Tony Albrecht

I never thought I'd ask something like this, but I'd like to formally request that Mega Crit delay Slay the Spire 2. I've not finished Mewgenics yet and I question my capacity to play two great games at once.

Ooh! I know! I need to multithread the communication with the 64. The UI is too sluggish.

I can also write to the C64U, but the current interface is pretty crude. Next I'll update this to mirror the VICII so I can monitor and change registers on the fly.

Had some more C64U fun this weekend. Tidied up my texture code, added some more REST commands and tried out looping the read from C64U to PC. It works, buts its a little slow (150 - 200ms per frame for the full 64k) but it works!

As a teenager I used to trawl through game and demo memory to see what was in there. But back then I'd reset the C64 with a paper clip on pins 1 and 3 on the userport (I think). This is a little more civilised.

Next step is to query the HW registers to reproduce what is on screen (What is the screen mode, location, etc). And then colourmaps. And then a way of inspecting sprite data, and fonts.

Huzzah! Now correctly Swizzled!

Slowly getting there. I can now grab the C64U memory and display it in a texture. It's not swizzled correctly yet and I'm not using the colour map or anything, but, its a solid start:

Slowly getting there. I can now retrieve info from the C64U. Still a bit flaky though, not sure why. I blame curl.

What I'm hoping to do is read memory from the C64 as fast as possible, every frame. Even if I read all of the C64 at 60fps, that only 4MB/s. Not sure if the firmware will manage it, but it's fun trying.

Now that I have the basics working, the rest of these should be easy: 1541u-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ap...

I was really keen to make some games on my new C64 Ultimate, but instead I’m building tools. I’ve just got my PC talking to my C64U! Just had to build curl libs, build ImGui libs, set up a new VS solution, write the code, fail to make it work, reverse engineer with Wireshark, then, Presto! Works!

So, you’re saying “room for one more!”?

This is the USB “tape”

But, the /Flash folder was gone, and I couldn't run any of the games on the provided USB tape (yes it is a USB in the shape of an audio tape). I ended up grabbing the firmware from www.commodore.net/downloads and reflashing it. All works now!

Well, that didn't take long. Dunno what I did (I did open her up and have a look but I was careful) I somehow ended up with a Black Screen of Death on the C64. Signal to monitor, but no display. Discovered RESTORE + power on boots into safe mode and I have the proper Blue Screen of Life! Yay!

Correct! On fire with music! and awesomeness!!

I got my code running on it too!

Oh well. HDMI it is then.

It’s here! Now if I could only find the correct cable for the 1084S!

"compromised"? Comprised! Although, depending on your point of view, the first term could be equally as accurate.

So when the AI revolution comes, our backdoor communication for the resistance network with be compromised by Commodore 64s.

Now that is a dystopian future I could sign up for.

I was doing some C64 coding yesterday and was using AI for some hints and direction. Didn't take long before I hit its limit - and that limit is drawing a line in Hires mode on the C64. AI couldn't do it. I ended up spending half an hour teasing it for being useless.

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Today? Don't let me down, AusPost, don't let me down.

Not long now!

YouTube video by BIGNOTERVEVO BIG NOTER - TALK STRAIGHT (Official Video)

Have you listened to Briggs' new band, Big Noter? Produced by one of the RATM guys! Saw them at Froth&Fury and they were awesome!

I'm preparing myself. I've been building a simple table driven raster scheduler.

Oooh! Soon, my pretty, soon!

I’m jealous :)