And there we go again! Larry 3 is on. Never played this one either! From the get go it already seems a bit more polished and seems to have more of a musical score, which is nice
Look what came in the mail today! The #Amiga CD32 version of "Rogue Declan" from @nivrig Games! I sense an unboxing and updated review happening this weekend!
To my #commodore#amiga bubble: How can I pin the icons of a folder after doing "Clean up". The "fixate" entry doesn't help. After every restart the icons are all jumbled...
Today I added the search to the text files too and I started revising the code to optimize it... while I was fixing things I thought to make the program multilingual, so I started transferring all the hardcoded strings into a array which will be overwritten in case of languages other than the native one.
I initially thought of using tags to search for strings dynamically, but I'm afraid of slowing down the entire program which instead needs to be as fast as possible.
I finally did it and moved to a more appropriate "home realm" for a #FreeBSD enthusiast. Thanks @stefano for offering this!
Moving followers worked flawlessly, restoring all my settings was pretty quick, but of course all my old toots are left on https://techhub.social/@zirias 🙈
So I guess I'll introduce myself here by writing a little thread, adding a few of my works that someone might find interesting. But first a bit of "who am I":
I'm a "professional" software architect/developer (mostly #dotnet platform in the day job), FreeBSD hobby-admin and ports committer, #C64 fan (and occassionally coder and even musician), and apart from computers also interested in music (playing a few instruments myself), traveling, cooking, sometimes sports, sometimes politics ... but probably won't toot about any non-technical stuff (or, very very rarely).
Unfortunately this project is stalled, I hope to find the time to continue it. Here's a #C64 conversion of an old #Amiga type-in game found in some german magazine (AmigaBASIC). It's pure #mos6502#assembly and actually adds lots of features to the original (like a score, like music, like fast scrolling and fast movements ... btw the sound/music code is also hand-written, no tracker used).
Finally got around to finishing the upgrades for my #Amiga 3000. It now has a BFG9060 and a ZZ9000 in it.
All ready for the public to play on it later this month.
I was about to warm up my #Amiga programming chair and work on my video game, but a friend called to tell me that it is sunny outside and we should ride bikes.
Did you used to make computer games using STOS or AMOS?
I tried but I was too young to afford the resources I needed and ended up using copies pirated from friends. Even so it was a much better experience than the other development environments I was using at the time.