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Thomas Jentzsch

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For whom it may concern > Paradroid Transfer game

Posted 05 December 2010

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...


For whom it may concern > Star Castle brainstorming

Posted 29 July 2010

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...


For whom it may concern > Elite-like Line Drawing

Posted 20 December 2009

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....


For whom it may concern > Yello

Posted 16 December 2009

I had almost forgotten how good this music is. If you like this, make sure to check out your their new...


For whom it may concern > Time flies!

Posted 02 November 2009

Exactly ten years ago, I made my first Thrust post to the [stella] mailing list.