Michael Chiaramonte goes on with his NES Programming tutorials. Quote: In this episode I worked on trying to squeeze in my calculations for row updates and attribute updates into the NMI and after trying to chisel away at it, determined that I’d have to do that calculation in the game loop and only do the PPU updates in the NMI. … Read more
Rolly is a brand new PICO-8 game by Davbo. Jump, Roll, Hop and Dive your way through sharp caves to rescue your friends.
Picolarium is a PICO-8 game by tobiasvl. It’s a clone / demake of Polarium known from the Nintendo DS. Changes: * Level editor, which lets you create your own levels. * Password system, which lets you share your custom levels with others, or import other people’s levels. The passwords are compatible with Polarium for DS, so you can probably find … Read more
Astronomer is the first Atari 2600 game by Alex Pietrow. It is a simulation game of sorts that allows the player to get into the shoes of an astronomer and observe stars with the world’s largest telescope. The aim of the game is to aim the telescope beam at a star and observe it troughout the night. This is achieved … Read more
Michael Chiaramonte goes on with his NES Programming tutorials. Quote: After getting the map code working, I rewrote the code to load the attributes into the memory buffer. This involved updating the asset tool to properly remap the metatiles to properly allow for attribute value lookup. In the end, we’re still running with too many cycles in NMI, but we’ll … Read more
Radial Warning by Jayenkai has been released, and is available for Windows, Linux, MacOSX and Nintendo 3DS. Blast away the many enemy and fight for survival as the endless chaos ensues.
Taco for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System / Super Famicom has more progress to show. Two items were implemented: Magnet and teleportation.
The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK. Content: Chris Abbott brings C64 music to live audiences and beyond! We chat about his work on Back In Time, Ninja Musicology and Project Hubbard! Plus, the new Amiga 1500+ with Stephen Jones. https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/c64-remixer-supreme-chris-abbott-the-retro-hour-ep130
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Michael Chiaramonte goes on with his NES Programming tutorials. Quote: Broken, fixed, and better. The map loading code was changed so that the asset tool can dump the entire map directly in to the file and then we seek into it and decrement our index vs our prior approach where it had the first screen at the beginning and then … Read more