Peter Bone

Game and software developer with roots dating back to C64. Love coding for old computers and consoles. Member of the demoscene group Desire.

[Peter Bone @megakode]

I spend the last year on a challenge: Create a modern genre game for a DOS PC with EGA graphics. Bit of a pain with the planar graphics modes and really slow video memory, but i think i did ok 🤷🏼‍♂️ i would be honoured if somebody would try it https://t.co/hoBnNUluEy

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@britelite78 congrats on the awesome PSX demo for Revision! I couldn’t help smiling a bit when i saw the Desire greeting in there. I take it as a clue that you saw my PSX demo at Revision 2021 :) i coded mine using the original PsyQ SDK on an old win98 machine though.

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@leonard_coder My favorite production this year! Such an amazing fresh design, combining classic effects and cycle pushing in a really fresh new context :)

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@Puryx @revision_party I absolutely loved it! It really defined this years Revision! And what a coincidence that it was you who did it :) i was actually wondering who did it, and what a faithfull tribute to 90s happy hardcore it was. Would you mind sharing a short list of tools/plugins/etc used?

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@FG_Software @revision_party I’ll meet you there if you do one day, and buy you a beer for some oldschool assembly talk 🤓

[Peter Bone @megakode]

Note to self: Never skip going to the @revision_party demo party again. Those are my people. Where i belong. I was meant to be stowed away in a remote warehouse in germany, coding stuff for ancient computers and raving all night. ❤️ #demoscene #revisionparty2023

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@cyningstandos I still want to try multi monitor setup one day. You know, where you have a monochrome adapter running your debugger, and the color adapter showing your game. TC supports that natively.

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@cyningstandos I loved the debugger as well. I recently made a game in TC https://t.co/hoBnNUluEy the only thing that annoyed me was that i couldn't get the IDE to play nice with my EMS routines, so i just used conventional memory. I would like to do a bigger project with O.W. one day though.

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@bigevilboss @i_am_sverx Screw this.. i’m getting the old assembly books. Only proper way to optimize demo code :) I also really wanted to write some asm again, as i always see @heaven65021 doing all his demos in pure asm.

[Peter Bone @megakode]

Playing a bit with some demo coding on the #SegaMasterSystem ..but in C. Although i feel like i am quite proficient in fast low level C, everything seems to take so many cycles. Any clues as to where the common pitfalls are @i_am_sverx @bigevilboss ?

[Editions 64K @editions64K]

Demoscene: the logo art campaign is launched!!
More than 30 years of demoscene logos in one book!

https://t.co/MKSst8Yoa6

#demoscene #logo #indiegogo #amiga #atari #commodore #demo

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@bigevilboss @i_am_sverx I think you read my question as Megadrive.. SMS has no DMA :/ i tried caching everything in normal RAM though, and then move everything in one go afterwards. Didn't make a positive difference.

[Peter Bone @megakode]

I need help deciding on my next project... also i am a bit torn between doing a game or a demo. Suggestions for genres are also welcome. Thanks! #nesdev #demoscene #gamedev #retrogamedev #nes #smspower #rustlang #msdos

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@HiddenAsbestos Interesting! What are you building? (You had me at OPL2!)

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@evvvvil @wrightwrighter Looks awesome! What language/libraries did you use for writing it? Really interested because i want to start doing some tools for web, but hope to avoid the usual JS stuff, so getting inspired to hear what ppl use for tools like this. (Thinking of using Rust+webasm)

[Peter Bone @megakode]

Back in the late 90s i worked at a gamedev company where we did a game about a skunk and a beaver, called Stinky & Beaver. Apparently the UK distributer was NOT happy with the naming or the box art. I can’t remember the exact changes we had to make though 🤷🏼‍♂️😂

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@matthughson Are you telling me that this is AI? But.. they look so perfect!? No 6 fingers or rotated feet or anything.. wau.. can you give a hint as to what you query text was to achieve this?

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@Jameshhoward Interesting.. i just picked EGA because i had so fond memories of EGA games.

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@visionvortex The title screen amazes me every time i see it 😍 really amazing work Richard!

[Peter Bone @megakode]

@ChevyRay @MonstersGo Somehow it tempts me to start learning Rust because of this, but there are also so many quirks and things with the PSX hardware that not even C could do for me. Some of all the graphics routines for me recent PSX demo i had to do in mips assembly, just to have full control over