Arda Erdikmen
@ardae.bsky.social
Film lecturer@Istanbul University-C, gaming ph.d., digital heritage and retro guy, zx spectrum, Master of BasinC. ref-xx@github
No Man’s Sky is such a unique game. It’s been receiving free updates for 10 years now. With the recent Voyager update, it somehow reached the highest online player count in the last 8 years, making a great comeback. I really love this old-school approach to maintaining a game. #nomanssky
September 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
No Man’s Sky is such a unique game. It’s been receiving free updates for 10 years now. With the recent Voyager update, it somehow reached the highest online player count in the last 8 years, making a great comeback. I really love this old-school approach to maintaining a game. #nomanssky
This video reminded me somewhat of the sunset sky over planet Merlin in the Ross 154 system in Frontier Elite. Maybe that's what Merlin would look like in real life, and maybe one day we'll get to land through a sky with this level of detail in a game.
July 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This video reminded me somewhat of the sunset sky over planet Merlin in the Ross 154 system in Frontier Elite. Maybe that's what Merlin would look like in real life, and maybe one day we'll get to land through a sky with this level of detail in a game.
#Andor is great but I'm a little tired of Disney trying to close every plothole in Star Wars with fake patches. Please leave original trilogy alone. You don't have to repair it... It's so obvious, and that parsec patch... Oh man..
May 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
#Andor is great but I'm a little tired of Disney trying to close every plothole in Star Wars with fake patches. Please leave original trilogy alone. You don't have to repair it... It's so obvious, and that parsec patch... Oh man..
When you are researching pirates, you want to know more about the man behind it. i can say sid meier was/is my hero, but how did I miss the book? Anyway It’s a late but fine addition to my library :) Great read, I highly recommend it.
April 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
When you are researching pirates, you want to know more about the man behind it. i can say sid meier was/is my hero, but how did I miss the book? Anyway It’s a late but fine addition to my library :) Great read, I highly recommend it.
Looks like the last image got lost in the Bluesky black hole — adding it (rescue) here for completeness. And to think I worked so hard to squeeze the previous one into a 300-character post! Anyway, I also wanted to add, "s!r might need a little bit of nugde of pirates! lovers" anyway.
April 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Looks like the last image got lost in the Bluesky black hole — adding it (rescue) here for completeness. And to think I worked so hard to squeeze the previous one into a 300-character post! Anyway, I also wanted to add, "s!r might need a little bit of nugde of pirates! lovers" anyway.
Researching Pirates, There are 5 unused .win images: Ship, On Fire, Docks, Fort, Rescue (7.6KB total, viewable via PirateView). I’ve contacted Nostalgia (they repacked thegame in 2012). The person behind it is s!r, who’s apparently been planning to put together an info PDF about the game ever since.
April 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Researching Pirates, There are 5 unused .win images: Ship, On Fire, Docks, Fort, Rescue (7.6KB total, viewable via PirateView). I’ve contacted Nostalgia (they repacked thegame in 2012). The person behind it is s!r, who’s apparently been planning to put together an info PDF about the game ever since.
Pirates reverse-engineering continues... Graphics are now extracted. The attention to detail is insane: multi-layered interchangeable face sprites, dynamic backgrounds, clothing and hair color variations. All this with BASIC in 87?! This is next-level! This is the AAA of its time. Huge fan.
April 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Pirates reverse-engineering continues... Graphics are now extracted. The attention to detail is insane: multi-layered interchangeable face sprites, dynamic backgrounds, clothing and hair color variations. All this with BASIC in 87?! This is next-level! This is the AAA of its time. Huge fan.
Twitter marka değerini tamamen yitirdi herhalde, akın akın gidiyor herkes, geride sadece botlar ve "falanca filanca konuda en iyi 10 öneri, başlayalım 1. her gün skimsonik şeyler yapın" gibi içinde kumarhane reklamı geçen threadler falan kaldı.
