-
Retro Re-release Roundup, week of August 29. 2024
A long-anticipated remake of a classic action game, and an out-of-nowhere remake of a far-from-classic arcade game. Read More From: Retronauts
|
-
Pacman for the ZX81
Came also out for: Game description: A Pacman clone where the player has to eat the pluses, avoid the ghosts or eat them once they ate a power pellet – but that is only temporarily possible. … Read More From: Retro Roundup
|
-
C strings and pointers and arrays, revisited…
Previously, I posted more of my “stream of consciousness” ramblings ending this bit of code: #include #include // for EXIT_SUCCESS #include // for strlen() int main() { const char *stringPtr = “hello”; printf (“sizeof(stringPtr) = %ldn”, sizeof(stringPtr)); printf (“strlen(stringPtr) = %ldn”, strlen(stringPtr)); printf (“n”); const char string[] = “hello”; printf … Read More From: Retro…
|
-
-
-
My 360 photo/video (VR) experiments…
I often forget to cross-post things between my project sites, so let’s do that right now. I bought my first digital camera (an Epson PhotoPC) in 1996. I have had many others since then. In addition to photo cameras, I also had various camcorders including my first digital camcorder in … Read More From: Retro…
|
-
-
Ep. #196 – Metro Siege
In this episode, we talk to Alex Brown, coder in the team that is creating the brawler “Metro Siege”, the first of its kind which works on a vanilla Amiga 500 and includes multiplayer online crossplay (Amiga, web browser, Steam PC). We talk to him about the technical finesse and … Read More From: Retro…
|
-
Packman (Gammasoft) for the ZX81
Came also out for: Game description: Here we go with another Packman clone (that was apparently in English at first but then got translated into Dutch)… Eat the dots, avoid the ghosts or try to eat them when you ate a power pellet. Now the thing is that the … Read More From: Retro Roundup
|
-
Yes, Virginia. You CAN printf a size_t! And pointers.
I always learn from comments. Sadly, I don’t mean the comments inside the million lines of code I maintain for my day job — they usually don’t exist 😉 I have had two previous posts dealing with sizeof() being used on a string constant like this: #define VERSION “1.0.42-beta” printf … Read More From: Retro…
|