I always read “Gray Noise” on headspace as Gary Noise which would be a good stage name actually
I quite like that when you tag a commit in VS Code with a ticket e.g. #1234 the rgba colour picker pops up. Oh this is a purple-y ticket
Finally realised why I keep having to pull changes on a repo I'm working on alone (or was I!?) - yeah I was I was just using a kind of gh flow and merging remotely but only occasionally. Sometimes solving a mystery makes you feel a little lonelier
"do while" loops always feel a bit weird. Sort of like a story which doesn't make much sense until the reveal
Was about to use the word 'sufficient' in a ticket trail but thought it sounded too la-de-da so went with 'enough'
I couldn't tell if the new neighbour's car was a skoda or a bmw and found myself hoping it was a skoda
I bought a physical book that is also on the web and it’s so well done that I’m just reading it on my phone. Which is great and everything but the physical book remains looking unread and that bothers me for some reason
We have this nice sugar free caramel syrup but it feels like your morning coffee is meant to be a bit horrible so I'm avoiding it until at least this afternoon
Turns out there was a bug in my tracker code because I was using 16 like a volume but it triggers the hardware envelope. Fixed, but now I’m thinking what can I do with that? On purpose this time
Already very sunny on the field and the birds are giving a very loud rendition of higher state of consciousness. Full on rave
It was working. Then it wasn’t. Turns out if you call your routine with USER as the last line of an event and don’t add a newline then it’s parsed as USER {next event name}. Fixed now but that was confusing! #mpagd
I didn't transpose anything new but I did get my pasmo tracker working with #mpagd by slightly copying how the example AY player worked (vector table mainly). sjasmplus (vs pasmo) seems to care about tabs to distinguish labels which is a bit python-y but fair enough
That was the plan but I procrastinated too long and ended up creating a few screens. One thing is that sprites use XOR so backgrounds should be mainly solid. Starting to think about actual gameplay now
The plan is to transcribe the main theme of the show I’m loosely basing my #mpagd game on, which I find quite zen. I know you can add your own routines so it will be interesting to see how that’s done and I found a score online that has 3 parts which is handy
Was trying to be clever with #mpagd and re-use a frame in a sprite's 4 frame walking animation and I kind of got it working but the logic for each direction was probably the same amount of space I was saving vs just using ANIMATE and a duplicate frame, so have gone for simplicity in this case
Sometimes I forget the golden rule of just making ANY sort of progress with the kind of things I enjoy to lift my mood a little. It works! Finally downloaded #mpagd and created 2 sprites which is all I'll probably get to do today but they look pretty cool
Probably not that long ago I would have been genuinely interested in closed classes and how they’re useful and different from sealed classes. Sinclair Basic doesn’t need else statements though so