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AppGameKit ( AGK ) / Re: AGK as a first language

Last post by Pfaber11 - May 15, 2024, 12:57:48

You know compared to the basics of now I regard zx81 basic to be quite hard. It was a different beast back then and I knew very little. Back to modern times and now Basic can cut it with the best of them. AGK with a bit of practice can run quite fast on an average PC. I'm about to release my latest offering onto the web but I doubt many will download it but who knows it might go viral.

#12

General Discussion / Re: MATHEW SMITH

Last post by dawlane - May 15, 2024, 11:42:04

Quote from: Baggey on May 14, 2024, 20:24:59It's a shame he lost his mind!???

Not sure where you heard that. Unless you are thinking of when he was living in a Dutch commune...
He may still be working for Elite Systems.

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General Discussion / Re: MATHEW SMITH

Last post by Naughty Alien - May 15, 2024, 10:33:24

Quote from: Baggey on May 14, 2024, 20:24:59It's a shame he lost his mind!???

..im not sure i follow..what happened?

#14

BlitzMax / BlitzMax NG / NG: Chipmunk 2D v1.07 module

Last post by Hotcakes - May 15, 2024, 10:04:02

After a couple months of work, I have updated Bruceys Chipmunk module to support Chipmunk 7 (probably requires Blitzmax NG). Well, it took about three weeks to get it up to a level that a game could make use of it and the rest of the time was spent porting the official demos over. As a result, this is a near complete implementation.

There's more that can be added and fixed, but I consider this to be a feature complete (albeit beta) release.
There are minor differences between the official docs and this module - the biggest changes are owing to wanting to keep maximum compatibility with the previous v1.05 module and any code that was based off of it. Previous code should only require a single command change.

I'd be interested to know how this effort compares to other physics modules, if anyone has any experience with them.

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General Discussion / Re: MATHEW SMITH

Last post by dawlane - May 15, 2024, 08:42:34

The story goes that Mathew Smith wrote and tested the core of Manic Miner on a TRS-80 Model 4 and the ZX Spectrum specific routines were written blind. He managed to get access to Sinclair's cross development system for a weekend to compile, debug and save the final result.

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