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Small update for Flagon Bird (v1.1). Sixxie very kindly added a loading screen and some auto-run code. I've also added zephyr's code for ensuring the IRQ is enabled etc and changed the origin address to $1E00 for 16k CoCo compatibility. I've done a bit of optimisation, (both memory and performance),...

Cool, thanks for the info sorchard. I'm learning something new everyday.

Thanks sixxie. It's great to have a choice of supported assemblers. :D Incidentally I've been using the following in a macro to do alignment: org * + ((-*) & (&1-1)) Sounds very useful but I'm not sure I understand the calculation. Is the asterisk a substitute for the address following ORG? I should...

Another list here with a few more on.

http://kikstart.eu/files/flappy.php

I think Flappy Bird 2 is coming out this month? Might mean some magazine coverage of all these clones?

I suppose I should wrap-up FB v1.1. before this guy beats me to it (damn this sunny weather).

Then I look forward to starting something new!

Looks like Flagon Bird has attracted interest from the Acorn community.

http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/forum/vi ... f=19&t=910

Yeah, I've not been to one of these events before but tempted to go next year.

sorchard wrote:..this is how games don't get written... too many distractions!

Sometimes, and then again there are those games that grew out a cool bit of technical wizardy.

They're great!

I've not heard of `munching squares' before.

I think sorchard summed it up perfectly. I'm keen to continue developing new games for the Dragon, after FB 1.1 is done and dusted. I've got a few ideas already that interest me and would allow me to explore new techniques but I probably wouldn't post anything until I had at least a demo. Obviously ...