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Written by Remy Sharp
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on Oct. 25, 2020
Here's a quick tutorial on how to add custom arcade fonts into a ZX Spectrum Next game - either using NextBASIC or assembly.StepsVisit http://arcade.photonstorm.com - select your font from the dropdown.Still on the font web site, type out the letters you want, or if you're comfortable, open the bro…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Oct. 25, 2020
Here's a quick tutorial on how to add custom arcade fonts into a ZX Spectrum Next game - either using NextBASIC or assembly.StepsVisit http://arcade.photonstorm.com - select your font from the dropdown.Still on the font web site, type out the letters you want, or if you're comfortable, open the bro…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Oct. 19, 2020
For a lot of my open source and side projects, I tend to release code as soon as I've finished a distinct chunk and in most cases, when the code is for a web site, I won't have any concept of managed versioning (though I do use semantic/conventional commits). This means often when I'm looking at th…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Oct. 14, 2020
Just starting out and really wanting to start something new whilst making a game that I would enjoy playing myself. I'm come to appreciate that I really like puzzles in games - whether it's spotting patterns or solving problems.So I'm beginning Marbles2 (or Marbles Squared) in NextBASIC.I've starte…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Oct. 11, 2020
There's been many (many!) visualised sorting algos before, but this is particularly enjoyable - and beautiful a number of different algorithms are used to sort colour (a problem that's hard by itself).Really interesting stuff, but also reminds me that picking an algorithms that suits the dataset is…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Oct. 6, 2020
A useful focused post on React's memo function. Since moving away from classes (and forcing?) to use pure components with hooks, methods like shouldComponentUpdate can be a bit of a black box.This post reminds me that all components are re-rendered (in memory at least) unless memo is used, and some…