Raspberry Pi 400 Devkit for RC2014
I turned a Raspberry Pi 400 into a C devkit for the RC2014.
Blog
Longer-form writing: notes on programming vintage hardware, things I have repaired, and the occasional opinion about modern software.
Microstudio.dev Game Programming
How I wrote a game in a week using just my web browser.
Shadertoy 3 Raymarching
Let’s draw a lit 3D scene without defining any 3D objects. Yeah no it confused me too.
Shadertoy 2 Sinewaves
Today I figured out how to draw a line, and then make it wiggle using some basic maths.
Shadertoy 1 - Mandelbrot
Let’s spend this week learning about GLSL and making fancy images from code. The first one, a nice computationally intensive fractal.
Reading Mice and Joysticks on the Spectrum Next using C
Today’s lesson in curing headaches by banging your head on the wall until they stop involves joysticks and mice. This is a bit technical, so ensure your seat back and tray table are in the upright and locked position. Please keep all arms inside the ride at all times.
Hardware Sprites on the ZX Spectrum Next in C
Drawing sprites on the Spectrum Next, using C. Or – how to learn the dark art of figuring out things you don’t understand. <!-more–>
Learning to program is an endurance game full of random side quests, dead ends and frustration. Rather than learning “how to do X”, which is specific, it’s much more useful learning “how to figure out how to do anything at all”.
Go look on StackOverflow at all the questions that come down to “I don’t understand what I’m trying to do in the first place, can you write my code for me?”. Here’s how to not be one of those people.
Writing C Code on a Spectrum Next
What better way to wait out the apocalypse than trying to learn a new system. Read how I dug out my ZX Spectrum Next and set about writing C code on it…
Reading and Writing JSON using Python
How to read and write JSON files using Python so that they can be used in your Python programs.
Python Commandline Argument Parsing
A quick set of notes on how to parse command line arguments properly in Python. This uses the argparse module, totally removing any effort on your part when it comes to processing command line switches.