Martin Piper

YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories Commodore 64 - Ask Me Anything 2025

#Commodore64 Ask Me Anything 2025. It's near the end of 2025 and having hit the 8192 subscribers milestone (8kilobytes ... kilosubs...) it's time for an Ask Me Anything. Who am I? Why am I? What am I? Who knows... :)
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Trying to get up, ow my brain. Trying to think of code, ow my brain. Trying to use the keyboard, ow my brain.

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Slowly starting to catch up. Recently @martinpiper.bsky.social has kindly linked up the unreleased #Commodore64 intro to Cyberdyne Warrior to the game, along with loading screen with a disk and tape version for you to check out. See page for Martin's video!
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Home is about 6,700 miles from Brighton.

I was :)

I was wondering. Is there a #Commodore #Amiga emulator that includes a nice visual memory access debug view along with chipset debug views that allows sprites and bit planes to be viewed separately while something is running? I couldn't find one.

No C64 video this weekend. Travelling in the cold.

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Nobody found the cheat code I added to PSX Alien Resurrection that caused the game to become a boot disc for other copied games.

Understandable. :)

Isn't that normal for nacho cheese? :)

I'm in an airport lounge waiting for my next flight.

My brain hurts. It is too early in the morning to translate from French to Mandarin.

The state of manufacturing in Singapore. I contacted five plastic injection molding companies with a request for quote to manufacture using an existing design. Not one of them replied back. Sigh.

YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories C64 Games memories - Retrograde

I look at #Commodore64 "Retrograde", published in 1989 by Thalamus, developed by John and Steve Rowlands. Raster split extra colours, for screen and sprites, parallax scrolling, and dynamic characters.
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Q. How many connectors do you want on your #MegaWang backplane?
A. Yes

I have a sprite board design that uses 2114 SRAM organised as 1024x4bit. They don't seem to be found as new reliable stock these days so I had to change it to 8KB chips instead. It seems like a waste but it's the smallest parallel memory.

Noice

Governments should be more humanist and realise the human condition is obviously more rich and complex than the strict binary they adhere to.

YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories C64 Games memories - Cyberdyne Warrior Intro

I look at Commodore 64 "Cyberdyne Warrior" unreleased intro and some loading screens. These were not used in the final game but were mentioned on the excellent Games That Weren't site. @gamesthatwerent.com I then link all of these assets into a disk image and source code.
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YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories C64 Games memories - Cyberdyne Warrior

I look at #Commodore64 "Cyberdyne Warrior", released in 1989, created by the Rowlands brothers. Many colours, wipes and fades, distinctive sound style, multiplexed sprites with expansion, and sprite background priority effects.
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YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories MegaWang 2000 Turbo Edition - 49 - Character layer tests

This video shows the new Character layers working with #MegaWang2000TurboEdition and #Commodore64. Three layer parallax with optional dithering. Using easier to find surface mount components instead of the old through hole design.
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I have this game in my TODO list :) (soon)

I've just realised I could change the 8KB THO RAMs to 1MB SMT RAMs, giving a smaller board, and the option of up to 128 different charsets and screens.

The same functionality, a scrolling character screen layer. But one using through hole, the other using surface mount.

YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories C64 Games memories - The Sentinel

I look at #Commodore64 "The Sentinel", published in 1986 by Firebird, created by Geoffrey Crammond (of course). The game uses an interesting "not bitmap" mode to render, with multiple charset based scrolling, and what looks like a lot of maths and ray casting.
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YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories MegaWang 2000 Turbo Edition - 48 - Audio2 tests

This video shows the Audio2 layer working with the #Commodore64 and additional #MegaWang2000TurboEdition hardware. This has 2MB memory per channel with stereo output up to 78KHz 8-bit sample rate with volume control.
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I wish I still had mine.

Really hard now with my old reflexes.