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The DIY single Chip console. This is a blog about its conception
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Developing Memory Matrix
Hello, my name is Lucas (not makapuf) and I wanted to walk you through my experience developing a game for the bitbox console.
Let's get started!
Let's get started!
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
ZX Spectrum emulator !
BitboZx
Hi, here is the first release of the BitBoxZx, a 48k ZX Spectrum emulator !
Saturday, February 21, 2015
New game : Polar !
Polar is a small game written in ~ half a day.
Here is the link to the github project
Here are some screenshots - a very simple game indeed, <200 lines of C and a few sprites.
The game is still missing sound, music and more levels .. but the few levels are perfectly playable !
This game has been inspired by Polarity, a game written for ludum dare 23 by nornagon (
http://nornagon.net/games/polarity/ https://github.com/nornagon/polarity. ) but the code and GFX are original.
Here is the link to the github project
Here are some screenshots - a very simple game indeed, <200 lines of C and a few sprites.
The game is still missing sound, music and more levels .. but the few levels are perfectly playable !
This game has been inspired by Polarity, a game written for ludum dare 23 by nornagon (
http://nornagon.net/games/polarity/ https://github.com/nornagon/polarity. ) but the code and GFX are original.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Recent commits : a month in bitbox
Hi all !
Here are some news about the recent commits of the bitbox engines, kernels and other bits since last month. You can look at the git history to find them
Here are some news about the recent commits of the bitbox engines, kernels and other bits since last month. You can look at the git history to find them
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
New Game : Boulder Dash clone
Why, yes a clone of boulder dash was one of the simple games I wanted to implement.
It's not completely finished (missing new sounds, levels, and ennemies), but the main elements are here in their 640x480 glory, inc. sound&music, basic gameplay, intro screen
Here is the repository (including a binary release for eager testers :)
Everything in the game is tile-based, and the whole game data is in fact just a uint8_t[] array of tile references, with its small finite state machine. The main and only .c file is 380 lines- not that I am so proud of it, it grew quite organically, but eh : now is better than never.
Demo (click on it to see fullscreen)
It's not completely finished (missing new sounds, levels, and ennemies), but the main elements are here in their 640x480 glory, inc. sound&music, basic gameplay, intro screen
Here is the repository (including a binary release for eager testers :)
Everything in the game is tile-based, and the whole game data is in fact just a uint8_t[] array of tile references, with its small finite state machine. The main and only .c file is 380 lines- not that I am so proud of it, it grew quite organically, but eh : now is better than never.
Demo (click on it to see fullscreen)
Monday, November 17, 2014
Presenting bitbox at "le capitole du libre" in Toulouse
I was kindly invited to present the bitbox as part of the "Capitole du libre" meeting, where I presented the hardware and software conception during a nealy one hour talk with many interesting questions after. The project has found a few very welcome new enthusiasts !
It really was a pleasure to discuss with everyone there, working on free / opensource games, awesome operating systems or nice little games that beg to be implemented on the bitbox ...
That, and many interesting more general conferences about opensource or blender (yay). The slides are in french, but I plan to include them
The big problem is that it entails so many new ideas and directions that my sleep deprivation will not be much better for another year I guess ...
It really was a pleasure to discuss with everyone there, working on free / opensource games, awesome operating systems or nice little games that beg to be implemented on the bitbox ...
That, and many interesting more general conferences about opensource or blender (yay). The slides are in french, but I plan to include them
The big problem is that it entails so many new ideas and directions that my sleep deprivation will not be much better for another year I guess ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Simple modes
Some have expressed the interest for simple modes for the Bitbox. An recent commit is providing such mode , on top of the standard kernel.
The so-called simple modes are called like this because they provide a frame buffer interface, so the application programmer will only have to write bits and bytes to the video memory - much like it's done on PC. So the interface is a vram buch of memory and a color palette (because the tradeoff is a reduced palette or resolution)
There are two examples in the bitbox SDK (one of them below), but generally you'll need to define a simple makefile variable VGA_SIMPLE_MODE=X with the given mode and include the bitbox.mk standard makefile.
(Yes it's currently defined at compile time - if your program needs to switch between two modes at runtime, it might be time to switch to a standard kernel / engine - it's not difficult !)
The so-called simple modes are called like this because they provide a frame buffer interface, so the application programmer will only have to write bits and bytes to the video memory - much like it's done on PC. So the interface is a vram buch of memory and a color palette (because the tradeoff is a reduced palette or resolution)
There are two examples in the bitbox SDK (one of them below), but generally you'll need to define a simple makefile variable VGA_SIMPLE_MODE=X with the given mode and include the bitbox.mk standard makefile.
(Yes it's currently defined at compile time - if your program needs to switch between two modes at runtime, it might be time to switch to a standard kernel / engine - it's not difficult !)
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