Somebody seems to be finally doing the frame rate unlock for the #amiga version of Stunt Car Racer that I did for the #c64 back in 2021. Looks promising! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29x82o3U_0I

Interesting video showing the process of creating animated art with the old-school colour cycling technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyB5cvA6f78 #retrocomputing #commodore #amiga

People are saying that resolution is one letter away from revolution, and I just realised that this is almost true in Hungarian too: fogadalom vs. forradalom. Either way, a happier 2026 to everyone!

Enthusiasts of obscure #retrocomputing artifacts might enjoy this small presentation about an early Hungarian homebrew platform, the Homelab series of computers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qms98DypIdQ

After getting a lot of attention recently, I decided to wrap up my popular #c64 project My Day on the Highway by releasing it in its current state. I hope it still brings joy to some people! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWtHOdxEM3I CSDb: https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=257822

The #commodore #plus4 just got the clone of Green Beret it always deserved: Stab ‘N Dash is now out in glorious 121 colours: https://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Stab_N_Dash Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iMJn69Lv2m8

My latest Stunt Car Racer video is definitely a hit with the target demographics. 😂 #c64 #retrocomputing #youtube

Wow, after watching this video I could finally see the depth in an autostereogram for the first time in my life! Not sure why it clicked all of a sudden, because I don't think the video itself said anything new, but I'm happy it finally worked either way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEewrwTjOhQ

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@cobbpg/115493373962084495 Hot off the press, here's my write-up about the technical details of the #c128 port of Stunt Car Racer: https://cobbpg.github.io/articles/stunt-car-racer-c128-port.html #c64 #retrocomputing

Seriously though, when people ask what the point of learning algebra is, I think it teaches not just a set of laws for things that compose well, but the idea that sets of laws are great for designing things that compose well.

If you always thought that the #c128 is just a #c64 with a bunch of useless bits bolted on, maybe it's time to reconsider. I just released a version of Stunt Car Racer adapted to take advantage of these additional features, and the performance boost is quite significant. See for yourself! Video […]

Outerversal is clearly turning into one of the most popular modern #c64 hit songs. Well deserved, I say! The variety of sounds one can get out of the SID chip is way beyond any of its contemporaries. Also, this song uses pretty much all the RAM in the machine even though it doesn't contain any […]

Just enjoying this nice evening in Budapest, and suddenly a curious group of military boats shows up.

The other day, my parents' #cat decided to test her superpowers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN5i1j17N3I

After some wrestling with the #commodore #plus4 palette it became clear that it's really lacking in low saturation colours as well as missing a proper dark range. I created an experimental 256-entry palette that fixes both of these issues, and I think […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

I want to extend my gratitude for the United Kingdom for demonstrating at scale how utterly stupid "age assurance" for online services is. Now, if only the EU would learn from this. I am not certain it will happen.

Here’s a turtle casually hanging out with a row of ducks I saw the other day.

way back in 2017, jackson lango started writing a dev log about his passion project: an ascii/ansi adventure called Terminal Rain. i was instantly in love with his lighting and animation. in an era overloaded with knockoff cyberpunk aesthetics, he had a keen eye […] [Original post on dialup.cafe]

Pouring out one for this impressive swan couple who ended up with seven teenagers.

I just released version 1.2 of NUFLIX Studio, which brings some small improvements. This is an application that allows you to create as close to freely pixeled 320×200 images for the #c64 as it gets. https://github.com/cobbpg/nuflix-studio #retrocomputing

I just discovered the fact that #SimCity 2000 could be played without an SVGA card. Specifically, the Windows version could work in 640×480 with a custom 16-colour palette, and it looks surprisingly good! […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

This is strudel.cc, a live coding system to create music on the fly. In a way these kinds of environments are similar in spirit to the BASIC shells of my childhood in how you build your creations incrementally, with immediate feedback. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZCcpWzhekEY

It’s interesting how LLMs still haven’t solved the problem of believability that the much simpler procedural story system of Covert Action suffered from over three decades ago. Complexity without purpose is clearly not enough. https://www.filfre.net/2017/03/whats-the-matter-with-covert-action/

