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on May. 19, 2021
A combination of workers, websockets and "durable objects" (which I've not heard of before). A detailed walk through of the tech is on CloudFlare - and I do hope the domain remains active for years to come, I'm certainly challenging the 90s teenager in me when I hear those sound effects. Death matc…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on May. 18, 2021
Progress is being made. Having coded this game a number of times over the last 20 years and actually having played it a lot, I was finding that the spectrum flavour was somewhat harder than I would like. I would vary rarely manage to clear an entire board and though a challenge is fun, too difficul…
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on May. 17, 2021
I was an 80s kid and growing up we had a Spectrum computer. As much as Sinclair intended the machine to be used for business purposed, it became hugely popular for games and was in part, responsible for the computer literacy of the UK. As a kid I went through a lot of joysticks and the iconic joyst…
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on May. 14, 2021
Effectively drop in an image, tweak some settings, get a TTF pixel font back out. There's also a useful YouTube video on how to plan pixel font design called Make a Pixel Art Font Source: yal.cc Originally published on Remy Sharp's b:log
Written by Remy Sharp
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on May. 14, 2021
Super tiny font ideal for pixel based games. Source: rndmem.com Originally published on Remy Sharp's b:log
Written by Remy Sharp
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on May. 13, 2021
I keep losing this information in the Next manual, so here it is for quick lookup. Layer Name Resolution Cell size Cells Colours Colours/cell L0 ULA 256 x 192 8 x 8 32 x 24 8 2 L1,0 LoRes 128 x 96 - - 256 - L1,1 Standard Res 256 x 192 8 x 8 32 x 24 256 2 L1,2 Timex HiRes 512 x 192 - - 2 - L1,3 Time…