Rob Stone
@rasto1968.bsky.social
Programing computers since the early 80s!
Surrey, UK
Day job - all things web, especially web components
Fun job - retro 8 bit development for the Acorn Electron
My games
https://github.com/rasto68/apache-canyon
Surrey, UK
Day job - all things web, especially web components
Fun job - retro 8 bit development for the Acorn Electron
My games
https://github.com/rasto68/apache-canyon
Oh no 😮 Did you get a chance to see his excellent pinball game before this happened?
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Oh no 😮 Did you get a chance to see his excellent pinball game before this happened?
So what you're saying is that you killed a Beeb playing Chuckie Egg
a man in a red jacket is making a surprised face and saying whoa .
ALT: a man in a red jacket is making a surprised face and saying whoa .
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November 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
So what you're saying is that you killed a Beeb playing Chuckie Egg
Enjoy the day, pictures needed 😃
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Enjoy the day, pictures needed 😃
Just went to book my ticket and they are sold out, that will teach me not to prevaricate 😕 Sunday tickets still available but I can't go then, hope you have a great time 😄
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Just went to book my ticket and they are sold out, that will teach me not to prevaricate 😕 Sunday tickets still available but I can't go then, hope you have a great time 😄
This looks fantastic, I look forward to trying it out when I next unpack the Elk :)
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This looks fantastic, I look forward to trying it out when I next unpack the Elk :)
One of my Electron favourites too and still enjoyable today, I didn't realise they did a version for the C64 though.
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
One of my Electron favourites too and still enjoyable today, I didn't realise they did a version for the C64 though.
RTFM Rob ! 😄 Just looked through the max65 docs and found it plus lots of other useful goodies, @0xc0de.bsky.social is too good to us
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
RTFM Rob ! 😄 Just looked through the max65 docs and found it plus lots of other useful goodies, @0xc0de.bsky.social is too good to us
Nice :) Where does the time$ function come from?
November 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Nice :) Where does the time$ function come from?
Demo Chuckulous on their Elk maybe? I might be going on the Saturday too...
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Demo Chuckulous on their Elk maybe? I might be going on the Saturday too...
..if it ends of being expensive in terms of cycles. Lookup tables may be an option but then some of the randomness will disappear. One to ponder on :)
I want particles for the asteroid/alien explosions so this was a good thing to try out regardless.
I want particles for the asteroid/alien explosions so this was a good thing to try out regardless.
November 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
..if it ends of being expensive in terms of cycles. Lookup tables may be an option but then some of the randomness will disappear. One to ponder on :)
I want particles for the asteroid/alien explosions so this was a good thing to try out regardless.
I want particles for the asteroid/alien explosions so this was a good thing to try out regardless.
www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=... Bitshifters created Ghouls Revenge last year if anyone fancies a challenge
Ghouls: Revenge
Published by Bitshifters, Micro Power Ltd. (Program Power) in 2024
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October 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=... Bitshifters created Ghouls Revenge last year if anyone fancies a challenge
The book that got me into retro computing and ultimately to writing and releasing my first game - a fantastic read 👍
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The book that got me into retro computing and ultimately to writing and releasing my first game - a fantastic read 👍
Oh my - so much good stuff coming out for the humble Elk at the moment.
October 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Oh my - so much good stuff coming out for the humble Elk at the moment.
Looks awesome, was only thinking about this the other day after an interesting conversation at ABUG where Tricky told us about the custom hardware intercepting 6502 opcodes to do plotting! I think I'm going to have to source a joystick for my Elk now 👍
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Looks awesome, was only thinking about this the other day after an interesting conversation at ABUG where Tricky told us about the custom hardware intercepting 6502 opcodes to do plotting! I think I'm going to have to source a joystick for my Elk now 👍
In the old days I suppose it would have been tried with BBC Basic and I know that some do that now but I'm going to be different.
October 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
In the old days I suppose it would have been tried with BBC Basic and I know that some do that now but I'm going to be different.
and I'm using the real assets from the game (and an emulated Mode 5 resolution). With something like this I think should be able to prove a lot of the game concepts much more quickly - but it does feel like I'm cheating slightly. At the end of the day though, this is a hobby and I'm having fun so 🤷
October 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
and I'm using the real assets from the game (and an emulated Mode 5 resolution). With something like this I think should be able to prove a lot of the game concepts much more quickly - but it does feel like I'm cheating slightly. At the end of the day though, this is a hobby and I'm having fun so 🤷
Also thanks to @kieranhj.bsky.social for organising it all and for demonstrating the N64 "dev" code - I'm keen to see what you come up with on this new "old" platform.
October 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Also thanks to @kieranhj.bsky.social for organising it all and for demonstrating the N64 "dev" code - I'm keen to see what you come up with on this new "old" platform.
Where's that gif of the pyramid selling scam when you need it 😉
October 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Where's that gif of the pyramid selling scam when you need it 😉