Commander X16

Did the Corporation blow up a dissenting planet with the "Cube Cannon" to make all that space debris?

The fight against the Cube Cannon ship in the final stage of the RPG version of the game would be epic.

Nice! I also like the way you included a link to a blog post about how you made the game. Everyone should read that, it contains great advice on how to approach the project and write it in a modular way. (Basically, it says use a Model,View,Controller style without actually using those words.) When ...

I like it! I think it's great! I also like how you started with something that's not super complicated (Always a good idea when you're already juggling a half dozen learning curves just to get into asm language on a new platform.) and at the same time, well within the x16's wheelhouse.

This is interesting, it would be useful as a game scene transition mechanic. It appears that the image is repackaged as a "sideways" bitmap with the left side of the image as the top and the right as the bottom, then is scrolled in by streaming pixels from the bottom of the file using a &q...

I think the problem is engineers. We have a penchant to "Look for problems to solve." whether that problem needs to be solved or not. Some problems are "Algorithm like" and have already been solved. Implementing an already solved problem is much easier than solving an actual prob...

Tony, Thanks for the correction. It is indeed the ca65 assembler doing the conversion from ASCII to PETSCII, but not "by default" per se, it's a result of using "-t cx16" directive in the cl65 command line. Unfortunately, this is how assembly programming with the x16 is usually s...

Yes, as explained, the directives are in the assembler, not VSCode, the CPU, or any ROM in the X16 itself. The assembler in the cc65 suite "ca65" is the defacto standard for X16 development. I say "defacto" because there is no "official" standard, but virtually everyone...

I am kinda wondering why it's 21 MEGS long, though. What's in this thing?

Tried it with Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon. It seems like it works. It's a terminal program (I like that) it has an easy to use interface in that commands build up, so it's easy to start a command, check the .png for ligitness, then add commands. I like that. So I gave it a png file of a font that is 2 ...

So basically, this is a tool for learning the mnemonics of assembly? Ok! Cool! 65C02 is hard enough... then you have 65C816 with it's greatly expanded addressing modes and bank registers. Another addition would be a "reset" command that could also take an instruction mnemonic (Like LDA) or...