Was watching an interview on Youtube with Tony Oakden (ABug 12 - How Acorn Electron games launched my career) when near the end they mentioned this book.

And then it dawned on me! Hey I own that! I had never even opened it.

haha how many times have you bought something, put it on a shelf to look at later, only to completely forget you ever got it?

Hm, that reminds me. I think I have a couple of recent(ish) Amiga books unopened too.

#acorn #bbcmicro #electron #retrocomputing #retrogaming

The latest version of Firefox (a program for browsing websites) obnoxiously announces that they don't want me to print any more because they have a built in PDF editor.

Literally 30 years after PDF editors were first invented.

#scopecreep #gfy

This is what it's come to.

#WritingACommandLineParserIn8bitAssemblyLanguageIsASurePathToMadness

In an effort to better understand the #c64 I started writing an ML monitor. 😂
I've cheated in the screenshot by seeding the address to dump memory of just to prove it works.

I haven't written the command parser and just copied over one I wrote for a text adventure game, which is a lot stricter on what you can enter..

Exit to BASIC and returning via BRK interrupt works..

*no idea* how much work it's going to be to add the assembler.. 🤣

#retrocomputing

Yuss! Muddy Racers just arrived!

Cool #c64 game by Monty Boyd (AU). I definitely need more practice! 😂

Thanks to @Protovision
#commodore #retrogaming

OK, smooth(er) scrolling achieved..

Now to figure out how to address an offset higher than 256 bytes for my scrolltext.. you'll see right after it says "OR" the text wraps..

and maybe stabilise those rasterbars...

Cool, I can even upload a short MP4.. hopefully it turns out ok..

#c64 #demoscene #retrocomputing

Copying images onto physical floppies today.

The message "this will take a while" is accurate. :)

#c64 #retrocomputing

Oh no, a closeout sale on Montegrappa Duchess of York #fountainpens ...
A US$2400 pen down to $595.

I'm not normally interested in that brand, but this pen is really nice and I'm not gonna lie, I've always wondered what a $3000 pen feels and writes like...

My favourite is the yellow edition...