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So the hardware double buffer is great to update the screen, but setting it up needs time because basically you need to draw the background scene twice (or once and copy). That takes longer that only drawing the changes in your back buffer and copying those bits to the screen.
So I'm trying ideas. Like treating each screen like an scene and do a fade-out/fade-in.
It doesn't look bad, but it means I shouldn't encourage quick screen changes via level design.
I found a great winter holidays reading. The book "Write Your Own Retro Compiler" by Nils Holm, which has just been published, describes the development of a self-hosting compiler that targets the Z80 on CP/M.
@phf@amoroso not the first time I see this book, I'm tempted, but the paper version is paperback in Lulu; over 300 pages means it may self-destruct after reading it once 😅
@root42 I guess what everybody is wondering now is if you have used Icecubes' function to autogenerate the picture description on the picture showing Icecubes' function autogenerating the picture description.
Got 3 months free of Amazon Music, and it is as bad as it was the last time I got it for free. Or perhaps a bit worse, but is just consequence of the "shuffle only" mode of Amazon Prime Music (or whatever is called what you get with Prime).
Honestly, I can't understand why someone would pay for it 😮
The blobs on fonts were to allow optical or magnetic ink readers to quickly scan documents - many over a certain age will remember them from the bottom of cheques.
Like pixels themselves these blobs became a style feature and so here is a fresh new font to use in your games that just throws them around with wild abandon.
It supports any size of meta-tiles, that can overlap taking into account they are drawn from top-left and two tiles can't be in the same 8x8 cell (makes sense).
The level design with tiled is nice, not difficult to do because my script generates the tiles and an external tilest (a .tsj file), all based on an input JSON file. Then the map is processed automatically into binary data. 1/2
I really wish sites would stop with this ‘x hours, y days, z months’ rubbish. Put the bloody date on content and social posts. At least have it there as an option, next to supposedly ‘helpful’ human markers.
My favourite think about IRC is that I tend to make typos, making my writing totally confusing and unreadable, and then I provide the key on the next message.
