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Tandy 64, and intro for the Tandy 1000 and more

With PVM with released an intro for the Tandy 1000 HX.

The Tandy 1000 HX uses the Intel 8088-2 CPU. Which is a suuuuper slow CPU (slower than the 8086). With all its wait states and its limitations on the video card (no hardware sprites, no charset redefinition) it makes it comparable with a Commodore 64. In fact, for certain things a Commodore 64 if way faster.

Without further ado, this is the Tandy intro:

Source code here: https://github.com/c64scene-ar/tandy64

And we’ve just released another chipdisk, this time with Brazilian music:

Source code: https://github.com/c64scene-ar/chipdisk-brazil_bits

Commodore 64 Assembly Tutorial – Part II

A few months ago we (Pungas de Villa Martelli) released the 4Kindness, a 4K intro for Silesia Party 8. And recently we released its source and a tutorial detailing how we built it.

Without further ado, here it is:

If you have doubts/questions about it, let us know!

Actualizo: Ya no se que es lo que quiere Dios

Me encuentro confundido, perdido espiritualmente.

Pensé que Dios me estaba dando mensajes claros y simples, para que una persona como yo los entienda sin ambigüedad alguna, mensajes claros como:

“Hacé el UniJoystiCle para la PET. No pierdas tiempo en la Plus/4”.

Pero hoy el vecino me entregó un paquete… ¿qué paquete?
El paquete con la Commodore Plus/4 que yo pensé que algún ladronzuelo se había apoderado (yo el mal pensado, perdón ladronzuelo que no fuiste)

Lo primero que hice es agradecer al vecino. Claro esta.

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Dios las prefiere PETs

Volví de viaje. Llego a casa con ansias de encontrarme con la Commodore Plus/4 que había pedido por Ebay. El email decía que la habían dejado en la puerta de casa el viernes a las 3:54pm. Yo llegué a casa el sábado a las 11:58am.

La busqué pero no la encontré. Ni en la puerta de casa. Ni en ningún lado.

(Vaya sorpresa se habrá llevado el ladronzuelo al abrir la caja).

Una tristeza enorme se apoderó de mi.

Para ahogar mis penas me fui al Vintage Computer Festival. Fui a escuchar la charla de Commodore. Iban a estar Bil Herd, Leonard Tramiel, Chuck Peddle y demás commodorianos de la época 8-bit.

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Long time no see: UniJoystiCle for all platforms

I’ve been busy. I still have no spare time to work on my retro projects, but I have a plan. And it can’t fail. I plan to port the UniJoystiCle + The Uni Games to the following platforms:

Commodore VIC 20: UniJoystiCle (single joystick) + The Uni Games
Commodore PET: UniJoystiCle in expansion port (single joystick) + The Uni Games
Commodore 128: UniJoystiCle (same as the C64) + The Uni Games in VCD mode using the Z80 CPU
Tandy 1000: UniJoystiCle + The Uni Games (graphics mode 320×200 16 colors)
Commodore 64: Add paddle support to the UniJoystiCle

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The history of Cocos2d in a glimpse

Cocos2d (Python)

In February 2008, at Los Cocos, Córdoba, Argentina, we started the “Los Cocos” Python game engine. We later renamed it Cocos2d. The idea was to create a game engine for the games we were creating for PyWeek.

PyCamp 2008. Centro Allen Gardiner, Los Cocos, Córdoba, Argentina

We started the game engine with Lucio Torre, Daniel Moisset, Rayentray Tappa, and I, with the help of Alejandro Cura and other members of PyAr.

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Commodore 64 Assembly Tutorial

A few months ago we released the Argentine Songbook Vol. 1 chipdisk. And recently we released its source code including:

Full source code (the assembly files + makefiles + everything…)
Full audio sources (the SidWizard files)

And we also wrote a tutorial about how write a chipdisk, including all the tricks that we used.

If you have doubts/questions about it, let us know!

VChar64 v0.2.2 released and other news

VChar64 v0.2.2 released

Download:

Mac: vchar64-0.2.2.mac.dmg
Win32: vchar64-0.2.2.win32.zip
Source code: https://github.com/ricardoquesada/vchar64/

Release notes here:

https://github.com/ricardoquesada/vchar64/releases/tag/0.2.2

UniJoystiCle news

I started working on the paddle/mouse support. I’m using an ESP32 instead of the ESP8266. Progress is documented here (spanish):

UniJoystiCle + Paddle/Mouse support progress

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The UniJoystiCle v0.4 released

Christmas is coming. Treat yourself with The UniJoystiCle v0.4, and be the cool kid in the block by playing The Uni Games like a pro (that’s it with real unicycles!):