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Acorn Electron fanboy | 6502 coder https://0xc0de6502.github.io

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · Dec 15

I finally got around to creating a simple static website with most of my free games and tools. Play my games online by clicking on the game's image, or visit the corresponding GitHub page. It also lists most of the places you may find me online 😎 0xc0de6502.github.io

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 2h

And here's a Speccy-inspired custom tape loader for the Acorn Electron (MODE 1, one continuous data stream)

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 5h

a cartoon snail with big eyes is walking down a sidewalk in a park

ALT: a cartoon snail with big eyes is walking down a sidewalk in a park

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 5h

But you have all these newfangled sdcard thingies now, don't you? :)

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 5h

You read my mind! I should really test this with a real cassette player or at least with playuef

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 10h

I got sidetracked by custom tape loaders on the Acorn Electron and decided to try creating a few of my own. Here's one that loads a continuous data stream to the screen (MODE 0), scanline by scanline. Beware, this is the perfect world of emulators and must really be tested on actual hardware!

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 1d

All sounds very familiar. I have a couple of dynamically decrunched "overlays" in Electrobots, when memory got really tight

0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh, fancy! 😀👍

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 3d

a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 3d

FYI, Electroniq is a thin layer of JS and the rest is WebAssembly

0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 3d

Nice challenge =)

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 3d

Depends! You will probably need to manipulate the iframe src url parameters, so you could for example autoboot a disk image that you create on the fly in your IDE 🤔

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 3d

That's fine as long as it's not for commercial use and you embed 0xc0de6502.github.io/electroniq/ in an iframe in your online IDE

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 3d

As you might expect, HQ stands for High Quality, meaning the .hq.uef files reflect the original tapes with higher fidelity than standard .uef files. It's funny that Electroniq can read these because I certainly don't support esoteric uef extensions stardot.org.uk/forums/viewt...

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 3d

Very handy indeed! Could even make it a "trilogy in four parts" 😉