Oooo. We're fresh out the jiffy bag, so bit preliminary, but it's recognised it straight away. I think that's given me 48 MIDI channels. 😮
Fuzzweed
@fuzzweed.co.uk
Maker, breaker, retro gamer. Sometimes clever, sometimes not so much.
Do you remember a time before microswitches? Simpler days when the mildest hint of frustration would cleave your stick in two. When up and left were almost the same thing. When tactile feedback felt like sticking your finger in a blancmange. It's time to un-game.
I have been advised that wire wool in a desolder gun may constitute a fire hazard. Rather than withdraw the product from sale I have conducted the full suite of FuzzLabs CE marked safety tests.
Fuzzweed@fuzzweed.co.uk · 4mo agoWire wool and cotton to replace that celtic cross backplate, plus @janbeta.net pump mods and it's max air flow all the time. No clogs. youtu.be/26VEOadIn1M?...
OK, so the evri chat bot is a fkn twat. But my first go with Claude is paying off. It's currently analysing my work software to circumvent the shit interface and write directly to the database with natural language. That's an actual useful thing .
Happy Friday folks. This weeks challenge is Space Manbow for the MSX2. Scores can be posted in this thread and/or the challenge site: mycrappygames.com/highscores/D... All are welcome to come and play. Feel free to invite friends!!!
My latest ZX Spectrum game is now available for download! it's an action shooter (starts slow, but gets fast!) - stevetyson.itch.io/piledriver
PileDriver by SteveTyson
stevetyson.itch.io
Some excellent interactive displays in the museum. I've made an owl and a spider.
Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains
Bloggo's POW!@bloggospow.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains
So the trick is to be confident about not needing any inverse playing card symbols and make your own chrdata. The screen code then just points one by one to the letters you made. Downside: it limits the words you can write without doing the whole alphabet and curves are difficult in hex.
Fuzzweed@fuzzweed.co.uk · 2w agooooo. letters. and some less explainable stripes. and no numbers. that's with chrdata copied to $0800. but that's also supposed to be the screen memory so dunno how that works 🤷 🤷 🤷
oooo. letters. and some less explainable stripes. and no numbers. that's with chrdata copied to $0800. but that's also supposed to be the screen memory so dunno how that works 🤷 🤷 🤷
Fuzzweed@fuzzweed.co.uk · 2w agoI... I... I... I've done it! 😮😍😮😍😮😍 I've figured out how to boot my program as an Ultimax cart, and that's shoved the address out the way of the IO ports and I've got all three carts working. Haven't quite figured out where it's looking for it's character set (obviously?) but that's small fry now.
The tag list got deleted when Texas went rogue and kicked BsoN off bluesky, but I still receive muttering from the dark side. Happy Shmup Friday.
Having spent the entire evening with (no jk) 25 browser tabs open and the programmers reference guide open on 4 pages at once , I can confirm the C64 is very complicated .
I... I... I... I've done it! 😮😍😮😍😮😍 I've figured out how to boot my program as an Ultimax cart, and that's shoved the address out the way of the IO ports and I've got all three carts working. Haven't quite figured out where it's looking for it's character set (obviously?) but that's small fry now.
The mighty spectrum wins again. Stacking three carts in the 64 boots, but it's not talking to the MIDI. Probably investigatable, but a project fork for laterz....
In just a single day I've unlocked my PayPal account, cancelled sky TV, and got some similar computer-says-no shit sorted at work, all with hardly any fuss or complication. That's going in the posativity bank, so I start tomorrow in credit.
Asshole. Another annoying aspect to this is why with their integrated scanned and tracked AI assisted logistics system do *I* have to put the wasted time and effort into pointing out something has gone wrong. Stuck / lost parcels should flag themselves immediately.
There we go that's polyphonic restored. And with the buffer in place I don't need to be obsessed with speed any more, so I can add cool things like rotating which order it looks for an empty voice: 1-2-3 2-3-1 3-1-2 Which gives the sustain an opportunity to ring on a bit.
Nearly there. Seem to have lost polyphony ; probably trashed a zp or register somewhere but I'll find it. Anyway, border colour is the difference between the read and write pointers and just picking up a couple of flashes on pitch bend, so I think it's well within any chance of overflowing soon....
Fuzzweed@fuzzweed.co.uk · 2w agowooohoooo! with a tiny nudge from the ineffable @martinpiper.bsky.social i have a working midi ring buffer. 🤩 🤩 🤩