Darren Coles

Current developer/maintainer of Ami-Express BBS software since 2018. Amiga & GBA scener (hacker/coder/sysop)

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@fwibbler @0xC0DE6502 It has twice the number of bits per pixel to describe the colour so 8x16 in mode 2 is the exact same number of byes total as 16x16 in mode 1 so no it will be the same

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@0xC0DE6502 You always amaze me with what the little elk can do

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@0xC0DE6502 @snuggsy187 Incredible achievement

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@0xC0DE6502 Interestingly you could do the reverse and duplicate the colours 0-7 in 8-16 and use the top 2 bits across the whole screen

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@0xC0DE6502 That's pretty clever. Never saw any games that managed to hide it in this way

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@0xC0DE6502 Is the source code available for the beeb version or are you working with the binaries?

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@0xC0DE6502 Excellent work as always. Want even aware of this game but the original was one of my favourite electron games

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@davepl1968 Ended up clearing down the current directory ... Which for a Windows service was the windows directory or the system32 directory... Ouch!!!

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@davepl1968 I managed to trash a couple of servers and had to stay at work overnight to rebuild them after I used a global variable to hold what was supposed to be a temporary working directory that got cleared down afterwards. Somewhere else in the code the variable got cleared and so it

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@0xC0DE6502 That looks beautiful.. Great work!

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@0xC0DE6502 Looks great

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@0xC0DE6502 @ArnoldLabour My experience is this stuff is mainly from the 16 bit era though so what worked well for 68000 may not apply so easily

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@0xC0DE6502 @ArnoldLabour There's also a technique of storing the points of each surface in a specific order so you can compare the z and y values after rotation to determine which way it is facing but I tended to go with storing a face normal coordinate and rotated it alongside the face coordinates

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@0xC0DE6502 Gotta love some 3d vector cube

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@MuseumCommodore If you have any respect for your Amiga then it has no use whatsoever

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@MuseumCommodore R-type, golden axe, space harrier, star wars, operation wolf

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@0xC0DE6502 This got me thinking. I wonder why pokes weren't a big thing on the beeb and electron. The electron magazines were still publishing type in listings for games and utilities long after the spectrum mags but pokes were a big thing on the speccy but I don't remember them on the elk

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@0xC0DE6502 Thanks for posting this.. look forward to taking a look 👍

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@0xC0DE6502 I'd love to see that. As you know these things are a fascination for me

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@0xC0DE6502 @rpwbrowne Yep much more useful than the flashing ones