April 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Twitter marka değerini tamamen yitirdi herhalde, akın akın gidiyor herkes, geride sadece botlar ve "falanca filanca konuda en iyi 10 öneri, başlayalım 1. her gün skimsonik şeyler yapın" gibi içinde kumarhane reklamı geçen threadler falan kaldı.
Trying to reverse-engineer the original Sid Meier's Pirates! C64 code. Written in BASIC, split into 3 parts due to ram constraints. It uses external data files paired with graphics and other assets-spread across two disks, totaling a whopping 232KB. Help is appreciated! :) github.com/ref-xx/Basic...
April 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Trying to reverse-engineer the original Sid Meier's Pirates! C64 code. Written in BASIC, split into 3 parts due to ram constraints. It uses external data files paired with graphics and other assets-spread across two disks, totaling a whopping 232KB. Help is appreciated! :) github.com/ref-xx/Basic...
ZX Spectrum is getting closer to 43 years old. So here is a new chatgpt ghibli creation of Sir Clive holding a ZX Spectrum and riding a C5.
March 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
ZX Spectrum is getting closer to 43 years old. So here is a new chatgpt ghibli creation of Sir Clive holding a ZX Spectrum and riding a C5.
The ultimate IDE for ZX Spectrum development is back with new features and dozens of bug fixes.
After Two Long Years, I managed to release one more BasinC Update. It's bumped to 1.8 now.
github.com/ref-xx/basinc
For installer or portable binaries, follow the link in the readme.
After Two Long Years, I managed to release one more BasinC Update. It's bumped to 1.8 now.
github.com/ref-xx/basinc
For installer or portable binaries, follow the link in the readme.
March 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The ultimate IDE for ZX Spectrum development is back with new features and dozens of bug fixes.
After Two Long Years, I managed to release one more BasinC Update. It's bumped to 1.8 now.
github.com/ref-xx/basinc
For installer or portable binaries, follow the link in the readme.
After Two Long Years, I managed to release one more BasinC Update. It's bumped to 1.8 now.
github.com/ref-xx/basinc
For installer or portable binaries, follow the link in the readme.
tested the last one, not bad!
March 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
tested the last one, not bad!
istanbul efsaneleri: lale savaşçıları (1992) kullanma kılavuzunda bir bölümün başında bunları öğrenin, sonra sorucaz diyor, sonda bu soru var. :)
Bu arada Armağan Amcalar oyunun haritalarını ve senaryoları extract etme işine girişti, şimdiden haritalarda gezilebiliyor:
retrojen.org/pano/index.p...
Bu arada Armağan Amcalar oyunun haritalarını ve senaryoları extract etme işine girişti, şimdiden haritalarda gezilebiliyor:
retrojen.org/pano/index.p...
March 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
istanbul efsaneleri: lale savaşçıları (1992) kullanma kılavuzunda bir bölümün başında bunları öğrenin, sonra sorucaz diyor, sonda bu soru var. :)
Bu arada Armağan Amcalar oyunun haritalarını ve senaryoları extract etme işine girişti, şimdiden haritalarda gezilebiliyor:
retrojen.org/pano/index.p...
Bu arada Armağan Amcalar oyunun haritalarını ve senaryoları extract etme işine girişti, şimdiden haritalarda gezilebiliyor:
retrojen.org/pano/index.p...
izmirli lastikçi: "Kış lastiği mi?"
January 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
izmirli lastikçi: "Kış lastiği mi?"
Barely made it :D Just finished this year's snowy zx spectrum mini demo :D
As always, social media video compression ruins all the pixels and colors, so here is the tap file if you want to keep it running on your TV whole night :D
arda.kisafilm.org/fish/get/ser...
As always, social media video compression ruins all the pixels and colors, so here is the tap file if you want to keep it running on your TV whole night :D
arda.kisafilm.org/fish/get/ser...
December 31, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Barely made it :D Just finished this year's snowy zx spectrum mini demo :D
As always, social media video compression ruins all the pixels and colors, so here is the tap file if you want to keep it running on your TV whole night :D
arda.kisafilm.org/fish/get/ser...