This is a fantastic documentary about the story of Sinistar, an impressive arcade game from the early days. It's almost three hours long, but thanks to the short chapters I could enjoy it over several days. It's a great story that deserves a lot more views […]

This #msx Turrican project is really impressive, and it seems to be coming along nicely. The visuals are top notch given the limitations of the venerable TMS9918 chip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0T0l9bleRM

Obscure trivia time! It turns out that Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil fame wished for a #c64 as a child but got a #plus4 instead. If only she had known how far the homebrew scene would take the latter! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXbxb4m_k9U&t=238s

Okay, @lukhash has really outdone himself with his new album, Home Arcade! It's fun to pick out the musical references, e.g. how 199X uses samples from the Pinball Fantasies intro tune. https://lukhash.bandcamp.com/album/home-arcade

Germany's #eurovision entry got a Hungarian version released thanks to the group members speaking it natively. It translates much better than I expected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN0bTJ3NUSs

These comparisons of various games on early (pre-NES) consoles is quite interesting. The #atari2600 holds up surprisingly well against the much more powerful machines that came out years later, considering its absurdly low specs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9SZg30WkCg #retrocomputing […]

Here is a neat hack exploiting the sample offset command in MOD files to pack many audio channels into four in order to reconstruct the music of the arcade version of #outrun on the #amiga. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K-H-Jm0NMw

New release by yours truly: Kye for the Commodore Plus/4, based on the #c64 port I made a few years back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWfo75cRroU https://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Kye #c64 #plus4

Engaging in the ancient tradition of decorating willow branches for Palm Sunday with hidden #c64 palettes (sadly only the first 8 colours due to the lack of appropriate beads).

Who would have thought back in the day that this classic video was actually predicting the practice of vibe coding? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8

I just found out that somebody is selling cartridge versions of my Stunt Car Racer port for the #commodore #plus4 as well as other homebrew titles. I don't particularly mind it myself – it's flattering in a way –, but I wonder how my fellow developers feel about it […]

It's interesting to see how much we can reduce motion blur on our modern displays by simulating CRTs. Check the demonstration from @blurbusters under the Real-Time Versions section of this article (not on a mobile device though, it's likely to just flash violently) […]

When in Rome…

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can. #InducedDemand

I propose we rename #dei to #doge: Diversity, Opportunity, Growth and Equity. Let the snake bite its own tail.

TIL that Robot Unicorn Attack just passed its 15th birthday a few days ago, and it's still available on the web in playable form. https://archive.org/details/robotunicornattack_flash

This article gave me a massive rush of nostalgia, thinking back of the times when I’d go to our magnificent national library in the heart of Buda Castle to do research for my high school assignments. It also makes a strong case against outsourcing our thinking to machines by giving a taste of […]

Here's a secret known only to a few people: the #c128 can push the VIC-II further than the #c64 thanks to an undocumented "test bit" exposed by the hardware that affects the timing of the video signal. This allows expanding the display area vertically as well as adding 11 new colours to the […]

We might have crazy Unicode exploits today, but even on the #c64 you can insert arbitrary control codes into file names, so merely listing the contents of a disk creates an animation. Here's a nice explainer about the technical details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVMjLUhOX90

I just remembered that my NUFLIX article was still missing an illustration on how sprite crunching looks on the #c64, so I quickly whipped up a tiny program to demonstrate it. https://cobbpg.github.io/articles/nuflix.html

I put my NUFLIX system to the test and recreated the cover image of Asterix and the Magic Cauldron for the C64. You can get the executable here: https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=248989 The idea comes from an existing Plus/4 release, whose […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

The central thesis of this video is that there's value in friction, and I couldn't agree more. You can apply this lesson to any creative process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq4BOSaKiYo

@knightsofbytes I just noticed the NES title screen for Sam's Journey in your posts, and decided to check how well it converts back to the #C64 with NUFLIX. I haven't adjusted a single pixel, just mapped the palette as closely as I could. It came out […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

I spotted this #Amiga graphics entry by H!RO from this year's Mysdata, which happens to use the #C64 palette. Since it's very detailed, I figured it would make an interesting stress test for my NUFLIX converter. The first image is the original, the […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]