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Acorn Electron fanboy | 6502 coder https://0xc0de6502.github.io
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I finally got around to creating a simple static website with most of my free games and tools. Play my games online by clicking on the game's image, or visit the corresponding GitHub page. It also lists most of the places you may find me online 😎 0xc0de6502.github.io
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This looks awesome! Do we need something like this for the Acorn Electron? 🤔
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Thanks Rob! The best part is that people other than me actually use it 🥹
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You're welcome, enjoy!
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Electroniq now supports importing text files (e.g. BBC BASIC programs) via "turbo pasting". It also supports exporting BBC BASIC programs to text files, for easy editing in your favourite editor.
Try it at 0xc0de6502.github.io/electroniq/
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🫶 Thanks Colin! Lovely positive thread about human creativity
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Nice! The white-on-blue looks fine but doesn't really feel like being in outer space as white-on-black I guess
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Is this screenshot going to work? There is not much else to show at the moment
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That's great! I didn't see these because I'm not subscribed to the magazine 😥
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Certainly! I will send you a few screenshots
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I shouldn't have mentioned that 🤣
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I should have known to look there, thanks!
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Well done! This kind of polish is going to make the difference between a great game and an epic game 😎 Also noted: when the duck flies in from the right, be very careful!
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To be fair, there are other factors at play here as well. I fill the 32 byte keyboard buffer directly, instead of doing fake key presses. And I automatically let the emulator temporarily free run at max speed while pasting. But, it is reasonably fast without these tricks too
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Correct! I was looking for a largish BBC BASIC program 🤣
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Soon, my friend, soon :)
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I want my Acorn Electron emulator Electroniq to be able to import/export BBC BASIC programs in regular text format. However, tokenising BBC BASIC is not exactly a trivial task. So I am experimenting with this alternative method: turbo paste! This is working remarkably well, even for large programs 😎
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Cool, thanks! 😎
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Thanks! Yeah, another idea to try one day 😎
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Intentional 😄
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Definitely! I didn't even bother to optimise it 😅
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Cheers! This was on here some time ago, or perhaps the other site. I knew then it had to be made available on the Electron as well. Perhaps as a screensaver 😎