Charlie Birks (@charlie.daft.games)

Charlie Birks

@charlie.daft.games

Writes a lot of code, sometimes it even works. May or may not actually exist. (insert useful info here) ... Writing is not one of my skills. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://fosstodon.org/@Daft_Freak, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Charlie Birks

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Huh, a PR I submitted five years ago got merged... Wonder what that was for. 😆

Charlie Birks

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Found another game in my collection that fits and kinda runs...

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I doubt anyone is going to notice the daft.games games and API being down. 😆 (They say while announcing it)

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I am still trapped in emulator land...

Charlie Birks

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Hmm, my desktop is having one of its "lock up every day" phases again...

Charlie Birks

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Someone's going to stick a keyboard on this, right? Maybe a little joystick?

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Charlie Birks

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I mean, this is too good a fit not to: (Just ignore the Mario Kart)

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Me: my GBA emulator is not focussed on accuracy. Also me: *builds test setup using output directly captured from a real GBA's display connector*

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Hmm, the problem with my debug port modified Presto is that it's a bit too delicate to actually use it for anything...

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There are a lot of problems here but...

Charlie Birks

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I don't know why I tried audio output, but I did... and you can almost hear it this video 😆 (This may be running by brute force/silly overclocking)

Charlie Birks

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Hmm, the problem with my debug port modified Presto is that it's a bit too delicate to actually use it for anything...

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Charlie Birks

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There are a lot of problems here but...

Charlie Birks

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😆 Pirates saw this already (I forget that they're following me sometimes)

Charlie Birks

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Hmm, the problem with my debug port modified Presto is that it's a bit too delicate to actually use it for anything...

Charlie Birks

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May have mentioned this before, but the fact that you can fit Game Boy x3 and GBA x2 on the Presto is nice.

Charlie Birks

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In other news: smooth(er) map transitions. (Yes I am doing all the things at once... Badly.)

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This led to me adding a saved game list: (just ignore the fact that all the characters still have the same hair)

Charlie Birks

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(I mean, there are also no men, but apparently everyone having the same hairstyle is more important to me or something.)

Charlie Birks

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Just been given this duck, time for some seasonal debugging I guess?

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My submission for this years Artfright! Plus a full colour version, because I really liked the Halloween costumes I put together for my OCs

Charlie Birks

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Hmm, now I have another one of those computer boards. Except this one has double the PSRAM. (...and I already threw the PC emulator on it.)

Charlie Birks

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Oh, and the first one now lives in a glittery purple box... With some attempts at labels... (Definitely not a weird angle to hide all the marks from my worn print sheet)

Charlie Birks

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I'm so glad my bank makes me go through several steps to confirm the tiniest of payments. This definitely isn't going to cause any problems in the long run whatsoever. *proceeds to skip without reading*

Charlie Birks

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This port brought to you by an expired card and one too many subscriptions.

Charlie Birks

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Somehow I don't think this is accurate:

Charlie Birks

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Windows trying to say that I'm the problem: 😆

Charlie Birks

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I found a new way to break the emulator:

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So, I had some ideas and thought I had the tools to implement them... Kinda worked out, but at least I have a better idea of what I need to do next...

Charlie Birks

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Trying to write some documentation and discovering a feature you didn't know about in code you wrote is uh, interesting...

Charlie Birks

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This setup has been sitting on my desk for months now and... ... It still doesn't do anything useful. (I blame STM32)

Charlie Birks

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Seems my desktop is haunted... Volume control is randomly changing. 👻

Charlie Birks

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Looking at my RPG notes they range from "detailed list of steps to fix something" to "make look better". 🤔

Charlie Birks

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When you're adding code for translating text, but can only write one language: 🪞

Charlie Birks

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(It's extremely optimistic of me to think that I'll ever need this code, but I can only think "I'm doing this wrong" so many times...)

Charlie Birks

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It's fun that this happens when I plug in random RP2350 devices 😆. That or they boot into Windows 95... (In this case the @pimoroni.com Presto... Which I don't think I've run the PC emulator on. That would be silly...)

Charlie Birks

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I did say it would be silly, didn't I?

Charlie Birks

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It does actually do the thing... Apart from the screen being too small. (I need to stop making comments about things 😆)

Charlie Birks

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If anyone asks I didn't spend all afternoon playing solitaire.

Charlie Birks

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Me trying to return to my RPG:

Charlie Birks

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I definitely didn't update the character sprite for that.

Charlie Birks

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Usually I spend hours moving pixels fast, but now I am spending hours moving pixels slowly. (Or, I have ended up making more sprites...)

Charlie Birks

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Predictably I have now found emulator bugs to fix... 🤔

Charlie Birks

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Hopefully this doesn't take too long as I also have more ideas for my RPG. (Which is also still open. I just don't close things apparently 😆)

Charlie Birks

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Well I finally got the RTC working (which was the thing I was trying to do), so now I can move on to other things... (Stamp builds may be broken though. Hmm.)