro Clinic an excellent source!

Hmmm, 7 a.m., Sunday morning, after my wife's 50th birthday party (dear little COVID permitting, of course). I'm ticking the boxes of wanting (and able!) to be involved but that time isn't going to work (after a late night), but do remember I'm available to work on the LAMP/FAMP side of things, just...

Hmm, for me it's more a matter of reacting to the ball moving and making my fingers move the bat in the correct direction before the ball disappears!

fwibbler wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 08, 2020 7:51 pm

If I play the ZX Spectrum version instead, does that still count?

I'm still researching the Atari ST version - that's definitely easier ... but I'm still not getting on that hi-score table either!

:shock: I'm sure it wasn't this fast back in the day ... will have to dust off a real machine and see. Managed about 1500 after a few goes so don't think I'll be getting onto the high score table with this game, either! ](*,) Pretty sure I was playing this BITD and not the Atari ST version ... can't...

Heart says "want" but head says "look at all the other cool retro stuff gathering dust".

Looks impressive

It's my new alias and I've gotten good at games!

Congrats Ailasue

There was in fact, Space Pilot by the same author, Peter Johnson, written not long before DeathStar and using the same engine (or at least, very similar!). :oops: I think I might have just had my first senior moment and I'm not that old! There was a little voice in the back of my mind telling me I ...

To answer my own question, yes, have to build a little trap (with no diagonal escapes!) and lure him in there, and finally squish him. Managed it once for a pathetic 600 points which doesn't get me on the table at all. But at least I didn't completely miss this round. O:) Think I'll move onto Arkano...