Two-player #BBCMicro Elite now has a two-player dashboard
Each player has their own set of indicators: speed, attitude control, fore and aft shields, laser temperature, energy, missiles and compass
They share the scanner, which works well
It’s starting to feel like a proper game!
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Mark Moxon
Two-player #BBCMicro #Elite is coming along nicely.
It now supports two pilots in two ships with two controllers and a split-view screen
Here are some work-in-progress videos - see the thread for an explanation
There’s lots to fix, but at least we have a proof-of-concept…
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Mark Moxon
One more to celebrate my old mate Colin Porch’s sequel to Head over Heels - Return to Blacktooth. Released last week by @thalamusdigital.bsky.social
Infe2tation: coming soon! The galactic sheriff is back to unravel the Mystery of the Crystal Moon. Run ’n’ gun action with massive levels, varied enemies, 4 distinct areas, fun power ups, and a mini-game featuring robo-sidekick, D3P-UT! Late June release. #c64 #commodore64 #pixelart #8bit #indiegame
Loving this C64 easter Egg that someone at TT Games put into the new LEGO Batman game. I'm not sure who it was that did it, but I need to find out from some of my former colleagues! If you know please do tell!
Did you know that Super Mario Bros 2. on the #NES had a bug where a single bit in its code was accidentally set to 0 instead of 1?
Well, this little oversight resulted in the 8th frame of many animations in the game getting skipped over
#retro #retrogaming #SMB #Nintendo #Mario #SuperMario #gaming
Back in the day in 1997, when a 200 MHz StrongARM processor used software rendered 3D for a racing game. :)
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If you are free tomorrow do you fancy a visit to the Northwest Computer Museum to help them celebrate their 3rd birthday? Entry is free and there's so much to see and do. I hope to see you there, please say hello if you do! It's located in Leigh, near Manchester. Here's a flyer from their socials.
Managed to assemble and run the RAXOFT tests in my emulator last night and discovered that the main reason why the series generator wasn’t working was the SRA instruction. I wasn’t preserving the carry bit. (ANDing it back into bit 7 rather than ORing it). Job’s a good-un.
Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate.
It's so good, I had to make a video.
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Paul "Paulie" Hughes
Cabel Sasser
Some tweaks to the emulator this afternoon. The port decoding has been moved out of the cpu class to make the Z80 generic. Added BRIGHT attribute. There’s a bug in the emulator that’s causing issues with some calculations. I think it’s manifesting itself in the series generator.
