The life of a Games Programmer

I got my new dual parallel port today, so I spent the evening updating the Plus/4 downloader to allow me to change port address, and writing...

I was over at Lemon64 and they have a really handy poll there which asks what you do you C64-ing on, an actual machine, VICE,CCS64 or anothe...

After a short break - where I more or less did nothing but sleep, I've come back to RetroEdit and decided to shuffle things around yet a...

Done nothing at all tonight.... well, not quite nothing. I got an Opus Discovery disk drive for the spectrum months ago from ebay for a stea...

I've not done that much tonight, just cleaning the code up and putting in the machine selection system I was yattering on about yesterd...

I've spent the evening changing the editor into something a little bit more sophisticated, it can now do Hires and MCM sprites - althoug...

Luca and I have been hammering out the how the actual weapon system is going to work and I have to say its one of the few times where intern...

After yesterdays head-banging moment, I sorted out exactly what I'd need to do in order to get a proper double buffered star field. Then...

I often wonder why programmers are never given protective head gear, since every now and then we do something so stupid then you either bang...

Well, looks like I've fried part of my parallel port; damn. Pin 11 (busy line) doesn't appear to work anymore. This is probably why ...