Tuesday, 19 November 2019

The Maze of Argon

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I'm really quite proud of how this game port came out. David Maunder recovered this game for the Dick Smith VZ-200 computer from an old ...
Saturday, 26 October 2019

RetroChallenge 2019/10: Akalabeth Converted to TRS-80 Coco

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I've finished condensing the code of my MC-10 MCX conversion of the Akalabeth source code and have edited it so it will work on the...
Sunday, 13 October 2019

RetroChallenge 2019/10: Akalabeth fully functional on MCX

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Listened to Stevie Strowbridge's webcast yesterday. Curtis reported on my progress. He suggested that I was having trouble fitting th...
Saturday, 12 October 2019

RetroChallenge 2019/10: Extended Color Basic Akalabeth a Possibility

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Akalabeth being played on real MCX Hardware I was perhaps a little hasty in predicting that a Extended Color Basic version of Akalabet...
Thursday, 10 October 2019

RetroChallenge 2019/10 Coco Version Akalabeth on the Rocks?

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On to a new project? The amount of memory reported by MCX Basic running on the emulator is 28703.  I think you get even more memory on r...
Tuesday, 8 October 2019

RetroChallenge 2019/10: Comparisons with the Original Apple Akalabeth

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The resolution of PMODE2 which is the maximum resolution the TRS-80 MCX can handle, is bit courser than the 256 horizontal resolution of th...
Sunday, 6 October 2019

RetroChallenge 2019/10: Akalabeth-- Another Error in the Original Code?

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L Curtis Boyle (of Coco game list fame) suggested that I could speed up the text a little more by not reprinting all the labels in the l...