A minor visual improvement this afternoon - ten minutes of coding and I've almost got hidden line removal working. Still some glitches to work through.
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It may be of interest that in a product that sold purely on performance (of a standard spec), we coded and debugged a fully general implementation, and THEN optimised special cases. (as opposed to creating the easy/fast special cases, and then adding the hard cases)
aug 30, 2025, 9:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Better get my Spectrum Next out to see this running on real hardware…
aug 30, 2025, 3:46 pm • 11 0 • view
Amazing, still pushing the limits of 8 bit hardware in 2025!
aug 30, 2025, 4:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you! Still a way to go with the pushing too!!
aug 30, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Can I ask a wee toolchain question? Are you building/debugging a NEX or a SNA? I'd like to use Z80n mnemonics (NEXTREG etc) in a SNA so it can be debugged, but sjasmplus won't do that 48 mode, conversely it won't SAVESNA in Next mode! I just wondered if you had a workaround (DEFB the Z80n opcodes?)
aug 31, 2025, 8:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Just read your post again - I've never had issues debugging a SNA or NEX file. I use DeZog in Visual Studio Code to handle that, and ZEsarUX/CSpect as my emulators of choice.
aug 31, 2025, 8:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Ah, thank you. I was just being a wally. I didn't realise you could specify a NEX file to be loaded in launch.json; I'm so used to using SNA with DeZog I never thought to try that, sorry! 🤦♂️ It's working now, but I did manage to upset ZEsarUX in new and exotic fashion along the way! 😎
aug 31, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh haha, yes I get that occasionally, and no problems.
aug 31, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm building a NEX file.
aug 31, 2025, 8:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Are trying to recode Elite ?
aug 31, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Not specifically, yet. The model was available online and is instantly recognisable.
aug 31, 2025, 1:08 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t know how to break this to you, but there’s already a game that looks a lot like this. Came out a few years ago. I think it was called “Space Cargo Delivery Person.”
aug 30, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Hahaha!
aug 30, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view