Following a suggestion on one of my recent YouTube videos I’ve been trying out Turbo Rascal Syntax Error (TRSE) for my Commodore 64 game development and first impressions are very positive. TRSE uses a Pascal style language which I have used previously at University, though I missed out on the famous Borland Turbo Pascal for… Read More »
I’ve been working away on my Commodore CRPG as time allows and making some good progress with it. It’s provisionally called “The Citadel”. I’ve made a number of visual changes including moving the map display to a separate screen which I think works quite well, tweaked the wall graphics a bit and added a custom… Read More »
I’ve been experimenting a little bit with the bitmap modes on the C64. As mentioned previously there are a choice of high resolution (320×200) or multi-color (160×200) bitmap modes on the C64. There are various pros and cons with these two bitmap modes as well as with using the other character based modes the C64… Read More »
Since my last post I’ve been experimenting with using the Commodore 64’s multi-color character mode. This mode allows you to display 4 different colours in each 8×8 pixel character cell but with the loss of horizontal resolution. Each “pixel” in multi-color mode is effectively made up of 2 horizontal pixels – this sometimes leads to… Read More »
Here’s the latest image from my Commodore 64 RPG. I’ve added some additional tiles (from Ultima IV) as placeholders and to give me something to work with whilst coding game functionality. The Ultima IV tiles and C64 character set are temporary. I now need to add some additional maps to the game with working entrances… Read More »
Since my last post I’ve revisited the CC65 cross compiler which you can use to write C programs on 6502 based systems such as the Commodore 64, Apple II and Atari 8bit. I had been using CC65 for a few months, sketching out the beginnings of a C64 CRPG but had run into problems managing… Read More »
I’m starting to put together my notes for a new project – part original game, part game programming video / blog tutorial. I’ve been planning this for the last couple of years and it will be an enjoyable change of pace from Alternate Reality X development. As you may know I grew up playing… Read More »