Z80 vs C
A short comparison between low level Z80 assembler and high level C
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How to Write Emulator - Fetch Decode Execute Cycle
The beating heart of any CPU is the fetch-decode-execute cycle. It is the same for our simulator
How to Write Emulator - Automating Tedious Programming with Excel
Sometimes you have to type out almost identical lines of code, and it’s either time consuming or error prone. Here’s how to avoid it all by using some clever Excel techniques.
How to Write Emulator - Opcodes Jumptables
How to efficiently store and execute many small functions, without using a single if statement or switch construct.
How to Write Emulator - Intro
To begin, this isn’t technically an emulator, the system I’m trying to model isn’t real. This is more of a simulator, but that’s less of a catchy search word on the Internet.
#GitHubGameOff Jam 2019 Day 1
Day 1 of the #GitHubGameOff jam, where I create a basic platform controller and level builder.
Minimum Spanning Tree
As a challenge I thought I’d try to implement the Minimum Spanning Tree algorithm, and have a play with it. My code is based off the excellent Coding Train video on the same topic which you can watch here. It’s where I got the code from, and then mixed in some code from the Arrays of Objects video too.
One Lone Coder Jam 2019
This week I took part in the One Lone Coder 2019 game jam. The theme of this was “destruction”… My entry was started Friday, a mere 48 hours before the deadline. Yes, a week long jam where I had a whole seven days to come up with an idea was started 48h before the end…
Have a good idea
The main issue I had this time was thinking up an idea that felt good enough to be a game. I had a bunch of half-ideas, but none of them seemed that great. Since the theme was quite broad, I could have knocked out any kind of generic shooting game, stuck on some pretty explosions and called it done. It didn’t feel like a particularly exciting game idea though so I ditched those kinds of ideas and looked around for some better inspiration.
Godot Wild Jam 12
Between the 9th and 16th August 2019 I took part in the Godot Wild Jam #12. Let’s go through what it was like, and the things I learned this time.
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