hendersa posted:

Internet Janitor posted:

Just how much of a pain in the rear end is it to coax the Saturn into drawing something that seemingly straightforward?

munce posted:

Looks good now make virtua cop. Seriously though is that process you're using anything like the original developers would have used? Seems like it would be incredibly tedious to make a real game with.

Jo posted:

I _finally_ figured out an issue that's been bothering me for months. It turns out that a bug in my .fnt file brought out a bug in libGDX's calculation of newline stuff.

Now my game has a functional assembly language and CPU architecture that can control the robots and stuff. I'll probably program the NPCs with it so the player can hack and repurpose them.



Still need to connect the buttons to methods, but progress is way faster now.

Rocko Bonaparte posted:

I could not readily tell from looking at nlua if it had any native code in it. That would be a problem for Unity, for example.

I should probably shut up though because I am basically handwriting a C# green threading Python 3.6 interpreter. So I share the same kind of mental disorder...

teen phone cutie posted:

as an attempt to never have to do a live coding interview ever again, I wanted to do a personal project that will allow me to say "no i will not do your algorithm interview but i have something that can prove i can do the job. hire me if you want or not"

So i'm halfway done it. Made an entire forums software backend using SA as the reference with some additional features like notifications/mentions, etc. Currently building out the front-end in https://remix.run/

https://docs.basementcommunity.com

Athas posted:

I really like the retro look of terminal graphics and I wanted to see whether blitting terminal codes was fast enough for real-time applications. So I wrote an interactive Mandelbrot fractal explorer:



The main trick is using a box drawing character and separate foreground/background colours to get square pixels in the terminal. It's probably a well known trick, but I was quite pleased when I figured it out. Performance is surprisingly good even when you increase the "resolution" by decreasing the font size, although obviously not nearly as good as with proper pixel blitting. Still, I'll probably continue using this technique to run visualisations on machines I can only access via text mode SSH.

Code is here: https://git.sr.ht/~athas/tui-mandelbrot