As always, social media video compression ruins all the pixels and colors, so here is the tap file if you want to keep it running on your TV whole night :D
arda.kisafilm.org/fish/get/ser...
lol ok, right, but I still see a bald guy here! :)
December 22, 2024 at 1:13 PM
lol ok, right, but I still see a bald guy here! :)
Steam, this is what I'm here for... Bring data on!
December 19, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Steam, this is what I'm here for... Bring data on!
Another #ZXSpectrum game screen update examination! This is famous "Cobra", a masterpiece of coding by Jonathan Smith (aka.Joffa) It's one of the first game to use 4-way pixel based screen scolling. This requires careful timing on spectrum as there is no hardware to scroll the screen or the sprites!
December 17, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Another #ZXSpectrum game screen update examination! This is famous "Cobra", a masterpiece of coding by Jonathan Smith (aka.Joffa) It's one of the first game to use 4-way pixel based screen scolling. This requires careful timing on spectrum as there is no hardware to scroll the screen or the sprites!
I'm not sure if this survive image compression but here is 49.9/48.4/1.7 painting by pixels. It looks magenta.
December 14, 2024 at 5:25 PM
I'm not sure if this survive image compression but here is 49.9/48.4/1.7 painting by pixels. It looks magenta.
My #ZXSpectrum debugging #emulator (Zex) can analyse how games write to screen by trapping opcodes. This game is starquake, a simple sprite based game, which erases and draws sprites on screen by using a series of LD (HL),A opcode, basically bruteforcing Z80 and RAM. More to come!
December 13, 2024 at 6:06 PM
My #ZXSpectrum debugging #emulator (Zex) can analyse how games write to screen by trapping opcodes. This game is starquake, a simple sprite based game, which erases and draws sprites on screen by using a series of LD (HL),A opcode, basically bruteforcing Z80 and RAM. More to come!
There is another one on ebay, it Looks like those are sold like this, probably attached to a big manual or finance booklet etc instead of a box.
December 8, 2024 at 10:35 AM
There is another one on ebay, it Looks like those are sold like this, probably attached to a big manual or finance booklet etc instead of a box.
ZX Spectrum'u bilmeyenler için, normalde bu grafik spectrum şöyle görünecekti (8x8lik alanda sadece 2 renk), yani bu yeni teknikle daha fazla detay ve renk bir arada kullanılabiliyor, bu, spectrumda daha önce bu ölçekte yapılmamıştı, bu da benim hobim işte :D #demoscene
November 29, 2024 at 8:41 AM
ZX Spectrum'u bilmeyenler için, normalde bu grafik spectrum şöyle görünecekti (8x8lik alanda sadece 2 renk), yani bu yeni teknikle daha fazla detay ve renk bir arada kullanılabiliyor, bu, spectrumda daha önce bu ölçekte yapılmamıştı, bu da benim hobim işte :D #demoscene
Madem buraya geçiyoruz, ben de bu aralar uğraştığım birşeyi paylaşayım. Bu yeni bir gfx editörü, çıktısı zx spectrum formatı ama normalde spectrum'un grafik çipinin görüntüleyemeyeceği bir formatı raster kovalayarak görüntülüyor.
Mucize beklemeyin ama zx spectrum için sıra dışı çıktılar üretiyor :)
Mucize beklemeyin ama zx spectrum için sıra dışı çıktılar üretiyor :)
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Madem buraya geçiyoruz, ben de bu aralar uğraştığım birşeyi paylaşayım. Bu yeni bir gfx editörü, çıktısı zx spectrum formatı ama normalde spectrum'un grafik çipinin görüntüleyemeyeceği bir formatı raster kovalayarak görüntülüyor.
Mucize beklemeyin ama zx spectrum için sıra dışı çıktılar üretiyor :)
Mucize beklemeyin ama zx spectrum için sıra dışı çıktılar üretiyor :)