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Kung Fu Pixel online

The Forum64 and Protovision Game Compo (F64PGC) has ended and the jury reports are live: https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/82809-f64pgc2017-sports-die-ergebnisse/ There are some ‘harsh

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Dance Dance Kung Fu Pixel

Not many updates lately. One of the big reasons is I tried to finish a Commodore 64 game for the Forum 64 and Protovision Game competition 2017. The whole game is done within a 12×21 pixel

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Re-hacking the 80’s-part 7

previous part Changing the game Assembler format The last post hasn’t been that long but already I’ve made a big change: the source in the GIT repository is no longer in ACME format but

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Re-hacking the 80’s-part 6: code online

<previous part A short post. I haven”t updated this series in a while. That happens sometimes with things like this; it’s online, you don’t know if people are reading it and

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Re-hacking the 80’s-part 5: training run

<previous part Training run For a change of pace I decided to use a few of my trainers (and my new map feature) to try and finish this game for once (never reached the end before!). At first I

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Re-hacking the 80’s- part 4

<read previous part Unbugging the past In this part I’m going to describe how I removed a ‘feature’ of the game that I consider to be a bug. Backup material But first: Maybe you

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Hacking the 80’s-part 3

goerp
posted on February 11, 2017February 13, 2017
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<previous part Music This part I’ll be writing about ripping the music from the game (‘hacking, ‘cracking’, ‘ripping’ the vocabulary of the scene

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Re-hacking the 80’s-part 2

Das computer So here’s some background about the project: First of all: The Commodore 64: it was the computer I grew up with. I loved it. It was quite popular and there were thousands of

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Re-hacking the 80’s-part 1

goerp
posted on January 28, 2017January 30, 2017
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What? Thirty years ago I cracked a game. This is a first post of a series about trying to improve on that piece of (in this case relatively harmless) criminal activity. Not sure if it will interest

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Shaving a Yak for Christmas

goerp
posted on December 23, 2016January 12, 2017
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A few months ago I acquired a Commodore128 computer. An old 8 bit computer from the 80’s. It came with a Star NX-10C dot matrix printer, which I didn’t really know what to do with. But