@slashie a bit of stuck with a few ideas, so of course I started with another one. I always wanted to make a "Castlevania-feel" alike, so I'm making something for the Amstrad CPC.
I went to a bakery a couple of weeks ago and the guy wondered where was my beautiful accent from (or something like that). When I said I was Spanish he told me he had lots of Spanish customers and suggested that may be I would be interested in meeting some.
Which is bizarre. I literally told him: why? because we have the same passport?
I have met a lot of Spanish people when I was living there. Not exciting 😂
I'm documenting Kitsune's Curse source code after getting the tooling updated (some C++ tools didn't compile in the latest gcc).
I'm considering releasing as open source because IMHO the engine is interesting.
It uses "mini-buffers" to build the scene tracking dirty tiles on the screen, resulting on a 2560 bytes buffer (vs 16384 bytes that would use a back buffer by hw).
It has a cost, but Kitsune's Curse moves up to 10 sprites of 8x24 just fine.
“Too much power in too few hands leads to bad outcomes for everyone: first for workers, then for customers, then for the industry itself”.
I grew up loving tech as a force-multiplier for the little guy, as a great leveller. It flipped the tables of old entrenched interests who didn’t understand it. But in the last decade it’s become the entrenched bad old firms it used to challenge.
@damieng@sinbad aren't most of those required because abuse?
For example; if a business doesn't try abuse tracking the users accessing to the website, being complaint with the GDPR is very easy. Same with PII treatment, etc.
I know the real world is horrific enough, but let's talk about the kind of horror that is harmless. Had a DOS game ever scared you or creeped you out? Tell me the story! #MorningDOSTalk
@Tijn you could get that fixed in Spain as well. Probably not your usual garage, but should be fine (even you insurance company could help you to find a garage; mine did when I had a car in Spain).
Sorry, found the "somewhere in Spain or something" amusing 😂
R-Type was one of the best arcade conversions we'd see on the Speccy.
The sole developer put out a PDF chronicling his bedroom-coding journey crashing at places, wheeling and dealing and "reviews" by magazines who possibly never played the game.
And plenty of technical skill and detail on how to squeeze this colourful masterpiece into 40K of memory while running fast and avoiding colour clash.
I hate when people put meetings at lunch time. Is it hard to find space in the calendar? Do it in advance, or early (I never have meetings from 8 to 10, why is that?).
Is not hard to realise that there's free time at lunch time because... that's when people have lunch!
@nivrig the core hours are 10 to 16; fair enough, but that means that often times I can't get anything done during core hours because it is all meetings!
People don't give a shit about meeting clashes I think 😂
