Programming
Archiving on cold storage
pyArchiver is a script dedicated to archiving huge volume of data into cold storage. But what is cold storage? How is an archive different from a backup?
Apple II
Random level generation on Apple II
Algorithms and their implementation for an efficient random level generator on the Apple II. As a 1MHz 6502 isn’t much, some clearness is required.
Apple II
Rogue-like on Apple II: Raycasting a line of sight
In the previous post I discussed how to code an efficient tile engine running on Apple II computers that can be used to write a Rogue-like game. This engine is neat but, alas, the player can see the entire portion of the dungeon that surrounds him: he gets the magic Read more…
Apple II
An HIRES tile engine for the Apple II
As I wrote in a previous post, programming a game engine in HIRES (”High Resolution”) is no small feat: its memory layout implies that contiguous lines on display are not contiguous in memory, there are some ”holes” in the memory section, individual pixels are written in reverse order inside a Read more…
Programming
Async tasks in C++
The introduction of the concurrent memory model and the concurrency library in STL are major features brought by C++11. With prior versions, we had to resort to platform-specific extensions or library in order to write multithreaded applications, limiting the portability of the code. One of the new facility introduced is Read more…