The life of a Games Programmer

My personal thoughts and musings...

Saturday, July 15, 2017

New CSpect ZX Spectrum Next emulator

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UPDATE:  I've now added register setting, and memory window set/moving. You can also set breakpoints from the input line, and push/pop v...
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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Z8410 DMA chip for the ZX Spectrum Next

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So the ZX Spectrum Next team have added a Z80 DMA chip, the Z8410   chip to be more precise. This was popular add on in Europe ( more info ...
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Saturday, July 01, 2017

esxDOS File access

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So I was about to start adding some very basic "simulation" support for files into my emulator, and I'd lost track of the API ...
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Sunday, June 04, 2017

ZX Spectrum Next - Bitmap example disassembly

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I've been having a poke around in the ZX Spectrum Next Bitmap example. It's mostly clear, but one or two things are....odd. This is...
Friday, January 01, 2016

Why create a GameMaker export to the Raspberry Pi?

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Okay, these are very much personal opinions... So I've been asked a couple of times why bother? It's a tiny machine with (probab...
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Friday, October 17, 2014

Why aiming for 60fps or full 1080p is a pointless goal.

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So yet again on the web I've seen posts by journalists that 1080p is worthwhile, and that developers should be spending all their time ...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

When Scotland changes forever.....

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In a world of history, a truly historic event is rare, but that's what Scotland gets tomorrow. On the 18th of September 2014, we the peo...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

The beginners guide to Ray Tracing

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So, I was asked recently on Twitter how Ray Tracing works, but it's not something that you can easily explain in 140 characters, so I th...
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Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Improving the runner

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So, I thought it might be fun to look back at some of the changes we've made to the runner, why, and what impact it's had on perform...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

2013 - The year of travelling.

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2013 kicked off with a trip to CES where we had been invited to take part in MIPS presence at the show. Sandy, knowing my utter love of al...
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