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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2025-01-18 at 03:21

The MAME emulator is great. I can tweak the source code to automatically extract whole sprite frames from games like After Burner. :)

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2025-01-15 at 07:44

Did you catch this #Commodore64 "disk loader archeology" video from a while ago?

https://youtu.be/RzJxICvf8YI

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2025-01-10 at 10:32

It is 23 degrees celsius in Singapore and almost feels chilly.

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2025-01-02 at 07:58

[#]Amiga geeks. I'm trying to find an old workbench application from before 1994 that would play an endless algorithmic based tune. In was called something like rhythm box or blues box. Do you know what this could be?

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-12-23 at 07:28

Thank you @PCBWayOfficial and @SGirl0311 for the extra pretty swag this year. My #Commodore64 and #MegaWang are nice and comfortable.

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-12-22 at 14:14

It's not a proper #electronics project unless it has bodge wires...

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-12-17 at 04:08

[#]Commodore64 Spindizzy credits screen says there is no cheat mode... But I just found a cheat mode... Putting the message "I LIED!" in memory $df00 will disable the game timers.

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-12-12 at 15:10

Pondering #electronics ...

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-12-07 at 03:57

This #Commodore64 video looks at how to transfer a multiload turbo tape game to disk. This involves understanding the tape loader, discovering the tape data format, extracting the files, altering the code to load from disk, and creating a disk.

https://youtu.be/1MXB6b6mm7c

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-12-06 at 16:33

This is going to be a long #Commodore64 video about how to transfer turbo tape multiload games to disk...

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-11-27 at 12:45

Would a book titled "Making a retro arcade game system" be something you would like? It would cover 74LS hardware simulation, PCB design, software emulation, and development tools.

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-11-17 at 06:43

When a politician attacks a particular race it's obvious they are racist and trying to use identity politics.

When a politician attacks other groups, like trans people, they are still trying to use identity politics.

Never let them acuse others of identity politics.

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-11-06 at 10:38

I have zero comprehension how. Literally none. How does a convicted fraud, felon, rapist even get to be a candidate, let alone get any votes?

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-11-01 at 14:58

Selling a working Commodore 65 (C64DX) prototype from 1990/1991

https://www.ebay.com.sg/itm/176658035905?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=3423-175132-2357-0&ssspo=39N2W6mKQnC&sssrc=2524149&ssuid=39N2W6mKQnC&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-10-16 at 12:28

In this video I have a look at "Kingdom of the Seven Stones" which is a new adventure game, on a 1MB cartridge, for our beloved retro #Commodore64 . A lot of compression is used to fit everything inside.

https://youtu.be/Z4NG_Uf0LYQ

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-10-14 at 06:05

Wondering when M&S start selling mince pies and Christmas pudding.

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-09-17 at 07:52

In this #Amiga programming video, I look at a C/C++/asm SDK (running in VSCode) and create a new test for executable compression. Using LZMPiU compression method from my #Commodore64 tools and port the decompressor to the Amiga, then optimise for size.

https://youtu.be/9mvA6R-x2l0

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-09-16 at 02:14

Join me as I quickly assemble the Bullfrog example source code found on the old #Amiga Format cover disks. Using Devpac assembler and battling with LHA archives.

https://youtu.be/CTswExGT3dM

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-09-12 at 05:09

In this retro games memories video, I'm going to have a look at the #CommodoreAmiga and try to assemble old example source code found on Amiga Format cover disks.

https://youtu.be/_YefsDKE3i0

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Written by Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 on 2024-09-06 at 12:14

Looking at #Commodore64 Nosferatu the Vampyre, how it renders its software sprites and also trying to add some extra colour to its usual monochrome hires bitmap display.

https://youtu.be/sb8n4DNRaPU

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