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Paradroid Transfer game

Posted by Thomas Jentzsch, in Atari 05 December 2010 · 62 views
Damned Tag Clouds
After some time, I started to wonder about Paradroid again. The droid transfer game looks like a nice challenge. The kernel looks pretty busy, the level creation and evaluation seem complicated too.

I started with the kernel and soon found out, that a simple score mode kernel (color #0 left, color #1 right) won't work here due to the so...



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Star Castle brainstorming

Posted by Thomas Jentzsch, in Atari 29 July 2010 · 122 views
Star Castle
With the recent thread about the never to be released, new Star Castle homebrew, I first tried to understand from the available videos and screen shots, how it is done.

The rings and gun are drawn using the 48 pixel routine, using large, precalculated ROM blocks. I...



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Elite-like Line Drawing

Posted by Thomas Jentzsch, in Atari 20 December 2009 · 89 views
Elite, Line, Thargon
Inspired by this blog entry, I spend spend some time with the line drawing part of Elite.

Since there is no double-buffer (like Elite), I experimented with 3 ways of line drawing:
1. Clearing the whole screen and then drawing all lines.
2....



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Yello

Posted by Thomas Jentzsch, in Music 16 December 2009 · 59 views
Swiss made, Damned Tag Clouds
I had almost forgotten how good this music is. If you like this, make sure to check out your their new...



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Time flies!

Posted by Thomas Jentzsch, 02 November 2009 · 61 views
Thrust, 10 years, stella
Exactly ten years ago, I made my first Thrust post to the [stella] mailing list.

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Atari 2600 Homebrew/Hacks AA store rankings

Posted by Thomas Jentzsch, in Atari 28 October 2009 · 69 views
2600, hacks, homebrews, store
Homebrews
[list=1]
[*]Synthcart
[*]Lady Bug
[*]Thrust+ Platinum
[*]Medieval Mayhem
[*]Star Fire
[*]Seawolf
[*]2005 Minigame Multicart
[*]Skeleton+
[*]Conquest of Mars
[*]Fall Down
[*]Climber 5
[*]Marble Craze
[*]Go Fish!
[*]Strat-O-Gems Deluxe
[*]Gunfight
[*]Crazy Balloon
[*]Dark Mage...



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Ti Sento

Posted by Thomas Jentzsch, in Music 09 October 2009 · 35 views
Music, Matia Bazar
I just had the "pleasure" to listen to the terrible remake of a better unnamed trash musician. :roll: So I dug out the gorgeous original from Matia Bazar. Enjoy!

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Got a netbook!

Posted by Thomas Jentzsch, 18 June 2009 · 19 views
Private Stuff, Damned Tag Clouds
Bargain! :D 211 EUR, nice new toy. :)



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When walls come tumbling down

Posted by Thomas Jentzsch, 16 June 2009 · 77 views
Private Stuff, Damned Tag Clouds
Ok, it was "only" a big rack.

Yesterday morning, just a few minutes before I had to get up, I woke up by a loud crack noise followed by a big rumble right beside me.

When I switched on the light, I saw this. Sometimes collecting computer magazines can be dangerous... :ponder:

EDIT: New picture I made when I cleaned the room. Lock at...



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Source code found in ROMs

Posted by Thomas Jentzsch, 09 November 2008 · 65 views
Programming, Damned Tag Clouds
I was a bit bored this weekend, so I had a closer look to some games. A lot of games, especially from Taiwan, contain garbage data, which is unsed by the game itself. Often this garbage contains traces from the game development, sometimes even snippets of source code. In this entry I will post some source code findings.

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