Hi from the land Down Under!
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 7:31 am
Hello. Aussie geek dev here.
I had a Commodore 64c back in the day and really enjoyed it. In fact, I just sold my recent C64c, Amiga 500, Gameboy and Gameboy Advance to raise some money to buy a Commander X16. I hope it's out soon. I have my order in, at least and am very excited. I already have a SNES controller and a Lazer3D case ready for it!
I've started learning coding for the CX16 and as such have created the start of a website at Suite16.au.
As I learn I'm posting tutorials there and eventually will have a free PDF book for people to learn from. It's more of a basic guide, less of a comprehensive book.
There's already quite a few tutorials on that site for programming the Commander X16 in Prog8. I've never used Prog8 before so this looked like a good language to start with. It's certainly interesting learning a new language on a new platform, but I hope some of the tutorials may be useful to people.
I have also started programming a game called "Tomb of Anneis". It's a puzzle game loosely based on a combination of Paganitzu and Boulderdash with elements of both and my own spin on things. I recently posted a partial screenshot on my BlueSky account:
https://bsky.app/profile/waulok.au/post/3lfz63i6vsc25
I've only been working on it on and off over the last few weeks so there's lots more to do, but I'm having fun at any rate.
I created a simple exporter for Tiled to export tile numbers for a tilemap after loading in a spritesheet. I'm using it for my level data, so others may find it useful: https://github.com/WauloK/Tiled-binary- ... -extension.
Well, thanks for reading and I hope to chat with you here and on the Discord.
Small sidebar: Is it possible to change my username to look like WauloK ? I did not know at signup this would be my in-forum name. Some BBs have a login username and a viewable one
I had a Commodore 64c back in the day and really enjoyed it. In fact, I just sold my recent C64c, Amiga 500, Gameboy and Gameboy Advance to raise some money to buy a Commander X16. I hope it's out soon. I have my order in, at least and am very excited. I already have a SNES controller and a Lazer3D case ready for it!
I've started learning coding for the CX16 and as such have created the start of a website at Suite16.au.
As I learn I'm posting tutorials there and eventually will have a free PDF book for people to learn from. It's more of a basic guide, less of a comprehensive book.
There's already quite a few tutorials on that site for programming the Commander X16 in Prog8. I've never used Prog8 before so this looked like a good language to start with. It's certainly interesting learning a new language on a new platform, but I hope some of the tutorials may be useful to people.
I have also started programming a game called "Tomb of Anneis". It's a puzzle game loosely based on a combination of Paganitzu and Boulderdash with elements of both and my own spin on things. I recently posted a partial screenshot on my BlueSky account:
https://bsky.app/profile/waulok.au/post/3lfz63i6vsc25
I've only been working on it on and off over the last few weeks so there's lots more to do, but I'm having fun at any rate.
I created a simple exporter for Tiled to export tile numbers for a tilemap after loading in a spritesheet. I'm using it for my level data, so others may find it useful: https://github.com/WauloK/Tiled-binary- ... -extension.
Well, thanks for reading and I hope to chat with you here and on the Discord.
Small sidebar: Is it possible to change my username to look like WauloK ? I did not know at signup this would be my in-forum name. Some BBs have a login username and a viewable one
