The last days (since I got it) I have been looking at VPatrol. I played it a lot – and also examined it a lot. Its a wonderful game – which really goes to the limit of what the vectrex…
25th of Janurary 2018 – VPatrol ingenuity part I
18th of January 2018 – 100 (one hundred)
If you use “artistic freedom” – you can also do 100 objects in 50Hz: “InMove” we have about 8000 cycles left for “gameplay” – whatever that might be… Malban
15th of January -VPatrol
Thanks to Kristof’s extraordinary VPatrol – Vide is getting better and better. New eEprom emulation pending, have to read up on that one… Buy it – it’s worth every penny!
14th of January 2018 – Finale!
A few days ago I sent Karl Quappe on his journey around the world – in 16 incarnations he will visit 6 countries. What I mean by that – Karl Quappe is finished. I got all overlays and all…
30th of December 2017 – very fast vector draw (demo)
Last couple of days I experimented (again) with high performance vector drawing routines. The result you can see as a “demo” in the video below: – up to 70 objects visible at the same time – they are moving –…
2 – 29th of December 2017 – Public RC Vide 2.0 again!
Hi folks, that didn’t take long – did it? Two updates on the same day… one last night (after midnight) and one this evening. The thing is Peer suprised me with a huge update of the “C”-BIOS headers. I updated…
29th of December 2017 – Public RC Vide 2.0
Today I make the first public version of Vide 2.0 available – Release Candidate 15. As the naming suggests there have been quite a lot of RCs before – and there still might be some to follow. I hope…
21st of December – cycle measurement in Vide
In General At the end of your programming phase often you’d like to measure the speed of your program – at least I do, since often my goal is to keep everything within 50Hz. In Vide my tool of choice…
12th December 2017 – Menschenjagd – again!
I am not groing to write much today – I again did a video. This is more an ad than a blog entry – but I rather like what “Der Luchs” produced so far for his new (older) game!…
28th of November – Collision detection
As mentioned in my last post – “der Luchs” is (re-) programming his game “Menschenjagd”. We met at an event last month and came to talk to each other. One thing led to another and he asked my opinion about…