Wayne Bowman

Interest in both playing and coding games, with a spot of reverse-engineering thrown in. Love retro gaming and older computers, in particular the Amiga.

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

@Retro_Fusion @UridiumAuthor @t2_steve Gutted I couldn't make the event but enjoyed watching the chat on YouTube. Looking forward to the book.

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

@KevEdwardsRetro The disks in the photo on the right are from the Screen Gems pack, the one I bought. Only ever played those games once.

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

@UridiumAuthor Wow! I wouldn't have imagined there would be way more data for the C version.

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

Took delivery of the Rev book by @tonywarriner over the weekend to get stuck into.

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

I'm going to move on to the core game this week to see what that throws up, more clever tricks, I assume. #gamedev #retrodev #Amiga

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

@KevEdwardsRetro @VGDensetsu Brilliant how these systems were used as development machines. The C128 became an ideal dev system, despite Bill Heard thinking otherwise.

[Andrew Braybrook @UridiumAuthor]

I dozed off yesterday evening, then woke up just as Dart was hitting its target, went out and photographed bright Jupiter, had a coffee and stayed up all night. There is now a new article on my blog about my first PC project at:
https://t.co/xHBFlaqrwQ
Hope it helps.

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

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[Mike Dailly™ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇵🇸💙🌱 @mdf200]

Found my old AmigaDOS disk loading routines...
I started insane commenting at an early age - mainly due to Brian Watson badgering me constantly about it. Something I'm very grateful for because 30 years later, I can still easily follow it.😎

#DMADesign #retro #retrodev #gamedev

[Cabel Sasser @cabel]

I've spent a lifetime wondering why the Amiga "Insert Workbench" boot image looked kinda wonky, as I always assumed it was hand-drawn pixel art.

Turns out it's actually a series of vector drawing instructions. Incredible. They take up just 412 bytes in the ROM. (via stevenf)

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

@llamasoft_ox Them Thornton's ones don't look particularly happy.

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

@yorecomputer I miss stuff like this. It was these articles that inspired me more to get into coding.

[Jon Burton @JonTt]

I explain how Fullscreen Rotation was achieved on the SEGA Genesis https://t.co/ze1DqLJNUh #coding #secrets

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

@gamesyouloved The PS2 probably because you could install a dev kit in it (I had that) and effectively run it as a Linux box. The PS1 had a separate version for home dev called the Net Yaroze which I never had.

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

@TalkTalk Hi, it came back up in the Stoke-on-Trent area a couple of hours ago so looks like it's resolved here.

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

@Bill_Gross @alanwdang A lot better than when I was there a while back.

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

@AmigaL0ve Amiga OS 1.4 was basically the beta for 2.0 - they used it in early A3000 models because 2.0 wasn't really ready in time.

[Wayne Bowman @wb_coder]

@LaPixelVixen According to Brian Bagnall's recent books, AA+ was a three-chip design which eventually got changed to two chips. It never got made due to CBM's financial problems plus 3D cards were becoming standard. It was cancelled in favour of the Hombre chipset.