When composing, I often start out with piano-only sketches of melody ideas. The ones that stick with me get extrapolated into a full song. The end result can have quite a different mood compared to the original sketch. For one of the tracks in Magicore Anomala, here is a side-by-side comparing the original sketch to the final track. The original sounds a lot more menacing and oppressive, but it wasn’t quite right for the character. #amiga #gamedev #retrogamedev

What the hell is 0xDAFADAFA ???
#retrogamedev #retrocomputing #allegro

Brazilian developer djogopatrão (https://twitter.com/djogopatrao) is porting Alley Cat to the MSX2. #alleyCat #msx #msx2 #retrogamedev #pcGaming #msxgl

Stop the Eggspress - Stage 2

#retrogaming #retrogamedev

managed to get some #retrogamedev done on the amstrad last night and got my timers working properly.

its on my itch page (https://terlan.itch.io/easy-as-123) as a CDT if anyone wants a shot.

its easy all you need to do is answer 1 2 or 3 to simple sum of the numbers 1, 2 & 3 before the timer runs out and get the highest score you can. the timer gets progressively shorter the more you score.
there are other versions too.
#retrogaming #retroprogramming #basic #amstrad #retrocomputing #cpc464 #amstradcpc

only managed to get a wee half hour of coding last night on the CPC. Had to go our. But still managed to mess with some basic sound routines on it. think I have the timer sound sorted for easy as 123

https://youtu.be/tdzp6KNYOPY

#retrogamedev #retrogaming #basic #amstrad #amstradcpc #cpc464 #retrocomputing #retroprogramming

Well would you look at that..it only bloody worked.
The red border is flashing ed then black as timer has went below three seconds. I like that you can do that with a single command.

Sounds still a mystery. Really want a wee tick for the timer that speeds up as it gets closer to zero. Maybe play with that tomorrow night.

Once i manage to figure out how to convert the wav to cdt, I'll share it in case anyone wants a go.

#amstrad #amstrad464 #retrogamimg #retrogamedev #basic #retrocomputer

So took little break from z80 and went back to basics. Literally. I took the zx spectrum basic listing for my easy as 1 2 3 game i originally made using gamemaker 1.4, and had a look at converting it to amstrad cpc basic.

So i grabbed a couple of cpc basic books from internet archive and gave them a read as i wasnt really familiar with cpc basic. I got the cpc manual and doctor watson starting basic book 1 & 2. armed with them i got to work
#retrocomputing #retrogamedev #basic

The first tiny step in a Ranarama remake.
#zxspectrum #retrogamedev

Created this little demo in my modified version of ubox for the MSX2 and SCREEN4. #ubox #msx2 #screen4 #demo #retrogamedev #gamedev

no I have the big dilema. do I learn z80 assembly I've been trying to learn (trying do a lot of work there) to make wee games on the cpc. or, do I jump ship to the amiga, and the fun that is AMOS and 68000 assembly.
baring in mind I have ZERO experince of either.

whats that little messed up manic mode brain? both. both is good. eh?? what else? oh.. get a new membrane for my speccy & use that.
what? buy a msx as well
im trying to manic mode brain. try harder you say... ok.

#retrogamedev

I've just knocked together a very rough speed racer demo. In order to maintain my interest, I need to think of an old Spectrum game I can transpose it onto. Any suggestions please?

#zxspectrum #madewithgodot #godot #retrogamedev

Sarah Jane Avory tweets:

#ZetaWing2 progress: here's my little Witchsoft intro. 🙂

#RetroGameDev #Commodore64 #C64 #RetroGaming #Witchsoft
https://twitter.com/SarahJaneAvory/status/1645873721671061506

We've been catching up to everything we felt we wanted to do for the first four Toaplan games on PC with the fourth patch so now I'm jumping in to another batch of Toaplan games!

https://www.bitwavegames.com/news/the-fourth-toaplan-patch-is-live

#Toaplan #Steam #GoG #Bitwave #Tatsujin #Arcade #RetroGameDev

RX.py (https://gitlab.com/pvmm/rx.py) is a Python script that prepares images for rendering them on the MSX2 blitter using this method described by Laurens Holst. It can be quite efficient compressing images rich in flat polygons, replacing the original image by a bunch of line segments (which are both easy to store and draw) and recreate the original image using the MSX2 hardware blitter (which is relatively fast). #msx2 #gamedev #retrogamedev #hardwareAcceleration #v9938

This is darn clever. Flashing images in link warning

https://www.aaronbell.com/secret-colours-of-the-commodore-64/

#c64 # Programmingtricks #retrogamedev #commodore64

Sarah Jane Avory tweets:

#ZetaWing2 progress: got the stage 2 music pretty much how I like it, so here's the current WIP stage 2.

#RetroGaming #Commodore64 #C64 #RetroGameDev
https://twitter.com/SarahJaneAvory/status/1627406321266921473

MSXdev23 starts now and it's free style again just like last year.

#msxdev #msxdev23 #gamedev #msx #retrogamedev

https://www.msxdev.org/msxdev23/

I stumbled across this article by @pmorinerie while thinking about taking another crack at developing a #Gameboy game. The methods used to create the parallax scrolling in the opening cutscene of Link's Awakening were super interesting to learn about! Check it out on their blog here: https://kemenaran.winosx.com/posts/links-awakening-rendering-the-opening-cutscene

#RetroGameDev #8Bit #Nintendo #LegendOfZelda #LinksAwakening

So, yeah, something is fishy with the OpenWatcom DOS output 😅
Maybe valgrind the Linux binary and check if i accidentally created some memory leak... on the other hand, it looks alright under Linux. 😳

Any ideas by the other retro game devs?

#retro #retrogamedev #gamedev #openwatcom