Stephen Illingworth

JetSetIlly@mastodon.gamedev.place

lapsed software engineer. living 10 minutes into the future. now creating emulators and tools for the modern Atari2600 developer <a href="https://github.com/JetSetIlly/Gopher2600" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://github.com/JetSetIlly/Gopher2600</a>

Posts

Post #2300447
I was hoping this website was a list of bin collection times. Definitely an area councils need help with https://gtfobins.org/
Post #2300446
I loved ripping music modules from Amiga demos and games and I&#39;ve often wondered what a ripper would look like for the Atari 2600. It&#39;s very difficult to do on the 2600 because of the lack of standard formats. But I think I&#39;ve found a way. What we can do is record the audio information from the live emulation, which can then be saved to a format of our choosing. The web based tracker you see in the 2nd half of the video was developed by Matthew Halpern. https://www.yo...
Post #877605
Every few weeks I&#39;ll take a look at the latest coding model and coding agent. And every time I bounce off them. I don&#39;t understand them at all. I even installed VSCode this evening to see if there were any more accessible via that. But I bounced off VSCode too. I don&#39;t think modern development tools are meant for me.
Post #877604
Stewart Copeland playing one of his Spyro the Dragon tracks. Joy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIYwzbmJgF4
Post #877603
The comment gore I find in my own code is sometimes so bad I have to wonder what&#39;s going on in my brain. The code works but the comments are borderline gibberish.
Post #622956
Introduced a very annoying bug in a single commit. I&#39;ve been staring at it for several hours and can&#39;t see what the problem is I thought I&#39;d give Claude (via the Github interface) a go, because people seem to enjoy it and report success with it My prompt gives two commit IDs and I asked Claude to analyse the differences to see why the bug may have occurred (I included some details of the bug) Claude responded that it doesn&#39;t have the commit diffs available to i...
Post #622955
Gridlock: a lovely version of a Rush Hour sliding-block style game for the #Atari2600, by the irrepressible Andrew Davie https://champ.games/f/champ-games-presents-gridlock-by-andrew-davie
Post #622954
v0.7.3 of Test7800 my Atari7800 emulator (I really need a new name. It&#39;s progressed further than I expected when I started the project) https://github.com/JetSetIlly/test7800/releases/tag/v0.7.3
Post #622953
Playing #KCD2 I&#39;m genuinely shocked at the consequence of turning down one of the missions. I was not expecting that at all.
Post #622952
This old lady in #KCD2 has a USB stick hanging from her belt.
Post #622951
I&#39;m looking for a data sheet for a very old RAM chip with the serial number CO20231-01. The Internet has failed me so far. Can anyone in #electronics suggest a good place to ask?