Richard_of_TND – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Cruising for a Bruising

On January 20, 2019January 21, 2019 By Richard_of_TND

20th January 2019 Well, 2018 sure has been a bit of a roller coaster of a ride, where C64 productivity and time was concerned. I mainly have been busy on SEUCK projects, but finally I have got time to do what I want. I will be on an Assemble It […]

C64 Mini Weekend dev challenge #1

On April 21, 2018September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

20th-21st April 2018 A couple of weeks ago, I bought myself a theC64 mini console, and I loved it. The built in games were cool. However I needed to purchase a USB keyboard, so this week I did exactly that. Set up a multi-USB adapter with the C64Mini (An old […]

It’s Christmas … Time to Follow that Starfysh

On December 25, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

25th December 2017 First of all, Merry Christmas (Happy Birthday to me ;o)) and a Happy New Year. This will be my final Blog for 2017, and I have decided to talk about the production of my LATEST game release Starfysh. This is basically a horizontal scrolling shoot ’em up – […]

Cruiser X-79 Update #12

On October 7, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

7th October 2017 This is a just a quick update. You may remember a couple of days ago, I mentioned about having trouble getting the tape loader to work using multi-load, and the game crashed. I finally managed to get my way around this problem, simply by not triggering RTS […]

Cruiser X-79 [UPDATE 11] – Not much … Or is it?

On October 5, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

5th October 2017 I really should have back dated this Friday+Saturday last week, as nothing had been done today. I’ve been running late. Anyway, last week, I was doing some brain storming, and slight of hand updating of the game code. Originally Cruiser X-79 used a 3xIRQ interrupt, but since […]

Cruiser X-79 – Update #10

On August 19, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

19th August 2017 More action has been taking place today. First of all, Saul suggested that I should reduce the animation speed for the aliens and also the explosion. Basically double the delay of the animation. Also I had a go at setting up level pointers, where after each level […]

Cruiser X-79 Update #9

On August 18, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

13th – 18th August 2017 Not much happened on the game programming front, but at least I made an effort to do something for the production. While I was away from this project for a few weeks or so, I recently received some new graphics for the game. It wasn’t […]

Cruiser X-79 – Update #8

On June 24, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

20th-24th June 2017 It has been too hot this week, apart from yesterday and today. Despite the really hot UK weather I had recently, still that hasn’t stopped me from doing more on this game project. Quite a big update as well. So then what has been happening this time […]

Cruiser X-79 Update #7

On June 11, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

11th June 2017 Not much time has been spent on this project this week, due to other things, but at least I did put some of my commitment into this game project today. I did have a long weekend, but I have been working on some stuff for the demo […]

Cruiser X-64 Update 6

On June 3, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

2ndJune 2017 Well things sure are turning out quite nicely. Although this week hasn’t been a very nice week on a personal side. Still, the weekend arrived yesterday and I decided to plod on with my shoot ’em up project. So what has happened recently? Well, I have found a […]

Cruiser X-79 Update #5

On May 26, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

14th May – 26th May 2017 Lots of things have been going on over the past couple of weeks or so. I have such little time to put a lot of info about what has been happening into this blog. Also I don’t have a video this time round. Anyway, […]

Cruiser X-79 – Update #4

On April 29, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

Saturday 29th April 2017 Here comes yet more progress made with this great Commodore 64 game project. The game is starting to work out much better. The player / enemy bullet collision finally got implemented. I did have a few issues with the sprite/charset collision subroutine, so it was time […]

Cruiser X-79 Update #3

On April 22, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

22nd April 2017 It has been quite a while since I last blogged something in. This time I have no video to show you, but a few snapshots, to prove more work has been done on the project. Anyway what has been happening this week. Well, today in fact. Some […]

Cruiser X-79 Update #2

On April 1, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

1st April 2017 Okay, just a quick update in the blog. Well, today was quite a hard going session. More work has been done in the game project, and seems to be going quite well. I programmed some additional 1-way alien formation patterns. Although I do intend to create path […]

Zenox Attack is now Cruiser X-79

On March 25, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

25th March 2017 It has been a very long time since the last time I was working on this space shoot ’em up. Probably due to the long term lack in motivation to code a new game. Also due to getting sidetracked with other tasks as well. Not, to mention […]

And the name of the game is … Zenox Attack

On January 28, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

27th – 28th January 2017 My week’s holiday has come to an end, and things are back to normal once again. Most of the holiday was mainly composing music, and also starting on a C64 game project, formerly known as an unnamed shoot ’em up. Well,guess what? The game now has […]

Scrolling without S.E.U.C.K

On January 25, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

25th January 2016 Flipping heck. This week has been a SEUCK marathon. Anyway, time for a little change. Back in 2015, I mentioned to some people in the past that I’d love to attempt to create a vertical scrolling shoot ’em up game, without the aid of SEUCK. I examined […]

2016 – A look back into the past

On December 31, 2016September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

31st December 2016 2016, what roller coaster of a year it has been, and the end of 2016 has come so quickly. I’m taking a look back at some of the moments of TND’s activity in the C64 Scene. Warning, this is a very long blog… TOOLS Tape Master Pro […]

Christmas Treats coming 25/12/2016

On December 23, 2016September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

Friday 23rd December 2016 Things have been quiet on the TND blog, apart from releasing 4 new intros for inside/outside the Intro Creation Compo 2016. However I can reveal that I have actually been very busy the past 2 or 3 weeks working on some C64 projects, which will be […]

RUN – RUN – THE INVASION HAS STARTED

On October 28, 2016September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

28th October 2016 It is currently my second, but last day of my holiday, and things will start to quieten down even more from next week, due to even less free time. Although C64 activities will occasionally continue. Now today, you had better run (To the TND web site) as […]