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 the f...
Saturday, 12 October 2019

RetroChallenge 2019/10: Extended Color Basic Akalabeth a Possibility

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I was perhaps a little hasty in predicting that a Extended Color Basic version of Akalabeth might not be possible.  With a little coaxing an...
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...

RetroChallenge 2019/10: Akalabeth Text Routine Speed-up

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First mission complete Intro Screen I've made the text routine faster again.  I realized that no single letter or number...
Saturday, 5 October 2019

RetroChallenge 2019/10: Akalabeth Updates

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Bug Chasing I have been debugging my initial attempt to port of Akalabeth to MC-10 equipped with MCX.  I found a numbe...