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Well bugger. Took a phone call from Mac at Dragon Data yesterday evening. They won’t be shipping my games as a pack-in with the Dragon 32 as a Christmas special. “Can’t afford the tape duplication costs.” “So can I just release the games?” I ask. “I’d need to talk with Tom. I don’t think it’ll… Continue reading the rest of “Canceled Christmas.”

Why the hell does the Dragon 32 not respect the memory layout that the Tandy does? I thought you were supposed to be “compatible” you little shit. Just spent two days on the phone with Ed at Dragon Data trying to figure out why writing to the HIRAM area returns weird values. Finally get JoJo… Continue reading the remainder of “Dragon can bite me.”

If God created the sun on the fourth day, how did he know that four days had elapsed?

Every development schedule needs a little slack built in to it. If your development schedule doesn’t have any slack in it, I guarantee you have a serious scheduling problem.

I have come to realise that a lie can spread around the village long before the truth has decided which side of the bed to get out of.

Heading off to Port Talbot tomorrow to pick up my new Dragon 32 directly from Dragon. New computer and eight hundred quid to port RoboWars and SnikSnak before Christmas. Should be easy. Shouldn’t take me more than four weeks of work total.

In a moment of boredom I was thinking about mass and gravity and pondered the possibility that time is a function of mass. i.e. time cannot exist without mass. Gravity is a function of mass, so why not time. I guess I should go and research this and I am sure someone has already thought… Click to read the remainder of “Time as a function of mass.”

6502, Z80, Forth, C and BASIC. They each have their merits. And problems. Each language can be “fast” but fast in a different way. Assembly is fast to execute but slow to write. C and BASIC are fast to write, but can be slow or slower to execute. Which is more valuable? CPU time or… Need to get the remainder of “You can’t optimise for two different things?” Click this!

The software tools we have today will let us solve the programming problems we have tomorrow. But we cannot solve the programming problems we have next week with the software tools we have today. We need to build the tools of today that will invent the tools of tomorrow that will solve the problems of… Click here to read the remainder of “Solving tomorrow’s problems… today!.”

When I learnt how to write 6502, I wrote small programs. I thought writing something that took up 4K of code in RAM was a big deal. And yeah, the C compiler adds overhead to the code, there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes that the C compiler is doing, but I’m finding… Continue reading the remainder of “C Isn’t A Silver Bullet.”