Written by Remy Sharp
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on Jun. 14, 2021
Marbles Squared is now in the last leg of development and I'm working through the minor bugs in the software - things like a single white pixel sometimes appears in the bottom of the "game over" box. But right up to the last moments I'm still making significant changes that I won't be able to chang…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Jun. 12, 2021
I'll never tire of how board the Murderbot is! I've read every one of the Murderbot diaries and have always enjoyed the fresh take on a bot that's painted in world where people distrust them by default, and yet the Murderbot would rather avoid eye contact, shy away and watch their streaming TV seri…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on May. 31, 2021
With the new Spectrum Next computer there's two main modes of distributing (new) games: the NEX file format, which "is good for a program that takes over the machine", and the BAS file format that "is the native SD-card format for BASIC programs". There are others that are used, for instance, .snx,…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on May. 25, 2021
I recently - randomly - bought myself a neptUNO FPGA machine, which is somewhere between a MiST and a MiSTer machine. The neptUNO works well as a middle weight retro gaming/platform machine. It can run Spectrum (and the new Spectrum Next), C64, NES, Megadrive, SNES, PC Engine, Amiga 500, Vectrex,…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on May. 21, 2021
I'm a big fan of fd and use it as a part of my dev workflow as it's way easier than find. I've used it to convert files on the fly for ingest, specifically converting xlsx to csv en mass. This is the command I was running: $ fd . -e xlsx -x sh -c "in2csv '{}' > '{.}'.csv" This finds all the file…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on May. 20, 2021
Not with CSS, that's how! <ol> <li value="3">This is item three.</li> <li value="50">This is item fifty.</li> <li value="100">This is item one hundred.</li> </ol> Result: This is item three. This is item fifty. This is item one hundred. I only I had…