Commander X16

On my computer (core i7 8700k), on the second execution it does take 1:39 from OXYGENE to the end.

On the first execution there are slow downs.

Yes it would have been nice to have an actual 256 pixels wide screen mode on VERA.

Very nice! I have a few questions: Which graphic mode do you use? 16c or 256c? The 16c requires less memory and bandwidth but having 2 pixels packed per byte is a bit of a PITA to handle? I guess the VERA auto increment feature and the chunky pixels helps in out-performing the Atari bitplanes mode?

Thank you for this palette. I had to use similar palette on past retro-project so this may be useful for my future x16 projects.

 

Hello and welcome! I get you about work being taxing for the mind. And I don't have especially long work weeks. At work I mostly use C and C++, which I'm OK with; and VB6, which I'm less OK. So being able to code in assembly on retro machine is a breath of fresh air. Still, finding motivation is no...

Thanks Matt!

I don't plan on writing code for the Z80 in the near future but I will follow the series with interest to see how it compares with the 65C02.

I've heard that Z80 vs 6502 is a bit like CISC vs RISC in the early days. I'm curious to see what it's actually about...

That's a tough question. I have a nephew who is into Minecraft, Roblox and Fortnite. He makes YouTube videos about these games. When you come down to it, it's pretty cool and creative. It is just completely alien to us, "GenXer's". He's also starting to code in Python. Why would he bother programmi...

Like most people here, being born in the late 70's means that I got into retro computing before it was retro. My first computer was an Atari 800XL but I used it mostly for games. I did type BASIC listings from various magazines to play small games but I didn't really try to learn BASIC. It was with...

I use many emulators like Altirra (Atari 8 bits), DosBox, Steem SSE (Atari ST), Hatari (Atari ST,TT,Falcon), WinUAE (Amiga), WinVICE, MAME and few others. For real hardware, I have an Atari Falcon and a Jaguar. <img class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" data-fileid="1226" data-ratio="74.93" width="...

I installed VSCode, edited build.ps1 and built your project successfully! Now I'm considering switching to VSCode for  my projects, it looks pretty nifty.

 

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