In part one of this series, I gave a little background on Drop Rock, one of the games I wrote for RISC OS back in the early 1990s. The game saw a mid-1990s update for the RiscPC, and I am now looking at it again for newer systems. Today I’m going to quickly look at the first step in the process – probably the easiest step; getting it running at 1920×1080.
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Updating Drop Rock part 1 – some background
Back in the early 1990s, one of the games I wrote and sold through Soft Rock Software was called Drop Rock. I’ve recently decided to look at the game and see what I can do to update it and give it a new lease of life on newer RISC OS computers. I’ve also decided to write about the changes as I go, but before embarking on that here’s a little background on the game itself.
Read MoreUpdating the RISCOSitory website theme
Early in December, I decided the time had come to give the RISCOSitory website a fresh lick of paint. For reasons that I’ll explain below, I opted to use this blog as a test site. This resulted in sometimes frequent changes to how the site appeared to potential visitors (and it was occasionally not working at all), and at least one person noticed and asked me what I was doing. I replied, and also put up a quick explanation, with a promise to put up a more detailed one once…
Read MoreARMX6 vs VirtualRiscPC – a totally unscientific speed comparison
Back in February, at the RISC OS Southwest Show, I purchased the new ARMX6 computer from R-Comp, which was seeing its official launch at the show. Once I got the machine home and set it up, my initial impression was basically “Wow!” – the speed improvement it shows over previous RISC OS computers is fantastic.
Read MoreAn “open letter” to an unspecified party
Yesterday, I felt the need to send the email below to a VirtualAcorn-list subscriber. I said (as quoted in the message) that I may publish this as an “open letter” to an unspecified party, and without any further comment but, in retrospect, I feel that some commentary would be appropriate – see after the quoted message.
Read MoreCalm down, dear, it’s just a computer
The iPad has finally hit the UK, having officially gone on sale on 28th May, 2010 and, not entirely surprisingly, Apple fans queued up to get one as soon as they possibly could – some even beginning the queueing process the day before. My first thoughts upon reading that news at the time? Get a bloody life. It’s just a computer, FFS! (A point with which Apple fans might argue, but that’s their prerogative – and I’d hold that they’d be wrong!) There was a time when I considered Apple…
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