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Rob Stone

@rasto1968.bsky.social

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Programing computers since the early 80s! Surrey, UK Day job - all things web, especially web components Fun job - retro 8 bit development for the Acorn Electron My games https://github.com/rasto68/apache-canyon

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 4d

In the old days I suppose it would have been tried with BBC Basic and I know that some do that now but I'm going to be different.

Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 4d

and I'm using the real assets from the game (and an emulated Mode 5 resolution). With something like this I think should be able to prove a lot of the game concepts much more quickly - but it does feel like I'm cheating slightly. At the end of the day though, this is a hobby and I'm having fun so 🤷

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 4d

"Astoraid" but not running on an emulator/real hardware. I've created a mini dev environment using JavaScript + an HTML Canvas that lets me try things out much more quickly than writing lots of 6502. I have a library of routines that mimic the real hardware so the code is close to what it will be...

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 4d

Also thanks to @kieranhj.bsky.social for organising it all and for demonstrating the N64 "dev" code - I'm keen to see what you come up with on this new "old" platform.

Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 4d

Great day at the ABUG south meet yesterday, nice to meet @colinhoad.com and to experience a game loading from a real tape! Lots of great chats and I even managed a bit of coding on Astoraid. Looking forward to the next one now.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 4d

Where's that gif of the pyramid selling scam when you need it 😉

Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 6d

Good luck for this, they will be lucky to get someone with your experience ,👍 Banking is a sector I've never worked in directly, although we did have some banking customers when I worked for a call centre software company.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 6d

and then optimise it before converting it to 6502 and getting asteroids moving around the screen properly in Astoraid. Then after that I need a world coordinate to display coordinates algorithm which I'm hoping won't be too hard but not something I've done before. Lots of 1sts for me with this game.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 6d

Phew :) Algorithm for horizontal sprite clipping finally worked out in my JavaScript dev environment. Right side clipping was easy but for some reason my brain refused to co-operate for the left side clip and it took far too much head scratching. Next up vertical clipping which should be "easy"....

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