Hale the Damo
@damiensturdy.bsky.social
Creating an Acorn-esque emulator and a real synthesizer. Sometimes makes games. Sturdy Games- Developer of way too many things at once, #8-Bit #Acorn #Kotlin, #CSharp, #Unity, #Java, #Javascript. #FLStudio http://sturdygames.co.uk
"We've removed stuff from the Family Safety app, you can get to them on the Family Safety website" WHYYYYY?
Sorry for the rant, thanks for listening, and thanks again for games that my kiddos love without me having to worry!
Sorry for the rant, thanks for listening, and thanks again for games that my kiddos love without me having to worry!
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"We've removed stuff from the Family Safety app, you can get to them on the Family Safety website" WHYYYYY?
Sorry for the rant, thanks for listening, and thanks again for games that my kiddos love without me having to worry!
Sorry for the rant, thanks for listening, and thanks again for games that my kiddos love without me having to worry!
Rudimentary Oxygene part 4, on my home made "SturdySynth"!
Managed to get it to connect to Windows too.
5/6 channels used- but no acoustic sounds yet. Oh and the drums sound like an old console :D
Managed to get it to connect to Windows too.
5/6 channels used- but no acoustic sounds yet. Oh and the drums sound like an old console :D
May 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Rudimentary Oxygene part 4, on my home made "SturdySynth"!
Managed to get it to connect to Windows too.
5/6 channels used- but no acoustic sounds yet. Oh and the drums sound like an old console :D
Managed to get it to connect to Windows too.
5/6 channels used- but no acoustic sounds yet. Oh and the drums sound like an old console :D
I'm still here, working on my emulator and my home made synthesizer. Now with 6 synthesis algorithms and multi channel midi support on an esp32. I have optimised the shizzle out of this thing!
No idea if the video will work, guess we will see when I hit the button... about...... now!
No idea if the video will work, guess we will see when I hit the button... about...... now!
April 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I'm still here, working on my emulator and my home made synthesizer. Now with 6 synthesis algorithms and multi channel midi support on an esp32. I have optimised the shizzle out of this thing!
No idea if the video will work, guess we will see when I hit the button... about...... now!
No idea if the video will work, guess we will see when I hit the button... about...... now!
My daughter started a prank war with our Elf.
Result? Our elf shaved part of my head in my sleep.
Result? Our elf shaved part of my head in my sleep.
December 24, 2024 at 5:22 PM
My daughter started a prank war with our Elf.
Result? Our elf shaved part of my head in my sleep.
Result? Our elf shaved part of my head in my sleep.
For laughs, this is what happens if you hold any key- Something's very awry here, you can see mode+palette updates at a ridiculously high rate. In fact if I increase cycle accuracy these are even tighter together, showing the CPU being hammered into interrupts constantly by System VIA. Cool glitch!
November 19, 2024 at 6:57 AM
For laughs, this is what happens if you hold any key- Something's very awry here, you can see mode+palette updates at a ridiculously high rate. In fact if I increase cycle accuracy these are even tighter together, showing the CPU being hammered into interrupts constantly by System VIA. Cool glitch!
Next: Revs by Geoff Crammond. This game only checks for vsync once, then uses precise timing to change screen mode *5 times* per frame and still renders a 3D track. It's wrong in my emulator - *all* interrupt requests cause it to switch to the next screen section, hinting at a VIA bug. Debug time!
November 19, 2024 at 6:49 AM
Next: Revs by Geoff Crammond. This game only checks for vsync once, then uses precise timing to change screen mode *5 times* per frame and still renders a 3D track. It's wrong in my emulator - *all* interrupt requests cause it to switch to the next screen section, hinting at a VIA bug. Debug time!
CRTC fixed, though I apparently fixed it last night without realising because this evening I was welcomed to this:
November 13, 2024 at 9:17 PM
CRTC fixed, though I apparently fixed it last night without realising because this evening I was welcomed to this:
For a first attempt, my CRTC implementation was pretty good, but not perfect. Testing some cool modern releases- this one's title screen works(including scroller) and the game plays *but* no status bar yet- a portion of the screen is blank- I have some CRTC debugging to do!
November 12, 2024 at 11:16 PM
For a first attempt, my CRTC implementation was pretty good, but not perfect. Testing some cool modern releases- this one's title screen works(including scroller) and the game plays *but* no status bar yet- a portion of the screen is blank- I have some CRTC debugging to do!