Blogs

 The two bomb-related bugs were related, and they’ve been fixed. In the mean-time, I was getting sick of squinting at the small screen and thought I’d look into how difficult it would be to upscale the display on the PC. Turns out it was trivial (except for the bullets) using …

I can now say the transcode is 100% complete in that all routines have been coded and all data transcribed. The only things missing are actual audio output and background stars. Blue background supported Sound routines have been coded short of banging hardware to communicate with the audio CPU. …

 Lack of updates because of lack of progress only because of lack of time. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. You can shoot and destroy all objects – on the ground and in the air – and you can launch bombs, though the latter do …

I’ve completed the game lifecycle mechanics and fixed a few bugs in the process. Somewhat interestingly, in two completely different routines I had omitted the instructions that reset the column scroll values in the C code. Strange coincidence. But you can now coin up and play 1P or 2P games …