I post so infrequently these days. Back in my Twitter days (15+ years ago), I'd tweet four or five times a day. Now weeks pass.

Just me? Or are we all just starting to disengage from social media?

Anyway, I'm still coding away. I have an #atarist production in the works, which will be presented in a similar way to #FrankenSTOS, but around a very personal subject. As before I'll be using my #STOS extension, which I keep adding to (and seemingly, never releasing).

I'd like it finished for #BuxtonBytes, but I suspect it won't be. I seem to go through creative peaks and troughs.

It's very much a proof of concept production at present and I hope to get another awesome artist involved as I near completion.

Anyway, I'll go back to lurking now.

#demoscene #retrocomputing

So, last night, I watched an awesome video about STOS, AMOS and Klik & Play - an interview with Francois Lionet, the guy behind these awesome pieces of software.

If you have any interest in Amiga coding, I strongly suggest you check it out:

#Amiga #atarist #retro #retrogaming #retrocomputing #amos #stos

https://youtu.be/JhEY5pqe5SQ?si=s6MaDPyDPlRobAwh

Finally, after 11-ish months of work, my entry for the #SillyVenture Demo Party is complete and I'm going to submit it in the morning (in the 96K category). I'm really happy with how this has turned out. It's snappy and definitely not boring, whilst doing some stuff in #STOS that's never been done before. It won't break new ground in the scene, but it certainly breaks new ground for a programming environment that people sometimes talk about with disdain.

I'm going to keep working on my custom extension, to build more functionality into it that other people can use.

I can't believe that I've spent the best part of a year working on something that people will see in about three minutes, but that's demos for you.

Onto the next project!

#demoscene #atarist #retrocomputing

There has to be #Vulcan Yogurt, right?

#STOS

After 11 months of work, my #demo entry is complete. I circulated a "release candidate" around a few friends to evaluate, before I submit as an entry to #sillyventure (which is next month).

Nearly a year's worth of work to produce about 3 minutes of eye-candy. Phew.

I'm really pleased with it. I've made #STOS do stuff that hasn't been done before, as well as having an extension I can now build on and refine further. Some of my commands replace existing ones and are massively faster. Not groundbreaking, I know, but some people will find the extension useful when I release it.

No doubt there will be a few tweaks to make beforehand, but I'm looking forward to taking a break until the New Year, playing around with my #spectrum and finally finishing Elden Ring!

#demoscene #atarist #retrocomputing

I literally coded my first proper #demoscene effect in #AtariST 68000 assembly language last night.

I’ve then made it in to a #stos command you can use.

You have no idea how happy this makes me - only got my head around things about 35 years too late!