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A little more work last night, a few tweeks and I have a working engine. The map is limited to just open and closed blocks as I need to create the images for other types (doors, pits, ladders, etc)

You can see it in action here:

http://youtu.be/3r1OE9b8PLw

Just as a little tease - after a couple hours of code hacking and a lot more drawing and calculating what I feel is a suitable scale and vanishing point this is what I get: http://the-lair.org.uk/assets/demo.png The viewport is currently overlaid so it looks a bit wrong but this is why I don't want ...

In the light of no other responses (yet) I've started playing around with the text console emulation and a graphics viewport to the end of achieving those signature wireframe views. It works out that you need approximately 50 distinct graphic objects to achieve the desired results - drawing these in...

The point of the competition was to turn the original code (complete with hideous typos and bad grammar) into a game that would run in a modern browser on pretty much any modern computer. Sadly that doesn't include 8 or 16 bit computers although a well spec'd Amiga might be man enough (just). For mo...

Before I start - apologies for being a bit off-topic but I'd like you collective opinions on a slightly dragon related teaser First some background and context. A couple of months ago Richard Garriot (the man behind the Ultima games) posted up his original game code complete for a coding competition...

Funny you should ask that - about 25 years ago I did write one for the Dragon but the odds of finding it now are on the slim side.... still been unable to test the casettes I have got and I don't know if it is on any of them...

News story posted on The Register today detailing the first proper "laptop"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/12 ... _part_one/

It all gets a bit interesting on page 3...

Can I register my interest for one (or more) of these. I was trying to persuade myself to make one from scratch but I've been beaten to it!

I've been reading through the latest round of tutorials for the R.Pi on the subject of cold booting your own operating system - in short (from my perspective) how to make a thoroughly new piece of hardware behave even more like a classic. Because the R.Pi has no onboard nv memory you can boot it int...

As a strange twist of fate and concidence A small home computer, developed in Cambridge, is now being built in south wales... Sound familiar? Construction of the Raspberry Pi has been moved to the Sony assembly plant in Pencoed - about 10 miles(ish) from the old Kenfig plant. I just hope it doesn't ...